Unchained Preppers
General Category => Sustenance => Topic started by: JohnyMac on July 28, 2014, 11:42:13 AM
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MrsMac and I got back to the cabin on Saturday after a L.O.N.G. stint in Rhode Island. Negotiated for 15 lobster's and 10#'s of little neck clams from a lobster boat earlier in the week which we picked up on Saturday on the way to the cabin. Our trip was dubbed the Lobster Express by the folks coming to the clam bake. ;)
We have a good friend who had on his "bucket list" a New England clam boil. Well he can now check this one off that list. ;)
My main reason for posting this story and accompanying photo other then to model the new UP moral patch is to talk about dealing as close as possible to the folks who catch or grow your food. Cost of lobster in the store is $10.99 a pound locally. I paid $5.99 a pound direct from a lobster-man.
In the local grocery store little necks are going for $3.99 a pound. Direct from the lobster-man $2.50 a pound.
Adding to the great prices, the bugs and shellfish were VERY FRESH. Thursday and Friday these critters were still in the ocean.
So support your local farmer/fisherman. Buy direct from them. ;D
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Hey nice patch you have in you hat :pirateThumbUp:
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Just keep adding reasons for me to move up to your property, John. One of these days, you're going to return and find a brand new log cabin there. :-P
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:lmfao: Rah45!
Yes APX...Isn't that a great patch! Guests at the picnic were begging me for one. I of course held firm. ;)
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Dammit John! Its like looking at my future.. I too carry a fork in my shirt pocket..
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It only took me 58 years on this earth to grab a metal fork early in a picnic. To fail to do so means you end up with a plastic fork. Plastic fork and and lobster does not compute. :suicide: