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(OP) Texas Yellow Rose Colored Glasses... User ID: 79038376 United States07/30/2022 12:21 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I'd be interested in hearing your thoughts on how the average person could reasonably do that... Keep in mind you can't feed chickens for less than a $1 a day and getting a garden set up is too expensive for a poor person. Life is a spiritual war and no matter where we lay our head, we live in a warzone. There will be casualties. You do get to choose your side. I chose the Bright Side where my God fights for me. Others chose the Dark Side and fight for an entity that views them with disdain and discards them. |
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(OP) Texas Yellow Rose Colored Glasses... User ID: 81888410 United States07/30/2022 02:27 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I eat very well on about $250 per month, but I cook all my meals and enjoy it. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 63560815 _ How many people are you feeding? Life is a spiritual war and no matter where we lay our head, we live in a warzone. There will be casualties. You do get to choose your side. I chose the Bright Side where my God fights for me. Others chose the Dark Side and fight for an entity that views them with disdain and discards them. |
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| Eilonwy
User ID: 83015319 United States07/30/2022 02:32 PM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Ask a homesteader how much effort goes into making organic food. How many man hours to make a bag of organic potatoes, for instance. How much overhead for the land, the water, the rototiller. Storing the seed potatoes, planting, picking bugs, weeding, watering, digging, curing, packaging. Now, take a poll and find out what people think a person creating food should make per hour. (It still needs to be COOKED, mind you) And you have your answer. The answer is we have been lulled into a false sense of what food should cost. In fact, because of "big ag" and their bad ways, we have forgotten how hard it actually is to scrabble REAL food out of the ground without using harsh agent-orange type chemicals. You don't want to eat CHEAP food. Last Edited by Eilonwy on 07/30/2022 02:35 PM “A grower of turnips or shaper of clay, a commot Farmer or a king--every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone.” Lloyd Alexander, The Castle of Llyr |
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User ID: 78144147 United States07/30/2022 02:56 PM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Ask a homesteader how much effort goes into making organic food. How many man hours to make a bag of organic potatoes, for instance. How much overhead for the land, the water, the rototiller. Storing the seed potatoes, planting, picking bugs, weeding, watering, digging, curing, packaging. Quoting: Eilonwy Now, take a poll and find out what people think a person creating food should make per hour. (It still needs to be COOKED, mind you) And you have your answer. The answer is we have been lulled into a false sense of what food should cost. In fact, because of "big ag" and their bad ways, we have forgotten how hard it actually is to scrabble REAL food out of the ground without using harsh agent-orange type chemicals. You don't want to eat CHEAP food.  When you are afraid of losing your life, you have already lost your life. Don't be afraid. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 83667499 Canada07/30/2022 02:58 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Ask a homesteader how much effort goes into making organic food. How many man hours to make a bag of organic potatoes, for instance. How much overhead for the land, the water, the rototiller. Storing the seed potatoes, planting, picking bugs, weeding, watering, digging, curing, packaging. Quoting: Eilonwy Now, take a poll and find out what people think a person creating food should make per hour. (It still needs to be COOKED, mind you) And you have your answer. The answer is we have been lulled into a false sense of what food should cost. In fact, because of "big ag" and their bad ways, we have forgotten how hard it actually is to scrabble REAL food out of the ground without using harsh agent-orange type chemicals. You don't want to eat CHEAP food. Those things are expensive and difficult because they have been made to be expensive and difficult. They want us to rely on their supply chains |
| Eilonwy
User ID: 83015319 United States07/30/2022 03:06 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | For basic nutrition, $0. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 83667499 If you want your king size bag of skittles and 2L bottle of coke zero, then you pay a premium. Our towns should be planting fruit/nut/berry trees in every public space that will grow In the city near me, near the projects, they have planted fruit trees. I've never, ever seen one person picking them. “A grower of turnips or shaper of clay, a commot Farmer or a king--every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone.” Lloyd Alexander, The Castle of Llyr |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 82375160 United States07/30/2022 03:07 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | For one person, getting full calories, which is a little higher for me than a lot of people, it costs about $1.50 to $2.50 per day, without struggle, budgeting or eating a highly restrictive diet. How? 1. Don't eat out. 2. Cook your own food, and prepare it yourself, instead of buying prepackaged. 3. Don't eat meat. (Which is a high-end aggregator for everything chemically wrong in our system anyway, so it's essentially poisoned.) 4. Purchase in bulk and make certain to take the needed steps to preserve food. 5. Don't waste anything, when possible. (I don't get that strict on this one. I don't eat spotty veggies or the unpleasant part of plants or anything.) Finally... 6. Don't over eat. Get enough calories for health, but don't take on extras that you don't need or ultimately even want. |
| Eilonwy
User ID: 83015319 United States07/30/2022 03:08 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Ask a homesteader how much effort goes into making organic food. How many man hours to make a bag of organic potatoes, for instance. How much overhead for the land, the water, the rototiller. Storing the seed potatoes, planting, picking bugs, weeding, watering, digging, curing, packaging. Quoting: Eilonwy Now, take a poll and find out what people think a person creating food should make per hour. (It still needs to be COOKED, mind you) And you have your answer. The answer is we have been lulled into a false sense of what food should cost. In fact, because of "big ag" and their bad ways, we have forgotten how hard it actually is to scrabble REAL food out of the ground without using harsh agent-orange type chemicals. You don't want to eat CHEAP food. Those things are expensive and difficult because they have been made to be expensive and difficult. They want us to rely on their supply chains Growing food has always been difficult. It's creating something from nothing. It doesn't have to be expensive. There is a little thing called "nature's tax" and that can cost a lot. Our ancestors worked their butts off to keep their towns alive. They spend from sunup to sundown doing it. They did lots of other things too like cut fire wood, make lumber for building things, build things, make fibers, weave them, fashion clay into bricks and pots, animal husbandry (for transportation too) etc etc. Last Edited by Eilonwy on 07/30/2022 03:14 PM “A grower of turnips or shaper of clay, a commot Farmer or a king--every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone.” Lloyd Alexander, The Castle of Llyr |
