Aside from survival skills, there’s just basic housekeeping skills.
Many years ago one of the neighborhood girls, about 6 at the time, was watching me make mashed potatoes (through the kitchen door, and as I was at the stove doing them, she asked me what I was doing.
I told her I was making mashed potatoes.
Then she asked me, innocent as could be, with all sincerity, (quote) “Why don’t you make them the homemade way, in the microwave?” (I can still see this in my mind’s eye) and I said to her, “This is just a different kind of homemade way.”
And this had to be 20 years ago, easily.
So many kids these days lack any kind of skill in putting up food.
I learned to can and freeze from my mom and kept it up. Now I do canning and pressure canning and freeze what doesn’t can well.
Whenever we have turkey, I make soup out of the carcass and pressure can the meat and broth. It keeps way better than freezing it, don’t have to worry about power loss and losing the food. And any time someone wants a meal of turkey soup, I can grab a can off the shelf and throw in some veggies and *instant* fresh soup.
We could live months on what I have in my basement.
But when I tell people that I pressure can, their reaction is mostly *You can DO that?*
Exactly.
‘Santa’ brought us an Insta-Pot for Christmas. We’re anxious to give that a try. My sister loves hers and uses it a lot.