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[quote:Anonymous Coward 1110734:MV8xNTg3OTA4XzMzNDMxMzAyX0QwNDFFQzI1] Common Items to Stock, as they're not possible to acquire Here's a list of very simple cheap items that you should have in your home as they're impossible to acquire in a collapse. Salt Unless one lives close to the ocean, it's extremely difficult to harvest. It's cheap, will preserve all kinds of foods, you can clean with it, acts as a mordant, use as a gargling aid for bacterial infections, and mix with other items. It must be in your preps and won't set you back for much. Remember too, that most salt has iodine, a difficult to acquire nutrient unless one lives close to the sea. Coffee If you vacuum pack the beans, they'll last a long time. Steeping them longer in a French Press or otherwise will make you maximize the caffeine. Caffeine potentiates (increases the power) many drugs like aspirin, making the effect more intense, a useful property when you have very few medicines in your toolkit. Alternative black tea will work as it's more caffeine per ounce as long as you steep it longer than normal Baking Soda You can't make this at home. This and some tartaric acid makes baking powder for leavening. Very useful as a neutralizer, odorizer, cleaning agent, etc. Vinegar with mother in it This is a kind of vinegar with the bacteria culture intact. If you save the mother and add it to fresh material that is fermenting, then you can make more...and endless amount as long as you use it up and keep adding to it. Vinegar is essential for pickling, something you'll be doing to extend your harvest. You won't have canning lids, but you can pickle to last a bit longer. Hydrogen peroxide Impossible to make. Cheap. Perfect for first aid. The extra oxygen isn't stable so it vents off. It's a very low concentration of it truly. The extra oxygen comes off and it kills bacteria and doesn't sting as most disinfectants do, which makes it ideal for children's wounds. Don't swish it in your mouth as that's not safe and a surprising amount of tissue damage can occur. Rubbing alcohol While ethanol can be made, any alcohol is very flammable. Rubbing alcohol is not ethanol, so you can't drink it. It cleans very well to breakdown many substances and of course as a disinfectant. The distilling temperature is different than ethanol, so while it's possible, it's very unlikely for this to be made. Black pepper Pepper was used traditionally in medieval times to disguise bad tasting meat. While there are lots of things that taste hot, few things spice the same as black (or white) peppercorns. Grind it up as needed to make it last longer. Matches Can't be made, but of course you can make tinderboxes as previously detailed. Still, a good box of waterproof matches is a wonderful luxury item. Bullets Can be made, but requires a lot of chemistry to make black powder, and even then the actual shell is needed. Lots of people reload, but those supplies will run out. A real art to mixing loads to achieve velocity and stopping power. Pool Shock This substance is used to chlorinate a pool. If you buy bleach, it will lose it's chemical composition in a short time. Pool shock is cheap and can be added to water to make your own bleach. You'll use that often to treat water as a final means of killing pathogens. Even the best biosand filter kills/filters only 97%. A very mild bleach “squirt” should be added to dishwater to kill bacteria since you'll be minimizing water use. Kills the staph and E coli that are the main two bacteria that colonize meats, so you treat the cutting board area after to prevent illness. Hard if not impossible to keep anything white in the laundry without bleaching agents in a collapse. Any unusual spice you like as those always comes from very far away. Sometimes a little change in the same old beans and rice helps immensely. Wheat While wheat can be grown, it takes a lot of time and trouble. If you have a handmill, then you can grind what you need upon demand, and keep the rest sealed. As it's the only grain that will interact with yeast because of gluten, you'll never ever eat flour that is solely wheat. You'll add to it to stretch it as long as possible, then pray that someone can raise it and harvest it. A handmill is essential equipment as it takes a huge amount of time to do that by hand, and while something can be made, it can't be made easily. Antibiotics Expensive. Impossible to make. Some well meaning folks have mentioned bread mold. There's lots of kinds of useless bread molds. An incredible number of deaths from common bacterial infections will happen since there will be zero antibiotics. Animal antibiotics are very similar in composition but lacking the quality control. Canned meat While canning can happen over and over with reusable lids, most people don't have them due to expense. Hunting is an intense activity and luck is almost as important as skill. We don't have tons of game animals of any size for everyone to start hunting again. Raising livestock is a huge amount of work and investment. Canned meat lasts a long time. A little goes a long way, especially if you stock dehydrated bouillion or soup mixes to stretch it. Vitamins While many vitamins (A, C, D, K and some B vitamins) are easy to get, a lot of them are not, and trace minerals can be hard to acquire. They are water and fat soluble, which means that they are best taken with a meal that has some fat in it so that they are bioavailable for digestion. You may not have calories from food, but you probably can drink plenty of water, eat some wild edible, and then taking a vitamin, hold off malnutrition for a short period. Eventually insufficient protein will cause marasmus or kwaishikor,two different disease states that were seen in history, usually in war time. Protein powder This can be mixed into liquid, and added to any food to boost it. This means if you had nothing but sweet relish or a can of veggies or fruit, or ketchup, then you could make it into a meal. Not a healthy meal, but one that would give you some calories and protein. Some people might store instant milk for this reason to mix in the protein as well as calcium. Inexpensive soap While soap can be made, the issue is finding enough fat, as whatever fat you find on an animal will be accidentally lost by grilling, or it will be saved and used as calories. Soap is cheap, and if you buy one that's concentrated, then you can make whatever soap solution strength you need. Rice This is not easily grown. Wild Rice can be harvested from creeks sometimes if you're lucky, but it's not true rice. Rice is grown in paddies, and requires lots of manure. Most of the US is not suited for rice production. It's cheap, easily to carry, and nutritious when mixed with other items to make a complete protein. Mostly we'll be eating corn and soybeans and pinto beans as they're easy to grow in the US. Sugar While sorghum can be grown, it will take some time for that to occur. Sugar takes work to granulate. There are many natural sweeteners, but more trouble and expensive than sugar. Honey is an excellent food, but not for infants due to botulism spores. When the sugar runs out, then things will be a lot less sweet. Sugar, if we have it at all, will be made from beets. [/quote]
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There are many free homeschooling sites with pdf files. It would be great to have them just in case there are issues.
Get medications that your kids need. See if your doctor will prescribe 3 months supplies for them.
Get some presents tomorrow for Christmas. Little gifts that you could give out not only then, but throughout the year as incentives. They'll really appreciate them.
Children can thrive in the woods as long as they have calm parents. They cannot keep up with your pace up and down tails. You've got to plan adequately if you do have to walk some.
Kids are used to incorrectly using a backpack since kids at school wear them in the wrong fashion, which adds too much stress to their lower back. You'll have to reteach them how to buckle it properly and position it higher than they used to wearing it.
Try to make gathering wood into a game. Teach them as much about nature as possible. Being quiet is as important as talking.
Kids love open fires. Tell stories. It can simply be times when they did wonderful things when they were younger. They love hearing how much you love and adore them. Even teens.
Hug and kiss them often. Be generous with your affection. Lavish it on them
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