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Last minute tips for parents when the SHTF
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 1110734:MV8xNTg3OTA4XzM1MDI5MjQxXzJDNzM2NERG] Now is the time to learn how to cook Most people don't think of cooking as a preparedness skill. That's actually pretty foolish. Cooking is one of those arts that takes mundane ingredients with a variety of flavor, texture, spice, sweetness, saltiness, sourness, bitterness, savoriness, and combining grains, vegetables, starches, meats, poultry, fish, insects, fruit, etc and creates unique meals. When there's a collapse, much of your life will be a grind of sameness. In the midst of that, if you are blessed with ingredients and a good chef, then your food will add both calories and joy to your mundane experience. You're going to miss all the variety that we have with rare ingredients and with foods outside of season. Today we can get anything practically anything save that which is most perishable. There's not too many fiddleheads in the midst of winter, nor succulent white flesh peaches, but we have just about everything now. In a collapse, unless you prepare well with a variety of ingredients and work with your cook, then you will be devastating morale unnecessarily. You wait until there's no any fresh fruit at all until Autumn, and you'll be so glad you have canned and fruit preserves saved up. It will make a WORLD of difference. The cook that can preserve food by dehydrating, canning, pickling, etc will be a godsend. No one will mess with a good cook when the only thing that's keeping harmony is mealtime. Likewise a poor cook will be completely reviled. Most people have no idea how many steps of loving attention goes into a good meal. Because of that, it's good for anyone in leadership to understand the sacrifice. It's also good for the chef and leader to figure out how to find a middle path to make something edible and delicious by minimizing the time needed for preparation. A lot of foods are especially prepared: sauteed, braised, baked, cooked in a double-boiler, steamed, roasted, grilled, fried, boiled, etc. It will be difficult to do many of those, but clever people will eventually discover ways to vary their diet...it's that or being terribly bored. Spices are vital to your sanity. For me personally, fresh baked bread and fresh well cooked rice and beef curry are essential to my composure. I have eaten things that “would make a billy-goat puke” [see First Blood] but that doesn't mean I don't enjoy eating a fine meal as much as the most discerning epicurean. You'll note that I've tried to include what things taste like that might be unusual fare to you like wood lice or snails or whatever. That's because I've eaten a lot of unusual things. Believe me, if you're sick of eating noodles, and you miss some seafood, and you come across some wood lice, then you'll be glad that since they're crustaceans that they make a shrimp-like flavor. A good cook not only makes something delicious, they also study what components are in the food and determine the number of calories and vitamins and minerals. That's important in a collapse to ensure people are not vitamin deficient nor getting low blood sugar. They also can take a handful of ingredients that most people would scratch their head about, and make something delicious and novel. A good cook is not a miracle worker. In a collapse, the easiest thing to do is eat everything you have, and if you do that, you'll eat one boring meal after another of sameness. If you can rotate and save and have surplus, then you can mix and match up ingredients. You'll make time even when weary to catch a fish, find a rabbit, knock down some hazelnuts, etc. All of that time drying food and keeping it safe from the elements and from critters will be worth it. Please don't delay in learning this skill that is as important as making a fire. [/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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