Date: November 04, 1997 11:46 AM
Author: B.Cloud
Subject: Why does food storage have to taste bad?

In several of these forums I have read statements concerning the "bad" or "mediocre" taste of food storage. Why does this have to be the case? It seems to me that you can store many items that enable you to have good tasting food. Maybe I am ignorant concerning this type of thing. I have been building a food storage system for about a year and still have a ways to go, but I don't think my family will rebel at the tase of the things I cook. We live on 1 1/2 acres and raise chickens, turkeys, rabbits and goats. I do realize that many people live in a more urban environment but you still have access to the grocery store. You can begin now to buy meat and can it. This is an easy process with a pressure canner and they don't cost very much at Wal-Mart or some place like that. You can also buy fresh vegetables and can them. Almost every large city has some type of farmers market. If not, catch items you like on sale at the grocery store and stock up. If none of the above strikes your fancy, stock up on the canned foods at the grocery store.

I do belive we are in for trouble in a couple of years at the latest, however, if you are reading on this forum, you are at least a little concerned and there is plenty you can do now even if you do live in an apartment. Someone I know said "don't be part of the problem". It is better to be able to take care of you and yours than to have to depend on someone else to do it for you.

Many say "but God will take care of us". I belive he will, but he also gave us a brain and a free will to carry on our daily lives. He sent Joseph to Egypt to prepare for seven years before the famine came. Let us not think that we are in too modern an era for really bad times to ever come again. That is a very arrogant attitude.

Again, let us not "be part of the problem".

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