SURVIVAL STRATEGY IN THE PHILIPPINES ??

[@Foreigner_2024]

I switched from eating apples to native fruit. I can pick papaya most any day, and I have a couple jackfruit trees on my place, or I can buy that and mangoes. We also buy a watermelon every week. We also buy all our meat and vegetables and fish from the local palengke. The tomatoes are always green, but that is how they sell them here. I have become accustomed to eating local food. I like it. I do buy a 5 KG bag of oats every few months

[@AForeignerinthePhilippines]

I've been thinking I should be buying locally grown fruit, thanks for the nudge 👍👍

[@flybywir1]

Not sure about the apples you can get in Bohol.....but I have to say that I buy apples in Tescos and Sainsburys and they seem to keep forever in the fridge....no sign of deterioration after 3 or 4 weeks at least!.....and they're grown in Kent UK

[@AForeignerinthePhilippines]

Being transported afar and sold on supermarket shelves means they must do 'something' to keep them fresh -- it's the "something" that worries me.

[@buzzsargent7825]

Good to see you again. In the US pension benefits or social security here are required now to be direct deposit. Not sure checks are even an option. Happy Trails

[@AForeignerinthePhilippines]

I receive my SS by direct deposit -- not sure where the talk of "checks" came from -- does anyone use checks nowadays?

[@flybywir1]

Apart from apples it is true that UK is in a bit of a mess right now.....cost of houses and rents are insane, especially in the south east....

[@SternDrive]

Sounds like Canada. Is your leadership screwing up as well?

[@AForeignerinthePhilippines]

I'm saddened by the news coming from the old country.

[@flybywir1]

Governments on either side of politics don't seem to be able to stop the downward slide.....especially since the lunatic Brexit vote.....

[@flybywir1]

@@SternDrive I'm afraid so.....

[@mabuhayproductionltd3627]

@@SternDrive whats the problem ? Inflations is a world wide problem, so that has made goverments unpopulaer all over the world, then there is emigration ? The Philipines move to Canada,USA,UK and EU and Westeners move to the Philippines ?? Sounds fair ?. Canada soon have an election, so you might get a new goverment good luck.

[@euanc8951]

Could you not grow apples and tomotoes?

[@AForeignerinthePhilippines]

You make sense, I should use our land to help myself. I'm not sure about growing apples but have read up about growing tomatoes which does seem do-able even for a city boy like me. 😁

[@stephenkeebler732]

​Apples need very cold temperatures during Winter months in order to set fruit, which the warm all year Central Philippines does not have...