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 just gave Cooper some Oui vanilla yogurt - he ate it and asked for more. Who knew! Sounds like it is healthy for their digestive system just like for hours. I have a cat that has a lot of digestive problems and food allergies. Maybe I’ll see if she’ll eat some next time. Although she might prefer the unsweetened kind that I make.
Do you know how people in the past got enough salt? Like the pioneers especially in the middle of the country, where there was no salt water
Do they also need protein? I think if they’re allowed outside they go foraging for bugs don’t they?
kale, swiss chard - I can see that they might really enjoy my garden! I’ll either need to fence in the garden or fence in the chickens.
Yes, Syracuse is called the Salt City.
But you have to be somewhere where that happens.
I tried looking online for a list of high sodium veggies and fruit but did not find anything.
However there was this advice from the Cleveland Clinic about a sodium restricted diet.
If you have canned goods, especially soups, the sodium content will be higher and that will help.
But apparently it’s still going to be a better idea to stock up on salt.
It is estimated that you will need about 50 pounds a year and if you do not live next to a brine spring or the sea you have a problem.
Baking soda and Epsom salt is another thing that you should stock up in major amounts.
Our friends say that their chickens, which are free range, forage for everything.
They scratch and peck at the dirt and will eat EVERYTHING- bugs, seeds, plants, whatever.
By the time they are done with a patch of ground, it’s free of everything and well fertilized and garden ready. Weeds are hardly a problem.
Epsom salt is good for magnesium, but is not a good source for ingestion.
You have to figure out what the absorbable forms of magnesium is.
But it apparently is a GREAT fertilizer.
Why baking soda?
They bought or traded for it.
Salt is probably our oldest trade good. Not such a problem when we lived by the sea but an issue when we moved inland.
Salt was being mined in Hallstatt at least 7000 years ago.
Baking soda is a great drawing agent for infected wounds, soothes all kinds of rashes, treats sour stomach, cleans teeth and skin, cleans dishes, gets nasty smells out of clothes, works as an anti-fungal on plants, is a fire extinguisher for grease fires and a whole host of other things.
That’s great! I’ve never made it sweetened for him. Haven’t tried it on the cats. Every cat we’ve ever had loves spaghetti sauce. Weird. But probably don’t feed it to yours with digestive problems.
Did you hear this? Oh my. https://metro.co.uk/2020/02/03/animal-rights-activists-want-ban-term-pets-cats-dogs-equals-12172551/
“By the time they are done with a patch of ground, it’s free of everything and well fertilized and garden ready.”
That would be great! Looks like I might need to fence them in the garden for a while. It’s wonderful how God provides everything in nature that works so well together.
All of my recipes for cleaning products seem to use baking soda. Except my laundry soap recipe but that uses Washing Soda, which can be made from baking soda.
And it has an infinite shelf life. Not too many things have that. Sugar, salt, baking soda, honey, I’m sure I’m leaving something out. Maybe cream of tartar. I’ve stored a bit of that so I can make baking powder out of the baking soda. .
Sounds like I better store a bit more. Now that I’m finally in my permanent home, I can buy more without having to worry about lugging it around.
50 lb a year? Is that per person? Sounds like it will be great to use in bartering, IF I ever have extra. That’s not likely.
Cotton Does love lasagna, maybe it is the tomato sauce. I let her have the cheese and the sauce and take out the noodles.
Wow, That’s nuts to declassify them as pets. And my animals are definitely my furkids, super spoiled, very loved.
But I still know that they are my pets. You know this just opens the door for marriages between animals and people.
Sunflower seeds and pumpkin seeds are both high in protein. And there’s a surprising amount of protein is some leafy greens, as well. If there are bugs, they’ll eat them. They actually wiped out the Japanese Beetle population in my backyard by eating all the grubs before they could mature. They’ll also eat small critters like mice, and the more aggressive ones might even go after small snakes.
The problem I keep running into in my charts is actually too much protein. If they get too much it causes health problems. But by the time I get enough of the other macro and micro nutrients, the protein level is way too high.
The suggestions I gave will get you close to a balanced diet. But like I said, I’m still working on a better one.
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