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Growing your own food. The only way to make that shit pay is to groom a cult to do it for you, large-scale.
They're called grand parents
Oh, I see somebody cracked the code.
I still buy the vast majority of my own food, but:
I've been eating the same $0.99 bell pepper going on three years now.
A $3 packet of jalapeno seeds has made a year's worth of taco tuesdays.
I'll never buy Mint again; I couldn't get rid of my patch of peppermint if I wanted to.
I can grow much better tomatoes than what you'll find at the local mega mart.
A $3 packet of okra seeds will thicken a year's worth of gumbo.
My little vegetable garden, which is smaller than my living room, yields somewhere in the neighborhood of 100 pounds of produce every year.
Respect for that - I was mostly trying to be funny with my post, I have to admit. If you have a good patch of garden, with good soil and conditions, I guess that can pay financially, and for sure psychologically. But if you have none of that.. I have eaten too many shitty tomatoes grown on friends' and neighbors' balconies to be kind towards that anymore.
Apparently even touching soil has psychological benefits! Something to do with a certain bacteria present in it.
https://www.podbean.com/ew/dir-tv975-1c3df359
Growing your own greens and herbs is super easy with a hydroponic setup, but obviously you have to invest the time into getting it set up. There are a lot of pre-made options available these days, though, so it's not as much work as it used to be even just a few years back. Saves me a lot of trips to the grocery store.
The only thing I've successfully grown is tomatoes. And they tasted weird.