[Strutz]

Almost posted this as new news but realized we've already been discussing this...

$1:

Skipping the occasional meal has become the norm for Tara Andrews, who says soaring grocery prices have made it too hard to adequately feed herself and her two teens.

Even with help from food donations and her retired parents, the 49-year-old single mom says the skyrocketing cost of living is more than she can handle on her monthly income of $1,200. She's already one month in arrears for May's rent and expects the same for June.

“My grocery bill has almost doubled and I get maybe half of what I used to be able to get. It's a direct relationship that the more expensive things get, the less I can afford to buy,” Andrews says from her home in Coquitlam, B.C.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/lifestyle/child- ... -1.5960311

Shit, my partner went shopping yesterday. Mostly basic stuff we needed, plus some stock up on meat for the freezer (in large packs which we'll break down and freeze), but $174 later... we have some food. Unreal how everything has gone up.

[DrCaleb]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

Tricks Tricks:

llama66 llama66:

It's back, and apparently Health Canada has blessed it.

https://www.soylent.ca/

How is it? I've considered it in the past but never tried it.

Ordered plain and chocolate packets. I'll try anything once.

Meh. Not terrible. Definitely get that grassy soy protein flavour. But they keep me being hungry for 16 hours a day. I might get the big pouch. The packets are a bit more per meal than I like to spend.

[housewife]

herbie herbie:

housewife housewife:

Zipperfish that sounds great! Not too mention the piece and quite well at least none man made noise! I think I’m jealous. Only 9 years and 4 months left here unless we get time off for good behaviour! Can’t wait!

Only your own noise cursing and moaning as you work your butt off fencing, paying for feed, vets, tools, tractor gas and feed companies that 'centralize' their stores to the Big Smoke hundreds of miles away....
look back at the hobby farm as an ordeal now that I only can grumble about having to mow the pissy little lawn and walk a chihuahua.

When the wife passed she left a two-four of that Boost shit. OMG Soylent Green with extra chalk added.... bleaghh! About as tasty as a liver smoothie.

herbie not sure I would got the hobby farm route. I just want to be somewhere with a lot more space between me and my neighbours. That beagle still barking at everything which I mostly tune out but my husband complaining about it is harder to tune out. I don’t really like just how crowded and crazy southern Ontario is. It’s not somewhere I would have thought let’s move there. So yeah my hobby farm would have less animals and more hobbies. I have a box loom and a small floor loom I inherited from my grandparents in the 90’s I have someone that will teach me all about it but I need more space to take up a new hobby! Oh and some time too!