Breaking: FRANCE BLOCKS LORRY MOVEMENT FROM UK - UK GOVERNMENT IN SHAMBLES, WORRIES ABOUT SUPERMARKET SUPPLY CHAINS

Don't worry. I am certain Gates, Bezos, Soros, and a slew of others have full pantries and their seed is being stored in some seed vault somewhere, ready to repopulate the planet.

I don't know, I almost had to LOL when I read this... are you always that funny?

GLYCOLYSIS

You almost got that right, you poser.

And BTW, your understanding of metabolical pathways is VERY sketchy.

Don't be silly. The Brits have now a new strain rampant that is even more infectious than the original one and you are surprised Europe doesn't want this in their countries?

I can see your frustration with an overpowering presence of idiots in your Coronavirus pandemic outside China thread has reached unbearable levels....

Spices.

Do you know why European seafaring nations started exploring the seas several centuries ago? Mostly because they needed spices.

BTW, even cheap tea will do if there is none at all.

Also sweet potatoes are delicious and very nourishing and they need only a few minutes of cooking in water if you slice them about 2 cm thick.

Dried raisins are very good for providing energy but also minerals.

In theory it might even make global vaccination unnecessary as it might cause a natural herd immunity IMO - if it results in antibodies protecting against the original strain as well.

THIS! ^^^

Wow. GLP....

In fact, the Brits did it to the Irish, to the Germans AFTER WW I, and in Bengal in the 30"s or 40's - and given their track record, I would be very surprised if they didn't do it in South-Africa as well.

Pray tell what is amusing about passing out from malnutrition and being close to death, FOOL?

Yes, both are items which might have been in root cellars. Fruit leathers were made by pounding various berries and then dried in sheets. Pumpkins were kept for a long time in roots cellars and I suppose so were other squashes.

Raisins and any dried fruit would be welcome treats in a SHTF scenario.

Later in summer, whole fields are full of red and white clover. Those flowers are full of protein and can be dried and added to boost soup and stews. In history, the Irish crumbled them and mixed half with flour to make bannock. That is an excellent way to stretch flour.

If you go near to a swamp, the lowlands will have cattails. The seed head can be harvested as it rippens and that is the best way to get the protein rich pollen.Most people read old ways to do this and so waste most of it as they delay harvesting and so most is gone. You don't want to shake out the pollen, but consume the entire seed head when it is ripe.

In the New World, this was routinely done by American colonists, and gave pancakes a golden hue. It saved lives too.

The cattail roots are starchy, so can be eaten,but rodents will likely be living on them. The stalks can be eaten like celery.

Our ancestors ate milkweed pods routinely and so should you.

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This is what milkweed pods look like. Any smart eight year old can identify milkweed pods. Nothing else truly looks like them.

Ordinary honeysuckle is actually a Chinese medicinal and that flower tea has many uses like treating mild pain. Hibiscus flower tea is a good remedy to calm high blood pressure. Both are well tolerated and the latter is delcious when sweetened.

When the SHTF, you will have to use every ancestral skill you can use to survive.

New people introduced to eating wild edibles presume they can live off them, when the whole reason agriculture began 10,000-12,000 years ago was you were lucky to barely survive in tiny groups as hunter-gatherers. That only worked in history as so few in a group existed and the herds migrated and were abundant. It also means premature death by the very young and very old, and most likely in winter starving time.

An expert in summer and autumn when these seasonal plants are abundant might get 800-1000 calories but you need 2000, thus starvation is inevitable. Realize that most game is very lean and you can't absorb excess protein unless you are a bodybuilder whose biochemistry changes as they are exercising muscles intensely.

YOU MUST EAT FAT when starving. That is the historical way to survive. Some people were lucky as the fish around them were loaded with fat. But that has its own issues as that makes for fatty stools. That is ordinarily a peculiar medical condition except for certain indigenous people.

And the evidence of such a claim is....?

It takes a lot of energy to walk around and locate and harvest and process and prepare wild edibles. You might expend more in work.calories than you ingest. In winter, they would sit quietly to conserve energy. only madmen waged war in winter. Typically only desperate fools went scavanging for food in winter as you would probably get a chill and get sick and were likely to fail.

This is why our ancestors had PACKED pantries as they worried about lean years and famines and blights and ibfestations with poor harvests. A full pantry with inexpensive dried food will help your family cope in a frugal way.

Here is a list of the shelf lives of various pantry foods.
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Make sure to rotate and watch for expirations and so adapt your recipes and menus accordingly. Oils go rancid faster than a novice cook supposes and degrades in flavor. If your meal is slim on nutrition, you boost is with bacon grease or oil. They won't notice and some vitamins need oils for proper absorbtion and utilization. That is like using protein powder. You add a little when you got very little nutrition. Say a child is sick. You could process some canned fruit and protein powder of some kind.

When making powdered milk, you do two things. You let it sit so develop proper texture and you chill it to improve flavor. It is missing the fat so will taste off. So some people blend it with proper milk. Some people add itto recipes so it is useful for nutrition.

A classic beginner error is letting their yeast and baking powder go bad and then their flour is useless. Flour that has expired due to oils in the wheat...tastes nasty. A good cook stays on top of this and things are getting close to their expiration so the meals change.

You don't want freezer burnt meat, right? It is too expensive to throw it away, and some might be wild game and it took a lot of work to hunt or trap or fish to acquire it.

If the power goes out, smart people get together with neighbors and fix a community meal instead of wasting it.

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If there is a running creek or along river banks, then crayfish will congregate when tree branches are above and insects fall. Or somehow edible detrius falls in. That is where a clever perwonncould take some window screen material and create makeshift crayfish trap aka crawdads or mudbugs.

Then you purge them in saltwater. Then you boil them up with some vegetables like corn.

You got periwinkles and limpets in the UK. The Irish used to routinely eat such food.

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Finding periwinkles and limpets.

Smart people would gather seawater and let it evaporate (not boiling t as it takes too much wood). Then eventually all that is left is table salt. That is a good trade item and free for the taking and absolutely essential for preserving...especially meat.

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This how you purge a creature that lives in water. It empties their stomach contents, so you toss that water, put in fresh, then boil them. With crayfish, you save their outer shells, and brew up a kind of fish stock, toss the shells and so now you have a soup base.

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This is how you make shellfish stock. Don't waste nothing.

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The people from the UK were smart survivors and harvested food from the sea like bull kelp. You use whatever you can find to save your family, while snooty people wait for the government to feed them.

The English and French ate lamprey as well. Those eels can be cooked up and provide lots of nutrients.

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Use a landing net as otherwise that wriggling heavy fish will be flipping around furiously and break the line and you will go hungry.

If you can, get a cast net as many more fish can be caught.

Nothing wrong with potato stew as for oranges I can’t remember the last time I ate one the eu is scared and they should be,leaving the eu we will only have short term damage long term we will be fine we are already signing trade agreements all over the world
The Eu manufactures fuck all start doing more trade with the likes of India Brazil and China which by the way manufactures 33% of all products worldwide
The EU is dying it’s the Soviet Union with a smiley face slapped on the front

France is going to partially resume traffic from and to UK.

French nationals, British residents in France will be allowed to enter, freight has to be resumed as well.

Don't be so arrogant. You learned something, good for you. There are people who may know less than you about survival skills but who are far more intelligent than you are.