The Shortage, Are You Preparing?

[JohnDB]

My sister who is scared to gain an ounce and works out feverishly will break down once a year for the peanut butter balls that I make. I dip them by hand but last Christmas hubby said he was gaining too much weight and didn't want me to make any. My sister got wind of it and threatened me that I better make them and don't dare listen to hubby. lol

And that's how it starts...
At least it did for me...

Next thing you know you have the biggest totes available full of various cookies and a whole production line of making plates...a literal sea of them taking over kitchen and living room.

 

[kaylagrl]

I'm trying to learn that myself. Thankfully one good thing with the world wide web is we have near unlimited access to "classes", with videos for nearly anything you can imagine wanting to learn. Down side (for me) I learn better hands on, and I need to ask the questions right away while working on it.

My husband once asked his mom for some recipes, she just gave him a blank look and said "I can't. It's all up here" pointing to her head. Thankfully she did write many down through the years (I think she forgot about them), sadly other family members helped those recipes cards grow legs and walk away through the years. Hubs finds recipes sometimes in older cookbooks and says "Mom use to make that" so I give it a go. A few have been winners and "even better" She went Home a few years ago (she was in a nursing home, so at least it happened before Covid) We made some of the copy cat recipes for my father in law. The look on his face while reminiscing............
PRICELESS.

The recipes I use the most I am trying to get gathered and at least written/saved on a memory stick/card. I'd like to start taking photos as each fave meal is made to put into a book for my kids along with the recipes.

This cracked me up. lol I learn the same way. But my aunt gave me enough instruction to make a poke cake, which I hadn't tried before. It's now a family favorite. I feel bad that I have no written recipes from my grandmother, she kept it all in her head too. She passed when I was a young teen, before I realized that a hand written recipe from her would be something a would treasure. I'm sure your kids will appreciate your effort.

 

[ZNP]

"The Tragedy of the Treadmill being delayed"

https://rumble.com/vnyhbx-psaki-pokes-fun-at-americans-suffering-from-supply-chain-problems.html

So comforting to know that our elected officials empathize with us.

 

[kaylagrl]

"The Tragedy of the Treadmill being delayed"

https://rumble.com/vnyhbx-psaki-pokes-fun-at-americans-suffering-from-supply-chain-problems.html

So comforting to know that our elected officials empathize with us.

Yes, well when the people don't have food on the table for the holidays and can't afford the gas to visit grandma, I wonder if she'll dare say "let them eat cake" then.

 

[ZNP]

Lower your expectations!

The Washington Post explained today that people need to just quit whining about not being able to get what they want and simply lower their expectations. The same whiny people who mocked CNN for saying the protests were "mostly peaceful" as a police station burned in the background and people were looting a liquor store. Lower your expectations!

These are the same ones who are posting videos of thieves walking out of Walgreens with garbage bags full of stuff trying to fear monger. Let's get real, the thieves are careful not to exceed the limit of what they can legally steal, they use calculators (no one is so naive as to think they could do the calculations themselves). And the Walgreens that are closing down is it really because of the theft or is it because of poor management? Lower your expectations!

These are probably the same Karen's complaining about a woman being raped on a crowded subway train. What are women supposed to be able to go to work without fear of being raped in public? Lower your expectations!

Whining about Biden giving over our airbase and fully equipping the Taliban with state of the art military equipment and a pallet of cash. Lower your expectations!

Whining about an estimated 2 million illegals flooding our border and being flown all over the country. What are we supposed to do, build a wall? Lower your expectations!

 

[Godsgirl83]

This cracked me up. lol I learn the same way. But my aunt gave me enough instruction to make a poke cake, which I hadn't tried before. It's now a family favorite. I feel bad that I have no written recipes from my grandmother, she kept it all in her head too. She passed when I was a young teen, before I realized that a hand written recipe from her would be something a would treasure. I'm sure your kids will appreciate your effort. View attachment 232184

well "heart" for the reaction to the words and a BIG LOL to the unexpected, hilarious image

 

[JTB]

 

[JohnDB]

Their parts from Indonesia do. It's a percentage based thing anymore.

 

[ZNP]

Fun Fact

The trucks delivering food from the Local farms to your farmers market need tires to work! If it takes 6 months to 2 years to get new tires you may need to drive to the farm to get the food. This is true of all car parts.

Although local farms will supply food in the summer much of your winter food comes from abroad.

Also, even if you have been faithful to only buy local produce, many of your neighbors have not, when the local grocery store has empty shelves they also will go to the farmer's market.

 

[kaylagrl]

Fun Fact

The trucks delivering food from the Local farms to your farmers market need tires to work! If it takes 6 months to 2 years to get new tires you may need to drive to the farm to get the food. This is true of all car parts.

Although local farms will supply food in the summer much of your winter food comes from abroad.

Also, even if you have been faithful to only buy local produce, many of your neighbors have not, when the local grocery store has empty shelves they also will go to the farmer's market.

My little white dog in my avatar was born down in the country. We visit the people who own her momma from time to time. We went before the Rona hit and they mentioned out of nowhere that if we needed meat they knew where we could get a side of beef etc. When we left I kind of laughed and said to hubby " when will we ever need a cow or a pig". Now I know...

 

[ZNP]

 

[Godsgirl83]

The trucks delivering food from the Local farms to your farmers market need tires to work!

*said overly dramatic with a southern bell accent*

Oh! Whoa is me!!! *back of wrist flung dramatically over forehead*
How did our ancestors EVER survive before rubber tires were invented?

 

[ZNP]

*said overly dramatic with a southern bell accent*

Oh! Whoa is me!!! *back of wrist flung dramatically over forehead*
How did our ancestors EVER survive before rubber tires were invented?

I had to get rid of my horse, couldn't afford to feed him, also my neighbors in NYC complained of the stepping in all the plops.

 

[Godsgirl83]

I had to get rid of my horse, couldn't afford to feed him, also my neighbors in NYC complained of the stepping in all the plops.

But let's not let our brains be taken so far away from us that we forget how we reached this point of instant everything, and
"OOPS! Ran out of ingredient needed for dinner. Driving down to the corner market, be back back in 15 minutes" .

Generations have gone before us without all this "stuff" AND survived or we wouldn't be here.

 

[Handyman62]

But let's not let our brains be taken so far away from us that we forget how we reached this point of instant everything, and
"OOPS! Ran out of ingredient needed for dinner. Driving down to the corner market, be back back in 15 minutes" .

Generations have gone before us without all this "stuff" AND survived or we wouldn't be here.

 

[Handyman62]

Sadly for the current generations most of the knowledge of the old ways has been replaced by video games & social media. Most of that knowledge can still be found but by the time people realize they need it it will be to little to late.

 

[Godsgirl83]

Sadly for the current generations most of the knowledge of the old ways has been replaced by video games & social media. Most of that knowledge can still be found but by the time people realize they need it it will be to little to late.

Exactly.

 

[PennEd]

My little white dog in my avatar was born down in the country. We visit the people who own her momma from time to time. We went before the Rona hit and they mentioned out of nowhere that if we needed meat they knew where we could get a side of beef etc. When we left I kind of laughed and said to hubby " when will we ever need a cow or a pig". Now I know...

We bid on a side of beef and lost.

Many people recognize 6 months from now steaks will be $40 a pound.

 

[ZNP]

We bid on a side of beef and lost.

Many people recognize 6 months from now steaks will be $40 a pound.

Beans and rice people, beans and rice.

Also post #62 gives you the recipes you need to know for canning.

 

[JohnDB]

But let's not let our brains be taken so far away from us that we forget how we reached this point of instant everything, and
"OOPS! Ran out of ingredient needed for dinner. Driving down to the corner market, be back back in 15 minutes" .

Generations have gone before us without all this "stuff" AND survived or we wouldn't be here.

Well most places have gone to J.I.T. inventory...and anyone with a brain could figure out that this method might save on warehouse facilities but it is heavily dependent upon low skill logistical labor.

From Truck drivers to forklift drivers...all are relatively low skilled labor. And when that labor pool has dried up because nobody is willing to pay them much they stay home. These are secondary jobs for most couples.

The few who remain (like truck drivers) only make money from driving...time at the docks spent loading and unloading doesn't pay them anything...and when a truck sits there for hours (because of no forklift drivers) they are going broke because they aren't driving.
So they begin to stay home too.

And the whole system of J.I.T. breaks down. A single point of failure. The most important part (people) have been treated as disposable for so long that the people began treating the employers and jobs as disposable.

Managing a workforce is a real skill. And it's been done so poorly for so long that upper management has no idea what it looks like anymore. It's not about having ice cream cones every so often or something expensive and dumb like that. It's about treating others with respect... putting forth real effort to care about those who work for you. A timely bottle of water and recognizing hard work means more than a $100 gift certificate to a fancy restaurant every day of the week.

There's a lot of problems with a lot of attitudes in the world lately. And all the money in the world isn't going to fix the problems. We can point fingers all day long but it's easier to look in the mirror and fix that person's attitude...that's usually the toughest one to deal with anyway.