Anyone getting stocked up on food etc just in case?

lostinrates

nearlynew wrote: »

Backyard bunnies are the new urban chickens...........

http://www.good.is/post/backyard-bunnies-are-the-new-urban-chickens

TBH, I think rabbits, though a common pet, are pretty inhumanely kept....group animals who dig, kept often alone, in things with solid floors.

Besides wild rabbit taste incomparably better imo, plus are a ''pest'' anyway, requiring cull, and non-natives. shooting wild, with permission is the way to go IMO

tomterm8

I think I agree; although, personally, I've never really liked rabits. Too many bones.

This is the point you can really gross someone out by pointing out the calorific content of your average garden snail

lostinrates

tomterm8 wrote: »

I think I agree; although, personally, I've never really liked rabits. Too many bones.

I like rabbit. Mainly stewed though, I've had some pretty vile rabbit ragu in several different places. I also find them off putting when sold unbutchered. They look to me too much like my cats skinned

nearlynew

lostinrates wrote: »

Besides wild rabbit taste incomparably better imo, plus are a ''pest'' anyway, requiring cull, and non-natives. shooting wild, with permission is the way to go IMO

Which is exactly what I was doing last sunday morning.
Squirels are my favourite though.

This is one of my favourite you tube videos.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4-OKhjJllo


(not for the squemish)

lostinrates

I shan't watch the clip, apologies.....I'm trying to decide what to have for my supper (its my birthday, so I'm going o have a treat of some sort) and I don't want to put myself off!

MrEnglish

In the future when food prices have gone up a lot, hunting will be very popular.

Primrose

My OH tends to do most of our grocery shopping. It doesn't need a banking or economic crisis for us to start stocking up. All our store cupboards are constantly overflowing with all the stuff he brings home, to the extent that I no longer know what's lurking at the back of them. If we ate our way through everything he bought, I'd be as fat as pig !

nearlynew

MrEnglish wrote: »

In the future when food prices have gone up a lot, hunting will be very popular.

I like being a few steps ahead of the crowd



(and I like it when my post is at the top of a page)

MrEnglish

Fuel has shot up in price so much and still got lot further to go.

When this happens to food and wages keep going down in relation to real inflation, you will only be able to get half as much shopping as used to.

Hunting and trapping anything to eat will be we worth doing.

Davesnave

Primrose wrote: »

My OH tends to do most of our grocery shopping. It doesn't need a banking or economic crisis for us to start stocking up. All our store cupboards are constantly overflowing with all the stuff he brings home, to the extent that I no longer know what's lurking at the back of them. If we ate our way through everything he bought, I'd be as fat as pig !

That is because we men are hunters by instinct. See how we fearlessly explore the deepest recesses of the freezers in Sainsbury's, or climb the shelving (well, I'm small) to reach the last prized morsels. There is literally nowhere my trolley won't go when I'm out on the hunt for bargains and BOGOFs.

Triumphant, we Alpha males display our catch for the world to see, piled high in the boot of the hatchback as we return home.

And what does Mrs Huntress say when we arrive? Maybe something like:

Oh s*$£t, not sprats again!!! You are not stinking the kitchen out with sprats!

It's a hard life as a hunter -gatherer.