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[creativetwinszoo]

It's weird packaged meals are mentioned as being sold out, most the stores I've been to have loads of those still! I buy some occasionally, but not many cause I dont like the salt content. More often I prefer from scratch, like grandpa said "homecooked is a taste of the love you have for others" as well as "the prowess of the resourceful and smart" when supplies/resources are skinty.

 

[creativetwinszoo]

As to not knowing how to cook, I dont really blame younger generations.

It's a multi generational problem. Most kids used to learn that skill from parents. Most parents both started working, so only gave basic lessons or none to the oldest children who in turn gave the same or less to the younger and so forth. (I learned all cooking skills from my grandpa, save for ramen and boxed macaroni)
Plus the way the world turns has made the ease of quick cook and convenience food and let's face it, even those of us who love to cook generally hate doing dishes when we could be spending the time elsewhere.

 

[flowerbug]

At food demos -- where I have actually prepared a dip, a main course food, a cookie, etc. from scratch -- it is normal for the people to ask what aisle, how packaged, and such. When I say that you MAKE it.....oh, no! A jar, can, frozen prepped, I do. But, nothing from scratch.

People often do not know how to cook, just heat & eat or buy at a drive thru. It's sad, really. Even this current health scare won't change it. Nope, they don't know how to cook.

IF they had to actually butcher.....the only one dead would be the person, from starvation. Even fresh veggies are pretty safe. If you don't cook, you sure don't do "dirt" in a garden.

i have a book here which describes how to butcher a pig. i have cleaned fish in the past. kinda doubt i'll have to do it in the future, but if i had to i could do it. yet, to me eating meat isn't a big deal, i can mostly do without it. i have beans and peas for cooking and those are a heck of a lot easier to cook up. no risk of much in the way of diseases from cleaning and eating them either. most i have to worry about here is tripping over a rake, a rock or stepping on a rusty nail. stuff that is normal day to day here.

what i'm hoping for is that more people get into gardening. i have a lot of beans to keep giving away.

 

[flowerbug]

It's weird packaged meals are mentioned as being sold out, most the stores I've been to have loads of those still! I buy some occasionally, but not many cause I dont like the salt content. More often I prefer from scratch, like grandpa said "homecooked is a taste of the love you have for others" as well as "the prowess of the resourceful and smart" when supplies/resources are skinty.

to me they are expensive, not very good and a lot of waste packaging to throw away. i much prefer fresh food that comes from the gardens or is stuff we put up. that's the best all around as i know what goes in it when we put it up and i love the fact that it is packaged in glass jars so i don't have to taste the plastic or metal.

 

[flowerbug]

i don't mind doing dishes at all. i'm not a t.v. chef that uses individual bowls for each ingredient or a lot of pans. i just tend to make things in one pan, use one knife, one spoon to stir, etc. keep it simple is my motto.

 

[CrealCritter]

i have a book here which describes how to butcher a pig. i have cleaned fish in the past. kinda doubt i'll have to do it in the future, but if i had to i could do it. yet, to me eating meat isn't a big deal, i can mostly do without it. i have beans and peas for cooking and those are a heck of a lot easier to cook up. no risk of much in the way of diseases from cleaning and eating them either. most i have to worry about here is tripping over a rake, a rock or stepping on a rusty nail. stuff that is normal day to day here.

what i'm hoping for is that more people get into gardening. i have a lot of beans to keep giving away.

I have a few books on butchering of different animals. I believe one is illustrated. Let me know the animal your interested in butchering and i'll and see if I can find info in my books for you. I can butcher, but I need more practice because I'm not very good at it.

 

[flowerbug]

I have a few books on butchering of different animals. I believe one is illustrated. Let me know the animal your interested in butchering and i'll and see if I can find info in my books for you. I can butcher, but I need more practice because I'm not very good at it.

nothing at the moment.

 

[Daisy]

I wanted to butcher my pekin drakes but my mum and neighbours said the risk of illness was way too high for dry duck. I still want to try it down the line. There was loads of info online. but I simply don't have the facilities to do it safely. I would be fine to kill them, nor am I squeamish, but food poisoning is more prevalent in Australia than covid 19 so far! We cant even swim in the local lakes cos of brain eating bacteria lol. Canning is not a wide spread practice either because of the high temperatures and unidentified bacteria. Scientists warned us to stay out of the rain last year because of ancient diseases being shifted by cyclones. I love walking in the rain.

I taught myself to cook. Low wage forced it. One of the essentials I had on my list while househunting was a dishwasher. Oh how I love my dishwasher!

 

[baymule]

Ancient diseases? LOL LOL

 

[CrealCritter]

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