I Already live a hyper frugal lifestyle, I might limit the number of coffee a day , but beyond that , not much else I could really do
Define rationing..
..Hard Candy... can trick you into think you are eating..
Are you waiting for someone to resupply you? Or just....trying to buy a few more days before the inevitable.?
Or you could be stretching what you have until the garden or livestock is ready to harvest.
DW use it, smell up the whole room, I like the candy.Peppermint hard-candies, IIRC, specifically.. Could also use a - Drop - of Peppermint 'essential oil', but.. Careful! A little dab'll do ya (but a Giant one'll Spew ya!
jd
Aerindel here your answer, I started to grow my own food at eight years old & after my Father left home I did it without any help from anyone at thirteen.I rotate all stored goods, rationing starts when I can not get new food/supplies to rotate the old.
Whether it is because the store shelves are empty or the crops fail again this season.
Hopefully we can make it though the winter on dry goods, can goods & stored vegetables until crops come in June & July.
DW use it, smell up the whole room, I like the candy.
Aerindel here your answer, I started to grow my own food at eight years old & after my Father left home I did it without any help from anyone at thirteen.
I did take an 18 month break when I had to deal with Afib, other than that it has been 52 year of playing in the soil & planting something to eat every year. I will get to old to dig hole, but raised beds & mulch should (Ruth Stout) make it easy to grow food. In that time the kids will come home if they can not find food, & farm long after I am gone. Growing food is a way of live, not a hobby.
I believe all our indulgences will have to be rationed, you don't want to run out of things that can give you joy and pleasure when everything is turning to brown stuff, in those bad times you'll need a bit of good stuff now and then to keep you from going bonkers.My trigger has always been when...
My stockpile is being depleted faster than I can replenish.
The size of the stockpile doesn't affect the trigger but does control the rationing.
The Princess informed me recently that one my indulgences may have to be rationed. She treats me to steaks on a regular basis. She is seeing the price of steak getting silly and affecting her ability to keep her cache of steaks filled. She said we may be having steaks half as often.
Ben
You may be able to fill that gap with perennial vegetables, that you plant once & only dig when you need a side dish to go with your wild game.
Or you could be stretching what you have until the garden or livestock is ready to harvest.
Good point: I've told Hubby, we've become such an entertainment centered society that folks don't know how to entertain themselves. We don't have TV, no movies, don't attend sporting events etc. We do watch the cat chase moths, watch the deer cross the field, the hawks hunt mice and so forth. We read probably as much or more than most and we work at home and at work. I guess I'm trying to say our entertainment isn't dependent on purchases.I believe all our indulgences will have to be rationed, you don't want to run out of things that can give you joy and pleasure when everything is turning to brown stuff, in those bad times you'll need a bit of good stuff now and then to keep you from going bonkers.
That's my "gripe" if you will with candy. It does virtually nothing nutritionally. Natural fats feed the brain/nervous system and are extremely important for the reasons you pointed out.I don't plan on rationing food. Ever.
Below a certain caloric intake, over a period of time, your mental and physical capabilities will become compromised. Your mental clarity,health and physical condition will begin to deteriorate affecting your ability to find more food , grow more food, or respond to imminent danger.
None of which is a good idea in any kind of disaster.
Realistically though, a few years post SHTF, presuming it's a serious situation there could certainly be enough calamities such as successive bad harvests, raiders, animal loss etc that could drive rationing between harvests.
I also don't plan on rationing things like treats, chocolate etc even though they are irreplaceable in a major crisis. The reasoning being exactly that. It will be TEOTWAWKI, SHTF etc etc. It will be very dangerous. Life expectancy is not good. Enjoy those treats while your alive to do so.
That said though, there should, as someone mentioned above, never be food discarded uneaten after a meal. But seeing as its a super rare day now I throw prepared and cooked food away, I suspect just a little more care will be needed and there would be no food waste.
We did this on the ranch at branding time. The neighbors all helped each other and were fed as payment. It was a time everyone looked forward to.We still have the "feed the harvesters" after the field is done thing going on in our community. It is not unusual to see and hear harvesting continuing to all hours of the night. They take a supper break which the wife provides. Or in the case of rain being forecast, the wife is also out there harvesting to get it done faster, and they call in a burger order for everyone at the local place. That's what I saw last year with a cousin.
My grandparents had a farm down the road from us, and all people that were hired to work the farm were fed a noon meal.
My thoughts exactlyOr you could be stretching what you have until the garden or livestock is ready to harvest.
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