Posted on 11/16/2013 6:32:36 PM PST by dynachrome
You have your 1,000 pounds of wheat. Your 500 gallons of water and enough ammo to make Chuck Norris jealous but the question remains, are you truly prepared? Just because you’ve been prepping for twenty years doesn’t mean you haven’t made some mistakes along the way. It’s not enough to just have your emergency food storage, you have to be able to store it, eat it and even move it if things really get crazy.
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/johnny
Not only are they cheaper, but the local stores have some on sale all the time. There’s usually quite a variety of options available; vodka, rum, bourbon, tequila, scotch...
Agree with you about 4-H. The kids out here are better prepared than most because it’s a rural area but they’re far behind from what we knew at that age. The ag classes here put kids to sleep with book learning rather than hands on. The home ec is more about team building than cooking and sewing. It takes them a week to sew on a button and not once in 13 years did I ever see their stove turned on.
Printed out is a key point. Storing it on a computer isn’t going to help when there’s no power or it crashes. Having a couple of older 1800s cookbooks, and understanding them, is important when you’re living without modern conveniences.
I don’t know it is about plastic grocery bags these days. They all have holes in the bottoms. I’m guessing it’s the way they’re cut to tear off the roll with the handles going into the bottom of the previous bag. I always save bags for trash liners and the kitty box but this past year I’ve had to give up on using them for trash liners because there are barely enough usable ones for the kitty box. I was just thinking last week that I’m going to have buy real bags.
Freeze your flour for a week before putting it on the shelf. That kills the eggs / no bugs.
Not that I have anything against wine, but they also make a great herbal tea! ;)
“Traditionally, corn tortillas are made from masa, not regular cornmeal.”
I know that but in an emergency situation I’m using regular cornmeal I have stored and have simple recipes for making corn tortillas with cornmeal and flour tortillas.
http://dandelionrevolution.com/blog/tag/elderberry/
Something to include in your TEOTWAWKI arsenal that will allow you to make several cups of tea and single cups of coffee (about $2 at Amazon):
I'm no tea expert, but it's relatively easy to make your own tea, both green and black teas, and the one in between. lol
/johnny
Already banned in Austin, town is already full of poop too
RE: Fitness
driftdiver, you have pointed up a very important issue.
greeneyes stated:
...” it is taking a long time to get to an acceptable level. I hope I don’t run out of time.”
Baby steps. ANY improvement accomplished, however small, COUNTS! Just be mindful of choices throughout the day and seek alternatives to unhealthful choices. If you make a few unhealthful choices, note them and learn from them. If you only made ONE good choice that day (ie, you chose to take the stairs instead of the elevator, or you smoked 2 cigarettes less than usual, or you chose stevia instead of the sugar, or you continued your walking program...not sure of your personal challenges, these are but examples) celebrate that small choice as a HUGE VICTORY!! ...because it is! The hardest thing to do is to change lifestyle. Go into it with humor and willingness to be patient with yourself, but also with determination.
I’m not a paragon of fitness, but I know I have my life back now after losing 90 pounds several years ago and keeping it off. I’m still learning and seeking better levels of fitness, and I lament with you that I need to do more and hope I don’t run out of time, but I know that already I’ve put myself in a much better situation than many. If for no other reason than that I can tolerate a low calorie regimen without freaking out!
YOU CAN DO THIS!! If I can, ANYONE can! All it requires is that we change our minds.
Yes, the silver DOES work. I know someone who had a yeast infection and it knocked it back considerably. However the individual, being of the persuasion that “if a little will work, then more will work a whole lot better” turned blue from overuse of the silver.
Emergency personnel, nurses, and docs, strangers all, have come up to this person in public urging the need to go to the ER - RIGHT NOW because of the appearance of having inadequate oxygen on board. My friend assures them that all is ok, that it is only silver discoloration.
At least it’s not bad enough to scare little children.
Having some silver coins in a water source like a well bucket will not cause the discoloration. If taking the prepared colloidal silver, do adhere to the dosage suggestions, but definitely have some on hand!
Another thing I use those for is herbs in soups. That way you aren’t eating anything that you don’t want.
Bay leaves and rosemary in particular come to mind.
I have recipes but I also have the best recipe book to use with stored food. “Eating Off the Grid” by Denise Hansen, MS,RD (registered dietitian), is the only recipe book one would need. If the grid is down, you have no refrigeration. Her book uses nothing that stores in a refrigerator - 270 recipes using nothing out of a fridge. She uses milk powder, powdered eggs, oils for butter, it's all there.
She also have a wealth of info. in there about cooling foods, making ovens, etc.. There is a simple recipe making cheese that anyone could do - there is a fast way to cook dry beans to save on fuel. I didn't believe that would work so I did it and it was true, I fast cooked dry beans to soft using little fuel compared to the way people cook dry beans for hours. Once I misplaced my book, couldn't find it, so I ordered another one and later found the one I misplaced. I will not be without this book.
The only place I know it can be bought now ($15.95) is this link to Rainy Day Foods.
http://www.rainydayfoods.com/shop/index.php/eating-off-the-grid-cookbook.html
You said: “As with all prepping we do the “Two is one, one is none” so we have backups for our backups.”
When I started prepping years ago, I made my own system using “Three is better than two.” I have three ways to do everything. For lighting I have a solar panel and rechargeable batteries for my lanterns and flashlights that can be used three ways, another way is solar lanterns, another way is enough jar candles to last a year. I figured up how many hours I would need light for a year, then used how many hours a jar candle would last, then got enough to last a year.
For cooking, I have enough canned heat using Sterno stoves to last a year, an outdoor fireplace designed to cook food using wood or fake logs or charcoal, have a professionally made Rocket Stove that burns using twigs to cook food. Have a Japanese charcoal burner that uses only 6 charcoal briquettes to cook food. I could also use jar candles set in the Sterno stoves to warm food. I have a propane grill with two large propane bottles but eventually that propane will run out. The Rocket Stove is the backbone, the fail-safe method for cooking as twigs for fuel would never run out since there are bushes and trees all around me.
“Just so you know they won’t be anything like what you are used to. And making totillas is an art. Sorta like gardening. It’s something that has to be learned. ;)”
I know how to do it especially with the easy recipes and I even have a heavy metal tortilla press from Mexico and an iron round flat griddle to cook them on.
actually I use canned evaporated milk. Something I picked up from my mom that stuck.
The first two things we bought were a grain grinder and a Berkey water filter. I would not trade them for a million dollars. Or the three filled 55 gallon blue water containers in our garage.
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