We Are Alive! December 27th, 2022 Sweet Potatoes and Eggs

As the weather got so cold, we kept our apples in the garage. After discovering they were freezing, we decided to make a very large batch of apple sauce. So lots of dicing, cooking and milling of apples.

The weight and size of this pot of applesauce is astounding. This will be enough for at least a year for our family!

I visited the grocery store today to scope out food deals for my family... and I found something special: sweet potatoes!

They were selling at $0.19 / lb which is an amazing price. I had to show some restraint picking up sweet potatoes, since there's only so many we can eat! Perhaps we could can some sweet potatoes once we're done with canning the apple sauce? Hmmm...

Even with food prices rising and shortages happening, there are still fantastic deals to be found if you are keeping an eye out for them.

But then there's eggs. Something is going on about the eggs. Prices for eggs do normally go up in December before dropping in the spring-time, but this is ridiculous.

It's almost $0.50 / egg. This is when it's useful owning chickens (which we will someday). If we owned chickens that drop half-dollars, we'd be doing well.

These exaggerated prices will not last, I have a feeling we will see drastically reduced egg prices in the coming months, as this has happened before. Our family eats a lot of eggs, as it's low carb, low sugar and high protein. Usually a very inexpensive protein (we've bought a dozen eggs for $0.39 before) but with this massive price increase, this has ended. We used to purchase 6 dozen eggs per week, that's about 24 dozen per month. When they were $1 or $2 this was feasible, right now it's not.

Comparing sweet potatoes to eggs, we can purchase 4 medium sized sweet potatoes for the price of a SINGLE EGG. Just one egg!

We could get over 40 lbs of sweet potatoes for the price of a dozen eggs! What a wacky world we live in.

Are eggs available where you live? Are they currently affordable?


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Things are really going high daily. Egg is not cheap again in Nigeria. Now is time calculate before spending..

Having a chicken that drop 1 egg daily will help.

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Yes, it takes some frugal shopping to find the deals, especially eggs right now.

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I hope that soon prices if things will be okay again

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Sounds great. Here in Taiwan, sweet potatoes are a National food. So delicious. Wish I could try your apple sauce ;). !ALIVE !PIZZA

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Fantastic, sweet potatoes are delicious and nutritious. A good thing to have in the the root cellar, ready to go for a quick breakfast, lunch or dinner!

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In my country 15 eggs cost $4, they are also expensive compared to people's income, my wife and I have the advantage of having about 30 hens, so we don't have to buy them, but the feed is also expensive but if you save something by having the hens.

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I'm so glad to hear you have 30 hens, although the feed can be expensive. Have you explored alternative feed for them? Right now you can save a lot owning hens, if they're producing well.

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I think other food stuffs like potatoes have it's season, at least during that period you get to enjoy a little of it despite how things are expensive.
But when it comes to eggs, there is no season for it.
The price of eggs increase daily and it never comes down.
You won't blame the farmers, because the cost of feeding chickens and giving them their medications are expensive.
The best way to survive now is growing your own food, even if it's little.
It won't be the same with having to buy everything.
I want to congratulate you for the apple sauce, that's brilliant.
Get the potatoes and can them for later use too.



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Thank you for the curation!

The best way to survive now is growing your own food, even if it's little.

I agree, the best way is to grow it yourself and preserve it for winter. The second best is getting to know farmers and arranging for a trade. That's sort of what we arranged with the apple orchard, we call ahead and come when they have a surplus. The're happy to sell them to us, it's worth the drive for us! The sweet potatoes are a special opportunity that only comes about once a year and it's so easy to miss opportunities like these!

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Yes, growing and raising our own food, and networking locally to buy, sell, and trade with our neighbors is extremely beneficial indeed! Many plants, like sweet potatoes, are thankfully very easy to grow, and they're also very prolific! Thanks much for sharing your experiences Benjamin! 😁🙏💚✨🤙



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Wow, yes, that is a lot of apple sauce! It's great that you were able to salvage them! Growing and raising our own food is very important indeed, especially now with all the intentionally engineered food and economic crisis. Self-sufficiency, self-reliance, self-dependency, self-determination, and self-ownership are all very high on my list! Happy (early) New Year Benjamin! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

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These are apples that have been gathered from the ground rather directly from the trees, they are "deer apples", technically not for sale for human consumption because they are unpasteurized... but we've learned something important: they are perfectly fine apples, maybe a few bruises, but no reason to throw them away. The bruises are cut off and they are pasteurized when we make apple sauce! We are salvaging them, because if they don't sell, the orchard uses them as compost! These apples are left-over from the orchard's apple cider venture, so the apples sauce tastes a lot like sweet apple cider. YUM!

the intentionally engineered food and economic crisis

Yes... it's coming. In some places it's already happening. We are bracing ourselves.

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That's even better! They are doubly salvaged! I love it! Bravo!

Yes, I've been watching pretty closely what has been transpiring, which is part of the reason I live off-grid in a 16-acre food forest in the jungle! I pray that humanity gets through this time well! 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙

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Awesome my friend, eggs are well expensive here too at the moment glad i got some birds before have the best one
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Fantastic, glad you have some experience with birds! !ALIVE

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Yes i have chickens and quails it is important to produce our own food look just what is happening with the prices of everything it aint going to get cheaper for some time
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