A YEAR-TO-YEAR FOOD PLAN
Living on the land requires long range planning so that one can get through government created or natural disasters. Compare prices before shopping for staple bulk items. Most of the food items are grown on the farm to save money.
La Vonne McKillip points out that-especially in
these days of runaway inflation-it pays to have .
. .
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As a child of the soil for 55 years-and the wife of a
land-tiller for 37 of those years-I've had plenty of time
to learn the dirt farmer's particular brand of conservation
economics. Long-range plans are fundamental to a rural way
of thinking and living, and back-to-thelanders who lack the
vision and determination necessary to put such plans into
practice soon return to their cities and towns . . . where
paychecks come once a week or a month instead of with the
yearly harvest. On the other hand folks who make longrange
plans work can count on getting safely through
most government-created -or natural-disasters.
The inflation fighting and conservation techniques that
I'll describe will deal specifically with the family food
supply . . . but the philosophy behind my methods
can be applied to the way we handle all our earth's
resources.
YEAR-TO-YEAR SHOPPING
To begin at the beginning, I'd like to describe the time
(and money) saving techniques I use when shopping:
Before considering bulk purchases, I read the local
newspaper (which can be a first-rate tool for fighting
inflation) to compare the prices at the area's supermarkets
. . . keeping a special eye out for seasonal and
house-brand sales. Thenwhen the cost of a particular item
is right -I buy as large a quantity of the bargain goods as
my money and storage space will allow.
If inflation continues ( as it surely will), stocking my
shelves with adequate supplies of staple necessities will
provide me with a great form of one-upmanship against the
rising-price demon.
When soaring food costs attacked everyone's budget in
1973-74, for example, I had already purchased supplies t
varying from one to three years' worth, as determined by
each item's perishability) of salad oil, shortening,
syrups, honey, coffee, tea, milk powder, dried beans and
lentils, and sugar for cooking and canning. I'd also bought
stockpiles of canned foods that I can't satisfactorily
process at home . . . such as evaporated milk, tuna,
salmon, pineapple, whole and cream-style corn, and pork and
beans.
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