What Food Prepping Have You Done?

[Roagiesgal]

Originally Posted by RandyWayne

Actually, Bigbird isn't rich, quite the opposite. He is essentially bragging about mooching off of other people and saying it is "God providing". The question for you, me, and others like us is, when there is no more easily attainable food, will we give some of our stores to someone who openly brags about NOT preparing?

In a word.........NO

I am so tired of feeding the moochers...poachers...lazy lay about! Socialism is not how I want to live! I will help my family, and do what I can for my friends...some are starting to realize they need to prep!

I don't know who Bigbird is, but I see him and those that live off others as the sickness that has taken over our country...I don't know what happened to the American pride, strength, and independent spirit, but I am glad there are still those few who what the country to be stronger and freer!

God is providing NOW...just saw a report last night about Madagascar, the locust are stripping their crops and they are expecting a famine. We are setting into some draught conditions which will create food shortages here, which brings higher food prices and shortages! Will it all come crashing down...I have no way of knowing, but I feel God has prompted me to be prepared.....

[bbyrd009]

Originally Posted by RandyWayne

Actually, Bigbird isn't rich, quite the opposite. He is essentially bragging about mooching off of other people and saying it is "God providing". The question for you, me, and others like us is, when there is no more easily attainable food, will we give some of our stores to someone who openly brags about NOT preparing?

Well, I apologize if my attitude struck you as gloating, or anything. I pay $20 a gallon for milk, and I am not mooching off of anyone. It was a difficult adjustment, but frankly, I'm not sure my post, at least, would have been any different 4 years ago; it merely was meant to suggest what Randy restated better, possibly, but see where there comes a point, at times, when ones pov can become so skewed that any reference to the contrary will be perceived as a slap.

Wadr, if you think that preparing to eat dried eggs in some mythical tomorrow is following God's plan, then I have to tell you that you have lost your way. While children may complicate this scenario--briefly--still, what can you really say? That you can take better care of 'your children' than God, their real Father, can? Think about the lesson this teaches your kids! You do this, like I did, because you are Codependent, and you insist upon delving into areas that God has already proclaimed to be His to 'usurpervise.'

I certainly don't mean to be rude; what is the nice way to say "You're crazy?" Now, I might be eating turnips, tomorrow; don't know where I'm sleeping tonight, but I can say this; God takes wonderful care of me, and it is my prayer that you might be taken care of, too. Peace to you all.

[bbyrd009]

And just so you know, I have a garden, that I planted myself, and I am not advocating non-preparedness. I am prolly more prepared than you could imagine. Randy, you know this, and that was a cheap shot. I am a strong advocate of "If they don't work, they don't eat." Sorry for my manner here. I guess.

[ILG]

Originally Posted by RandyWayne

The last year has been a wild ride in the area of "prepping" for me. Thankfully as the world keeps sliding into the abyss I've actually shifted more toward enjoying life rather than preparing for the inevitable end -which I am still doing, but not feeling the same amount of depression in the process. We actually spent the last few weeks working on all sorts of landscape projects in our yard!

Yes, there is nothing better under the sun than that a man should eat, drink and enjoy his labor, for this is his portion.

[ILG]

Originally Posted by bbyrd009

Well, I apologize if my attitude struck you as gloating, or anything. I pay $20 a gallon for milk, and I am not mooching off of anyone. It was a difficult adjustment, but frankly, I'm not sure my post, at least, would have been any different 4 years ago; it merely was meant to suggest what Randy restated better, possibly, but see where there comes a point, at times, when ones pov can become so skewed that any reference to the contrary will be perceived as a slap.

Wadr, if you think that preparing to eat dried eggs in some mythical tomorrow is following God's plan, then I have to tell you that you have lost your way. While children may complicate this scenario--briefly--still, what can you really say? That you can take better care of 'your children' than God, their real Father, can? Think about the lesson this teaches your kids! You do this, like I did, because you are Codependent, and you insist upon delving into areas that God has already proclaimed to be His to 'usurpervise.'

I certainly don't mean to be rude; what is the nice way to say "You're crazy?" Now, I might be eating turnips, tomorrow; don't know where I'm sleeping tonight, but I can say this; God takes wonderful care of me, and it is my prayer that you might be taken care of, too. Peace to you all.

Milk is $20.00 a gallon in Colorado?

[bbyrd009]

Well, raw milk is not cheap anywhere. Makes one bulletproof, though. Kids who drink it are rarely allergic to anything, or so the tale goes.

[ILG]

Originally Posted by bbyrd009

Well, raw milk is not cheap anywhere. Makes one bulletproof, though. Kids who drink it are rarely allergic to anything, or so the tale goes.

Raw milk should be cheaper than store bought, I would think....

[Digging4Truth]

Originally Posted by bbyrd009

Ha amen.
My fave. You could feed 4 for a month on a strip of sweet potatoes 1x10, beside your house. Most of the rest of that stuff is pretty...yacky, innit? Could you guys unclench a little, maybe Google "80 year cycle" or something? I mean, preparedness is great, but when does it become paranoia? Powdered eggs is God's way of telling you to get a chicken!

I have chickens and I dehydrate my own eggs.

[bbyrd009]

Originally Posted by ILG

Raw milk should be cheaper than store bought, I would think....

Ha, and yet it is intentionally quite difficult to buy; one must purchase a 'share' in a herd; for goat's milk anyway--which tastes exactly like cow's milk, btw, until it is adulterated or processed--it just works out to $20 a gallon. A share in a cow herd would likely have more output. It is illegal to sell raw milk. Vast sums have been spent to condition us to believe that raw milk is dangerous; when in fact it is the processing that renders cow's milk (chosen strictly due to their output), which is not a great source of anything to humans, into some fairly hard-to-digest protein and a load of soft metal that must be eliminated, all enzymes and most of the nutrition lost. With the calcium that is digested likely a chief source of 'scarred arteries,' having been rendered into shards in the homogenization process.

Do you know why milk is "Vitamin D 'fortified?'" Because cows no longer eat grass, which is loaded with Omega3 and VitD, so their milk is deficient, and so it gets 'fortified.' Whenever you see something that has been 'fortified,' it has invariably been nutrient-stripped. your milk primer for today...do your kids drink a lot of milk? Those people at Safeway are not your friends, sorry. A shame, because they are the second largest donor to charities, behind Kroger, by %. Guilt?

[Titus2woman]

Originally Posted by ILG

Raw milk should be cheaper than store bought, I would think....

Nope. Store milk is no longer 'real' milk at all but is a pseudo food. Cows are mostly raised dry-lotted (no grass) and eat bakery waste, candy bars, spent grain from breweries, silage, and poultry litter (yes, that is chicken ........). They are bred to give 10 gallons a day plus on this food but have very short productive lives, usually spent or culled for illness in their 3rd or 4th year. All commercial milk is broken down in to components... milk fat, protein and water, the water and fat are remixed to desired levels of Skim, 1%, 2% and 3% (whole) milk. The rest of the fat is used for value added products like cream, ice cream, etc. Protein is added back, if it is low sprayed dried milk from China (much cheaper) is added back. Then it is cooked (pasteurized) shaken (homogenized) bleached white, vitamins added, and bottled. Some places are also adding Aspartame to increase sweetness. All this production keeps costs way down.

Raw Milk costs look more like this.
Cow $2.000 X2 amortized over 5 years= $66 per month
Milking Machine $1,200 or $20/mo
Fencing, Barn, pasture improvement $60,000 amort. over 20 years= $250 mo
Organic feed for 2 milking cows per month $400
Quality unsprayed, non-GMO alfalfa for 2 cows per month $480/ mo.
vaccines, vet care, etc. $40 mo

$1,256/mo in expenses here in Texas. This is hugely variable depending on where in the US it's being done and each farmers program.

Cows produce 8 gallons of milk per day x 10 months per year or about 96 gallons per month at approx $6.40 per gallon.

This allows nothing for the farmers labor. I charge $8 a gallon for raw milk and hope I'll live long enough to recoup some of my investment.

But I get fresh raw milk for myself and my family and the joy of keeping my own family cows.

On the prepping food front... We have about a years worth of food in a very well stocked pantry, root cellar, garden and a resupply plan for beef, milk, chicken, eggs, turkey, duck, venison, pork, goat, fish, cheese, butter, cream, whey, veggies, fruits, and nuts. Hundreds of pounds of salt and grains in the form of oats and wheat. We will not starve for sure. Now we need a water containment system... because we certainly will die of dehydration pretty quick.