Preparedness and you - How prepared are you for a 30 day shutdown

[line052]

I believe people need to get back to this lifestyle as best as possible. Apartment dwellings rule this out, however a real good book is called the 1/2 acre homestead. Is amazing what you can plant in a townhouse backyard, especially if you do companion planting.

Just my 2 cents-many things,from pressure canner to specialized equipment and knowledge did not existed up to 30-50 years ago,not at least in my neck of woods.
My mom would make heaps of canned everything-except meat, and we would have everything home made ,home preserved,home stored,from jam-fruits,tomato ,sour cabbage-whatever.Not only my family-half of Europe.
My dad who passed away many years ago,may rest in peace, built a simple brick smoke house,not much different size and shape as an outhouse-of course ,it was ONLY for smoking meat.He would do all our meat,sausage etc, and neighbors too,with next to no training.He would salt cure the rest of the meat/hams/slabs of bacon.Heck-my MIL (and many others)would deep fry in pig lard pork chops,then place them in layers in a big storage pot-and pour over the very same ,hot lard.After solidifying,the meat would last for months..... winter-summer,regardless.It was really juicy with all that grease enveloping them great chops..........NO CHOLESTEROL was invented at that time.

What i am trying to say is-most of that old,simple,yet proven technique is still out there,old people,old books,some Internet adresses still have all that simple,ages old knowledege.Much of that is very very simple to learn and remember,if one wants to.
It is not a must to approach everything with high tech savvy.Especially not in survival situation.

[line052]

That's a good start...lol

I have 2 years of toilet paper, I will be a survivor past 18months

[fishermccann]

I have had 2 chickens in my garage for 4 years. The egg production is way down because of their age. Started with 10-12 eggs a week , down to 2-3 between them. Can’t get rid of them because they are pets now. Silky Bantams very cute.

[line052]

During the first lockdown, I was doing twice weekly posts on the local community page (110,000 members), how to's on all thing breads, home starter yeasts, rolls, buns, cookies, cinnamon rolls, cheese, smoker, homemade bacon, locks and homemade bagels with homemade cream cheese (ricotta). I would receive 1000's comments on basic cooking posts...more then any political post ever..got a little community award. I had 10 X 902gram packs of Red Star (Costco) yeast in the freezer to give out 250mil jars to people who couldn't get yeast during shortage. My worst skill which I am still working on is pie crust and flakey dough...the perfect consistent pie crust eludes me.

Bannock or pemmican I have made, and "can" the fats for this purpose. I find saved bacon tastes the best, but for long term storage rendered beef kidney fat last longer.

I still haven't set up my kitchen and cooking gear the way I would like in the new property. To many other projects on the go..but making split pea soup this weekend. I got the kitchen Sunday - my wife has it booked all day Saturday...lol for Christmas baking..so I will be pulling more electrical wire in basement instead.

How many on here can bake bread or pie from scratch? I use to when I was in College, I had to learn as I had almost no money and friends who had left had given me a 50 pound bag of flour. I use to bake pie's etc. Not so much anymore as each kid came along I dropped doing more and more things. Although I have raised meat hens and had large gardens in the past.

Just bought a bag of flour and plan to make oatmeal bread from scratch (A family recipe) for my youngest as he doesn't remember his grandmother making it (She had a stroke when he was around 5 or 6).

[line052]

they are cute..

I have had 2 chickens in my garage for 4 years. The egg production is way down because of their age. Can’t get rid of them because they are pets now. Silky Bantams very cute.

[410001661]

I have had 2 chickens in my garage for 4 years. The egg production is way down because of their age. Started with 10-12 eggs a week , down to 2-3 between them. Can’t get rid of them because they are pets now. Silky Bantams very cute.

LOL.....my sister in law did the same thing. I told her to get new ones every year but she went ahead and named them and next thing you know she is buying eggs at Sobeys again - LOL

[fishfood]

How many on here can bake bread or pie from scratch? I use to when I was in College, I had to learn as I had almost no money and friends who had left had given me a 50 pound bag of flour. I use to bake pie's etc. Not so much anymore as each kid came along I dropped doing more and more things. Although I have raised meat hens and had large gardens in the past.

Just bought a bag of flour and plan to make oatmeal bread from scratch (A family recipe) for my youngest as he doesn't remember his grandmother making it (She had a stroke when he was around 5 or 6).

Yeah one of my kids made an apple pie last week it was so good we had her make another [emoji23].

She is doing school from home and is supposed to be making us butternut squash soup today . She made some kind of biscuit, peroges , and the pie so far with the soup today MMM .

It's great having them cook at home [emoji846]

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[greatwhite]

I generally replace my chickens every 2 years, this year I could not because the place I wanted to buy from also went on lock down.
I usually give my chickens away as there is very little meat compared to raising meat hens and they are not worth my time to butcher them.

Currently I have 5 Americanas laying bluish green eggs and 5 Marans laying dark brown eggs. I had two Guinea fowl (the eggs are pretty cool very tough shell)
but they are in the freezer now. We use to call them Yummy and Tasty. Wife doesn't know where they are. In a few weeks my neighbor will be making a dinner from them. His family and mine. Only my son and him know. Will let everyone else know after dinner.

[73hunter]

I have had 2 chickens in my garage for 4 years. The egg production is way down because of their age. Started with 10-12 eggs a week , down to 2-3 between them. Can’t get rid of them because they are pets now. Silky Bantams very cute.

Fisher, I bloody near fell off the couch when I read that. I have a new respect for you.

You ain’t so much of a snowflake urbanite Liberal after all. ����

[73hunter]

Yes, everything now is being delivered to the door, portion packaged and ready to warm n serve The younger generations don't have a clue when it comes to so many things, feeding oneself and their family is just a part of it. It's all about "I want it and I want it right now"!
Both my parents are gone, but I enjoyed it when they would tell stories of their youth growing up in the 20's and during the depression. And stories my one grandmother would tell about cooking in the bush camps as a young woman during the early 1900's. One of the best stories was about how she was praised by the men in one camp she worked at, for making "pumpkin pie" from turnips. She said she'd make 20 pies at a time and many of the men eating it wouldn't know the difference until someone told them. Compare that to one of my nieces, who at 45 yrs of age admitted last year that she has never once even cooked a turkey? I think that's a typical story of many today? Sad actually.

Your bang-on the money. In a real breakdown most will starve and this is why.