So What does Your Other Half Think?

[Wildman]

(29 November 2012, 16:05)SealDriver Wrote: Thank you All,
Marvellous answers thank you all. What I get from other ‘Preppers’ is a strong sense of independence and the ‘Roll up Your Sleeves and Put Your Back into it’ mentality that our grand parents would have lived by. The family unit seems to be important even though the nuclear model of ‘2.5 children and Mum and Dad’ family unit we grew up with is long gone for many of us.

For the wife and I Prepping brings us together and after twenty years of marriage that can only be a good thing. Only yesterday we were watching a Youtube clip about making chutney. The chef was a Punjabi Sikh gentleman and he was making a Pomegranate Chutney, my wife started crying and I asked her why? Her grandfather had taught her this recipe as a small child along with other basic food crafts. She was so happy to see this again and it reminded of those warm and carefree days; more importantly it reminded her of the roll of older people in a natural society and the need to pass on skills.

Much of what we do together is just that, we remember what we were taught and we bring it back and use it in our preps. From soap and candle making, producing cleaning equipment and other household products to understanding what grows where in the garden and at what time of the year.

Working together empowers us and we are often surprised by just how much we achieve. It is the polar opposite of the modern world and how men and women are supposed to act in this so-called enlightened age, but as we know the modern age is deceitful and self indulgent place.

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(29 November 2012, 15:55)Wildman Wrote: she agrees that there are threats to the country that we need to adress but she dosnt think that prepping i.e food stores are the solution. she as do i believe that learning to live off the land 80% is enough. plus saving is not a possability in our lives lol so i cant say i wouldnt have say a dried food stores ect. but when i'm hunting abit more our chest freezer will be stocked up with game and fish plus i'm planning as a project to build a small smoke house at my bol and want to be smoking and drying alot of game next summer.

Hi Wildman,
Yeah that is something we are looking at too, a smoker; also a clay oven as I think unlevened bread takes less cooking and less ingredients, food can also be rolled in it and stored if you are required to move quickly.

wow! what an interesting fact! roll food in clay for a quick preserve. nice one m8.