Rinse & rePeat
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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
-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