Hungry
A winter of hunger
It is not so long ago that people went out from early to late looking for something edible.
Beets, tubers, turnips, bulbs...
It doesn't matter if it is healthy.
Nobody counted calories.
BMI? Never heard of it.
Better times.
Preparing your own food.
Fruit of the season preserved for the harsh winter.
A delicacy on Sundays.
Birthdays with cakes.
The pantry easily provides the family with food in winter.
Being prepared is important.
Better times?
Fast food restaurants thrive.
Cooking is no longer necessary.
The housewife and vegetable garden of yesteryear belong to the past.
No one feels like gardening.
Fruit trees are being felled en masse, conserving food is some old habit of the past.
Time passes by.
There it is again.
Imperceptibly, a war is being worked out.
The hunger winter is around the corner.
With many it will be, once money lost its value and when the shop has nothing left to stock, over.
Might be the old neighbour noone cares about has some preserved food in her pantry?
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This is true! The war knocked on the door and it became hard without work and without a personal plot from which in the past the pantry was filled with such jars)
Do you have a garden, fruit trees, chickens or? How do you manage to survive?
Better don't ask. Now it's very bad. There has been no work for five months. Humanitarian aid in Kharkiv is almost impossible to get. There is no garden. For now, we live on loans and old food stocks. How much is enough)
Five months is long and the winter didn't even start. It's still possible to loan money?
I wonder how you do it with cryptocurrencies (posdible to use them?) or do you have a free bankaccount like Wise or so?
At least you have some old food stocks ☹
Mail etc still function?
Strength to you and your beloved ones.
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All services work for us, but the frontline city and 90% of companies do not work due to rocket attacks, to the west life is close to pre-war and it’s calm there, we change cryptocurrencies through exchangers to a card, although there was a period when nothing could be withdrawn and cashed from cards at all , and supermarkets worked only for cash, it was in March. The city is shelled every day from rocket launchers. aimlessly, and at night with s300 missiles, today 5 missiles.
How about aid from abroad? EU, UK and so on all collect money from citizens... Aid organizations do...where does that money go?
They didn't force you to join the army?
Wish I could change crypto to a card but I can't.
So your main problem is money?
I am already too old for the army, I am 55, we have not been able to receive food assistance from the president since May, we have been waiting for payments from international organizations for 2 months now. My wife is very sick, this is bad, it turned out to be diabetes, it was just determined in the 20th of February. We're holding on. Other people have a situation even worse, there is a better one, this is life. There are millions of affected people out there hard to help everyone. So far, I really want normalization with shelling and the resumption of work. I want peace)
In this situation, everything starts to work differently) Thank you!)
My grandmother had a cellar filled with these jars. I remember how she prepared food. Beans and pears. The apples were dried on the floor of the attick. I can't remember when she gave up on it. I assume before my grandfather died.
My mother had from everything 3 in her closet underneath the stairs. Not enough to survive for long for the entire family since most of it wasn't food but still.
My grandmother had an aquintance (older than she) and she stocked whatever she could.
You know what? Each of them always said: You never know when it's war again.
Since World war II there were plenty of wars and many infected us all in some way even if we weren't aware of it.
Each summer I try to collect, prepare and save food for the winter. No shops nearby where I live and once the weather changes (rain or winter) it will be hard to use the road out of here. So I need to be prepared if not for me it's for my children.
Lately I used a jar with pickles I made in 2015. It was still good. 🙂
An impressing poem. May many read and prepare. No need for leftovers to get spoiled.
Thanks for joining pic1000. 👍