Comments for The Rising Costs of Food at http://catawbacoops.com , comment 1 to 9 out of 9 comments http://catawbacoops.com Sun, 05 Feb 2012 07:29:07 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://catawbacoops.com/the-rising-costs-of-food.html#comment-341 Seriously, try it for a few weeks and you will be astonished on how little you need to have tons of energy! I dont eat anything with corn in it or any "flavored" drink of any kind. Why drink juice when you can eat the whole fruit filled with even more nutrients. I grow my own peas & tomatoes on my deck. Everyday for breakfast & lunch I eat about 6-10 cherry tomatoes as the ripen. That is ALL I eat and that is FREE! If you stop making recipes you immediately save hundreds every month. Meat? I buy free range grass fead beef for $3.00/lb. Add 3 cups of dry black beans that have been soaked and you have a huge pot of taco meat that can be added to salads, tacos, burritos, baked potatoes. Chicken? Buy it in bulk! I never pay over $2.00/lb. An actual serving size is almost 1/8th of a standard US half chicken breast. Take out ONE pound it flat and you EASILY have enough meat on the table for 4 well under $2.00. Salad greens?? Grow them for free year round! Let some go to seed and they keep growing and growing! Next time you buy your $.99 a loaf of bread, weigh it on a scale...... Now weigh a homemade loaf of bread.... It will weigh at least 3-4 times as much! NOW you only need to eat ONE slice instead of half the loaf to fill up. Both my growing boys 6 & 11 fill up on a half natural peanut butter and real fruit spread sandwich. I have to force a banana down them because they are so full. I have 6 blueberry shrubs in my front yard that give me a full years supply of blueberries and red pepper plants looks great out front too. Make sure that you are growing and eating HIGH NUTRIENT RICH foods, and you will eat much less. This weekend I am downloading my chicken coop plans and now will have fresh free range eggs!! 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With the title not showing, it makes no sense. - Susan Peterson Wed, 06 May 2009 17:17:33 +0100 http://catawbacoops.com/the-rising-costs-of-food.html#comment-22 Which doesn't seem very long ago to me. We ate nothing processed. Cereal was oatmeal only, occasionally wheatena. I had chickens so we ate our own eggs. We got milk for $1 a gallon, later raised to $1.25 straight from the farm tank up the street. (I had 9 kids; we drank 3 gallons a day. ) Of course we had to pay cash for that. I gardened, but the growing season isn't very long here, and I didn't have a freezer so I canned...on my wood cookstove, in August, quarts and quarts of beans and beets. There are a lot of old abandoned orchards around here, and I sent my kids to fill their backpacks with apples, with which I would make 50 or more quarts of applesauce, dark, almost like apple butter. I made six loaves of whole wheat bread every other day. My kids after school snack would be applesauce on that bread. Our standard meals were either European peasant food-homemade soup and bread, biscuits or muffins, or Asian peasant food, brown rice and vegetables with a small amount of meat. Every bone that came into the house went into the soup pot. Pizza was something we made ourselves, including the crust. I did make some jam and jelly but not enough that we didn't occasionally buy some, so that would have been the only source of corn syrup I can think of. I also made some maple syrup from our trees, but again, not enough. I think I bought the real thing from local producers, in the local grocery with my food stamps. I realize though, that a rural location was necessary for this. However, before I moved to the country I fed my family very similarly in Baltimore city, except I didn't have chickens or access to fresh milk. I had a longer growing season and didn't need to do all that canning. I think that if someone is home to work at cooking from scratch and bread baking, one can still eat in a fairly healthy way on a food stamp budget. - Susan Peterson Wed, 06 May 2009 17:15:02 +0100 http://catawbacoops.com/the-rising-costs-of-food.html#comment-21 I aggree totally with the comment about high fructose corn syrup. We eliminated it from our diet last year - the pantry was pretty bare. Mostly what you are left with is what our grandmothers probably had in their pantries - dried beans, wholegrain organic flour etc. We bake all our own bread products now and make our own yoghurt. You have to read labels very carefully - HFCS is in everything! - J Mansius Tue, 05 May 2009 06:14:33 +0100 http://catawbacoops.com/the-rising-costs-of-food.html#comment-18 Disturbing.. I guess the best anyone can do is just buy organic until the industry starts regulating itself to be healthier.. Ha! Like that's going to happen! - Chicken Coop Plans Sun, 12 Apr 2009 06:57:21 +0100