First of all, I don't want to have bloodshed in the land I love. having said that, our family is very capable of defending ourselves and stopping any intruder.
having said that.....we target practice on weekends.
Have faith in God. Live your life with the BEST and highest truth that you know. Make your life an example of Faith, Will and devotion. I have had so much success with prayer that I cannot even document it. Our Veterans and Active military already practice the speech above. We have to stay vigilant. I think about George Washington back in his day, same thing, lostesa cosa!xo
Thank you. Every adult person is responsible for his/her safety and water/food//medical/sanitation/light/heating/cooling.
Relying on someone else to save you may result in your death. If you have everything but no way to defend it (that safety part), consider it gone already.
Yesterday, a man told me had a huge bag of beans and rice. I asked him if he had any bean seasoning, and he said no. I gave him my lecture on beans. Here it is:
The truth about beans:
If you have a mountain of beans but no seasoning, you won't eat them unless you are starving and even then you won't like it at all.
There is a fast way to cook beans and I did that to make sure it worked and I added nothing to the beans, no seasoning. They cooked like they were supposed to in a short amount of time saving a lot of fuel to cook the old way. BUT, WITH NO SEASONING, THEY WERE TERRIBLE. The following is what I wrote about beans on a website where I wrote a book length way to survive and live well:
COOKING DRIED BEANS FAST SAVING FUEL:
Dried beans are hard things that have to be made into soft, plumped up things. Cooking dried beans seems to mean a long time of boiling, boiling, boiling, using a lot of fuel. That isn’t true if one uses this method:
Rather than write the instructions for cooking beans in Cooking off the Grid, I'll just tell you what I did when I followed them, very simple. For this experiment, I used one cup of dried pinto beans. I rinsed them to remove any dirt. Put them in a pot with water to twice the depth of the beans. Brought them to a boil and boiled (don't simmer), for two minutes (just two minutes will do it).. Removed them from heat and let them sit 1 hour. Poured off the dirty soak water. Covered with new water, added 1 tablespoon oil and 1/2 tsp salt as it said, boiled them 30 min. and they were totally done. Beans that will cook to soft in this thirty minute final cooking are black, white, red, pinto, kidney, garbanzo, etc. Lima beans, large or baby, need 45 min. final cooking time. ALWAYS ADD SEASONING TO BEANS AS THEY COOK.
Some type beans do not need soaking/puffing up before cooking - lentils is one and they cook in 30 minutes. Others are split peas and black eyed peas.
BEANS AND RICE CHEMISTRY TO PRODUCE PROTEIN:
The chemistry part: Beans and rice do not have to be eaten in equal amounts in order for the body to break it down into complete protein. Denise Hansen, the dietitian tells us in, “Eating off the Grid” (you really need this book), that the ratio of 3 or 4 portions of grains (rice) to 1 of legumes (beans), is sufficient. Let's see, that's about 4 tablespoons of cooked rice (grain) and 1 tablespoon of cooked beans (legumes), or about 1/2 cup cooked rice and 1/8 cp. cooked beans, or 1 cup cooked rice and 1/4 cup cooked beans. Get the idea? Be sure to eat enough rice with the beans and be sure smaller children don't just eat one or the other. Said another way by Utah State University: “Dry beans average about 22% protein in the seed, the highest protein content of any seed crop. They contain all essential amino acids, except methionine. Methionine can be obtained from corn, rice, or meat.”