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  • Texas42

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    I remember my grandma use to make bread every weekend for the next week. She is long gone now. Was born in 1914. My grandpa had a peanut better and jelly every day for lunch for like 30 years.

    When she would make fresh cinnamon rolls the whole extended family would stop by over the course of the day as word spread.

    She made most stuff from scratch. Had probably 20 or 30lbs of flour in a pull out bin in the kitchen.

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    My wife can make some good sour dough bread. Got a sour dough starter for a couple years now.


    But seriously. .. if you are worried about food prices. .. why aren’t you trying to grow food?

    Only other way to control costs is to buy in bulk at Sams and eat mostly a meat free diet.
     

    mongoose

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    Wait... What? Why would they put dry ice in a barrel of flour? That sounds like an expensive proposition. Wouldn't just buying flour and vacuum sealing it or storing in buckets with gamma lids be better?
    They stored their flour in 55 gal. Drums. They had seven kids ,wo grand parents and two parents. Plus assorted guest they hosted. He was an Elder in the church.They had a milk cow and raised chickens, rabbits and beef cattle for food.
     

    Lost Spurs

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    My wife can make some good sour dough bread. Got a sour dough starter for a couple years now.


    But seriously. .. if you are worried about food prices. .. why aren’t you trying to grow food?

    Only other way to control costs is to buy in bulk at Sams and eat mostly a meat free diet.
    Being worried about food prices has nothing to do with growing food. With that being said, we have several sticks in the fire and some more I can go into.

    We have a handfull of quail that are cranking out 3 to 4 eggs a day. Worth about 1-1.5 chicken eggs. We also have several eggs in the incubator so I can rotate them out and have jalapeño quail bacon poppers.. We have sweet potatoes in beds and some various berries in pots.

    I am in the works of making some sort of aquaponic setup. Not quite there yet.

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    BuzzinSATX

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    Being worried about food prices has nothing to do with growing food. With that being said, we have several sticks in the fire and some more I can go into.

    We have a handfull of quail that are cranking out 3 to 4 eggs a day. Worth about 1-1.5 chicken eggs. We also have several eggs in the incubator so I can rotate them out and have jalapeño quail bacon poppers.. We have sweet potatoes in beds and some various berries in pots.

    I am in the works of making some sort of aquaponic setup. Not quite there yet.

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    BuzzinSATX

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    Super sweet. The beds look good for my back too. Nice and tall.

    Are you getting any fish worth eating?

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    No fish to eat. I am having great success with koi. They are so hardy and easy to keep alive.

    I tried tilapia at first, but they were not worth it for me. Expensive and hard to keep alive. If I were to focus on fish to eat, I’d probably try catfish or bluegill next.

    First bed (below) built with two hydroponic grow beds…very expensive.

    The second bed is similar but built with two Rubbermaid water tanks, a 150 gallon fish tank and a 50 gallon grow bed.

    I use constant pond pump to flood beds and bell syphon to drain…24-7-365

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