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.
Self-reliance is important; you must learn to sustain life with the most basic of tools and appliances. Once again, reasoning and thinking through the problem will help you prevail.
Gardening skills and food preservation is essential for long-term survival. Some people believe that the country is one natural or manmade disaster away from a total collapse. Some believe the disaster will be so devastating that the country will not recover from it. You will need a food source, such as gardens and raising your own farm animals. You will also need the skills and knowledge, to develop and maintain your own food source. You will have to know how to preserve meats because, without refrigeration, raw meat will spoil in a matter of hours. Fruits and vegetables will need to be dried, canned or pickled to get you through the winter months.
Water collection, filtration and purification of drinking water are vital to your survival. Disasters will disrupt a community's infrastructure and in particular your water supply. You must know how to safely collect and purify any water source. You will have to learn how to laundry your clothes and possibly even make soap from tallow and potash for long-term survival.
Once, you have knowledge you must know how to make it work for you. Apply what you know now by improving on your home, making it ready for the day where electricity is just a fantasy. You can practice by cooking outdoors for a few days to learn basic open fire cooking. Gather some gardening supplies and start tilling up a small plot for a garden. There is great pleasure and pride when you can harvest foods that you have grown yourself.
People panic because they do not know what to do next. They fear the unknown, and they are afraid of making the wrong decisions. Gathering knowledge and practicing applying that knowledge is one of the most important skills you can master.
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.
Self-reliance is important; you must learn to sustain life with the most basic of tools and appliances. Once again, reasoning and thinking through the problem will help you prevail.
Gardening skills and food preservation is essential for long-term survival. Some people believe that the country is one natural or manmade disaster away from a total collapse. Some believe the disaster will be so devastating that the country will not recover from it. You will need a food source, such as gardens and raising your own farm animals. You will also need the skills and knowledge, to develop and maintain your own food source. You will have to know how to preserve meats because, without refrigeration, raw meat will spoil in a matter of hours. Fruits and vegetables will need to be dried, canned or pickled to get you through the winter months.
Water collection, filtration and purification of drinking water are vital to your survival. Disasters will disrupt a community's infrastructure and in particular your water supply. You must know how to safely collect and purify any water source. You will have to learn how to laundry your clothes and possibly even make soap from tallow and potash for long-term survival.
Once, you have knowledge you must know how to make it work for you. Apply what you know now by improving on your home, making it ready for the day where electricity is just a fantasy. You can practice by cooking outdoors for a few days to learn basic open fire cooking. Gather some gardening supplies and start tilling up a small plot for a garden. There is great pleasure and pride when you can harvest foods that you have grown yourself.
People panic because they do not know what to do next. They fear the unknown, and they are afraid of making the wrong decisions. Gathering knowledge and practicing applying that knowledge is one of the most important skills you can master.
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It is important 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 disasters as a result of storms, earthquakes, solar storms and/or economic collapse.
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