So from Tucker and Fox News — they make no bones or bugs about it…. https://www.foxnews.com/video/6319571650112 I would agree Yohanan— stay with natural as much as possible — although you will note that the prices of fresh is what is going up — Grow Your own if you can, even if it is in pots on the balcony, it is worth your safety. I grow much of my own — setting up the garden now - although I hope to be gone before spring planting comes, the seeds are germinating under the grow lights. Do I think it will come to this before the rapture — It is already here :calvin Oh and I use honey, every morning (a little spoonful will do you a world of good) — if we tarry past spring, I am seriously considering starting a bee hive — have plenty of room in the back forty and with the apple trees, berry bushes, and grape harbor they should get plenty of pollen …. It will be spring before the chicken coop and run are done as well. May get a few mature chickens and then some baby chicks to keep it going. Trying to stay as much out of the store as possible. See if you can find a reputable local butcher, they usually have quality, tainted free meat - it may be a bit more cost but worth it and if you have a freezer, put up half a cow, half a pig, and about 20 chickens and you are set….. :calvin My next door neighbor keeps bees. I barter with her for large mason jars of honey. Potatoes are easy to grow and you can grow them in a box. Beans are easy, too. So is squash. If you don’t have space you can start a container garden. Put it on wheels if you have an unfavorable HOA. I’ll be starting back up with chickens again this year. I’ll be raising meal worms to help offset the cost of feed, which is sky high right now. Also, quail are easy to raise and prefer small spaces so I’ll be raising them this year too. Had not thought of Quail - Yohanan — hmmm! May have to do some research on that. Love the idea of a barter for honey. I have an acquaintance who is a bee keeper who may be willing to help me get started… But those two things - chickens and bees will wait until after Passover :prayer-hands: — the seeds I had to get started and pray that if I don’t get to get them in the ground the folks that are left will know what to do with them :yahoo: :flyup: Kolleen, I am very concerned about it. I get so repulsed with bugs/roaches. I can't imagine eating them. I am worried that I might buy something and not realize something is in it. What do you do other than very carefully read the labels? (I hope they won't lie and not state some ingredients) Kolleen and I will therefore continue to use Stevia, since more children -- (between us we have a satisfying total of nine) -- concerns us not. :negative: :mdrmdr: :stinkerbell: If anyone catches bug label names, hope you will post them on RN for everyone. I want to search that out, but haven't yet had time to. :stinkerbell: :mdrmdr: :mdrmdr: Awe, just to make Geri’s day — read an article about coffee containing mold and pesticides. Gotta research name brands in that one 
