Comments on: Your Survival Library Will Get You Killed http://preparingyourfamily.com/2009/10/17/your-survival-library-will-get-you-killed/ Emergency and Disaster Preparedness for Families Mon, 16 Aug 2010 23:04:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Rudy http://preparingyourfamily.com/2009/10/17/your-survival-library-will-get-you-killed/comment-page-1/#comment-126 Rudy Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:31:22 +0000 http://preparingyourfamily.com/?p=308#comment-126 At least you print them out ... too many people just file them away electronically and hope the computer is available if need be! At least you print them out … too many people just file them away electronically and hope the computer is available if need be!

]]> By: Lisa B. http://preparingyourfamily.com/2009/10/17/your-survival-library-will-get-you-killed/comment-page-1/#comment-125 Lisa B. Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:54:16 +0000 http://preparingyourfamily.com/?p=308#comment-125 Excellent advice! I admit I'm guilty of printing out articles, filing them, and never actually DOING. Case in point, homemade laundry detergent and firestarters using dryer lint! I have a whole bag of lint saved up,but I really need to make those firestarters and give them a try! Thanks for the nudge. Excellent advice! I admit I’m guilty of printing out articles, filing them, and never actually DOING. Case in point, homemade laundry detergent and firestarters using dryer lint! I have a whole bag of lint saved up,but I really need to make those firestarters and give them a try! Thanks for the nudge.

]]> By: Bellen http://preparingyourfamily.com/2009/10/17/your-survival-library-will-get-you-killed/comment-page-1/#comment-110 Bellen Sun, 18 Oct 2009 18:02:24 +0000 http://preparingyourfamily.com/?p=308#comment-110 Great post. Just this AM woke up to no electricity and electric company said wouldn't be restored till about 2pm. Hubby whipped out the emergency one burner butane stove and heated up leftover coffee. Then I got out the breakfast stuff for egg & cheese sandwiches on homemade (made from home ground WW) bread and fixed it on the butane stove. The neighbors had to go out for breakfast because they didn't have anyway to fix something hot and didn't even have some cold cereal!! I'd planned on using the Solar Oven for lunch, to heat some soup I'd made from a chicken carcass adding some noodles and dehydrated celery & onions. Electric came back on so I just did it on the kitchen stove. Point is - never panicked, just adjusted the method of cooking and went about my typical, lazy Sunday morning. It's all in the practicing. Great post. Just this AM woke up to no electricity and electric company said wouldn’t be restored till about 2pm. Hubby whipped out the emergency one burner butane stove and heated up leftover coffee. Then I got out the breakfast stuff for egg & cheese sandwiches on homemade (made from home ground WW) bread and fixed it on the butane stove. The neighbors had to go out for breakfast because they didn’t have anyway to fix something hot and didn’t even have some cold cereal!!

I’d planned on using the Solar Oven for lunch, to heat some soup I’d made from a chicken carcass adding some noodles and dehydrated celery & onions. Electric came back on so I just did it on the kitchen stove.

Point is – never panicked, just adjusted the method of cooking and went about my typical, lazy Sunday morning. It’s all in the practicing.

]]> By: Striker http://preparingyourfamily.com/2009/10/17/your-survival-library-will-get-you-killed/comment-page-1/#comment-108 Striker Sun, 18 Oct 2009 02:15:40 +0000 http://preparingyourfamily.com/?p=308#comment-108 Goooood post. I see this all too often. Something to keep in mind is just practicing these things doesn't mean you need to constantly be doing them. Getting a mill and grinding your flour for bread is something you can do but it doesn't mean you have to switch to exclusively eating bread made from your home-ground wheat. For instance, I like mexican food and I eat a lot of burritos... so beans are one of my main stored foods. I recently decided I needed to learn how to make tortillas from masa corn flour. I did it, they were pretty good, so at this point I'll do homemade tortillas once every couple weeks. This way I am able to justify storing large quantities of masa, and if something ever did happen, I'd have a decent working knowledge of how to make the tortillas. Another thing to keep in mind is practicing cooking using alternate means... on a campstove, etc. Something I haven't been doing, but I should. Goooood post. I see this all too often. Something to keep in mind is just practicing these things doesn’t mean you need to constantly be doing them. Getting a mill and grinding your flour for bread is something you can do but it doesn’t mean you have to switch to exclusively eating bread made from your home-ground wheat. For instance, I like mexican food and I eat a lot of burritos… so beans are one of my main stored foods. I recently decided I needed to learn how to make tortillas from masa corn flour. I did it, they were pretty good, so at this point I’ll do homemade tortillas once every couple weeks. This way I am able to justify storing large quantities of masa, and if something ever did happen, I’d have a decent working knowledge of how to make the tortillas.

Another thing to keep in mind is practicing cooking using alternate means… on a campstove, etc. Something I haven’t been doing, but I should.

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