kingludd @ kingludd @lemmy.basedcount.com

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All the time! 4 eggs, a cup of milk, a cup of cream, some sugar. Actually according to my calculations an all ice cream diet would be cheaper than our current grocery bill (we have cows and chickens) and not that much less healthy.

Most likely your shoes don't fit and you should try another size. Are you wearing through the outside first or the inside first?

.0005 : 1 by weight

Could it? Sure, but will it? Probably not. If in doubt I guess you could always do a quick plate count to get an idea of what's going on in there.

Ah, a fellow connoisseur I see. Do you add enough chili to make them spicy?

Have you tried onion, garlic, fenugreek, coriander, chili? I did a duck and a rattlesnake that way this summer and they were both indescribably delicious on crackers.

Fried eggs last 2 weeks in the fridge easy. Maybe turn your fridge temp down? Or just try it; you might be surprised how long you survive.

Fruit: dehydrate, freeze, or alcoholic fermentantion. Some fruit have special methods, like sulphured apples or bletted medlars.

Vegetables: easiest thing is to pack in brine of 3Tbl per Qt, leave at room temperature or a little cooler for a week before eating. I alway throw in some onion and garlic because I like it that way. Lasts like 6 months at room temperature. Most vegetables have additional special traditional preservation methods, but that fermented pickle in brine works for pretty much all of them.

If you want to be more specific with which foods you need to preserve, I can provide more options.

I'm writing a book on food preservation, ama.

Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri

I guess that might be -slightly- easier than setting a timer on your phone. Doesn't your washer beep when it's done though?

Why would anyone connect an appliance to the internet?

Hey! We do have common ground! More frequent small towns/villages would definitely be a good thing. Idyllic, even. I don't know how to get there from here though.

In my area it's not really zoning laws; it's just economics of scale. There used to be a convenience store/hardware/feed store just like 5 miles from my place. It went out of business 30 years ago when they put walmart and lowes in the city. If it were back, i could probably get by with a horse and buggy.

Fair enough, I guess. I was just hoping for a way out of my personal car dependency.

I would love to find a way out of needing them, but I think maybe you're right. It's just a necessity for us. Anyway if the city people can ditch their cars it will solve most of the ecological problem.

Towns and villages would be a lot nicer if we parked on the outskirts and walked, biked, or golf carted around. Not sure how to implement that though, at this point.

Thanks for the introduction, those bakfiets are really cool and I'd never heard of them before. I can imagine lots of scenarios where that would be useful. I might be able to take a load of groceries to and from a carpool with it.

Anyone who has animals, commercial or not, needs to haul more than that. For context, one cow eats around 50lbs a day in the winter. I only have three right now, but it takes maybe 5 to feed ourselves and the handful of houses around us.

I guess anyone who hauls feed for livestock needs a truck, unfortunately.

They had feed mills in carting distance, and they had hundreds of acres to grow their own food. With more people on earth, we usually have dozens of acres, at best, and one feed mill in the county, at best.

I definitely should have been more specific. I wouldn't think of 4km from groceries as being rural at all-- like you said, I think that car problem can be solved with normal urban solutions.

Renting a car to haul is just... not even close to viable. That would approximately double my annual expenses. Besides, I can't rent a car with no credit history and no way to get to the city to rent a car.

Hauling really does seem to be the sticking point. If you have to haul you're kind of stuck with a car.

Yeah, I was surprised how many responses didn't consider hauling at all. I really don't need to commute anywhere at all. I'm happy just staying home. But I do have to haul hay bales, feed sacks, and 50lb sacks of groceries.

That could work. I've been thinking for awhile that if everyone around here were on some kind of uberlike carpooling app, we could combine trips into town.

The park and ride is a cool idea, and that might be an option. About 5 miles from my place there's a sort of gravel lot that people sometimes park in when carpooling into town. Not sure about hauling loads of feed sacks, though. It's too much for a bike.