Food storage notions.

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I have to start by saying variety is absolutely required.  I thought I had great variety in canned or pouched meats and fish.  Actually I do.  But... that's not enough.  You really need fresh, from time to time, and varieties of that.  I think my bad heart makes that even slightly more difficult, which is why I end up cheating more often.

I am working on raising meat.  But, unless you have small fortunes, plenty of time, lots of tools, space, and luck, one doesn't just snap fingers and have one or several meat production operations up and running.  Just getting cages or runs, safe enough for reasonable freedoms... but then add in feeders, watering, cleanup, the time needed for those, feed, extra care in extremes, not to mention potential grooming, breeding, and harvesting processes... it takes time to get it going.  You begin to live to eat.

I keep asking myself if it is worth it.  Regardless of the money, because that isn't what it seems, it is still... yes!  And no.  If the world went back to pre-Wuhan?  Yes, and no.  As is, the same.  If it gets even a bit worse, then absolutely.  It is an asset binding realworld hedge expense.  For someone like me, it is probably an all around better bet. Even the work involved is of benefit, light as that actually is.

I am rethinking quantities and varieties this next round back into storage.  I can't avoid some foods, like beans.  I do need actual wheat berries.  I don't need sugar, but it would be a good barter item.  Honey, though?  Yea.  In a world only a bit worse, my insulin sparing sugar replacements simply won't exist.  I can add some keto stuff to stores, and do.  But shelf-life and expense are major, real, limits.  Honey from Egyptian tombs has been found to be edible.  For the price, not bad.

It is amazing how much variety is required to not up and stop short at the feedbag.  Boredom leads to not eating, which leads to eating the really bad stuff.  Fresh meats and vegetables are excellent, from time to time, if too much romaine salads is brutal too... a few times a week, a few weeks a month.  I did well until I couldn't eat another, several weeks ago.

Choose wisely.  Use your stored foods... except for honey or sugar in my case, unless all else is gone.  After canned foods, canning meat, and additions, I'd like to figure out longer term spice and herb storage.  Everybody keeps asking if I am back into food storage.  Yea, yea I think I am back.  Later.