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Post by BlueRidgeTrapper on Aug 28, 2009 4:38:05 GMT -5
Could ya?
Canned veggies and fruits along with meats...Freezer full of critters and the cupboards full of the essentials. Does anyone here not visit the grocery store in the winter? Used to be common around here except for the absolute essentials...
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Post by Sunshine on Aug 28, 2009 5:50:28 GMT -5
if i had to yes. i might lose a few pounds but thatd be a plus ;D
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Post by upstateNY on Aug 28, 2009 10:52:32 GMT -5
Thats how I grw up.Bout all we bought at the store was salt and coffee and such.
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Post by hawkeye on Aug 28, 2009 16:57:34 GMT -5
I grew up on a cattle ranch, we farmed and had a big big garden, hunted and fished all the time, always had a hog and chickens. My grandmother went to the grocery store every couple of weeks. She filled the back of the pickup with boxes of groceries. The box boys hated to see her coming! But remember, she didn't have a lot of time for canning. She was cooking for a hay crew or driving a tractor in the summer and helping feed in the winter. It was cheaper to buy most of the groceries than it was to hire a cook or another hand.
Now I live in city limits in a farming community. Vegetables are cheap, and if you know a few of the farmers they are even cheaper. City water isn't cheap. It costs more to water a garden than the vegetables cost. I can get a half a pickup load of sweet corn for 15.00. I used to hate canning day when my mother canned corn. Both my brothers and my sister and our spouses would be shucking corn. The days we butchered the chickens was even worse. I'd rather buy a chicken.
Besides deer and elk, most of our meat I trade salmon and halibut for.
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Post by HC Trapper on Aug 28, 2009 16:58:18 GMT -5
I grew up eating mostly wild game, But we still did the grocrey thing every couple weeks or so. My mom used to make homemade bread and beanhole baked beans and Homemade chicken soap. I could go on, But now i made my self hungry! ;D
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Post by upstateNY on Aug 28, 2009 19:24:10 GMT -5
Didnt mind hardly any of it.Hog butcherin & scalding(no fair just skinnin,had to scald & shave the hogs cause the Ole Man wanted the skin on em),canning all the vegetables,weedin gardens.Putting down the heffer and butchering that up,no problem.BUT<scaldin & plucking chickens to the tune of about 200 of em,I HATED THAT.
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Post by Sunshine on Aug 28, 2009 21:59:16 GMT -5
i didnt mind pluckin chickens but scrapin hogs was gross, lol,imo.
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Post by BlueRidgeTrapper on Sept 1, 2009 1:51:11 GMT -5
Might put a bullet in some swine 'fore too long...Anybody wanna go halfs? ;D
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Post by Sunshine on Sept 21, 2009 6:23:11 GMT -5
you gonna leave the hide on or skin it?
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Post by huckleberry on Sept 21, 2009 21:18:53 GMT -5
with what is in the freezer right now.....NO........in about a month that same freezer will be full of beef.....then a hog in Dec. or Jan. Overall....yes I could go all winter without buying anything but the staples. If i would go to Sam's and get 100 or so lbs each of flour and sugar I may not have to go at all.
That is the one thing that Dorothy has been most surprised about me. She can't believe how much we can save because of how I was raised.
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Post by mudtracker on Sept 23, 2009 21:52:05 GMT -5
Well I think with all the canning we been doing and if I can put two deer in the freezer that we would be pretty close to being able to do it.
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Post by rszwieg on Oct 6, 2009 3:28:38 GMT -5
Between two freezers of fish, venison, beef, chicken, veggies and home canned stuff...we could make it to spring.
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Post by Sunshine on Oct 14, 2009 5:23:41 GMT -5
soon theres gonna be some elk meat in the freezer here. yummy.
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Post by BlueRidgeTrapper on Oct 16, 2009 3:16:29 GMT -5
soon theres gonna be some elk meat in the freezer here. yummy. Must be nice, wanna share? ;D
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