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IF the poverty-level folks are lucky enough not to live in a food desert, they need serious lessons in buying and cooking Real Food.
Re: Poor, busy parents can't feed their families enough veg, so let's not recommend it February 24, 2017 | Registered: 13 years ago Posts: 12,425 |
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For decades, I have been low-income and multiply-disabled, but I do reasonably well at budget grocery shopping and budget gardening.
I have made several efforts to share that knowledge and experience with other low-income people in my neighborhoods (2 different neighborhoods in 20 years).
Despite helping to establish 3 different neighborhood community gardens projects, picking up free food to distribute for several months, food stocking and preserving and a willingness to share shopping strategies but these people were just not interested.
The common financial pattern was to blow their money like crazy at the first of the month (cabs, beer, junk food, delivery pizza) and then whine about no money for the last ten days of the month. Rinse and repeat.
No one wanted to make any gardening effort, do a food budget, nor think and act beyond the extreme short term, etc.
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Re: Poor, busy parents can't feed their families enough veg, so let's not recommend it February 26, 2017 | Registered: 13 years ago Posts: 12,425 |
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During my gardening season (about 26 weeks or half the year), almost all of my vegetables consumed are organic (about two shopping bags a week at a value of about $75 ) and are obtained from my extensive gardens (at home and two public community gardens), at a cost of about 50 cents per week (seeds, soil amendments, raised beds, tools, etc).
Some gardening costs are single season, while others are spread over years of usage.
Re: Poor, busy parents can't feed their families enough veg, so let's not recommend it February 26, 2017 | Registered: 13 years ago Posts: 3,003 |
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cassia
During my gardening season (about 26 weeks or half the year), almost all of my vegetables consumed are organic (about two shopping bags a week at a value of about $75 ) and are obtained from my extensive gardens (at home and two public community gardens), at a cost of about 50 cents per week (seeds, soil amendments, raised beds, tools, etc).
Some gardening costs are single season, while others are spread over years of usage.
That's impressive, cassia. I have just a small area, so I only grow a few types of vegetables. Last year it was carrots, lettuce, scallions and peas, and I gave some of it away. I find fresh herbs are good use for the space because they are so expensive to buy. I have sage, thyme, parsley and rosemary. For the hardier herbs, a balcony or a windowsill is sufficient.
I understand some people don't like gardening. (I'm one of them, in fact, I put in almost no effort.) I understand some people don't like cooking. But it is still possible to shop wisely and cook carefully and get your nutrition. Nutritious, cheap, quick and tasty: optimize for any three.
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