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I spent 15 years being 50 pounds underweight.
No amount of glucose was changing that.

Refrigerated peanut butter is a waste of resources and makes peanut butter harder to use.

A lot of jellies, jams and preserves don’t need refrigeration if you use a clean knife, don’t get any bread crumbs in there and are probably going to empty that jar within two weeks.

Most of my bread is homemade. It’s cheap. About 77¢ a pound. I can mix up a big batch of dough and decide what to do with it later. Bread, pizza, English muffins, pitas, garlic knots, whatever. Since most of my meals are a mix of how much energy I have to cook, how much back pain I’m in and cravings it’s nice to have very flexible staples on hand that I can make things from.

I’ve had people look through my kitchen and complain there is no food. Just stuff you make food from.

Anyway there is a huge difference between the wheat based diet of 9000 years ago and my diet. I’m mixing things up with rice, potatoes and bread. They were literally surviving on bread alone. And “man can not survive on bread alone.” I’m pulling in bits of protein and yard clippings.

A lot of homesteaders get this idea. They’re going to grow 80% of their calories or more. I can’t do that. Calories are expensive to grow. They’re cheap to buy. I grow my flavor and buy my calories. You’re going to spend more per pound on basil than you will steak. I can grow basil. I can’t grow steak. Even though cows outnumber people on my block.

I am trying to grow more calories this year though. I’ve planted over 200 seeds in the last week. When I don’t know is if any of it will survive our hot summer or our chickens. But at least the chickens will give us eggs in exchange for eating my fruit and veg.

And that’s not including the 100 onions I planted earlier this year. I spent a lot of money on onions so I’m hoping this works out. Those are protected from the chickens.

Exactly.

I have used those in the past but they get picky about the size of the potatoes and require a lot of force so unless you spend a fortune they end up breaking. I just use a sharp knife and eyeball it.

It’s weird how humans have recently rejected carbs in all forms despite pasta and rice heavy cultures outliving everyone else and humans evolving from primates that ate so damn much fruit for so long that we literally lost the ability to make vitamin C. Ireland didn’t get obese from potatoes. People just need to relax and eat food, not too much. Mostly plants.

That rule is way off. We can expect 4+ weeks of shelf life on unwashed eggs at room temperature. The older eggs make better hard boiled eggs because they are easier to peel.

Of course they do. That’s how my cells get the calories they need for ATP.

Farm birds get a much more diverse diet because they spend much of their day foraging. Could I taste the difference between store-bought and home-raised? Probably not. Can I see the difference when I crack them open, definitely. The yolks are dramatically deeper in color.

The American standard of washing the eggs is not to make them prettier. It’s to make them so they can be refrigerated for longer-term storage.

It was intact. Maybe it somehow found its way under but couldn’t get out. Or it got dragged in by a cat, partially munched and then forgotten about.

Vole, mole, mouse, cotton rat are the favorites here.

I did find a rabbit skeleton underneath my house. Is the only rabbit I’ve ever seen of my property. But I don’t know if it was there before we moved in or not. And I don’t know how my cats would have gotten underneath the house to put it there. So I can’t confirm that as a confirmed kill.

I used to do butter and occasionally I still do olive oil if the situation is right. But these days it’s mostly mayo. I was very skeptical of the whole idea but after trying it, I can’t deny that the results are superior.

I have 11 cats. Plus three more in my custody. If they worked together they could take down a cow. This is important because cows outnumber people on my block.

But I also want more cat friendly cat food because I too understand what cats want in cat food. I made this 10 years ago:

No thank you.

Youtube sourcing is the worst. I look forward to a text version

I’m a handyman. I constantly have project managers, supervisors, inspectors and quality control looking at my work. Every one of them had four paws, whiskers and a craving for sardines.

This brand of Swiss is a firmer cheese and this particular one is about 7 months old making it a little more firm. Sometimes people call this a hot ham and cheese because it’s not always going to melt fully.

Whites claiming the godfather would be an injustice. I think we are at an impasse. Or maybe we are thinking about it incorrectly from the beginning. The scumdogs of GWAR belong to all the people. Or rather the people belong to them, to slaughter.

Keep all of those. And Diamond. How about Jimi Hendrix and Little Richard. I thought about Tina Turner but I’m pretty sure she was covered in a previous draft.

That is good