When Walmart sells assault rifles, you gotta know that 1000 round ammo cans of 5.56mm NATO on stripper clips sold out of Costco can't be far behind.
Posted on 04/10/2012 10:01:25 PM PDT by QT3.14
I’m not sure when the tipping point occurred, but at some point recently the “prepper” movement exploded and became mainstream.
Preppers are folks who detect the possibility of calamity and decide to increase their odds of surviving it by putting aside supplies. “Putting things by” — essential throughout most of humanity’s existence — was common in the United States up until advances in transportation logistics brought about the “just in time” shipping model. Suddenly, we could get almost any supplies delivered fresh and year-round to massive community stores. What our grandparents called “lean times” became a thing of the past for even the poorest Americans.
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No more hard-tack for the troops or for any of 'my people'. My people being those under my care, regardless of race or religion.
You might enjoy (or perhaps you have already read it), A Culinary Campaign by Alexis Soyer (who promoted the improvement of field cookery during the Crimean War).
When Walmart sells assault rifles, you gotta know that 1000 round ammo cans of 5.56mm NATO on stripper clips sold out of Costco can't be far behind.
/johnny
Now if I could just find a MacBook with a hand crank on the side.....
I'm not going to pay $40US for a book that has an expired copyright. LONG TIME EXPIRED.
Forty freaking dollars, american? Are you insane?
/johnny
wood stoves either.
Amen.
Gotta tell ya, that Mountain House stuff is GOOD! In some cases, better than I can make fresh!
They have these single serving breakfast scrambled egg-bacon thingies that are superb, way good enough to get a guy started in the day.
Or get a good meal in yur gut and make you sleep well at night!
Sealed in foil/mylar, you just add a cup of boiling water and let it sit for 5 minutes or so.
/johnny
Sony?
You prolly have to have a special sun to power it ;o)
But you got something that works for you in the field. Use it. Rock on, and enjoy those crisp, clear mornings. I'll be making coffee and rolling a cigarette. ;)
/johnny
Yeah... they have a funky USB thing going on. But just on one end. The other is standard issue. So that's what gets the juice.
Cooks can do stuff like that. In my world, anyway.
/johnny
>>Prepping really took off back around 1978 when people got a real look at Jimmy Carter’s incompetence.
I read Howard Ruff in the late-70s as a teenager.
While I've always had a full pantry, my tipping point came the second McLame said we had nothing to fear from Obama. What I'd suspected was confirmed that the GOP had gone to the dark side and that was the end of America.
I grew up on squirrel and other wildlife. Most country folk probably did, too. There's plenty here.
I was in a helicopter company. Scoring ‘C’s was easy, but but getting hold of long range patrol LRP rations was real gourmet cookin’. Freeze dried meals usually loaded with Woostershire or Tabasco. Use the C-4 to cook with but do not repeat do not step on it while its burning.
The C ration cookbook came out later IIRC.
There must be something about the fat around kidneys that is special. We raise rabbits for meat and we sell lots of them to fine dining restaurants. The chefs at these places all tell me the same thing; do not clean the rabbit too well at slaughter, especially around the kidneys. They prefer that the kidneys be completely untouched and they want every spec of fat left in place.
I remove the liver, the heart usually comes out on it’s own. I deliver those pieces separately to make pate’ but they can affect the flavor of the meat if left in place for too long.
beprepared.com
I have opened many of my freeze dried foods and we occasionally use them to make something for dinner or dessert. I keep open cans of onions, carrots, celery (mirepoix), green peppers, diced potatoes, etc. I use them if I run short of fresh and sometimes, depending on what I’m cooking, I use them all.
The potato dices make awesome hash browns. When milk topped $5 a gallon, we began to use the dried stuff. We now have a cow so we have fresh all the time. I buy wheat in 6 gallon buckets and bring my own flour with a grain mill. Two buckets last us about a year so I order 3 to 4 every spring.
The bulk of our storage food comes from “beprepared.com” and it is mostly meat, chicken, fruits and veggies. That is also where I buy my wheat, rice, beans, etc. We also get food every month from “the freezedryguy.com”. As unlikely as the name sounds, they sell top quality Mountain House products. We get 2 cases every month, 6 number 10 cans per case. The Mountain House products are all per-prepared dishes that require only water and heat.
Does this stuff taste as good as what I prepare out of my garden or from store bought? Absolutely not, nothing tastes as good as that. Can you live on it? Well, I lived for 2 years on C-rats, we didn’t have MRE’s when I was one of Uncle Sam’s Misguided Children, and this stuff makes MRE taste like cheap dog food.
Regarding your chickens, have you tried putting a light on a timer in the coop over winter? Chickens respond to the hours of daylight in a day. They won’t lay like it’s July, but you might see some improvement.
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