RiffRaff said: Honey, peanut butter, peanuts, jerky, and other high-protein long-shelf-life items. You do have to be careful with real juices as they can sometimes have a short shelf-life (check the expiration dates). But vitamin waters aren't a bad idea. Also, stock up on some flavored drink mixes like Kool-Aid. There's no nutritional benefit but they are cheap, and they are priceless as a morale-booster to mask the bad taste of stored water.
Most people's water supply can be extended in a pinch by doing two things:
1: Save all "gray" water from brushing teeth, washing dishes, bathing, etc. It can be recycled and used to flush toilets or for other similar tasks to extend the drinking water supplies.
2: Save all urine in empty bottles and add a drop or two of bleach water for storage. Urine can be distilled for perfectly clean and safe drinking water. Gray water can be distilled as well.
Love the snacks, which boost morale, as well as energy. Good idea to check expiration codes on juices and everything else.
There are healthier flavor mixes for water than KoolAid and all that sugar. Try some with honey.
Totally right on the gray water for flushing - always!
Urine for drinking water - not for me, thank you. That's why I have all the other stuff! I believe you about it, I'm just not willing. Not my own urine nor anyone else's.
If stored water doesn't taste great, just pour back and forth between containers to re-oxygenate and improve flavor. Also can add a pinch of Vitamin C for similar purpose, especially if purified with a form of bleach.
The nuts are such a good idea, as is peanut butter. Protein which we will definitely need for muscles, for healing, for energy.
Nice job, RiffRaff!
Quoting: Pooka urine is sterile. It is 95% water, 2.5% urea and 2.5% expelled vitamins/minerals/your body specific antibodies.
People have survived by drinking their urine when trapped by, lets say an earthquake. I remember a story of a family trapped somewhere in the middle east. The man survived because he drank his pee. His wife and daughter refused and died before rescue came.
It is a head thing. Change it as it can safe your life. Additionally, there is a medical benefit to it. People have cured diseases by drinking their urine as your body makes antibodies and excretes all it does not need at that moment. By reingesting the urine, you reingest the antibodies which are specific to your body.
Many medicines are made of urine proteins, and I remember some 15 years ago when I first read about this, there was an easily found ad online from porta john, selling their urine to the pharmaceutical companies. urine is an ultrafiltrate of blood and is not harmful except insofar as medications go as they are excreted in the urine too.
Bottom line is, don't eschew something because it's considered gross. Study it for yourself, and while you may not want to go on a urine cure...wrap your mind around it as a survival item which could keep you alive long enough to get past a crisis.
We have roadblocks in our minds that can kill us. We have to learn to break them down, go around them, whatever is needed to let you be the man who survived the earthquake and not his dead wife and daughter.
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