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Post by OJ (Original Junkie). on Dec 19, 2011 17:43:38 GMT -5
I'm going to try and keep a running tally of the money I can save for one year with eating wild game and fish, and home grown produce. I am going to stockpile venison and fish this winter, and am fortunate enough to have a buddy who gave me a whole caribou from his trip, and a half an elk. He doesn't really eat the stuff just loves hunting. Also going to mix in some rabbit, squirrel, and pheasant. Just want to see where this ends up, and am wanting to move entirely to harvested game in the next few years.
12/18/11 had a venison roast. which probably saved around $10 from a store bought one.
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Post by OJ (Original Junkie). on Dec 19, 2011 17:44:47 GMT -5
12/19/11 Made spaghetti with ground elk. probably saved $5-$6 on ground beef.
That puts me at roughly $15 saved in two days.
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Post by SPLASH on Dec 19, 2011 18:10:13 GMT -5
That's a good idea, but other than what you got for free, factor in license fees, gas and everything else to make it really accurate. Caribou is my favorite wild game to eat, hint hint.
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Post by OJ (Original Junkie). on Dec 19, 2011 18:20:10 GMT -5
That's a good idea, but other than what you got for free, factor in license fees, gas and everything else to make it really accurate. Caribou is my favorite wild game to eat, hint hint. Yeah I will do that at the end. But it's hard to add them costs because I love doing it. I will add in license fees and gas at the end, but none of the extras because they have been boughten over years and years.
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Post by ScoutB on Dec 19, 2011 20:10:08 GMT -5
I like where this is going. You should have a very big savings number when you're done plus you'll be eating good healthy stuff.
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Post by SPLASH on Dec 19, 2011 20:11:04 GMT -5
I hear ya, just a suggestion. Where is the produce coming from?
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Post by OJ (Original Junkie). on Dec 19, 2011 20:18:54 GMT -5
The produce won't take effect till next summer. Plan on going all out i nthe garden and double it's size next spring. or a tthis rate in about two weeks. ;D
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Post by ScoutB on Dec 19, 2011 20:35:21 GMT -5
I think it's safe to plant right now.
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Post by woodeye on Dec 19, 2011 20:43:51 GMT -5
So I am thinking for an outing OJ should bring all the meat!! Elk and Caribou are soo good. My wife won't eat venison but loves elk. Have fun OJ and I hope it works out.
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Post by andymaviglia on Dec 20, 2011 12:04:17 GMT -5
Great thread Troy!
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Post by OJ (Original Junkie). on Dec 20, 2011 15:33:44 GMT -5
Thanks bud, just curious to see where this puts me.
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Post by SPLASH on Dec 20, 2011 15:38:16 GMT -5
Did you ever join either of the gardening forums you asked me about awhile back? There are people on them that only eat homegrown produce. Sure, they are from down south with a lot longer growing season, but if you look into canning and freezing you can cutdown on food costs quite a bit in the winter. The first 2 thiings to think about is how much space will a certain plant take up in the garden compared to how much harvest you get from it and is it producing something you can can or freeze. A good example would be watermelons. They are a lot of fun to grow, but depending on what variety you grow, the vines can grow 10- 40 feet and not produce much fruit and no canning and freezing watermelon doesn't work the best. So now you'd take watermelon out of your self sustaining garden and look at tomatoes. There is a reason why tomatoes are the most grown plant in American gardens. They produce a lot of harvest and not so much space in the garden is taken up. Then you look at what kind to grow. There is determinate and indeterminate. If you are looking to can tomatoes to use during the winter, look at a variety of determinate so you get your harvest all at once which is nice for canning so you are only canning a day or two. You can then pull the plants and plant something like a bean seed that will grow fast and produce wll into the fall. You can can and freeze beans. Hope I got you thinking about a few things between now and late May. ;D
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Post by SPLASH on Dec 21, 2011 15:56:39 GMT -5
Must be so busy figuring this all out you have no comment? ;D
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Post by OJ (Original Junkie). on Jan 30, 2012 19:40:44 GMT -5
Forgot about this, been slacking. I'll start up again.
1/29/12 Cooked three elk steaks for us. That probably saved us roughly $20 for store bought beef steaks.
1/30/12 Had venison tacos. Probably roughly another $6 in ground beef.
Not counting the last month I slacked off on thats roughly $41 dollars so far. Stinks because we probably had another $60 or so in there.
Total: $41
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Post by SPLASH on Jan 30, 2012 19:51:19 GMT -5
Not to threadjack, but just to give you an idea of produce savings. The 4quarts and 7 pints of pickles I made this weekend cost a total of $22 not counting cukes since if it were summer I'd grown them. Average cost of Claussen pickles in a quart at the store= 5-7 dollars.
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