All of our lives the industrial revolution has taught reliance not independence. RELIANCE… makes use make “store runs”. We can come in contact with things or people with the pathogen. However, if you can be EFFICIENT and INDEPENDENT, we can make fewer store runs and you will dwindle the ability to contract the pathogen.

Below are some tips and tricks that can be useful in a societal and economic crisis like the current COVID-19 Pandemic. All tips and tricks are numbered.

One trick is to get foods that are higher in fat. fat has 9 calories per gram. Carbs have 4. If you went shopping online or physically If you had 6 pounds of carb-heavy foods if that was replaced by fat-heavy foods you would have double the amount of calories. Therefore, the choice of using your limited storage for high-fat foods would last you twice as long and would be mathematically smart. On average, Americans throw away 30 percent of food bought. That’s a waste. Some of this is because food reaches it’s expiration date and spoils. The answer to that is PRESERVATION. If your freezer is full, food can rot fast. If you have vegetables, you can ferment them. By learning the principles of fermentation you can use healthy bacteria that will rot(FYI fermentation) the vegetables as a pickling agent before mold can get to it. Once fermented, add salt and spices and it can last for ages. Not a speck of mold can penetrate vinegar/lactic acid fermented products. Rather than buy or grow a vegetable than throw it away, you can store it indefinitely. Just remember, it will be sour like sauerkraut

4. In addition, you can ferment milk with store bought yogurt to preserve milk.

5. Instead of letting the green devil engulf your apples and strawberries, you can turn it into wild fermented wine. There are many guides on who to capture the yeast that floats in the air all around us, to make these beverages. However, most of the time, yeast naturally lives on the skins of fruit. When yeast has the upper hand in an aqueous solution, mold can never spoil the fruit you bought with your hard-earned money!

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6. Those who are decendents of those who crossed oceans to the land of North America whithin the last 500 years mostly are ignorant of all the edible mushrooms that grow around them every year. Yet some how we walk right by them only to go all the way to Walmart to get expensively small amounts of portabella or button mushrooms. Come on People! You remember that round thing that would turn to green dust every time you stepped on it as a kid? That is a puffball mushroom and yes, it is edible. As long as you see nothing but a solid white substance and not a baby Amanita Mushroom in a sac, you will be fine.

For meat that you can’t store in the freezer, you may worry about the fact that the meat can rot quickly. No worries, you can use homemade wine(Alcohol) or homemade kombucha (Vinegar), some salt, and some potent antibacterial spices to preserve meat for a little longer than just letting it decompose in a plastic-wrapped plate in a fridge. Also, you can dry age and make jerky as a way to save room and preserve non-frozen meats.

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The industrial revolution has enslaved us to rely on others (Companies) too much. Today, I invite you to learn and be free. So in times like these, you can live at ease. Stay home be safe from COVID-19.

7. Grow your own greens! this is very easy