Further joys - next year's Chilli

If I thought that stringing onions was fun...... getting the kidney beans out of their packages is REALLY fun. Fortunately, we had some help from one of the kittens. The first pic shows the reality of living in France, fresh food, wine and..... MARMITE.

Doing this sort of thing makes you think. This years crops have been either too much or too few of everything. The too much we can solve by bunging it in the freezer. The too little we just have to shrug and make up elsewhere. BUT..... what would happen if we relied just on this to survive. These beans for example are far too small and too few. OK they will still make a few nice Chilli con Carne but what if we had to feed the family on them. We eat less. If it happened again next year we might not eat at all. Millions round the world are in just that situation and few will have a freezer so the excess will go rotten.

We are so spoiled and out of touch with reality in the west that I wonder if we deserve to survive sometimes. It makes me mad when I hear complaints about how the standard of living has dropped or if they can't afford the latest toy. GET REAL.

We choose to be as self sufficient as possible, some people don't have that choice.