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Isn't flour-based stuff a bad idea for survival? You have to farm it and grind it first... intensive and extensive...

ren wrote: Isn't flour-based stuff a bad idea for survival? You have to farm it and grind it first... intensive and extensive...

Depends of how you define "survival". Couldn't help myself. :laugh:

I'm thinking in terms of short term lost in the wilderness or a short term disaster of some kind not the end of the world lets bunker down survival.

I also think in terms of living self-sufficiently to a certain extent.

I am a bit of a survivalist/prepper. So I do keep stockpiles of food, meds, water and equipment in my house and in several stashes around my area. Myself, and a group I've brought together, have planned for as many WROL scenarios as possible. It's not a bad idea to do it. 1. Its a great hobby 2. Can help bond families 3. If things do go wrong, which they do, you'll have a fighting chance. It can be a costly endeavor when prepping for SHTF, but there are easy low cost ways to do it. I for one, make a lot of my own tools or equipment. Usually improvising and finding other uses for things can help in the long run. One is none, and two is one

ren wrote: Isn't flour-based stuff a bad idea for survival? You have to farm it and grind it first... intensive and extensive...

Yes, any grain is the most labor intensive food source (without machines). I've seen lots of survivalists/preppers make this mistake. Root crops are the least labor-intensive and flowering fruit-bearing crops are somewhere in between.

Effective foraging requires knowledge of what fruits are in season and being able to spot them. Most hunter-gatherer societies would forage while hunting... and if they found an abundance, stop hunting and start gathering. So yeah your best strategy would be to know everything you can about plants and then go hunting for animals until you get one or fill up on wild edibles. Next you could lay a series of traps along your foraging paths and check them while you forage.

I like Quinoa, but I'm not sure how it compares. It's a seed. I guess its physically sort of like rice but without the water requirements.

"Quinoa's protein content per 100 calories is higher than brown rice, potatoes, barley and millet, but is less than wild rice and oats. Nutritional evaluations of quinoa indicate that it is a source of complete protein. Furthermore, it is a good source of dietary fiber and phosphorus and is high in magnesium and iron. Quinoa is also a source of calcium, and thus is useful for vegans and those who are lactose intolerant. Quinoa is gluten-free and considered easy to digest. Because of all these characteristics, quinoa is being considered a possible crop in NASA's Controlled Ecological Life Support System for long-duration human occupied spaceflights."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSgiAa7NNR0

ferreire580 wrote: I am a bit of a survivalist/prepper. So I do keep stockpiles of food, meds, water and equipment in my house and in several stashes around my area. Myself, and a group I've brought together, have planned for as many WROL scenarios as possible. It's not a bad idea to do it. 1. Its a great hobby 2. Can help bond families 3. If things do go wrong, which they do, you'll have a fighting chance. It can be a costly endeavor when prepping for SHTF, but there are easy low cost ways to do it. I for one, make a lot of my own tools or equipment. Usually improvising and finding other uses for things can help in the long run. One is none, and two is one

I'm not familiar with: WROL & SHTF?

If things do go wrong, which they do

What are you expecting to go wrong?

SHTF=Stuff Hits The Fan

I think what might go wrong was pointed out in some PhD dissertation on "sytemic risk". It kinda goes like this: The larger and more complex the financial system becomes, the greater the chance that the system will break. They go on to point out a number of possibilities. If everyone goes to the bank tomorrow and withdraws their money, the banks will become insolvent and shut down. But it's much worse than that because it doesn't need something that unlikely to occur... one bad trade... one bad news event... etc.

Basically what whyte said. Also banking isn't my only worry. The syrian conflict we are about to plunge ourselves into could very well be the beginning of the end. Im not a doomsday "THE END IS NEAR" kind of guy, but I would rather not be caught off guard. Better safe then sorry. Besides, most civilizations have gone through a collapse. And we are at a point where a collapse would be catastrophic.


Also, potatoes are a magnificent root crop. They're easy to grow and hold for a long time if stored right.