Prepping...

Watching Doomsday Preppers. Some of these people are interesting to watch because they are so extreme in what is going to cause doomsday. It's kinda of funny. Although some of their ideas of prepping are useful. Such as a symbiotic relationship with fish and gardens. You take fish tanks filled with fish, the eating kind, and grow agricultural plants on top. The plants renew the oxygen in the water and the fish poo fertilizes the plants. Jared has considered setting up a system like that. It sounds like alot of work to me. However, I would like a greenhouse to grow gardens through the seasons. I could start early in the Spring and continue late into Autumn. Plus maybe the dirt would not dry up so quickly in the hot Summer sun if the garden is covered.

I have become more in the prepping mood lately. It happens every now and then. I like to stock pile in food such as canned corn and dried chicken. Jared likes to stock pile in survival gear such as hunting knives and solar batteries. We make a perfect match. My Dad was a stock piler. Most likely where I get it from. I just feel the need to be prepared for anything like some disaster that keeps the food trucks from stocking up the grocery store. I live in a small rural town with one main highway. If that highway is ever cut off, goods would not make it here. We would be on our own.

Right now we have enough food to last us for a month. Well, at least me, Jared, and Celeste. Savannah and Sierra would starve instead of eat reconstituted dried chicken. They are such finicky eaters. If I can learn to make bread then at least that would feed them. When it comes to baking, I'm a bit hesitant to learn because I'm afraid of messing up. Can't afford for me to go through a bunch of flour and ingredients learning to make bread and having it turn out to be rock hard. But I need to learn someday and sooner the better. Then I can stock pile on bags of wheat flour - stock piling being so much easier.

Learning to bake and cook without an oven would be useful too. We have a fire stove that I could easily cook dinner on, but baking, how did the pioneers bake their bread using a fire? I know bread can be made in a dutch oven, at least I think I have heard it can be done. So maybe a pot with a lid could act like an oven. Then figuring out the baking time would be an issue. Okay, I'm starting to feel stressed.