10/12/2021
It is this time of the year when our mothers and grandmothers would have stocked the freezers with soup bones, ground beef, oxtails, neck bones, carrots, peas, snap beans, corn, etc., to make plenty of soups, chili's and plenty of vegetables. In the winter you weren't as active outside do she'd make sure you had more hardy meals. She's also stock up on hot chocolate, Campbell's Chicken Noodle and Tomatoe Soups, cough syrups like Robitussin, 666, vicks v***r rub, alcohol, A & D ointment, her Ben-Gay, plenty of socks, long johns, flannel gowns, sweaters,scarves and caps and your heavy winter coat. Don't forget to stick up on your Hall's Cough Drops, distilled water for the humidifier, your ear drops, Camphor-phonique, Epsom Salt too.
The neighborhood churches would have had coat drives for the less fortunate, drives for blankets caps and gloves too.
Don't forget to stock up on the bell peppers, onions and celery to chop up, put in ziplock bags and freeze.. par boil your potatoes, yams, greens and cabbages and put in your zip lock freezer bags. You can also dry extra fruits for snacks and stock up on your nuts, saltine, Ritz and Townhouse crackers. Stock up on your rice, flours, sugar and cornmeal. You may put your cornmeal and flour in the gallon storage bags, seal and refrigerate or empty into large plastic containers with lids and place bay leaves in there to keep the bow-weavals out. Matter of fact lay bay leaves on the shelves in your pantry where your dried good are to keep them out as well.
