Posted on 02/26/2018 12:12:20 PM PST by CottonBall
I’ve been missing the vast amount of information on prepping, survival, camping, simple cooking, the old ways of doing just about everything – all the things nw_arizona_granny knew so much about and shared with us, along with numerous other posters with a vast array of skills and knowledge.
We have our various related-threads here, a recipe thread, a gardening thread, and even a prepper thread. They are all great and I don’t mean to take anything away from those and the hard work their owners put in.
But I was missing a place to talk about ALL those things, to get the camaraderie that we used to have on granny’s thread.
I learned how to can on those threads! The pressure canner was not my friend, I thought, but I bought one and stared at it for a month, intimidated. Then I read the directions for another month. But with the help and encouragement of posters on granny’s threads, I jumped in and now have my very own food storage room in the basement with lovely jars of shelf-stable meats, vegetables, and fruit. When we moved, I fashioned my food storage room – and insisted upon having a basement – from what I learned on her threads. Getting started gardening was from her threads. Making my own cleaning products….the list is endless.
So I thought I would take the chance and start another comprehensive prepper thread and see how it goes. I used to have granny’s ping list since I made one of the threads for her, but alas, with numerous computer changes, I cannot find it. So please pass this onto any posters you think might be interested.
We’ll just keep it running until..whenever. Granny created a new thread at 10,000 posts or so. I do like the idea of having ONE thread to go to – because often I cannot find or keep track of the weekly threads. I won’t be posting lots of recipes or tidbits myself – to any mods concerned about the size of this thread. I’d just like a place to chat, post questions, post ideas, make new prepping friends.
Here are granny’s threads, if anyone wants to peruse them:
nw_arizona_granny’s Thread #1
I would.
Better safe than sorry and it won't go to waste.
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Your dog will eat yogurt?
I forgot about that medication. I guess most pets will be doing without their annual shots. . I keep a bed of your supply on hand of revolution, for fleas and for heartworm. Heartworm is obviously the most important, our pets and even ourselves will probably end up getting illnesses that we have been preventing. With medication.
I agree, My animals are my furkids. So I’m trying to figure out how to store their food. It’s true that the dog can eat our food, I’m not sure if there’s any specific nutrient they need. But cats do need taurine. And that’s only found in Mouse hearts. And added to commercial cat food.
That’s true. Met mom, Thanks for bringing that up. There’s numerous reasons to prep, and not all have a ending of the world scenario. The coronavirus is one. I’m not going to count on people actually self quarantining themselves. I’ll just quarantine myself. In my home.
And thank you for over TIK’s repper pings.
I didn’t know farm fresh eggs lasted a long time. We’ve been considering getting chickens, but just haven’t got around to it yet. That would probably be a wise move.
Salt! It’s a simple and cheap spice, but one that most forget. Until they have to do without it. I’m going to do a thread on spices eventually, with salt being at the top of the list.
Your welcome!
I have a project that I’ve been working on here and there, to come up with home-grown feeding plans for some of the more common animals. I’m focusing on chickens first, because that’s what I have. But I hope eventually to do the same for things like dogs, cats, rabbits, sheep, etc.
For long-term prepping, I’d strongly suggest having some kind of meat animal you can raise. I know several people who raise rabbits to feed to their dogs. I’m sure cats would eat rabbit meat as well. And cats need lots of taurine in their diet, which is found in internal organs, although I’d have to check which ones.
I’m Ukrainian on my dad’s side and we used to make the Easter Eggs when I lives at home.
(I still do when I have the time)
Anyways, we’d let the eggs sit out for up to 3 weeks and they still wouldn’t go bad.
And the store bought ones are usually not fresh. You can tell by how firm the yolk is and how much it stands up. The flatter the egg when it’s broken, the older it is.
And when you think about it, a chicken sits on the eggs to incubate them for 21 days and they don’t go bad.
I do not know, however, what the half life of eggs is if you collect them fresh and refrigerate them right away, but I suspect a long time.
Salt is more than a spice.
It’s essential for survival.
You can die without enough salt and if TSHTF and deliveries are delayed, just where are you going to get it?
I know they last long past the expiration date on the carton.
I didn’t know that about the yolk, good to know.
Yeah, but that’s the category I’ll put it in since it is food related.
I don’t think salt is naturally occurring in any food, is it? Unless someone has a salt mine, You’re right, We would be out of luck getting any.
It also can be used for food preservation. But if we’re running low on salt, not a good idea as it would take a lot.
Friends of ours have a farm and raise chickens for the eggs to sell.
They got a couple geese to protect the chickens.
I guess the geese can be very aggressive and nasty and it works well for them.
Plus, I’ve had goose eggs and they are terrific.
As far as I know, celery is the only high sodium food, but it has to be in the soil for the plants to get it.
What kind of home-grown things can you feed your chickens? Cracked corn?
I have a cat that is allergic to grains. As well as the weird things they put in some cat food like blueberries and apples. And then she developed struvite crystals, and the only commercial Rx diet food for that is full of grains. So i had to come up with a recipe for her food. I use chicken breasts or thighs, depending on how much work I want to go through. Then I add fish oil supplements, calcium, vitamin D and E, taurine, B vitamins (those taste nadty no matter what i do), lite salt, chicken livers, and some form of fat. Since we moved to the South she seems to prefer Bacon fat.
Without Amazon delivering those supplements, I don’t think I could come up with a diet healthy for her. She might have to learn to earn her keep and go get some mice.
Yeah, geese can be downright mean. So they don’t have roosters?
I didn’t know that about celery. I guess I’ve never had any pre salted celery. :-) that sounds pretty good actually.
LOL, yes, he loves yogurt. He runs to the kitchen to see if I’m making him a bowl. I smash up his supplements for his joints and stir them in. It smells nasty but he’s happy, happy, happy.
He had man problems and surgery but the antibiotics caused a seriously bad yeast infection. I gave him yogurt which worked great along with a grocery store shampoo for it and Dawn dish detergent. Now, he and I swear by yogurt.
Get canning salt, too, in case you need to preserve something fast. Canning salt also lasts forever.
How is that different from regular salt?
How adorable that he loves yogurt so much! I’ll have to try to see if Cooper likes it. I have to hide his cosequin in something every night. It’s supposed to be edible but he doesn’t agree.
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