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Also, a beautiful slideshow in pdf
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http://www.awakeandarise.org/media/Warning!.pdf

(Remember that words have meanings and depth that are not necessarily common in our modern vernacular (We THINK we know what they mean without thinking about it! ~~~)
(such as satisfied (see use no.5 = no doubt))
- use a dictionary or thesaurus that educates us better than socialism has stupefied us.
(self proclaimed/visioned/organized socialists selected and sent groups to Europe to be educated and return to rewrite our textbooks, history books, and reference/education materials at least as early as the early 1900s (mostly after WWI).))

Anyone else's life busy?

It must be time to catchup and simplify.
Using self sufficient and non-consumer methods of course:

• Make Jam (and try a batch of marmalade) with no sugar needed (or other chemical to gel this) Pectin
• Any other seasonal food storage and pantry stocking up!
  
• Cool Weather Baking! try out a new bread recipe
  soak and dehydrate more grain/seed to use for part of the flour (improvement to nutrition - the longer day waiting options are a similar improvement)
  
• Spring Cleaning! Steam (verb and noun) (no chemicals needed) clean.
• During open window weather: Oil furniture and any other maintenance with smelly chemicals.
  
• Organize! Put away clothes in sizes the kids are outgrowing packing them away by size and cycle down the hand me downs.
  Pick up the bigger sizes from second hand stores (great time of year as they are receiving so many donations on good weather days!)
• Set up the garden! barefoot when possible ;) -- put in seeds and transplants (moon planting calendar and detail version)
  
• Fertilize the Citrus -option1, alternatewith, info2(wild rhododendron can be a source of the fungi mycorrhizae), inspiration3
  

Beef and peanut butter shortages

I have contemplated posts on these, but haven't had the time to compose the facts. I happened upon a blog today that did this better than I can.

http://preparednesspro.com/

Which gives me time to mention a few other factoids regarding Being smart when spending your money. We want to use our hard earned funds (after saving everything we can) to fill our homes with products that will benefit, not entertain or go out with the trash when it breaks or falls out of favor when the whim is over.

One: WATCH for better than average Prices and spend money! :) The beef at your grocery store might be having some really good prices (or already did) on at least some of the cuts at the time(s) that the markets are flooded with cattle downsizing. (get it?: drought kills grass = less grass on ranches = fewer cows they can feed = they are taken to market = you might be getting a higher percentage of grass fed before the cost of everything else pushes the lesser desirable feed lot cows are sent to market)
So, please keep your pocket book closed when in the superfluous fluff and fashion sections so that you can stock up on extra food when it is there looking at you in the case - flaunting it's ability to feed you and provide benefit when you no long want or can to choose between the two.

Which brings me to the second factoid. Beef and Peanut Butter aren't the only products that have been and will be increasing substantially in price. The price increase across the board has been as much added together as one of these on it's own in my neck of the woods. And that isn't been something that's been picked up by reporters and published with the grocery ads. (Must we always wait for someone else to look for us?)
I'm sure we are all more than aware of the shrinking ice cream (and now "frozen dessert" because it isn't even real food) cartons and ever higher prices. (the same is being done in other areas now that they have proven our ignorance and complacency - 3# bags instead of 5# bags, 10 count instead of 12...)
But there are other methods being used as well. Walmart brand has been adding corn syrup to the canned beans for years now. And you thought they were cheaper!? no, they are just padding it elsewhere and they are just selling you less bean in the same size/weight can.... and the filler isn't even neutral, it's an addictive poison.
This isn't "just business"; In my opinion, this is personal. Instead of honest upfront product sales, ...more than one someone is making immoral choices and deception that public has to wake up from and choose to see. We need to at least read labels before parting with or tossing our money at the products we bring home. We still have that as consumers, even if they don't expect the masses to read, we have the individual choice to break the trend and inform ourselves.

So, Ditch that pretty paper (responsibly - to a good purpose, not the bulk garbage bin) you bought last year and instead stock the shelf with edibles that are as good as gold.

Comfirmation of double-digit food price inflation in 2011 begins.

excerpt from this article:

On November 12th, NIA's President Gerard Adams warned Americans on FOX Business to beware of massive food inflation in early 2011. We are less than three weeks into the new year and massive food inflation is already here. SuperValu, the third-largest U.S. food retailer with 2,349 stores that operate under such names as Acme, Albertsons, and Save-A-Lot, just reported that all of their major vendors have announced their intentions to pass along rising costs throughout the calendar year and the company will be raising prices on all food items by 3% to 14%. NIA's experience tells us that SuperValu is planning to increase prices on most goods by approximately 14%. Trust us, if SuperValu was expecting to increase prices by an average of only around 5%, they would have given an average instead of such a wide range. (By the way, SuperValu's stock crashed 16% on the news and one of NIA's top 10 predictions for 2011 was that U.S. retail stocks will decline after reporting lower profit margins.)

The SuperValu situation confirms that double-digit U.S. food price inflation is just about guaranteed to occur in 2011. We also expect to see double-digit price inflation this year in clothing, oil, gasoline, natural gas, and all of the most important things Americans need to live and survive. If the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) somehow manages to report a CPI increase in 2011 of anything less than 5%, and the mainstream media continues to report the BLS's CPI numbers as the truth, any Americans who continue to listen to the mainstream media deserve to lose all of their purchasing power during hyperinflation.

See previous articles on the website and please prioritize your efforts; buy food storage and household staples. Be frugal-smart, but not so stingy as to not be filling all the needs as well. (I wish I'd bought canned butter just two years ago when it was half the price as it is now. And my kids can get by with basic wardrobe basics if need be, but they need to be big enough.)
Don't wait for the sales that MAY NOT COME AGAIN. Buy the foods you desire at acceptable prices. If there is a sale/decrease, jump on it as your bonus-buys of extra and count yourself doubly blessed.

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