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Here is my post! Hope I did it right.

https://www.youtube.com/post/Ugkxo4MAm3PDgCVZmJXCXdFEqyPFoIgtYqu0

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That was absolutely disgusting. I quit watching all things CBS long ago. But the level of blatant evil here is shocking.

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I certainly do believe children should be helping. Children learn what they live. 6 of my 7 grandchildren are being raised on an urban homestead in north Kansas City. The skills and talents that they have developed are incredible. They care for animals, garden, cook, bake , sew, build, hunt, fish, process, and have hobbys such as wood burning and carving. I was there one day last week. It was a frigid day that followed a few unusually warm spring like dsys. One if the older boys said “It feels like its almost sapping time”, and the other one said “ Yep its just around the corner”. Its such a blessing watching them grow.

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Kind of shocking to hear him say that many organic seed companies source from the big companies!

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I learned a very long time ago that if I am going to be spending time in the kitchen, to make it worth my while. I never cook for just one meal. If I am chopping vegetables, I chop plenty extra and bag them up for the freezer. This is a practice known as “dovetailing”. When you accomplish more than one thing with one single action. If I cook anything, ground meat for example, I will cook 5 lbs at once. And I am only cooking for me! After raising 5 children I am still in the bulk cooking mindset but now instead of seeing an entire “family pack” dissapear before my eyes, I still make the whole amount and think of all the different ways I can use it. Earlier in the summer I cooked 5 lbs of ground beef in the slow cooker, had some for dinner and then dehydrated most of it. Today I made a giant pot of black beans. Im wiped out from that, but later today I will make up a bunch of bean and cheese burritos, bean and chicken burritos, portion some out for soup, some for ‘patties’, ect…maybe some for a sweet potato and black bean hash. Whatever I feel like doing at the time. Maybe even dehydrate some. It would be nice to try that and see if it would work for my BOB and for easy meals when I am not up to cooking. So, to answer your question. I am only cooking for one person but I did this same concept when the kids were young and all home and I also had a husband to cook for. Back then I probably spent at most an hour pr day cooking. Now I spend maybe an hour pr week. Seems about right since I am now cooking for 1/7th of the people I used to cook for.

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Hahaha I see a horse

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It’s currently 4 degrees actuall temperature at 1:30 in the afternoon. It’s a beautiful sunny day! But yes it’s very frigid! The house has been making popping noises from being so cold. We have the cabinets open under the sinks and the water dripping. Hang in there everyone in a few days this will be over! It got down to actual temperature-8 last night. I was toasty warm under a fleece blanket!

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Ordered from Wood Prairie Family Farm this year after watching a video about them on Off Grid with Doug and Stacy. https://www.woodprairie.com/

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Very nice looking, I love it! Keep us posted how well it works out for her.

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🤣👏👏👏

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Been there, done that one. It’s really hard. Once I finally got free from my lying cheating abuser, the reality was having to huddle in bed under quilts in the dark during winter with my teen, while eating oopsie pizza for dinner that she got to bring home from her job at a pizza place. But it brought us closer together and taught her resilience. She learned how to survive on almost nothing. So for that, I am grateful.

That’s the thing about hard. It trains you. It prepares you. So that when hard comes around again, you KNOW that you can persevere. In that vein, it’s a blessing in disguise.

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I’m going to hold you to that!

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Toni, I hope you see this. I just want to say thank you for that peppermint oil tip. It has changed my life. Im 60 years old and diagnosed with asthma when I was 5. Spent my whole life having to take meds, visiting emergency rooms enduring shot after shot of adrenalin to save my life, weeks in the hospital on oxygen, being put on medications with strong side effects and on things like steroids and then in the 1970s when they created rescue inhalers I truly THOUGHT it was a miracle. And while they worked for a time, after a while they werent as effective. Hillary Clintons big fat idea to ban areosols (in the 1990s?) nearly KILLED me as the alternative was soy and when they used soy in the inlalers I almost died of anaphalactic shock. How stupid. Anyway, I have spend 55 years of my life having to rely on this pharmacuetical or that to save my life when this plant based oil that grows right in my own back yard works just as well if not better. Im blown away. Thank you, thank you.

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Yes I made this mistake in 2021. I bought a CASE of small squeeze bottles of mayo. Thinking of throwing it all out.