Mrs. H wrote:
> "pavane" > wrote in message
> ...
>> "PeterL" > wrote in message
>> . 25...
>> |
>> http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/s...004581,00.html
>> |
>> | "Jan Brydges, who lives on a property with a vineyard in the South
>> Burnett,
>> | uses the harvest leftovers to make jellies. "I make grape jelly, muscat
>> jelly
>> | and verdelho jelly as well as a lemon grapefruit marmalade. We grow the
>> | lemons and grapefruit but we also tend to swap fruit with neighbours,"
>> she
>> | says."
>>
>> That is really interesting.
>>
>> pavane
>>
> "The practices of our waste-not, want-not grandparents are coming back into
> vogue as we search for ways to make our grocery bills shrink. Buying food in
> season and in bulk is one way it used to be done, with the excess preserved
> for leaner times."
>
> Here in Utah, it's a way of life, we try to be as self sufficient as
> possible - we grow, buy in bulk, stock, store, dry, can and bottle food for
> emergency purposes including sharing with others who have fallen on hard
> times.
> Mrs. H
>
>
I have just started reading Mark Kurlansky's "The Food of a
Younger Land". We lost a lot of variety when people started
resorting to store-bought foods. Do you can (etc.) things that
one never sees on store shelves now?

--
Jean B.