Do you have meat shortages where you live? Is meat the new toilet paper?

@cherokeepatti Good for you...but get ready. When he hits his teens he will probably eat like 4 boys for a while...😉

@4meAndyou That’s a bit worrisome 😓

@cherokeepatti LOTS of filler. BIG pots of soup with veggies, cornbread with the soup...you will be able to handle it...no fear.

@bowman81 Good to know!!! I use ground beef or turkey when I make Chili.

@TexChik It's just that Tyson, Smithfield, and one other huge processing plant have shut down due to covid19. Our Prez wants to force them to continue in operation, but they haven't worked out the kinks yet.

@Waymore I talked to my cousin out in Utah, and she said her freezer is full, and they have a steer ready to slaughter, but they can't find anyone local to process him.

@ABCDEF7 Not often. Soy bothers my stomach a little bit, and steel cut oats for breakfast is like eating a bowl full of cherry bombs...😂. I eat the oatmeal like cereal in the morning, with a little coconut milk, usually...but I have switched to spelt berries now because they don't kill my tummy.

The last time I fixed tofu, I was following a vegan recipe that was supposed to taste like feta cheese. It tasted like kalamata olives instead.

But I don't mind eating tofu. My favorite favorite tofu dish is firm sliced tofu with VERY garlicky black bean sauce and blanched green onions.

@4meAndyou Yes it's not good to stomach for many. Take care 🙂

@ABCDEF7 You, too, my friend. 🤗

@TheSirfurryanimalWales 😂 Yes, I saw photos of that, actually...or the US army also used to serve dried chipped beef on toast...and the service men used to call it "Sh!t on a Shingle!" 😂

@4meAndyou I like that, used to make it for a simple dinner when we didn’t have much $ & make homemade biscuits to go with it.

@cherokeepatti That was probably really good!! Don't forget Stretch for breakfast. Take your own homemade bread, gluten free, and lay slices of cheese on each piece of bread in a casserole pan. Fill the pan with milk and egg mixture...about one egg for each piece of bread...and let it sit in the fridge overnight. In the morning, pop it in a 350 oven for about 45 minutes.

@4meAndyou we buy organic raised beef buy the half, so we're good for quite a while, especially since we are not having guests every weekend like usual

@JoePourMan I buy organic, too, normally, especially for beef.

@4meAndyou it is the best

@Itsmrsockmonkey Good!!! Glad to hear it!! Get ready...because several huge meat plants have shut down.

@4meAndyou a majority of farms sell produce in the stores and some beside the road. S.C. has an over abundance of deer and hitting deer with vehicles is the biggest claims on insurance. Lots of deer meat to get if you like venison, just have to pay the processors. I was ready for all this anyway.

@Itsmrsockmonkey Good!! Really glad to hear it. I have an SW friend who lives in Michigan, and he hunts also. Got a deer last year...so he is also okay.

@DarlingSelah It's really nuts. Most meat won't keep for three years in a freezer.

@MarineBob That's awesome! You are SO lucky to have a freezer! I live in a small apartment, and I would have to remove my dining room table to fit a small chest freezer in here.

@Uncfred 😂 There ya go!!! And so healthy and good for you, too!

@4meAndyou vegetable soup made from scratch is really good too. I used to make it when I had a garden & would go pick the veggies & dig up some potatoes. Didn’t want or need meat when I had that soup.

@cherokeepatti I have a recipe similar to that...called Farmer's Market Delight Soup. SO chock full of veggies and barley even the ex used to love it.

@MethDozer Did NOT know that! Thanks for the info! So it's HOMINY and beans...

@4meAndyou I found that out years ago.. I forget the mechanism but corn has certain B Vitamins in it but our bodies can't use then in the form they are in. So our metabolic process and enzymes take that form in, but it can't be used but by doing so it displaces the absorption rate of the useable form from other foods. When its treated with lye it and made into grits the vitamins are able to absorbed and used.


I might not have it exactly eight but works something close to that. Its been a while since I learned this so a little rusty on exactly how it works.

@MethDozer SUPER valuable info! We don't want to leach vitamins away from pregnant mothers...and B vitamins...essential! I am going to edit my post.