Winter gardening, milling flour and baking from-scratch breads, cakes and pastries, rolls, biscuits and pastas, noodles, all nostalgic remembrances for some, of mothers and grandmothers laboring away in the kitchen.
Finding them outside picking fruits or vegetables, creating the most wonderful smells coming from the oven and stove....... wonderful memories.
Throughout the years, technological advancements have created a generation, or three, that depend more on a grocery store for things our ancestors used to produce right at home, from scratch. No preservatives in the baked goods. No being picked so early that the fruit or vegetable being delivered ripens in boxes while being transported to the grocery stores.
Then disaster hits and within two years prices have become unsustainably high, forcing families to change their eating habits, cut their amount of meals, or cut their portions, for some, both.
The disaster referenced is not the Covid pandemic, it was the severe overreaction on the part of state leaders that created a mess, a supply chain crisis that has affected everything from food to clothing to electronics.
After so many months, I am not going to waste time going over what everyone knows happened.
PRICE HIKES BY THE NUMBERS:
All one has to do is look at the prices for every day items are now, compared to what they were two years ago. Compare the size of the containers your foods or drinks are in, and see they are smaller, yet cost the same or more. Shrinkflation.
Those that have been prepping generally have a good stock of what they need. Links for foods, fresh, freeze dried, canned, can be found in many of our prepping pieces, but there are other actions we can take to fight inflation, and learn how to survive without being forced to continue paying the constantly rising prices for fruits, vegetables and baked items.
The numbers below represent the price spikes from August 2021 through August 2022, representing just one year. Numbers provided by NBC Chicago. (Local stations do a much better job at reporting on this issue than the national media does)
The full list is at the link above, below is a shortened list focused more on the consumables we can make and grow ourselves, and which can be grown year round.
Cereals and Grains
Flour and prepared flour mixes: 23.3 percent
Breakfast cereal: 16.4 percent
Rice: 13 percent
Bread: 16.2 percent
Fresh biscuits, rolls and muffins: 17.1 percent
Cakes, cupcakes and cookies: 14.4 percent
Fruits and Vegetables
Apples: 3.8 percent
Bananas: 8.3 percent
Oranges and tangerines: 14.4 percent
Potatoes: 15.2 percent
Lettuce: 10.7 percent
Canned fruit: 16.6 percent
Canned vegetables: 16.1 percent
Frozen fruits and vegetables: 11.4 percent
Even though I write about this issue as it continues to worsen, seeing those numbers, knowing it is just a one year increase, not counting the massive increases for the year before, I am still astounded at those percentages.
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BECOMING SELF SUFFICIENT HAS NEVER BEEN SO IMPORTANT
Imagine waking up tomorrow and there was no ability to head the grocery store, and indefinite problem. No ability to buy food.
Most here would head to their prepping supplies and survive quite nicely, but what about when all of that is gone? Can you mill your own flour? Do you have the knowledge off the top of your head to make breads, rolls or any other baked good you use on a daily or weekly basis? Can you make your own pasta?
Things our ancestors could do with information right off the top of their heads, yet most of Americans today have none of that knowledge. It got lost in the fog of technology.
Between rising prices, shortages, threats of war, especially nuclear war, devastating weather events, and so much more, learning to become self-sufficient, now, before you are forced to use your prepping supplies and are left with nothing, now is the time to learn to become as self-sufficient as possible.
Remember whatever the talent you learn, it can be traded and bartered with someone that knows how to do other things.
THE ONLY IGNORANCE IS THAT OF REFUSING TO LEARN...
I was always taught that what you do not know, you can learn about. Right now we can do a quick internet search and get hundreds upon hundreds of recipes to bake breads, cakes, pastries, etc..... but when SHTF, one might not be able to just boot up the computer, so I am as always recommending books, paperback or hardcover.
Once again, the freeze dried and powdered offerings to bypass the constantly increasing prices can be found in multiple ANP pieces, like this link right here.
We'll start with growing your own fruits, vegetables:
There are way too many options regarding planters, pots, grow kits, soil, fertilizer, etc... so HERE IS THE SEARCH PAGE, because each individuals needs are different.
Don't forget your grow lights if you live in a cold weather climate and sitting on your windowsills aren't enough light to grow your indoor gardens.
As shown above the price of breads rose 16.2%, with other baked goods ranging from a 14% increase to a 17% increase, since August 2021. Even those already making their own breads are finding that the price of flour itself rose 23.3%
Why pay those prices, when doing it from scratch, while requiring an initial investment, would quite literally pay for itself within the first weeks or month?
So we start with milling your own grains for flour.
With winter up ahead and energy costs already skyrocketing and expected to get much worse, saving money on baked goods and pastas, fruits and vegetables will help mitigate those costs, and those just finishing up with their summer harvesting, can start fall/winter planting.
Those that haven't begun gardening and preparing for a day when you will need the knowledge to grow you own foods and make as much from-scratch foods as possible, start now, and by the time you are running a little lower on the prepping supplies you have, you will be more self-sufficient than the majority of the population will be in a SHTF scenario.
In the end, it eventually will always come down to survival of the most prepared.
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