Advertising

[poliphilo]

I've always hated advertising. Advertising is lies. Advertising is immoral. 

Isn't that obvious? I'm always surprised when people are taken in by it. How can they be so simple-minded?

A breakfast cereal will make you happy? An air freshener will make you happy? Oh, for pity's sake!

A car is a tin box for getting from place to place. All cars are the same. Some have added doodads, some don't. If you want to know which is the best value for money read Which. 

The ads never show the car jolting about among modern urban traffic. They show it gliding down desert roads with nary another car in sight. You want that sense of freedom? You're not going to get it from anything you can put in your garage. Quit your high-pressure job and live on baked beans, move to New Mexico, dream. 

Comments

[suemars.livejournal.com]

this is just what i needed, we are moving in may and i have had some doubts because of moeny. but our expenses will be alot less and we will be living in the mountains. where its beautiful. i will also make less money. but i think have enough to live a decent life. so thanks for this.

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[jubal51394.livejournal.com]

My recipe for baked beans? ;)

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[suemars.livejournal.com]

i think i'm going to need it, not just because of the money, but i have looked at the beef things on your journal, now a chicken recall. yuck. my sister and i are going to get chickens, for eggs. do you have a bean recipe that uses eggs? we are also putting in a huge veggie garden. i know this is the best thing, plus its so beautiful there and it will be better for lily.

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[jubal51394.livejournal.com]

I have tons of bean recipes. I bake beans mostly in the winter because the oven stays on for hours and it heats the house too.

If you have your own chickens... been there, done that too... then it's safe to eat them. You control how they live and what they eat so they're healthy, but that's assuming someone can kill them.

We had them a couple of years but finally admitted that neither of us really cared much for killing them... so we just ate more eggs and less meat.

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[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

How do you store your baked beans? Do you can them or seal them in jars or do they go in the freezer?

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[jubal51394.livejournal.com]

I can them mostly, when I have the energy. You CAN freeze them. They still taste the same but they get all mushy. If you can stand that texture, it's way easier to just toss them into freezer bags. They'll keep a month just in the refrigerator and we eat a lot so...

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[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I don't think I'd fancy my beans mushy.

Do you bake 'em in tomato sauce they way Heinz does?

Excuse my ignorance, but I'm speaking as someone who has never eaten beans that didn't come from the supermarket in a tin.

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[jubal51394.livejournal.com]

Traditional Boston Baked beans do NOT have tomato sauce but... you could easily add it if you like it. It's one of those old family recipes that lends itself to ad libs. ;)

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[jubal51394.livejournal.com]

Home baked beans are quite firm and chewy. If you are used to canned beams then frozen ones may not be any mushier than that. Home baking beans is an adventure. Try it... and then improvise.

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[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I guess you must have some sort of canning machine too.

There was something I was listening to the other day- I don't know if it TV or what- but it was this person talking about how they used to can their own veg and when they'd filled all the cans they'd take them down to the local blacksmith for him to seal them.

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[jubal51394.livejournal.com]

Canning at home isn't really all that difficult. It's messy and time consuming but it's easy. You only have to buy the stuff once. You can reuse it all after you sterilize it in boiling water.

See the equipment here:
http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=8033241

I bet you guys would enjoy the task.

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[suemars.livejournal.com]

i'm pretty sure i couldn't eat an animal i have met. so i guess i'll be eating lots of omlets and egg salad.
i would love to have your bean recipes. my mom used to make some that were a mixture of beans with bacon on the top, she baked them. yum.

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[jubal51394.livejournal.com]

I've put my favorite recipes on my page. If you like that bacon thing you can just add it to the top when you're ready to bake and it will come out just like you remember your Mom's... but you'll need to be careful when you stir them.

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[jubal51394.livejournal.com]

I'll send you my chicken raising links via email. Figure out how many eggs you will eat in a day then figure one chicken will lay one egg a day. That's how many chickens you need.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

That sounds like a great adventure.

It's possible to live a decent life on far less than our society considers the norm. It's all about attitude (which includes turning a deaf ear to the advertisers).