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I’m curious how they factored out the bias of severely increased, bastardized sodium chloride? I have read several studies that draw this correlation. Canned store soups probably do decrease testosterone but I would be interested to know if they were able somehow to exclude the NaCl bias to come to an accurate conclusion that the can lining is the culprit. We could infer from a few other studies but she is making fairly declarative statements.
Honestly, there is nothing better than a good pot of soup in the winter. I love them all! But some of my favorites are: French onion, mushroom bisque, vegetable beef, split pea with ham, lentil, creamy squash, and for something completely different and decadent there’s a delicious recipe for chocolate soup that makes the most wonderful holiday desert. I cut up pound cake into cubes and toast them and they become like sweet croutons. It’s become a tradition at Christmas for us. ❤
Mulligatawny!
Sauté in butter a handful each of:
Cored, chopped, green apple
Diced carrot
Celery
Onion
When tender- add 1-2 tsp curry,
Salt, pepper, tiny pinch of mace
Add sprinkle of flour and stir till smooth. Gradually add chicken broth while stirring (6-8c.)
Simmer a few minutes- then add:
Handful of chopped green pepper,
A peeled, seeded, tomatoe,
Couple handfuls of cooked, chopped chicken,
Big handful cooked rice,
Couple whole cloves,
Good pinch of parsley.
Sounds like a lot- but just do all the prep and it comes together nicely-
SO good!
Years ago Schnucks grocery gave out recipes. Our fav is ginger chicken with red cabbage and any other veggie you want(yes the chicken turns purple/gray) so good. Add as much fresh grated ginger as you like.
We can Turkey, Chicken, Beef, Vegetable and Lamb broths. Also, any leftover soups, stews or chili are canned as well. On those days when we’re too busy or just don’t feel like cooking, we simply dump a couple quarts into a pot and heat it up!
Bpa is just a way for companies to change the formula to get away safety. No plastics are safe. The soup in a can from the store is toxic anyways. Homemade and organic is best.
I ❤ soup, but thankfully, I make mine from scratch. It really sucks that our food supply has gone to crap. Thanks, Zach. I have bones in my freezer I need to take care of ❤
Mmmmm…that broth looks good! I bought 3 packs of Rumba beef marrow bones to make broth out of. They were over $11 for the bones. Teeth are shot and can’t eat much meat except soft meatloaf. I figured let me get some nutrition in the bones. All 3 packs stunk terrible. I washed them and they still stunk bad. They were not near expired either. Had to trash them. Nasty as nasty could be. I looked up Rumba, which seems to be a Mex company. No idea where the bones came from, if they were from Mexico or USA. Rumba is what Walmart carries in the Rustbelt. That is all the bones they got here. They used to sell some better bones, but Rumba cornered the market.
I do mechanical insulation – was in a canning factory years ago and when I asked about the dead rats, I was told they lick the coating stuff for the cans and die. Sooo yea, I dont eat out of tin cans. I home can a metric ton buttload of broth on a regular basis.
If you have some land, do you have fruit and nut trees planted? If you missed your chance last season, you got 5 months before tree planting season. I help someone manage a fruit tree orchard and have some fruit tree experience over the last 17 years. I’m no expert by any means, but I have experience with nearly 50 varieties of fruit trees.
You know, even if you got fruit trees…they are not permanent. An orchard is continually losing trees. If you wait to find this out, you will be many years behind from where you could be. If disease or animals don’t get your fruit trees, a windstorm may uproot, or lightning may split the tree in two. You have to be proactive and not reactive. In other words, you are never finished with your orchard…you keep planting fruit and nut trees forever and ever…even after you plant the bulk of your orchard and think you are done. There is no time to lose with any of this. Some trees may take a decade to produce meaningfully…and then they die.
Some of you may not have the right disposition to grow gardens. But most anyone can grow fruit trees. Once trees are established, they generally don’t need watering unless there is a massive drought. The trees find their own water. But we are talking temperate climates, not the Mojave desert. I gave up my garden after 12 years. To do gardens right you need to be a slave to them. I don’t like being a slave to them. But I am successful with fruit trees…as long as you do not require perfect fruit that needs spraying and chemicals. That is where I draw the line. If a fruit tree can’t produce as-is, with only water, and some fertilizer to start out…then it gets cut down and another tree takes its place. If your fruit trees won’t do well unless you have tons of sprays, what will you do in SHTFF when you can’t get the sprays? And really, I like organic produce and not eating food loaded with poisons.
Try to buy older trees that are more developed. Smallish, bare root trees are the worst to buy if you are in a hurry. You have rust, black knot, borers, rabbits can girdle the trees and deer can get a hard-on for your tree and rub it to death. Squirrels are a massive problem unless you have a large orchard of the same trees that produce at the same time and can feed the squirrels and you. Squirrels can strip your fruit tree of all the fruit before it even ripens! And besides squirrels, their little relative, the chipmunk is a big problem with fruit trees. They live in long burrows and have big families. They can start stripping a peach tree before the peaches are as big as a grape. And they also love the fully ripened fruits…it just does not matter to them. You can trap them & poison them. Whatever you do…get rid of them!
To kill squirrels / chipmunks / voles, forget BB guns…get the green rat poison blocks and zip tie a few of them to the trees. They will decimate the squirrel population for that season and scale it back some for the next as well. You can buy small traps that kill chipmunks. You can also put a small chunk of the rat poison near their burrow opening for chipmunks and voles. If you get lucky they will bring the block into their burrow for the family to feast on. Just don’t use full blocks, cut it into thirds so the little chipmunk can handle it. If you have animals that may eat the poison, put the poison in the burrow or use a bait station. I like the poison near the opening because I can easily see the eating action. Once the blocks stop being brought into the burrow, you fill the burrow up. If the burrow is dug out again, you repeat the process until it is not dug open again. No pets around here, so this baiting technique is not an issue with me.
Anyway, back to the trees…
One European Green Gage plum took a decade to produce a meaningful crop…then it got black knot and was done for. After that, the rest of the 7 varieties of plums ALL got black knot and had to be cut down within 2 years. Santa Rosa and Japanese Shiroplum are 2 nice plums to grow. But wet and humid Z6 can cause lots of disease problems with fruit trees and plums are one of them. But, it takes time to find out what works best in your zone. Time you don’t have.
Same thing with an Empire Apple tree. It took over a decade to produce a decent crop. Wonderful apples, then it got a borer and died. A big, beautiful apple tree suddenly loses all its leaves as well as the crop that was set to grow that season. It is heartbreaking. Some trees are labelled wrong and not the right cultivar. Some fruit trees produce low quality fruit…even though the label shows the most delicious looking fruit. A trend lately with our changing climate is some trees are blooming early, then a frost hits and boom…the entire fruit crop is ruined for that season. If you don’t grow enough cherries, the birds will strip one or two cherry trees clean before the cherries can ripen. In other words, you have to plant lots of cherry trees that produce at the same time to feed the birds and yourself.
One of the best, reliable and heavy producers with fruit trees are the Asian pear trees. Not all varieties are winners, but Olympic aka Korean Giant is good along with Raja Asian pear – they are 2 of the best. I can say that after 17 years of working with 5 varieties of Asian pears. When planting pears, try to get varieties resistant to fire blight. Depends on the local, but fire blight can be a big problem with pears. Belle of Georgia is a nice white peach. Red Haven is a fantastic yellow peach. Loring is another great peach that ripens after Red Haven. But check the chill hours needed for the peach tree. Some trees only produce crops biennial aka every other year. The way you find that out, many times, is only after a few years of growing. When setting up an orchard you need to plan if you want the crops to come in all at once for making preserves / canning or do you want the fruit crops staggered with early, medium and late harvest varieties.
You may need a pollinator tree to produce a crop for certain trees…study it up. Some are self-pollinating, others are not. And you need to see which trees are appropriate pollinators. One tree won’t always pollinate another tree if they bloom too far apart. Lots to think about and no time to waste. If you want to produce a crop into early winter / late fall…get a persimmon tree or 3. Jiro, Nakita’s Gift, Hachiya and lots of other varieties. But check your zones, some are not very cold hardy. Not much time left…we all have eyes to see what is coming. Plant your fruit and nut trees while you can.
Homemade soup is the best! I can’t even eat the canned store bought stuff anymore. Sprinkle some ferments on top, fresh sourdough bread, and you have a fantastic meal.
Oy. 1000 times more BPA in there blood after canned soup for a week. Yikes. Yes. Definitely will be making our own.
And we haven’t thrown bones away for almost 20 years. There’s so much you can do with them/get from them!
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I’m curious how they factored out the bias of severely increased, bastardized sodium chloride? I have read several studies that draw this correlation. Canned store soups probably do decrease testosterone but I would be interested to know if they were able somehow to exclude the NaCl bias to come to an accurate conclusion that the can lining is the culprit. We could infer from a few other studies but she is making fairly declarative statements.
Honestly, there is nothing better than a good pot of soup in the winter. I love them all! But some of my favorites are: French onion, mushroom bisque, vegetable beef, split pea with ham, lentil, creamy squash, and for something completely different and decadent there’s a delicious recipe for chocolate soup that makes the most wonderful holiday desert. I cut up pound cake into cubes and toast them and they become like sweet croutons. It’s become a tradition at Christmas for us. ❤
Mulligatawny!
Sauté in butter a handful each of:
Cored, chopped, green apple
Diced carrot
Celery
Onion
When tender- add 1-2 tsp curry,
Salt, pepper, tiny pinch of mace
Add sprinkle of flour and stir till smooth. Gradually add chicken broth while stirring (6-8c.)
Simmer a few minutes- then add:
Handful of chopped green pepper,
A peeled, seeded, tomatoe,
Couple handfuls of cooked, chopped chicken,
Big handful cooked rice,
Couple whole cloves,
Good pinch of parsley.
Sounds like a lot- but just do all the prep and it comes together nicely-
SO good!
Years ago Schnucks grocery gave out recipes. Our fav is ginger chicken with red cabbage and any other veggie you want(yes the chicken turns purple/gray) so good. Add as much fresh grated ginger as you like.
We can Turkey, Chicken, Beef, Vegetable and Lamb broths. Also, any leftover soups, stews or chili are canned as well. On those days when we’re too busy or just don’t feel like cooking, we simply dump a couple quarts into a pot and heat it up!
When I was a kid my favorite was tomato soup with a grilled cheese sandwich on the side.
Bpa is just a way for companies to change the formula to get away safety. No plastics are safe. The soup in a can from the store is toxic anyways. Homemade and organic is best.
I ❤ soup, but thankfully, I make mine from scratch. It really sucks that our food supply has gone to crap. Thanks, Zach. I have bones in my freezer I need to take care of ❤
Mmmmm…that broth looks good! I bought 3 packs of Rumba beef marrow bones to make broth out of. They were over $11 for the bones. Teeth are shot and can’t eat much meat except soft meatloaf. I figured let me get some nutrition in the bones. All 3 packs stunk terrible. I washed them and they still stunk bad. They were not near expired either. Had to trash them. Nasty as nasty could be. I looked up Rumba, which seems to be a Mex company. No idea where the bones came from, if they were from Mexico or USA. Rumba is what Walmart carries in the Rustbelt. That is all the bones they got here. They used to sell some better bones, but Rumba cornered the market.
I gotta make some turkey meatloaf for Thanksgiving. That is all I can chew with the teeth. Happy I can eat that.
I do mechanical insulation – was in a canning factory years ago and when I asked about the dead rats, I was told they lick the coating stuff for the cans and die. Sooo yea, I dont eat out of tin cans. I home can a metric ton buttload of broth on a regular basis.
Split pea is my staple go to soup to can.
Just make basic soups. Nothing exotic.
If you have some land, do you have fruit and nut trees planted? If you missed your chance last season, you got 5 months before tree planting season. I help someone manage a fruit tree orchard and have some fruit tree experience over the last 17 years. I’m no expert by any means, but I have experience with nearly 50 varieties of fruit trees.
You know, even if you got fruit trees…they are not permanent. An orchard is continually losing trees. If you wait to find this out, you will be many years behind from where you could be. If disease or animals don’t get your fruit trees, a windstorm may uproot, or lightning may split the tree in two. You have to be proactive and not reactive. In other words, you are never finished with your orchard…you keep planting fruit and nut trees forever and ever…even after you plant the bulk of your orchard and think you are done. There is no time to lose with any of this. Some trees may take a decade to produce meaningfully…and then they die.
Some of you may not have the right disposition to grow gardens. But most anyone can grow fruit trees. Once trees are established, they generally don’t need watering unless there is a massive drought. The trees find their own water. But we are talking temperate climates, not the Mojave desert. I gave up my garden after 12 years. To do gardens right you need to be a slave to them. I don’t like being a slave to them. But I am successful with fruit trees…as long as you do not require perfect fruit that needs spraying and chemicals. That is where I draw the line. If a fruit tree can’t produce as-is, with only water, and some fertilizer to start out…then it gets cut down and another tree takes its place. If your fruit trees won’t do well unless you have tons of sprays, what will you do in SHTFF when you can’t get the sprays? And really, I like organic produce and not eating food loaded with poisons.
Try to buy older trees that are more developed. Smallish, bare root trees are the worst to buy if you are in a hurry. You have rust, black knot, borers, rabbits can girdle the trees and deer can get a hard-on for your tree and rub it to death. Squirrels are a massive problem unless you have a large orchard of the same trees that produce at the same time and can feed the squirrels and you. Squirrels can strip your fruit tree of all the fruit before it even ripens! And besides squirrels, their little relative, the chipmunk is a big problem with fruit trees. They live in long burrows and have big families. They can start stripping a peach tree before the peaches are as big as a grape. And they also love the fully ripened fruits…it just does not matter to them. You can trap them & poison them. Whatever you do…get rid of them!
To kill squirrels / chipmunks / voles, forget BB guns…get the green rat poison blocks and zip tie a few of them to the trees. They will decimate the squirrel population for that season and scale it back some for the next as well. You can buy small traps that kill chipmunks. You can also put a small chunk of the rat poison near their burrow opening for chipmunks and voles. If you get lucky they will bring the block into their burrow for the family to feast on. Just don’t use full blocks, cut it into thirds so the little chipmunk can handle it. If you have animals that may eat the poison, put the poison in the burrow or use a bait station. I like the poison near the opening because I can easily see the eating action. Once the blocks stop being brought into the burrow, you fill the burrow up. If the burrow is dug out again, you repeat the process until it is not dug open again. No pets around here, so this baiting technique is not an issue with me.
Anyway, back to the trees…
One European Green Gage plum took a decade to produce a meaningful crop…then it got black knot and was done for. After that, the rest of the 7 varieties of plums ALL got black knot and had to be cut down within 2 years. Santa Rosa and Japanese Shiroplum are 2 nice plums to grow. But wet and humid Z6 can cause lots of disease problems with fruit trees and plums are one of them. But, it takes time to find out what works best in your zone. Time you don’t have.
Same thing with an Empire Apple tree. It took over a decade to produce a decent crop. Wonderful apples, then it got a borer and died. A big, beautiful apple tree suddenly loses all its leaves as well as the crop that was set to grow that season. It is heartbreaking. Some trees are labelled wrong and not the right cultivar. Some fruit trees produce low quality fruit…even though the label shows the most delicious looking fruit. A trend lately with our changing climate is some trees are blooming early, then a frost hits and boom…the entire fruit crop is ruined for that season. If you don’t grow enough cherries, the birds will strip one or two cherry trees clean before the cherries can ripen. In other words, you have to plant lots of cherry trees that produce at the same time to feed the birds and yourself.
One of the best, reliable and heavy producers with fruit trees are the Asian pear trees. Not all varieties are winners, but Olympic aka Korean Giant is good along with Raja Asian pear – they are 2 of the best. I can say that after 17 years of working with 5 varieties of Asian pears. When planting pears, try to get varieties resistant to fire blight. Depends on the local, but fire blight can be a big problem with pears. Belle of Georgia is a nice white peach. Red Haven is a fantastic yellow peach. Loring is another great peach that ripens after Red Haven. But check the chill hours needed for the peach tree. Some trees only produce crops biennial aka every other year. The way you find that out, many times, is only after a few years of growing. When setting up an orchard you need to plan if you want the crops to come in all at once for making preserves / canning or do you want the fruit crops staggered with early, medium and late harvest varieties.
You may need a pollinator tree to produce a crop for certain trees…study it up. Some are self-pollinating, others are not. And you need to see which trees are appropriate pollinators. One tree won’t always pollinate another tree if they bloom too far apart. Lots to think about and no time to waste. If you want to produce a crop into early winter / late fall…get a persimmon tree or 3. Jiro, Nakita’s Gift, Hachiya and lots of other varieties. But check your zones, some are not very cold hardy. Not much time left…we all have eyes to see what is coming. Plant your fruit and nut trees while you can.
You can test the store-bought probiotic. Try to make yogurt from the pills and see if they produce anything.
Homemade soup is the best! I can’t even eat the canned store bought stuff anymore. Sprinkle some ferments on top, fresh sourdough bread, and you have a fantastic meal.
Oy. 1000 times more BPA in there blood after canned soup for a week. Yikes. Yes. Definitely will be making our own.
And we haven’t thrown bones away for almost 20 years. There’s so much you can do with them/get from them!