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Re: Prepping [Re: nvwrangler] #7051516
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Most people have enough lard on them to carry them several months.
Just lard up a bit more for a longer period.

Last edited by Boco; 11/16/20 01:33 AM.

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Re: Prepping [Re: rags57078] #7051518
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Originally Posted by rags57078
Don't forget seasonings or your food will be bland

This is more important than people think.

Re: Prepping [Re: nvwrangler] #7051519
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FYI, a five gallon bucket holds sixty pounds of honey at 12 lbs to the gallon.


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Re: Prepping [Re: Pike River] #7051520
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Originally Posted by Pike River
Originally Posted by rags57078
Don't forget seasonings or your food will be bland

This is more important than people think.


Hence the miniature Tabasco bottles in MREs.


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Re: Prepping [Re: nvwrangler] #7051522
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I wonder if white17 had Tabasco when he dined on marten.


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Re: Prepping [Re: warrior] #7051531
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Originally Posted by warrior
Originally Posted by Pike River

This is more important than people think.


Hence the miniature Tabasco bottles in MREs.

Guys would do a line of it to stay awake.

Re: Prepping [Re: nvwrangler] #7051533
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Folks here dried everything . Still do.

Ducks, geese, swans ,ptarmigan, all types of fish. Seals, walrus whale, moose, caribou are dried mostly. Just air dried, no season salt most times. Some smoked. Seal fat was oil is rendered (rotted) down and drained off.

Many of the dried foods were then stuffed in wooden barrels or now days plastic buckets. If the meat of fish was dried perfectly it could be packed tight and keep for a year or more.
Some buckets of meat/fish are topped off with seal oil, and that preserves the meat and fish as well.

Buckets of salted fish are put away, salted ducks and geese as well.

I keep a garden, and a net for fishing set mostly year round.

Waterfowl eggs are gathered and frozen. I keep my own chickens ,quail, for eggs, bees for honey.

Berries are gathered buy the bucketful here and frozen. The old way was to add sugar to the barrel and that preserved it.

Some hunt for mouse nest and gather/ steal their food. they call it mouse nuts.

Almost everything is eaten here. beavers, porcupines, otter mink and muskrats.

Freezers are packed with wild meat and fish by fall time for winter.

No "trash fish" here. They are all eaten from biggest to smallest.

Re: Prepping [Re: nvwrangler] #7051644
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learn how the natives in your area foraged and practice it when things are in season . Survival knoledge cant be stollen or ruined in a natural disaster Make sure you have equipment and supplies to can everything in your freezer Lots of water and a plan for purifacation 5000 galons would not be to much .

Re: Prepping [Re: nvwrangler] #7051654
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Around here much is now row crops. Not much foraging of native plants. What there is will be gone quickly


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Re: Prepping [Re: Boco] #7051782
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Originally Posted by Boco
Most people have enough lard on them to carry them several months.
Just lard up a bit more for a longer period.


Oh man! I have enough to last me for years. I'm no longer going to refer to myself as a Fat Guy.......I am a survival/prepper MASTER!!


Re: Prepping [Re: nvwrangler] #7051797
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Build an ice house like the Amish,
get sawdust from Amish sawmill, cut ice in winter on the pond next to my home, pack ice in sawdust in the ice house. No gasoline, propane, or electricity needed, except to make the sawdust.

Last edited by Squash; 11/16/20 12:26 PM.
Re: Prepping [Re: nvwrangler] #7051850
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Originally Posted by nvwrangler
I told my wife we should buy a beer making kit just incase and she said she was way more worried id run out of Copenhagen lol


Lol, that’s the same thing my wife said.

We keep a solid month worth of the necessities (food stuff, meds and hygiene items) I can only store about a weeks worth of fuel for the generator. Sometime by spring we’re going to get a generator that runs on propane like nvwrangler mentioned and sell the gas one. As far as ammo, I’ve got enough arrows to last even if I do some target practice, and if I owned a gun I would probably have plenty and maybe even all the fixin’s to reload more.


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Re: Prepping [Re: danny clifton] #7052074
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Originally Posted by danny clifton
Around here much is now row crops. Not much foraging of native plants. What there is will be gone quickly

If th crap ever realy hit the fan im fairly certain that it would take the masses awhile to figure out that stinging nettles are one of the most nutritious plants there is or pigweed ,lambsquarter ,and wild mustard make good greens . Day lillies and wild violets. are great sources of vitamin C . its much better to learn when your fat and sassy . It all goes together every calorie and nutrient you source from your environment is one you didnt remove from your stores .

Just like making a fire from scratch , no matches or flint if you dont practice it a few times you will be in for a surprise when you do . Many people have died from exposure or disentary while they were trying to figure it out . I dont think most of the folks on this forum would get more than some smoke and some blisters their first day trying .

Re: Prepping [Re: nvwrangler] #7052125
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All kinds of great medicine in the bush.


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Re: Prepping [Re: Squash] #7052130
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Originally Posted by Squash
Build an ice house like the Amish,
get sawdust from Amish sawmill, cut ice in winter on the pond next to my home, pack ice in sawdust in the ice house. No gasoline, propane, or electricity needed, except to make the sawdust.

Funny,,I just bought me an ice saw a couple months ago at a yard sale.Saw is like NEW. grin I figured it would be a nice compliment to the Old Timey Ice Box Fridge I got too.OOhhhh yea.

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Re: Prepping [Re: nvwrangler] #7052320
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We have some dry goods in sealed containers: rice, beans, peas, flour, pasta, etc. I don't really think we'll ever need it but it would put something in our stomach for a few months if food was absolutely cut off. We can hunt or trap to supplement those. We also have a small garden every year but could step that way up if needed. But that is our emergency preps which we hope to never need or use.

We also keep several weeks of short term preps on hand. Chest freezer is always full of the normal frozen stuff we normally use for meals. We stock the kitchen freezer from our chest freezer and shop to fill the chest freezer. That keeps food rotated so it gets used before it goes bad.

And we have a pantry full of cans, jars, and dry goods that we use regularly. We just keep more on hand than most people.

If we were cut off, I estimate we could go a month before we notice, a couple of more weeks before it got uncomfortable, and we could go six months before we got hungry - we just wouldn't enjoy mealtime very much near the end.


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Re: Prepping [Re: nvwrangler] #7052347
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This picture illustrates the extent of my prepping. Brown rice and pinto beans plus a little snare wire is the extent of my prepping. If you can't do it on this, you are a goner anyway.
This should get me through a month or so, until the rest of the problems have weeded themselves out. No need for thousands of rounds of ammunition, just keep a low profile.
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Originally Posted by waggler
This picture illustrates the extent of my prepping. Brown rice and pinto beans plus a little snare wire is the extent of my prepping. If you can't do it on this, you are a goner anyway.
This should get me through a month or so, until the rest of the problems have weeded themselves out. No need for thousands of rounds of ammunition, just keep a low profile.
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Re: Prepping [Re: nvwrangler] #7052553
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Rats and beans sounds good smile

I put away a jar of eggs today. Hens laying more than I need and good to have some stashed for when they quit. Or get killed.

They keep up and over a year and taste great. Cant use store bought eggs though, they are washed.

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Re: Prepping [Re: yukonjeff] #7052557
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Originally Posted by yukonjeff
Rats and beans sounds good smile

I put away a jar of eggs today. Hens laying more than I need and good to have some stashed for when they quit. Or get killed.

They keep up and over a year and taste great. Cant use store bought eggs though, they are washed.

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Jeff are those pickled with the shell on?


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