I always soak them overnight then drain the water and refill my pot. Sometimes it works...sometimes his life is easier for it. lol
I'll try the baking soda the next time I cook them, probably Sat. We eat them all the time.
One does what they can and gets by, I think that survival is more in the head, than the storage area.
To us it's a one two kind of thing. It takes both to get by.
I have a fine granddaughter, a good mother, but to talk to her about food, is to talk brand names. She knows of no other way to cook...........LOL,
I was the same way until a few years ago. I finally got wise on the famous brand names, maybe she will as well.
I am so glad that you and many other Freepers are prepared for what is going to come, as it surely will, has before and will again.
I'm also happy many others are starting to realize what it means to be prepared both materially and psychologically.
You stay safe too.
I understand that the people in N. Korea are many living on grass and a friend who has pen pals in Russia, sent me a letter from her, she was telling him about the hard times before and during WW2 for her grandparents.
One of the things her grandmother fixed was crackers made of grass from the field.
I asked him to ask if there was a recipe, that I want to put it here.
We do not know what it is like in so many areas of the world, even at our worst, I suspect we had it better.
I cannot imagine surviving for years on grass......a day or two, that I might survive.