A Mouthful for Self Sufficiency

[mistyfeather]

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My DH just told me the other day that we are better off using Lard than these fancy smancy trans fat type oils.

Absolutely true to an extent, in most cases. But not 100 pounds of it in a single year for a family of five.

Dietary allowances and nutrition sciences have changed considerably since 1947, which I'm sure the big ag trade journal article Boss got his information from neglected to mention (like he sits around in his central California home reading antiquated books on the agriculture of the southern US? I don't think so). We don't need nearly that much fat in our diet.

But my comment was mostly in jest. I just can't picture eating 25 to 30 pounds of lard (assuming the adults' portion of the equation) in a year.

At least not willingly.

could not be worse then margerine! margerine was origonaly made to faten up comercial turkeys but they found out that it was KILLING the turkeys and had to stop using it. since the manufacturers of margerine did not want to lose there money from the stuff they added yellow food coloring and began to sell it as a butter substitute.

 

[Buster52]

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But don't tell me you can't. I know better. Because I was born in your neighborhood.

Been there lately?

Maybe you should see what it looks like there now....

Dead and Dying–California’s Central Valley Dust Bowl

Any clue how far I-5 is from the foothills where Bossroo calls home?

It's like a whole 'nother country.

 

[Buster52]

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Far be it from me to defend any of the prefab "foods" from industrial agriculture.

Funny how these discussions sometimes get turned around backwards. The OP was all about how difficult it is to be self-sustaining, which nobody would deny, but uses outdated nutritional data that most people would question to do it. Then, Bossroo turns around and complains about how it is so hard to produce any kind of food for himself when he lives in one of the most hospitable growing environments in the world. The irony being, if it has become so inhospitable he can't even grow a few vegies, it is probably because of environmental degradation brought on in part by our unsustainable practices including those of the industrial agriculture he defends so fiercely.

Up is down and down is up. Everything turned on its head.

 

[fla_native]

Hmmm.... Clemson sure spent alot of time and ink on that!
I guess its a good thing that the folks that built this Country did it before Clemson
and Bossroo came along! They obviously didnt know that they were supposed to starve!

I myself was born in 1962 in the South and have the dubious distinction
of being the first in my family to have been born in a hospital. Most Southerners were very self sufficient
....we had no choice in the matter, we just did it.

Alot of stuff makes sense on paper but very seldom does the paperwork and reality meet!