Growing staple food

[Lambsy]

You can grow an enormous amount of potatoes in quite a small area, and it is easy to get started.
Don't worry about buying seed potatoes. Just buy bags of your favorate non GM potatoes from the shop, and keep them in a shaded area until they go green, don't leave them in direct sunlight.

When potatoes go green they start to produce shoots. Cut the potatoes into quarters with a shoot on each quarter and bury them in ten inches of earth. Potatoes don't need rich earth to grow in, and they are the highest energy staple you can get.
If you don't need to harvest the potatoes leave them in the ground and they will produce an even greater crop next time.

The potatoe leaf is very poisonous, as are green potatoes, if you have kids don't let them chew on those.

Potatoes are a good high energy emergency food supply.

If you can't plant anything, you can store a large supply of staples and dehydrated staples.

Brown rice unhusked, contains more vitamins. White polished rice has the niacin polished off it and actually robs you of vitamins as you eat it over time. ( Just add water, and salt when cooking ) ( Store in plastic bags inside sealed plastic drums, freeze drums to kill weavels and bugs)

Barley grain ( Organic ) can be stored for a very long time, and has a very high energy rating. You can make a tastless yet very fattening porrage from boiled barley grain. Barley grain can be let to sprout, the sprouts can be eaten for a big vitamin hit. ( Just add water, and salt when cooking )( Store in plastic bags inside sealed plastic drums, freeze drums to kill weavels and bugs)

Milk powder, keeps for years and keeps kids happy for years, I lived on milk powder for the first eight years of my life, and I don't think it harmed me ( I could be wrong though ).( See how much your kids drink in a week, then stock a year or two of that.)

Oats, High energy rating, can work 16 hour day of heavy labor on a kilo of oats. ( Just add water and salt when cooking )( Store in plastic bags inside sealed plastic drums, freeze drums to kill weavels and bugs)

Flour, a pallet of flour here weighs a tonne, 6 of those will keep a family in bread for a couple of years.( Just add water, salt and bake to a golden brown)( Store flour in plastic bags inside sealed plastic drums, freeze drums to kill weavels and bugs)

200 kilos of salt. Salt you'll need to cook with ( flour, oats, rice etc )

Olive oil, 44 gallons will last awhile if you are not a deep fry person.

Tea, coffee. I grow my own, but if you can't, it stores for years.

Provided you have a guaranteed water supply, and fuel to cook, enough of the foods mentioned above can be bought in a couple of hours, that will last for years.

Four 45 Kilo LPG gas bottles will be enough to operate a gas stove for 3 years. A pressure cooker will save alot of gas, over pot boiling.

A .22 rifle with sub sonic rounds, very quiet, for cheap opportunity meat. Dog tastes very good, most cities are packed with dogs. Some dogs are quite friendly and can be called to you with soothing tones. 'Whose a good boy' works well on even the most suspicious mongrel.

If everything does point to a great depression, or huge disaster, this should last you till rapture, ( not that I believe in rapture ).

[Onesiphorus]

Thanks Lambsy , more please, i find poodle really bbqs well, if wrapped in vine leaves marinated in a herby marinade with olive oil

[canny]

I is wondering how old Lambsy really is,,, sounds like my Dad in the war
My potatoes all had orrible big holes in,, we are so wet here the slug population is never ending.

[Onesiphorus]

Hes so old hes changing his name to Muttony

[Monique]

I do think though it is important to know that all the world is in for food shortages. Like we have never seen before. At home we are about to experience a locust plague which will wipe out a lot of food crops.
Anyone can grow vegetables even if you live in an apartment.
I have seen crops of vegies in window boxes.
And yummmm they taste so much better fresh from you garden then from the shops.
But Lambsy I could not eat my dogs. We are blessed with a lot of kangaroo as you would know, now that is lovely meat and healthy too!

[Bloodbought]

I lived in my childhood in a "small Holding". a piece of ground about 5 acres and we had about 300 chickens, a large greenhouse (300 foot long) where we grew tomatoes and about one acre of vegetable plot. Chicken manure does make vegetables grow really well and taste delicious. particularly potatoes . I was going to sell of my current house with its large garden and look for somehing smaller. Maybe I should stay put and go back to growing chickens & vegetables.

[gibby]

Sometimes we get good potatoes in our garden if the blight does not set in too soon. This year, our yield was not good because our summer started off cool and wet and then instantly changed to scorching hot and drought. They did not like that at all.

[gibby]

Lambsy, this seemed like a good nutrition topic so I moved it in here. I hope you don't mind.

[Jon-Marc]

I love dogs, but there's a couple mouthy ones here I wouldn't mind disposing of if I was so inclined. One belongs to the resort owner's brother. He's very big and would make a lot of meals--the dog and not the brother. Well, the brother is very big too, but I understand human meat is very salty. The other one is a rat sized one that I hesitate to call a dog. I was told they eat dogs in Mexico.

[Lambsy]

I is wondering how old Lambsy really is,,, sounds like my Dad in the war
My potatoes all had orrible big holes in,, we are so wet here the slug population is never ending.

A beer trap works well, put beer in a can and bury it up to the lip, bugs and slugs will be attracted to the beer and drown in it. Nicotine spray kills slugs aswell.