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Post by sd51555 on Mar 5, 2019 19:25:14 GMT -6
Went to the ole Costco after work to pick up some get me through groceries. For the third time in a row, I walked out $200 lighter, and still only one box of grub. I've been working on a project to figure out what it costs me to pack a healthy lunch, and which options are budget makers, and which are budget takers. Couple early lessons so far?
Orange - 75 cents Organic banana - 20 cents Good apple - $1.50 ($5.50/lb) Pear - 83 cents Raspberries - $2.50/lb less than prime NY strip steak (I'll grow the berries and buy the steak)
Boneless chicken thighs - $3.99/lb Prime NY strip - $10.99/lb
Also throwing in a 3-way high fiber nut rotation of almonds, peanuts, and pistachios.
I'm starting to realize some of you quacks growing apples, fish, and surplus deer are really onto some value. Oranges, bananas, and pears are cheap enough, it don't pay for me to develop a zone 3 hybrid. But man, if a guy could harvest and keep his own apples for a number of months, or process into sauce, get a raspberry and asparagus patch going, and kill a few deer, fish, and pigs, you'd take a monumental chunk outta the food budget. There's an even bigger bonus if you can kill the bear that keeps smearing shit on your doors too.
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Post by Sandbur on Mar 5, 2019 19:55:12 GMT -6
I just had two of what I call applesauce shakes. Applesauce, 2% milk, nutmeg, and some truvia. We prefer crabapple sauce. Still some in the freezer. This picture is a year old, but the 2017 sauce is long gone. I am still on the one beer per week, sweets one day per week ration. Actually had homemade apple wine instead of beer this week. My mother in law called it wine, not cider, and she made it.
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Post by Sandbur on Mar 5, 2019 19:56:27 GMT -6
Drive to Merrifield and you can get the deer!
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Post by Bwoods11 on Mar 5, 2019 19:56:47 GMT -6
Planning on some sweet corn this year.
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Post by benmnwi on Mar 5, 2019 20:03:17 GMT -6
You can plant some apples, pears (maybe), blueberries and juneberries at your cabin. Maybe add a patch of squash too for some variety.
Perhaps some hazelnuts too
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Post by Reagan on Mar 5, 2019 20:08:53 GMT -6
Yep. It’s called a garden.
Canned tomatoes last year. Now I make some homemade pasta sauce and eat it with my venison Italian sausage.
We grow spinach, kale, zukes, squash, herbs, peppers. Asparagus patch is improving. Hopefully this is the breakout year for that.
If I ever get my act together, I’d like to be in the Apple game. I never settled on an order this year. It’s probably too late. Maybe next year.
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Post by batman on Mar 5, 2019 20:29:01 GMT -6
Smoke another bowl. Grocery store trumps all for food.
But Foggys BIL does have a pretty sweet setup for the landowners hunts at DeerTopia! I only have to spend:
$100 trespass $60 gas $200 missed work plans $60 meals $18 corn for bait
$438 for 40 lbs of deer meat.
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Post by sd51555 on Mar 5, 2019 20:33:49 GMT -6
Drive to Merrifield and you can get the deer! No way! Those people from Merrifield to Jenkins have been eating zombie meat for years. It's only a matter of time before a covert DOD plane carrying Trioxin crashes into a swamp and sinks into the mud unknown to the sheriff and entire community and that unholy agent is leaked into the lakes. First people start blabbing about how they need an electric kiln and galvanizing bath at camp to kill a deer. Then they get cab tractors and golf compulsively. Once that Trioxin reaches the water supply, game over. You'll never get out alive.
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Post by biglakebass on Mar 5, 2019 20:55:11 GMT -6
My grandpa picked my damn turnips from my plots.... hate to admit... i didnt know how good they were...
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Post by batman on Mar 5, 2019 21:00:43 GMT -6
My grandpa picked my damn turnips from my plots.... hate to admit... i didnt know how good they were... My foodie bud fried turnips at the cabin. Butter. Salt. Beer. I ate em.
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Post by biglakebass on Mar 5, 2019 21:01:31 GMT -6
Yep. Dammmm good.
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Post by wklman on Mar 5, 2019 21:10:20 GMT -6
All I need for raspberries is to open up the canopy a little bit. They grow like a weed on my property.
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Post by Catscratch on Mar 5, 2019 21:21:41 GMT -6
Immediate family generally puts 2-4 deer, a ton of fish, ducks, geese, doves, a pig, and a steer in the freezer every yr. It's hard to eat enough space before it's time to freeze more. Pigs are cheap if you buy 4H rejects. Cows are cheap if you butcher them before you have to feed them. Deer are cheap if you don't loose a bunch of arrows while practicing and shoot a 10yr old bow. Don't garden much but do grow a lot of asparagus and have gotten to where I can find wild mushrooms most of the yr. If I could grow chocolate icecream and oreo cookies I would have it made!
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Post by snowracerh on May 5, 2019 20:05:13 GMT -6
Yep. It’s called a garden. Canned tomatoes last year. Now I make some homemade pasta sauce and eat it with my venison Italian sausage. We grow spinach, kale, zukes, squash, herbs, peppers. Asparagus patch is improving. Hopefully this is the breakout year for that. If I ever get my act together, I’d like to be in the Apple game. I never settled on an order this year. It’s probably too late. Maybe next year. Would you mind sharing the canned pasta sauce recipe? Plan on trying that this summer.
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Post by Reagan on May 5, 2019 20:51:49 GMT -6
I don’t have a definite recipe. I kind of wing it.
I put some olive oil in a pot. Chop up an onion and cook it a bit.
I add tomato paste. About 1/2 of one of the little cans. I also add a few cloves of minced garlic.
Dump in a quart of canned Roma tomatoes from the garden. I smash em up.
I then put in some oregano and thyme. Maybe a tablespoon each. I usually just dump some in my palm until it looks like enough. I add a little sugar, some salt and red pepper flakes.
If it tastes like it needs something, I add it. Usually salt or more pepper.
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