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Offline AMDGJMJ

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Re: 25 Forgotten Vegetables That Grandparents Grew to Survive the Great Depression!
« Reply #15 on: March 10, 2025, 05:04:16 AM »
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    • Quote from: Mark 79 on March 09, 2025, 11:46:49 PM
    I am not alone in cooking and fermenting vegetables. Virtually every culture today still does so.

    In fact, because of the gut microbiome phenomenon, I focused a good part of my recent two month Asian trip pursuing and exploring regional fermented foods, including both vegetable and meat items. The gamut spanned natto (fermented soybeans) in Sapporo,  plaa ra (fermented fish) and som tam (fermented unripe mango) in Udon Thani, puu khai dong (fermented crab roe) in Bang Na, and hoy nangrom (oysters) with SCOBY (Symbiotic Culture Of Bacteria and Yeast) in Phuket. I even had a few juice blends and even cocktails that used fermented herbs.

    So, whether raw, cooked, or fermented, I see no rational "difference" that gives us license to nullify God's provision of vegetables for us as food.

    Of course, I eschew GMO vegetables. Unnatural genetic modification is, to my thinking, "playing God."

    You have it ass-backwards.

    Precisely because God explicitly gave us vegetables to eat them, we should neither condemn them nor eschew them in our diets.
    This reminds me of the story of Daniel in the Bible and how he and the other young men who lived off of "pulse" and refused to eat contaminated meat were seen to be stronger and in better shape than those who did after a period of time.  :popcorn:

    There are SO MANY vitamins in vegetables and fruits!  A balanced diet definitely seems crucial to good health.  So many people don't realize that they are deficient in particular vitamins and minerals until they start taking them and realize the difference.  :cowboy:
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    Re: 25 Forgotten Vegetables That Grandparents Grew to Survive the Great Depression!
    « Reply #16 on: March 10, 2025, 07:57:27 AM »
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    • Quote from: AMDGJMJ on March 10, 2025, 05:04:16 AM
    This reminds me of the story of Daniel in the Bible and how he and the other young men who lived off of "pulse" and refused to eat contaminated meat were seen to be stronger and in better shape than those who did after a period of time.  :popcorn:

    There are SO MANY vitamins in vegetables and fruits!  A balanced diet definitely seems crucial to good health.  So many people don't realize that they are deficient in particular vitamins and minerals until they start taking them and realize the difference.  :cowboy:

    Daniel 1:11-15:

    And Daniel said to Malasar, whom the prince of the eunuchs had appointed over Daniel, Ananias, Misael, and Azarias:  Try, I beseech thee, thy servants for ten days, and let pulse be given us to eat, and water to drink:  And look upon our faces, and the faces of the children that eat of the king's meat: and as thou shalt see, deal with thy servants.  And when he had heard these words, he tried them for ten days.  And after ten days their faces appeared fairer and fatter than all the children that ate of the king's meat.

    And, of course there are also the loaves and fishes (omnivores) of Matthew 14 and Luke 9.

    "I am the bread of life" (John 6:48) is a passage laden with meaning and certainly mitigates against excluding vegetables (wheat) from our mortal and spiritual lives.
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    Re: 25 Forgotten Vegetables That Grandparents Grew to Survive the Great Depression!
    « Reply #17 on: March 10, 2025, 07:48:01 PM »
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    • I will say that eating greens can make breath smell literally like crap, and the acids in the leaves probably isn't good for teeth.
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    Re: 25 Forgotten Vegetables That Grandparents Grew to Survive the Great Depression!
    « Reply #18 on: March 11, 2025, 04:42:26 PM »
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    • I grow jerusalem artichokes ( it's actually hard NOT to grow them- In fact they will take over the garden if you let them) . When the Bolsheviks took every last potato from the Ukrainians in the great starvation of the early 1920's, many people survived on them because the Bolsheviks thought they were just weeds.
    They are the most nutritious food, high caloric content for survival  ( but a bit gassy)
    Storage is a little difficult but can remain in the ground until late fall until you are ready to use them. Also you can dig them up and store them in damp sand and they will last for the year. I have them in buckets in the basement. you can boil them ,bake them mash them and dry them for chips.
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