One of the greatest success stories of the people pushing back against the creep of communism and socialism is that of the Polish Solidarity movement. We are at a point today where widespread public actions like general strikes and extended mass work stoppages are the only thing that will force change. It starts with every household laying up 3 months of provisions. Most households haven’t disciplined themselves to even lay up 3 days’ worth.
"We are all waiting for multiple varieties of shit to hit the fan. Other disasters pushed climate disasters out of the spotlight at the end of 2023, allowing people to maintain the guise that these are all distinct and unrelated events.
You can ignore them or claim that they are all ‘accidents,’ once-in-a-hundred-years events, or it’s always been like this, but they aren’t going away.
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This is disaster planning that, even if you don’t want to do it, you should think about, or it will haunt you. It is probably hovering in your mind, or you will not read this."
Full article: https://rlandok.substack.com/p/after-2023s-disaster-preview
Via: https://climatejustice.social/@breadandcircuses/111822737123718382
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Discussion
I agree that is what is needed.
In fairness, it's really hard to stock that quantity of food and be able to live on it for that long. Any recipe that contains any milk or cheese gets real tough to make when all your dairy products are a month old.
"Discipline" is a good way to phrase it. Things like learning where you can use powdered milk and where it just doesn't work out right is time consuming. Finding alternatives takes a lot of effort and trial and error.
I've been collecting pantry recipies for years and I feel like I don't have enough. I guess at some point I'll have to get those into a format that I can easily share.
Even knowing how much of various ingredients to stock is complicated. How much active dry yeast do we use a month? I couldn't tell you. Would three jars be enough for 3 months? Probably 🤷♂️
We plan on moving to Grocy (open source, self hosted, recipe database and inventory management system) in the near future. That will make it trivial to answer questions of what we can make with things on hand, how much of each ingredient we need to last 3 months, and so forth. It's going to be awsome once it is all set up.
I think people need to be prepared to be on nearly a mono diet if necessary. Potatoes, oatmeal, beans, rice, and anything on 4 legs within a mile that doesn’t have a collar.
Yeah... potatoes and grains work a lot better if you don't have someone in the family who is diabetic. 😞
Lots of beans, eggs, and dehydrated veggies for those people.
