I Think This Might Be The Year When Gifts Of Food Will Become The Trend For Christmas Gift-Giving…

With looming food shortages due to food processing facilities being destroyed by fires or whatever and floods wiping out crops and stored grains etc.
Food baskets with beans, rice, potatoes & other staples. I don’t know how many are stocking up and trying to figure out what they need but it will get critical eventually.

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Atlotto · M

I would give some of my home-canned foods as gifts, but they would think I'm trying to poison them.

cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

@Atlotto Their loss. Hang onto them. When I was growing up on the farm my aunt would fill a bushel basket with a smoked ham, homemade butter, canned fruits & veggies, homemade jams & jellies, and a loaf of bread and some homemade sweets like walnut fudge for my aunts brother’s family. They had 4 children and were happy to get that. They were told to save the jars and basket and return them though

4meAndyou · F

@cherokeepatti Just hearing about your Aunt's bushel basket makes my mouth water!!!

cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

@4meAndyou It was all good food. We had a Jersey cow that gave a lot of cream, very rich flavor. Butter, fudge, cream pies and whipped cream were really tasty made with the cream and rich milk. We grew the fruit to make jams & jellies and my uncle butchered the hog and smoked the hams and bacon. Pretty sure that the family ate good during the holidays when the kids were home from school.

4meAndyou · F

@cherokeepatti Ham is SO good. I haven't had any for two years now.

cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

@4meAndyou I haven’t had any in 55 years but that’s OK.