Survival is not always about who may be the fittest or the strongest. Your survival may depend in part on your mental fortitude and the ability to think clearly under stress. There are also skills sets and knowledge a person will need in addition to being able to reason through a problem. You must be able to organize your time, identify, and set priorities.
You may not realize it now as you take a meal out of the freezer to slide into the oven that during a crisis all meals must be made by you, by hand from whatever raw ingredients are available. Poor cooking skills and not realizing the dangers of raw foods can endanger you and your family. It is incumbent upon you to learn how to process raw foods such as chicken, beef and other animals. Survival reality shows, for drama, may show a survivalist eating raw game or even fish with no apparent side effects. Wild game, fish and farm animals such as chicken and beef do contain parasites, bacteria and in some cases pathogens that can make you sick or even worse. The animals/wild game must be processed after the kill properly, and then the meat must be made ready for preservation and then be cooked in such a manner that all bacteria and parasites are destroyed. Cooking skills are vital.
You may only have yourself and family to depend on. Your tools may only be ones you can make yourself. This is where a need is identified and a tool or product is invented to meet that need. This is humans thinking and moving forward.
The so-called doomsday preppers believe that a disaster will soon strike knocking us centuries into the past. Years ago, families had their own gardens and farm animals such as chicken, swine and dairy cows. They in some cases milled their own flour; they smoked and dried their meats to see them through the winter. They put fruits and vegetables up in jars to last through the year. They could survive without ever going to the grocery store. However, there are things that you cannot grow or raise, but when it comes right down to surviving, you can get by without many things. You can begin gathering seeds and learning basic gardening skills. Learn the growing seasons and what plants thrive in your area.
Water is not negotiable you will need a reliable, renewable source to survive. Either you must dig a well or settle next to a lake or large enough body of water where running dry is not an issue. You must know how to gather the water and make it safe for drinking and cooking. Water cannot be taken for granted and it must always be a priority.
Gathering knowledge is only half of the process, once you have the knowledge you must practice what you know. You will need to know how to improve your home or shelter and make fires. Practice your skills, you can begin today raising your own vegetables and begin learning how to can vegetables and dry fruits.
Stress is harmful if it cannot be controlled. If you have skills, knowledge and confidence in yourself, you will not become panicked or stressed when disaster strikes. You will know what to do if you begin now to hone your skills and practice what you know.
You may not realize it now as you take a meal out of the freezer to slide into the oven that during a crisis all meals must be made by you, by hand from whatever raw ingredients are available. Poor cooking skills and not realizing the dangers of raw foods can endanger you and your family. It is incumbent upon you to learn how to process raw foods such as chicken, beef and other animals. Survival reality shows, for drama, may show a survivalist eating raw game or even fish with no apparent side effects. Wild game, fish and farm animals such as chicken and beef do contain parasites, bacteria and in some cases pathogens that can make you sick or even worse. The animals/wild game must be processed after the kill properly, and then the meat must be made ready for preservation and then be cooked in such a manner that all bacteria and parasites are destroyed. Cooking skills are vital.
You may only have yourself and family to depend on. Your tools may only be ones you can make yourself. This is where a need is identified and a tool or product is invented to meet that need. This is humans thinking and moving forward.
The so-called doomsday preppers believe that a disaster will soon strike knocking us centuries into the past. Years ago, families had their own gardens and farm animals such as chicken, swine and dairy cows. They in some cases milled their own flour; they smoked and dried their meats to see them through the winter. They put fruits and vegetables up in jars to last through the year. They could survive without ever going to the grocery store. However, there are things that you cannot grow or raise, but when it comes right down to surviving, you can get by without many things. You can begin gathering seeds and learning basic gardening skills. Learn the growing seasons and what plants thrive in your area.
Water is not negotiable you will need a reliable, renewable source to survive. Either you must dig a well or settle next to a lake or large enough body of water where running dry is not an issue. You must know how to gather the water and make it safe for drinking and cooking. Water cannot be taken for granted and it must always be a priority.
Gathering knowledge is only half of the process, once you have the knowledge you must practice what you know. You will need to know how to improve your home or shelter and make fires. Practice your skills, you can begin today raising your own vegetables and begin learning how to can vegetables and dry fruits.
Stress is harmful if it cannot be controlled. If you have skills, knowledge and confidence in yourself, you will not become panicked or stressed when disaster strikes. You will know what to do if you begin now to hone your skills and practice what you know.
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It is vital that you build up your survival skills in case of an emergency by doing such things as build uping a bug-out bag. Doomsday preppers prepare these skills in case of long term catastrophes as a result of storms, earthquakes, solar storms and/or economic collapse.
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