athenasius
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Or what happens when the store shelves are empty and the trucks don't come in for days. I was going to call it Grumpy Granny Goes into the Root Cellar and goes all Postal with the Parsnips but that might be too much.
Here's the deal, I grew up with grandparents who lived like electricity was just invented yesterday. I figure I might share my thoughts on how to manage when the stores run out of veggies. Because I'm doing that again. I've enjoyed having stores with loads of fresh veggies, but I know how to fall back on the old ways when the stores run out of stuff.
Veggies are healthy, and most freeze dried food buckets sold to would be preppers don't have a lot of veggies or if they do it's a lot of the same one. Plus I'm not fond of freeze dried food. I eat what I store and store what I eat.
And have you SEEN THE PRICES??? $17.50 per kg ($8 lb) for single red peppers this morning but a bag was nearby that was only $9 for 2 lbs. Pantry systems that work, save money and that includes veggies.
In my prepper pantry I have real food that we eat every day, just a little more of it. I rely on my fridge freezer (the bottom 1/4 is a pull out drawer type, so not large but not the tiny ice cube holder from the old days)
And this morning we are back to serious shortages. Most of the shelves were empty. But the old long keeper root cellar veggies were there, and a select few like the peppers and some zucchini.
I live in central BC and our province had a massive storm that took out all our main highways including the Coquihalla where the groceries come up on in trucks. The Coq was destroyed in 20 different places and 5 bridges washed out in November. Since then they opened up a single lane (it used to be 4 to 6 lanes) and a few days ago it was closed again due to snowfall. So I'm getting used to shortages and empty shelves.
So I'm relying heavily on the kind of veggies (that are still for sale btw) that my grandparents routinely stocked and ate all winter.
Things like
Whole heads of cabbage
Sauerkraut
Beets
Rutabagas and Turnips-- not quite the same veggie
Carrots
Parsnips
Onions and garlic
Potatoes
Hard squash like Butternut
and not surprising (apart from Parsnips) these are also the cheaper options for veggies in the supermarket.
When I was at our poorest, I would shop on pay day every two weeks and these are the faithful few I could rely on lasting for the full 2 weeks. Long after the salads and the spinach are gone, the carrots, cabbage and potatoes were hanging in there with a bowl of onions and garlic.
Later in the week I will post in some reliable ways to cook these because quite honestly some like the Rutabaga or Parsnips need a few how to tips in order to make them tasty for the family.
And I really do have some delicious ways to pull off a few leaves of that head of cabbage sulking away in the corner of the crisper and make it nice.
So I'm throwing it open to all-- got questions about the easiest way to make a beet behave for dinner without too much hassle or have you got veggies you KNOW will last in the crisper till a crisis is over whether it's a snowed in highway or payday is a long ways a way.
Time to share your tips!
Here's the deal, I grew up with grandparents who lived like electricity was just invented yesterday. I figure I might share my thoughts on how to manage when the stores run out of veggies. Because I'm doing that again. I've enjoyed having stores with loads of fresh veggies, but I know how to fall back on the old ways when the stores run out of stuff.
Veggies are healthy, and most freeze dried food buckets sold to would be preppers don't have a lot of veggies or if they do it's a lot of the same one. Plus I'm not fond of freeze dried food. I eat what I store and store what I eat.
And have you SEEN THE PRICES??? $17.50 per kg ($8 lb) for single red peppers this morning but a bag was nearby that was only $9 for 2 lbs. Pantry systems that work, save money and that includes veggies.
In my prepper pantry I have real food that we eat every day, just a little more of it. I rely on my fridge freezer (the bottom 1/4 is a pull out drawer type, so not large but not the tiny ice cube holder from the old days)
And this morning we are back to serious shortages. Most of the shelves were empty. But the old long keeper root cellar veggies were there, and a select few like the peppers and some zucchini.
I live in central BC and our province had a massive storm that took out all our main highways including the Coquihalla where the groceries come up on in trucks. The Coq was destroyed in 20 different places and 5 bridges washed out in November. Since then they opened up a single lane (it used to be 4 to 6 lanes) and a few days ago it was closed again due to snowfall. So I'm getting used to shortages and empty shelves.
So I'm relying heavily on the kind of veggies (that are still for sale btw) that my grandparents routinely stocked and ate all winter.
Things like
Whole heads of cabbage
Sauerkraut
Beets
Rutabagas and Turnips-- not quite the same veggie
Carrots
Parsnips
Onions and garlic
Potatoes
Hard squash like Butternut
and not surprising (apart from Parsnips) these are also the cheaper options for veggies in the supermarket.
When I was at our poorest, I would shop on pay day every two weeks and these are the faithful few I could rely on lasting for the full 2 weeks. Long after the salads and the spinach are gone, the carrots, cabbage and potatoes were hanging in there with a bowl of onions and garlic.
Later in the week I will post in some reliable ways to cook these because quite honestly some like the Rutabaga or Parsnips need a few how to tips in order to make them tasty for the family.
And I really do have some delicious ways to pull off a few leaves of that head of cabbage sulking away in the corner of the crisper and make it nice.
So I'm throwing it open to all-- got questions about the easiest way to make a beet behave for dinner without too much hassle or have you got veggies you KNOW will last in the crisper till a crisis is over whether it's a snowed in highway or payday is a long ways a way.
Time to share your tips!