It's getting bad out there and the food is getting so expensive. How are people feeding their kids?
I am surprised there hasn't been more looting and food riots yet. Those are probably coming at this rate, remember they only delayed the EBT shut-off by a couple months. We have too many greedy monopolized food corporations taking advantage of the situation. Those rich no kings people aren't going to be picketing the grocery stores.
I have no money for groceries this week, we have been scrounging day by day with him doing surveys for dinners. Remember they cut all the welfare, we can't get EBT. I go to this food box sometimes for food, and have gotten expired pesto from 2024 and other strange items. They do put green beans in here and some useful stuff.
Life feels so dangerous in this horrible country. I am worn out. I have told my husband we need to start skipping meals but he fears me getting sick from diabetes and doesn't like me saying just skip the food, I am too tired to cook anyway. Food is a constant strain around here, and stressful. I find myself wanting to revert to the behaviors of my 20s, simply going without, but my state of health is worse now. I had a weird conversation with my husband about how much I had to starve and go without food in my 20s and during times of poverty, before I was with him, I remember going 14-16 hours without food. I laugh when people talk about fasting works because it didn't for me. This is one reason CICO is an absolute joke to me, I have a weight story to tell you that scared the hell out of me, I will write about after this.
I said I was always hungry. Even when I lived with my parents after college for that year and half, they griped about so much food, I couldn't eat at home much and was always scrounging and trying to get food from work. I said, "My metabolism was probably damaged to hell from all that crap!".
My memories were shared with my husband too about my mother and grandmother's refrigerators, "They were always full, while mine was empty!" My mother guarded her refrigerator like a hound dog, there was no just going into the fridge to get something to eat ever. I couldn't even grab a strawberry out of thing as a 35 year old without giant repercussions. One didn't dare touch her food or fridge even as a kid you had to beg for every morsel unless the parents weren't home.
Sometimes looking back I am astonished two people had such huge amounts of food, and her fridge was jam-packed with every condiment. The foods were not old or hoarded, they were new and fresh. The same went for my grandmother, who tried to starve me and feed me only toast once a day when I visited her, the woman actually had two refrigerators in her kitchen, one had a bigger freezer part, and they were completely full at all times. She didn't have as much money as my mother but this kind of boggles my mind looking back, how did she afford so many groceries?
My PTSD gets fired up when there's not enough money to eat. I have good friends who help now but I wonder about the weird dichotomy of extreme obesity accompanying extreme food insecurity. I like to eat cottage cheese and haven't even had any in 4 weeks, because it's an "extra".
This week for Thanksgiving, a kind friend has his church bringing me Thanksgiving food, and we have another community luncheon to go to as well. I am very glad for this help. They are great friends.
They are trying to threaten my state with another "freak weather event" [having thoughts of HAARP here] I hope it doesn't ruin Thanksgiving and take the electricity out with high winds. I get tired of their weather threats and intimidation and am noticing they seem to happen on holidays a bit too much. We just had our power go out from a freak snowstorm two weeks ago that came extremely early. I used my power pack to sleep one night but fortunately they got the power back on quickly.
If you have the means to stock up or garden like the lady says in the video, do so. I told my husband we need to gear up that probably hunger days are coming. I am too fat with a bad metabolism to have famine kill me, though I fear gaining weight from lack of food.
Food insecurity and obesity are tied together.
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