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There are lots of cooking methods that can help save money
You can take a lot of your food wastes and freeze it and then make broth. I save my pan drippings for roux, gravy, and sauces.
I think this spring Iโm going to try planting vegetables, my brother is very into his vegetable garden and has good tips.
Also things like a bag of steel cut oats are more nutritious and filling than instant oatmeal.
I both love and hate comments like this (and say that having made more than a few of them myself). It's great to see people sharing advice on how to cook better, do more for yourself, do more at home, etc. I really enjoy making my own pickles, baking bread, making home made stock from scraps.
On the other hand, it disgusts me that comments like this are necessary. It's the twenty first century, humanity has built flying machines, travelled into space and harnessed the power of the atom, and we're out here sharing basic survival advice with each in the hopes of making it through one more day. Shouldn't our basic standard of living be better than that of hunter-gatherers by now?
Absolutely agree with you there.
My mom learned this cooking from her mom growing up in the depression. She would not throw out anything and always kept a stacked cellar of very old canned foods she had collected over the years.
I cook this way to connect back to my roots and it makes me happy, it's what I ate as a kid. That we are in a place where food banks are at all time high demand and this advice is needed is sad.
Even the great depression was, itself, an entirely artificial crisis.
I'm not saying that it occurred artificially; the causes were all real, and happened naturally.
But if you consider for even a moment the idea that a stock market crash leads to widespread starvation, it doesn't make the slightest bit of sense.
Times of hardship used to be caused by things like droughts or harsh winters; stuff that actually impacted our ability to support ourselves in a physical way.
But how does someone's investments failing prevent a farm from growing food? Does crop fertility track with the Dow-Jones? Does soil become less tillable because the FTSE is down?
The idea that people should starve, in a world that has no less ability to produce crops than it did yesterday, just because there is suddenly less money moving around, is absolute lunacy. In a sensible world, we'd think less about money and more about resources. Resources do not depend on the stock market. Resources do not become more scarce because a bunch of people made bad bets on the housing market.
No one should starve in a world with the capacity to feed everyone. And we have more than the capacity to feed everyone.
The steel cut oats also taste better, imo. :)