Axe Posted August 5, 2021 Member ID: 28601 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 5 Topic Count: 23 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 160 Content Per Day: 0.13 Reputation: 272 Achievement Points: 1697 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 2 Joined: 12/09/20 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 5 Device: Windows Share Posted August 5, 2021 (edited) No matter where you stand on Covid or the Jab ... you should have at the very least observed how fragile our food supply system really is. A year ago I decided to do something about it. Today I have a freezer full of meat and 15 birds that will start laying eggs soon. And a 1/4 acre garden. Even if you just stockpile canned food each grocery trip, if things go tits up again in the fall, at least you'll have something to fall back on. And yes ... it really does taste like chicken. Edited August 5, 2021 by Yoshi WeednFeed, jointz, Hunter1948 and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaptCrunch Posted August 5, 2021 Member ID: 389 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 45 Topic Count: 295 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 4459 Content Per Day: 0.84 Reputation: 3620 Achievement Points: 36445 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 39 Joined: 09/14/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 2 hours ago Birthday: 01/01/1970 Device: Windows Share Posted August 5, 2021 very good of your independence a self contained man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
AusiGirl Posted August 5, 2021 Member ID: 20712 Group: ++ COD4 Admin Followers: 40 Topic Count: 115 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 853 Content Per Day: 0.23 Reputation: 1002 Achievement Points: 8440 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 7 Joined: 12/22/13 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 12 Birthday: 06/08/1972 Device: Windows Share Posted August 5, 2021 we get meat from my sons work! best steaks going and don,t gotta pay for it. beef and pork... WeednFeed, Hunter1948, ShadyBrady and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
WeednFeed Posted August 5, 2021 Member ID: 433 Group: ++ COD4 Admin Followers: 39 Topic Count: 345 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 2332 Content Per Day: 0.44 Reputation: 3799 Achievement Points: 24041 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 35 Joined: 09/17/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 1 hour ago Birthday: 05/28/1957 Device: Windows Share Posted August 5, 2021 14 hours ago, AusiGirl said: we get meat from my sons work! best steaks going and don,t gotta pay for it. beef and pork... Get out of here you're to young to have a son that old! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
WeednFeed Posted August 5, 2021 Member ID: 433 Group: ++ COD4 Admin Followers: 39 Topic Count: 345 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 2332 Content Per Day: 0.44 Reputation: 3799 Achievement Points: 24041 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 35 Joined: 09/17/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 1 hour ago Birthday: 05/28/1957 Device: Windows Share Posted August 5, 2021 @Yoshi do you have one of those vac sealers? I love mine they work great. What ever you are sealing it has to be DRY or it will not seal if moisture escapes. Just partially freeze things so liquid will not be vacuumed under the seal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Axe Posted August 5, 2021 Member ID: 28601 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 5 Topic Count: 23 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 160 Content Per Day: 0.13 Reputation: 272 Achievement Points: 1697 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 2 Joined: 12/09/20 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 5 Device: Windows Author Share Posted August 5, 2021 1 hour ago, WeednFeed said: @Yoshi do you have one of those vac sealers? I love mine they work great. What ever you are sealing it has to be DRY or it will not seal if moisture escapes. Just partially freeze things so liquid will not be vacuumed under the seal. I don't maybe for next year. I had one a couple years ago, but it was crap. Which one do you have? WeednFeed 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeednFeed Posted August 6, 2021 Member ID: 433 Group: ++ COD4 Admin Followers: 39 Topic Count: 345 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 2332 Content Per Day: 0.44 Reputation: 3799 Achievement Points: 24041 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 35 Joined: 09/17/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 1 hour ago Birthday: 05/28/1957 Device: Windows Share Posted August 6, 2021 @Yoshi I have a food saver GAMESAVER I purchased from Costco 5 years ago. The model I have has camo skin on it. I see a similar one in costco.ca but it has lots of recent bad reviews. We seal whole chickens, steaks, hamburgers, corn, as long as these are dry. meat should be partially frozen as I mentioned about the moisture getting trapped under the seal. The manual also mentions putting a paper towel damn to stop moisture from goimg beyond the seal Axe 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
TheLastColdBeer Posted August 6, 2021 Member ID: 489 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 51 Topic Count: 547 Topics Per Day: 0.10 Content Count: 4669 Content Per Day: 0.88 Reputation: 5852 Achievement Points: 41038 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 14 Joined: 09/22/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 14 hours ago Birthday: 01/09/1963 Device: Kindle Fire Share Posted August 6, 2021 Raising your own food, canning, freezing & storing are work intensive, but very rewarding. I wish everyone had a chance to farm & raise livestock during their lives, they might appreciate how much work goes into producing food. The best part is the meal though, makes it all worthwhile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Sammy Posted August 6, 2021 Member ID: 3036 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 31 Topic Count: 219 Topics Per Day: 0.05 Content Count: 9419 Content Per Day: 2.08 Reputation: 7515 Achievement Points: 62539 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 21 Joined: 11/29/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: December 30, 2023 Birthday: 04/26/2008 Device: Windows Share Posted August 6, 2021 Of course a big part of that fragility is when people panic. Dealt with that every day when covid was bad with people pushing others around to buy shit they really didnt need. There were a large number of items that were perpetually out of stock because of it, as we all know. Thats the nature of such things of course and it always happens for one reason or another on a much smaller scale. However we never got even close to running out of food. Part of the panic is the entitled nature of people. If they cant get the specific things they want, down to specific brand names, they complain. In the middle of a pandemic. A great many understood that panic buying was a big part and while it sucked it wasnt the end of the world. Others expected everything to run just as smooth as they would otherwise anyway. Just an observation about greedy people that dont know how good they've got it compared to many other places in the world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
GhostfaceJim Posted August 6, 2021 Member ID: 2314 Group: ++ Conan Exiles Admin Followers: 32 Topic Count: 112 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 20717 Content Per Day: 4.33 Reputation: 5314 Achievement Points: 113891 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 50 Joined: 03/19/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: 11 hours ago Birthday: 04/22/1975 Device: Windows Share Posted August 6, 2021 As soon as I get a home I will start raising chickens, if not for the eggs! My parents used to can just about everything when we were growing up as kids in Oregon. Not many fruit trees around here like we had as kids. We had a beautiful cherry tree in the back yard and had to pick them and can them quick every year. Used to pick black berries like crazy too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Mule Posted August 7, 2021 Member ID: 390 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 32 Topic Count: 410 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 4251 Content Per Day: 0.80 Reputation: 3050 Achievement Points: 35625 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 7 Joined: 09/14/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 3 hours ago Birthday: 05/08/1959 Device: Windows Share Posted August 7, 2021 Shit them eggs grow fast! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
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