• zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    18 hours ago

    This is unironically me. I sadly did the math on how long we can survive on my vegetable garden. Spoiler: not long!

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      18 hours ago

      Even potatoes don’t have all that many calories.

      If you WERE to try to prep your way to sustainable. you’re going to have to buy/store starches in bulk and use the garden +canning for nutrients.

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        17 hours ago

        Yeah, I did think about how to make it in any way viable as just a mental exercise and came to a similar conclusion. If I didn’t enjoy getting my own veggies and fruits I’d probably just stop. I mostly started because I love very spicy peppers and was unable to even buy them most of the time. I eventually started growing all sorts of things of course, you can’t survive on superhot pepper pods for long, and if you could, you may not want to.

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          14 hours ago

          It’s not about just literally surviving off of them; it’s about spicing up life during the apocalypse! Your peppers could become very valuable trading commodities! Keep up the good work.

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            13 hours ago

            How many bottle caps do you think my dried Trinidad Moruga Scorpion peppers will go for? I bet the ghouls will love them!