Posted on 12/09/2013 7:51:43 PM PST by Kartographer
We all like to think about and imagine how SHTF will change us, but it is almost impossible to know how we will react on whole set of new things that SHTF will bring to us.
People think that it will be something like sharp cut and prompt change, like today it is SHTF and we are different people with different reactions. It would be cool, but it is not like that for most of us.
Some changes will happen over the time, and we may not be aware of it at all. One of the obvius changes (and probably most interesting changes for online community of preppers because of movies) is different relationship to violence issues, for example over the time you learn to react different to violence, and doing violence.
Other may be living with dirt and being more dirty and accepting it. With each accepting of the above you are kinda losing your old life, becoming different.
(Excerpt) Read more at shtfschool.com ...
1) Find a liberal
2) Drink their milkshake
3) Wash, rinse, repeat...
I’ve never seen them go moldy, but I have seen them go stale/leathery after a few months.
AAAAND you can grow God’s sweet treats in a garden ... sugar snap peas! Blanch with boiling water, cool quickly witrh cold water and presto, a sweet treat that’s really good for you.
Jello!!!!!!
Must have been a bad batch.
Luv sugar snap peas...
Reading through this thread has me thinking I better add to my sugar supplies!
Cans of sweetened condensed milk. After a few years it basically becomes caramel. Yum.
There are other uses like putting in coffee, tea, and with rice to make pudding.
As long as the can isn’t damaged, SCM will be good for many years after the date on the can. It does darken and thicken but still good.
Honey of course - local if can get some. Don’t forget to get some raw honey that can be used on wounds but regular honey does help with wounds if you don’t have raw.
I have a salad marinate which I put on salads, using sugar snap peas, broccoli florets, chopped red onion, bacon bits, sun flower seeds, with Italian dressing, apple cider vinegar and a teaspoon of sugar. Great stuff
We have had many such changes over the past 5 years yet most aren't aware of it. If they are aware of one or two changes, they refuse to link them together to see the whole picture.
Not if you plant some. You could have a continuous supply of peanuts with little effort.
A substitute for honey is corn cob jelly. No, it doesn’t have the healing properties or nutional content as honey but it’ll do fine for the taste. Save your corn cobs, boil them and make jelly from the juice. Of note, even doubling the pectin, mine doesn’t gel but is syrupy. Maybe letting it boil down more would do the trick but since I use it for honey then you’d want it syrupy.
When hard candies get old, they can get mushy. Use them in baking if you don’t want to eat them straight. Or melt them and let them cool and they should be back to hard again. At Christmas, the kids like stained glass cookies which is a cut out sugar dough with smaller cut out shapes in the middle and broken hard candy baked into the smaller inside holes. Make sure to bake these on foil or parchment or they’ll stick to the pan.
Eat the sugar snap peas straight from the garden. Same with tomatoes.
I bet after making the sugar from the beets, the leftover beet mush would work perfectly in the chocolate cake since it requires the beets to go through a blender. That’s a two for one. Waste not want not.
Unfortunately, I have to buy the peas from a grocery, so I want boiling water over the exterior before I eat them.
What is the actual shelf life of Twinkies?
According to snopes.com the shelf life of Twinkies is 25 days. But never let facts get in the way of a good myth or joke.
On a more serious note, canned pie filling is often available cheap. You could crumble dry cookies over it for a poor man’s cobbler.
Good information ..... Grateful. As stated we use bulk hard candy for Halloween , rotating out the oldest product on hand..... Honey is king in our storage for sweetener. Will have to try the cob jelly....sound like a treat.
Thanks !!
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