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“In several parts of the world, desperately poor people sometimes eat clay, and even clay has been promoted as a health food. Almost anything becomes “food,” when people are under economic and social pressure. If these things aren’t acutely toxic, they can become part of our “normal” diet.”
-Ray Peat


With headlines warning of world food shortages, I have realized that it seems smart to apply myself to learning some survival skills ASAP! Sure I have stocked up on a quite few things, which has given me a sense of security over the years, but nights when I am stumped as to what to make for dinner in good times has made me realize I have more to do to be prepared. I need to put into practice what might be my reality in the future. So I ordered a few things today, like ways to make fire, which I intend to practice next weekend in my backyard, and some other extras that I know I would be grateful to have if disaster strikes. What I am really doing is putting some thought into what I would really cook, for possibly months or more. I thought I could eat the many lizards around my backyard, but I would rather not. So today I put my mind to it and made my first survival meal, and it was worthy of ordering in a nice Italian restaurant! Now that I know it turned out good, and it is nutritious, I will stock up on the ingredients to make it many more times! Everything I will use in my recipes, here, will be shelf stable stuff, and I will post everything I learn as I go along in this thread. If an aging blonde girl can learn this stuff than so can you!


“Poor people, especially in the spring when other foods were scarce, have sometimes subsisted on foliage such as collard and poke greens, usually made more palatable by cooking them with flavorings, such as a little bacon grease and lots of salt. Eventually, "famine foods" can be accepted as dietary staples. The fact that cows, sheep, goats and deer can thrive on a diet of foliage shows that leaves contain essential nutrients. Their minerals, vitamins, and amino acids are suitable for sustaining most animal life, if a sufficient quantity is eaten. But when people try to live primarily on foliage, as in famines, they soon suffer from a great variety of diseases. Various leaves contain antimetabolic substances that prevent the assimilation of the nutrients, and only very specifically adapted digestive systems (or technologies) can overcome those toxic effects.“ -Ray Peat
 
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Cheesy Green Bean Pasta Soup


#1 Gather the ingredients. Use water & bouillon cubes or paste if you don't have homemade or boxed bone broth.


#2 - Boil 2.5 cups water with a half teaspoons of salt. Add macaroni noodles and boil for as long as the box says.

#3 Add 2.5 cups bone broth (or the equivalent mentioned in step #1)

#4 Add in cheese packet

#5 Drain and chop up the green beans in the can before adding to the soup, or add them whole if desired, and add in garlic powder, onion powder (maybe a quarter teaspoon of each) and herb of choice, like herbs de Provençe, savory or an Italian blend.

#6 "Bloom" gelatin by sprinkling one tablespoon unflavored powdered gelatin over 2 tablespoons of water, in a small bowl, then add it to the soup. Cook soup on medium for 5 to 7 minutes more. Serve with a sprinkle of dry Parmesan and red pepper flakes, like the little packets that come with delivery pizza!
 

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Here is something I ordered today, a credit card size magnifying glass that starts a fire!
 

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Nice post Rinse! Love how you manage to weave Peat quotes into just about everything.

Not to detract from the theme here, but one of the best survival foods I've come across is honey. Buy in bulk and you can really stockpile away a ton of calories - calories that could in theory stay viable for centuries to come:

 
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Nice! I keep one of those in my wallet.


That is a great site for firestarter stuff, portable stoves, etc.
I will be carrying one too now! I saw the little stove set up in your link, which is great for being on the move! I think I will get one. I almost gave away my Weber grill, since I have only used it twice, but glad I didn’t. I figured it would make a good stovetop using wood underneath, instead of the briquettes. I saw online that other other people have thought of it too.



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Awesome thread and very timely.
 

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Various flours and dry foods (masa harina, oat bran and oats, rice, rice flour, even wheat flour or pasta in an emergency) are easy to travel with and last forever. All you need is water and heat and you have yourself a carbohydrate-rich meal that’s pretty calorie dense.
 
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Nice post Rinse1 Love how you manage to weave Peat quotes into just about everything.

Not to detract from the theme here, but one of the best survival foods I've come across is honey. Buy in bulk and you can really stockpile away a ton of calories - calories that could in theory stay viable for centuries to come:


You made me laugh out loud with the weaving quotes remark :)

I have stockpiled all kinds of stuff including honey. I have a lot of good nutrition stocked up to survive, but I realized I really don’t have much stocked to make a big variety of really tasty meals. So that is my new focus. Here is some of my emergency food, not including my kitchen pantry, refrigerator and freezer.
 

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A lot of people here are very on the edge about eating raw meat but making the switch during a food scarcity would greatly increase the efficiency of your intake. A Romanian grandma at church was just telling me how during famines everyone in the village would just start eating meat raw. It's instinctual.

Get quail or chickens now and feed them all your food scraps. In a time of famine being able to turn lawn clippings and rotten food into fresh eggs is a game changer. If you eat them raw, even better.

Not eating isn't that bad if you're getting a lot of free energy from sunlight and grounding. What is bad is freaking out. The spirit is primary before the body, dysfunction in spirit will cause dysfunction in body without material cause, during famine or now. Confront and accept death as an eventuality. Live for others and not so you can run away from destiny.

Make century eggs by stockpiling eggs and then storing them in clay. They will last a very very very long time. Or pickle them.

Get your nutrient stockpiles up and get in tons of (ideally raw) organ meats.

Buy bulk raw honey and coconut oil in bulk right now. I'm still researching for what the best sources are, if you have any suggestions for either I'd really appreciate it.

Build a root cellar for cheap refrigeration. Build it using earth bags.

All this stuff is fun to learn about and everything but I feel like things are getting better in America and we will avoid a famine. This hinges upon our repentance though, right here right now praying for those around you and changing your way of seeing things (repentance means a change of mind) can push back and or stop a large catastrophe coming to the US. Freaking out and clutching materials to yourself won't change anything.



15 And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.

16 And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully:

17 And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits?

18 And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods.

19 And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.

20 But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?

21 So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.
 
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Various flours and dry foods (masa harina, oat bran and oats, rice, rice flour, even wheat flour or pasta in an emergency) are easy to travel with and last forever. All you need is water and heat and you have yourself a carbohydrate-rich meal that’s pretty calorie dense.

I stocked up on lots of heirloom Einkorn flour and liquid coconut oil to make flour tortillas and ghee to butter and salt them ?

I bought lots of high protein pasta too, most made in Germany and Italy. They make pasta so much better. It digests better too, than American made pasta.

I have masa and sprouted oats , but I am not quite sure what I would do with them if I had no refrigeration or electricity. I will think of something though.
 

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I have also bought brewer’s and nutritional yeasts and cricket powder, The proteins were too good to pass up, 11 grams for only 2 tablespoons of cricket powder and 13 grams for the brewers yeast! The cricket powder tastes like malt.
 

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Great thread! I’ve started stocking up more seriously the past few months. I’ve included things that we don’t eat regularly such as dried beans, canned tuna, sardines, etc. We have planted some orange trees but it will take a few years to benefit from these. I have been trying to grow potatoes but haven’t had much success, yet. I’ve planted the wrong variety and at the wrong time of year. I plan on planting beets and turnips in the fall along with potatoes. I’ve had luck with papaya trees and a mango tree (both popped up on their own). It seems that plants that I don’t try to grow do best. Ha!

We bought a Berkey water filter, a rain barrel, and we have an above ground pool if water becomes a problem.

We have a gas generator to keep frig and freezer going for a short period. We’ve looked into the solar generators but the size we would need is pricey.

I would like to get chickens sometime soon.

I’m not at the recipe stage, yet. It all gets overwhelming when you consider everything!
 
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Great thread! I’ve started stocking up more seriously the past few months. I’ve included things that we don’t eat regularly such as dried beans, canned tuna, sardines, etc. We have planted some orange trees but it will take a few years to benefit from these. I have been trying to grow potatoes but haven’t had much success, yet. I’ve planted the wrong variety and at the wrong time of year. I plan on planting beets and turnips in the fall along with potatoes. I’ve had luck with papaya trees and a mango tree (both popped up on their own). It seems that plants that I don’t try to grow do best. Ha!

We bought a Berkey water filter, a rain barrel, and we have an above ground pool if water becomes a problem.

We have a gas generator to keep frig and freezer going for a short period. We’ve looked into the solar generators but the size we would need is pricey.

I would like to get chickens sometime soon.

I’m not at the recipe stage, yet. It all gets overwhelming when you consider everything!

Mango trees?!! I would love to plant one of those, potatoes too! I bought a ProPur gravity filter a few years back, which gives me peace of mind. A few months back I tested mine, thinking the filter seemed ready to change and so I put lots of put blue food coloring in the tank and it still came out clear! I bought this composter today to start making some nutritious soil.
 

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Redundancy is critical...have multiple ways to do one thing. An example being, to cook food I have a sun oven, propane camp stove and grill, isopro backpacking stoves, and a large Solo Stove (wood burning).

I have an Alexapure Pro water filter, multiple backpacking filters, and plenty of tablets to purify water.

Always remember when you get your preps in order, insects, rodents, and mold will want to get to them. Invest in oxygen absorbers, mylar bags, and food grade buckets.

Last, have a plan to defend your hard earned goods. Firearms and plenty of ammo. Place shatter resistant film over your windows, install door armor, etc. People get desperate when they are hungry.

Get to know your neighbors and feel them out. Will they be an ally or enemy? It sucks having to think like this, but better now than when you are getting looted.
 
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Redundancy is critical...have multiple ways to do one thing. An example being, to cook food I have a sun oven, propane camp stove and grill, isopro backpacking stoves, and a large Solo Stove (wood burning).

I have an Alexapure Pro water filter, multiple backpacking filters, and plenty of tablets to purify water.

Always remember when you get your preps in order, insects, rodents, and mold will want to get to them. Invest in oxygen absorbers, mylar bags, and food grade buckets.

Last, have a plan to defend your hard earned goods. Firearms and plenty of ammo. Place shatter resistant film over your windows, install door armor, etc. People get desperate when they are hungry.

Get to know your neighbors and feel them out. Will they be an ally or enemy? It sucks having to think like this, but better now than when you are getting looted.
Wow you gave me a lot think about, especially the Mylar bags with oxygen absorbers and shatterproof window film. Will that really keep someone out?
 

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