Make fun of me if you want but I made my first purchase of a month's worth of freeze dried food.
I jumped on the survival band wagon. I'm not planning on a utter breakdown, but on a civil disruption where things will be real bad for a few months. Certainly I doubt that I am discerning enough to see any kind of collapse like this coming in time to make it to a mountain cabin.
so I will likely be stuck in a city. and there may be time to hit the store. likely the cans of chili will be gone, and all the bread. But I did pick up something that won't be the first to be snapped off the shelf.
Four bean with seasonings soup mix. 99 cents. It comes in the same plastic tube packaging that spaghetti comes in. There is a packet of dry powder, and four kinds of beans, none of which I am familiar with.
The directions say to bring a pot (7 cups) of water to a boil and simmer on low heat for two hours. add the seasonings in the last 10 minutes.
There is just no way I'm gonna watch a pot for two hours. especially with Zombies poking about. So here is the survival part. I'm gonna drop the beans in cold water like overnight add the mix when it looks ready, and nuke it till its good and hot.
If your in your car buggin outa town, its the kinda thing you could toss together and forget until you are hungry. Sure it will be a cold soup, but its food.
what do ya think, will it work? has anyone ever bypassed cooking time like this?
I'll be trying this over the weekend, so I will give you the results. But I post this to get any advice you can give me. believe me...I need good advice.
Oh, one other question. anyone try this making cold rice?
Raised my kids on 4-5 6-7 8-9 bean soup Throw into a big pot, bring to a boil shut off the heat and wait one hour.
The seasoning pack is dehydrated ham, you can make this at home and when hard place in a blender and grind into a power that is the exact same of a seasoning pack.
Those bags of bean mixes with seasoning cost 2-3 times of the individual bags of beans. Experiment and make your own. ----------Throw a 1/4 cup of beans into a blender, 1/4 cup of different beans, turn the machine on to grind and stand back, pulse the sucker if you must until you have a fine meal of beans. Cooks faster then the whole bean and the fiber you get keeps you regular for days at a time.
Throw in some dehydrated onions and garlic, salt and pepper , Pack in a food saver vacuum bag and do so for dehydrated ham in separated packing's.
Cook this stuff until it is mush then add more water and add a spoonful of the ham stuff, add a potato or a bit of carrot and dinner is done in 30 minutes. No potato or carrot, no problem, bring along some bread crumbs to add , You have your protein, and carobs, add some dandelion greens to the pot.
When life is at stake who worries about the taste of food, one just needs food regardless of the taste and is greatfull to get it.
Panama as I was was a kid watched the street people cook raw rice in oil then add water to finish the cooking. These were the street people that lived in 100 gallon drums for shelter, if they were lucky.
When the Zombies hit there is no choice but to understand their thinking in order to survive yourself. Check them out on how they survived and take a page out of their history as to how you survive among them.
Shit when all goes to hell and we of the tecnology age have to face life as we never knew it, time to look back on all things from cooking, building shelter and surviving as did generations ago. Until technology can come back in our lives this will be a fight between those that have it and those that don't.
So far the enemy living back in the stone age has managed to somehow buy technology from advanced civilisations and are facing us down. They have our technology to use as a threat to others. Their people have yet to see a flush toilet or a Microwave.
Get a set of the Fox Fire books that instruct people on how to live as they did in the 1800 and survive, use what technology still available today to intergrate all learning and insure your children and grandchildren can live FREE.
I am so glad I am an old lady in these times, the future of my family is way too horrible for me to contemplate.
BTW check into the Warsaw Ghetto that had people that planned ahead for the German Occupation. They had food and weapons stored secret bunkers built and made the mistake of talking about it to their friends and Rabies.
Just a little bit of torture can expose even family members. We cannot be surprised at what pulling the toe nails out of an 5 year old will cause the parents to say, who whey will inform on, who will they expose just to save the child.
Do as you must for the future but be very careful what you say and to those you say it to. This is a one mans or woman's problem to save the family or selves. Were I to know of land to build a bunker on, last thing I would do is to tell anyone. Yes I would ask advice on many things for survival but it would be in a round about way, don't want a 7 year old to go to school and tell friends his Dad is building a shelter.
