Practical Prepping Protocol even if Poor

Darth, so happy you are here! Love the cracker recipe - chia and sesame seeds so very healthy - what a great light-weight snack to carry. And imagine with some cheese! Yum!

The books sound wonderful!

There are a couple of options to improve on fuel utilization/efficiency vs an open flame such as in your skillet.


Rocket stoves can be as simple as being made from a soda can to something pretty elaborate. Here's one example - [link to prepared-housewives.com]


And then there is this soda can stove which is a different setup:
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edit - but if foodstuffs are scarce, you probably don't want to be burning your cooking oil.

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Loila, you have wonderful recommendations for us! Love the idea of a lemon tree, and the way of preserving lemons and grapefruits - never have read or heard these things before!

Thank you and hello, Coming Soon!!

You know the most amazing things, Loila! You are a storehouse of information! The net is a great idea!

Grass seeds can be ground into flour?

A person could have a huge lawn with all the grass in seed at the same time, and make a lot of flour easily! Could happen!

PTSD preparedness.
Practice positive coping skills and optimism. it's free.

And all that too! Hello and welcome, Miss Cleo! We've migrated and I'm happy to see you here. Check out OP to kind of "get it".

Wyatte was to have arrived after doing some work but I suspect he fell asleep.

My two cents on this...

you need to practice and then practice more

I personally noticed a lot when I practiced to bug out for a week last september

I thought I had thought out so many things and was going to be just fine but a month before I noticed I missed a lot and started to panic and made some urgent purchases which I do not regret but it was the start I needed

You will run into water and food problems right away so make sure you have food you like first, try it! You need to make sure you are going eat it

On water, you have think of multiple ways and not just rely on one way to have water and be able to carry all these things

This is my goal this year when I go back to camp in september

I want a better food situation and also some better tools

This Littlepixie just popped in to say thank you for the invite to this thread.
I have a few suggestions:

For burns:

aloe-vera gel straight from the plant(that's the gooey almost clear stuff found inside its plump frond/leaves).
Here is a link that supports my above suggestion:
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Please preppers, learn about the edible weeds that grow in many places.

Off the top of my head and from my own experience:

The flowers from both with and red clover are edible, the red clover is better tasting IMHO.

Within the link that follows I hope you will find many wild edible/healing plant surprises:
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And lastly, I read on this thread, someone was asking about iodine. So here is a link for iodine:
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Fruit, salt, and other thing to make thing taste better, even the jars of dried meat will favor food. Bread can be fried or made by flatting bread and putting it in a skillet and cooking it, have a good iron skillet. The iron skillet is two fold blessing it cook well if season correctly and it adds a good amount of iron in your diet.

Oatmeal can keep in air tight containers, so will dry milk, yes it works not that great a taste, it good and it can be gotten use to, a little coco and sugar put back can be a treat for children, a dash of vanilla favoring with coco mix of sugar water and coco and a dash of vanilla favoring works well.

Relax plan, know how to start, learn the fundamental of planting, it important to have some tools, you can do it by less digging if you learn how. You have to have something to put in the ground.

One other thing, you can make meals and freeze dry them and put them in dark vacuum seal containers or bags with fresh absorbent packs. You can find a way to do the freeze drying in a five gallon bucket on Youtube or could, dry ice is used a science female was showing how it works. You make your meals cooked meals, the water is what the goes away. So, have water the main thing is water if you do not have water you die. You can live without much food for a while, you die soon without water. With this done you can put them in vacuum sealed packets and have meals that only needs a water and heat for less cooking time. It also takes less water for cooking it. Saves time, water and feeds the people who going to need it fast.

Here is one good item most forget, scissors, needles and thread. I have more than enough sewing machine which can be converted to foot machine with some items that for long period.

Also that wired thing from the book I have that tells how to make batteries and get electricity, get wire, and some type of insulators.If you can find this book for yourself now, there are people who can be asked who will know how to make it, the electricians. It can be direct current or batteries. Or a converter to ac. The book is Radio Theory and Operation By Mary Texanna Loomis it in the book along with radio, the electricity was something another person had told me about, this old book had the way to do this. It could say peoples lives. Think keeping people with electricity would save a lot of people.

If I could scan it I would put it up, I do not know if it is protected I doubt it. Printed in 1925, they use this system to call from wireless radio, and this to power the batteries for the electric car stations, they had recharge stations. It is a type of antenna, just and antenna, with the directions on how to do it. Back then they said, be careful of shock, of course it something easier to understand it also free energy. I know there were books of this for sale not long ago so looking for it can, if you fine it buy it. Find a electrician to understand it.

People do not have to die from lack of there medicine. A good chemist can do formulas first find the old chemicals or what they make insulin with. What I am saying is find out how to make it, someone to make it or learn how. We when I was young had apothecaries and they had chemistry back ground as part of there training, so they made it. This is something important to it for your love ones. Also with this other about electricity is how to store it. You have a way to turn direct current into AC current it a convertor, easy to find and it DC to Ac current. Find it.

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I love disaster prep threads. It's impossible to know it all and there are so many people here with various levels of training, education, and/or experience that a person who has never thought of prepping before can come in and get a great overview in a single place.

Here are a couple of contributions, which I have probably posted elsewhere before, but it can't hurt to repeat them:

1: Disaster Psychology is just as important as food and water. It is important to recognize the emotional pitfalls of surviving a large-scale disaster so they do not overwhelm you. As one example, people tend to focus on that they *don't* have, and that increases their stress level exponentially. Stressed out people tend to make bad decisions. Getting oneself into the mindset of categorizing what they *do* have and re-purposing items to function in alternate or multiple ways is much healthier. Make sure that some of your prepping research goes into the psychology of disasters. Plenty of free information out there on that topic.

2: People often overlook long-term solutions to human waste. Even those on a well/septic system mmight eventually come to a point where they cannot use it as designed. One of the simplest and cheapest methods of controlling human waste is cat litter and plastic buckets. You will need:
- A minimum of two 5-gallon plastic buckets with resealable lids
- An inexpensive toilet seat that can sit on top of those buckets
- As many bags of cat litter as you can afford to purchase and store

When the time comes, line the bottom of an empty 5-gallon bucket with about 2" of cat litter. Place the toilet seat on the bucket and handle your business. When finished, pour in enough cat litter to completely cover the waste and seal the bucket's lid on tightly. When full, seal the bucket and move outdoors if possible or in a remote corner indoors if unable to go outside (this is where having more than two buckets is handy). If able to go outside, empty the bucket's contents into a two to three foot deep hole in the ground and cover. Do this as far away from your shelter area and water sources as possible. Then just rotate buckets. Dirt or sand will substitute for cat litter when you run out, but they won't have some of the odor control that litter does.

If unable to go outdoors for a lengthy period of time, such as a radioactive fallout situation, having a dozen or so empty buckets ready to go is not a bad idea.

You will eventually run out of toilet paper. Learn the alternative methods of cleaning up after yourself.

Great thread! I'll be following it with interest.

The peanut butter in Mre’s was so oily we set it on fire to cook on

Don’t know if posted already but this book is awesome!
I got mine at Booksamillion , eBay is much cheaper
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Great post! I will post my get home bag list in a minute, have to go through it, I travel a lot, so it's always with me.

Indeed. You nailed it.

Why would you do this?
Just make a camp fire or wood fire and eliminate all the extra stuff.
Oil is costly and not as a cheap and efficient heat source, compared to wood.

Practical Prepping means doing it simply and efficiently with the least amount of tools or equipment or supplies.

Awesome!

I mentioned Jerusalem Artichokes previously, they do NOT have insulin, but inulin. It helps suppress insulin issues. Here's an article for those interested:

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Spot on!
Pretend the water is out for a day, then live that day using your stored water having to heat it to wash dishes etc. etc. take note of how much you need to drink wash and flush.

Turn off the heat For a day.
I guarantee you next day you will be running to the thrift store to buy long johns, gloves, wool socks, oversized warm house coats, down filled house shoes, Hot water bottles, wool blankets etc. and as a sidenote I had all of those things except the longjohns but they weren’t warm enough I rebought warmer clothing because of last winter it was so cold and we had no heat. I also bought wool blankets because the acrylic blanket I had along with a down comforter was absolutely not warm enough.
And then I learned that getting into a freezing bed at night you do warm up eventually but your feet are so freaking cold you feel cold and uncomfortable so that’s when I bought the hot water bottles to put by my feet in my bed. Now I’m toasty warm at night with the heat off!



Pretend your electricity is out
Etc. etc.
It is absolutely the best way to prep!

Take good notes of the things you need then as you come across them at thrift stores or garage sales begin purchasing and stock piling things.

Yeast, and the knowledge of how to keep your own starter established and growing. Sugar and cinammon. Cinammon has many health benefits, including antiiflamatory and anti fungal capabilities. It also helps with blood sugar management.

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Dried prunes for the vitamins and to prevent constipation.
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Onion powder and bullion powders.

You can stash small bottles of water all over the place. As you empty bottled waters and jars, wash them out and fill them with water. It might be more feasible to do it this way than trying to find a place for large containers. Add a few drops of bleach or a coil of copper wire to keep it germ free.

My first little trip will be take my pack, Biolite, coffee press and chair (I have a bad back) and walk the dog, pick up some sticks. Grab some type of food for me and the dog and have coffee and some lunch.

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Pemmican is a great survival food that is light and easy to carry:

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Datrex 3600 Emergency Food Bar -CASE of 3

100% Natural
Imported
3 Packages of 18 survival bars with 200 Calories per bar, 3600 Calories per pack
Tabletized and sub packaged for ease of rationing and storage in your survival and disaster kit
All natural ingredients with no preservatives and superior coconut flavor
USCG approved; small and lightweight with a 5 year shelf life
High energy value; ready to eat; non thirst provoking

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Clorox has a web site for adding drops of bleach into water...lots of good info.

I think the ratio was 2-4 drops per quart of water.

But then YOU HAVE TO WAIT ATLEAST 30 MINUTES!!!

The bleach needs time to kill any bacteria!

Very important point!

Amazon wont be there if TSHTF - Good to know how to DIY..

edit - but if foodstuffs are scarce, you probably don't want to be burning your cooking oil.

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That is a really good point!

Cooking oil could be worth it's weight in gold (if things got bad enough)!