Month: December 2021 (Page 3 of 7)

cutting tool

combustion device

cover something to sleep on to sleep in to sleep under

container

cordage

cotton bandanas

cargo tape

compass

cotton sail needle

candling device

Based around the 10cs from the Pathfinder School packed within a 511 tactical Rush 12 which also contains a medical module and a hygiene module with a few pieces of food to last a day. This is set up to stay permanently in my vehicle in case I have to hike out.I still need to purchase a Bic lighter not being a non smoker and stock it with a few days of my personal medications in case of being stuck over night.

Cutting tools

Swiss army knife

Tops Hog 4.5

Combustion device

fero rod

Bic lighter

various tinder’s

Cover

snugpak tarp

helikon tex poncho liner

Valhalla poncho

drum liner

Snugpak SF bivi bag

container

snow peak container

stainless steel water bottle

grayl water filter

cordage

paracord

bank line

Rapid Ridgeline with 5 pegs and premade guylines

cotton bandanas

shemagh

sanitation

wet wipes

hand sanitizer

cargo tape

compass

candling device

headlamp

spare batteries

Miscellaneous

cliff bars and mainstay bars

Mini AMK survival kit

Pry bar

Escape and Evasion kit

Medical

AMK ultralight 0.7 first aid kit

Rats Tourniquet

links

Snugpak SF Bivi bag

https://www.survivalsuppliesaustralia.com.au/Snugpak-Special-Forces-Bivvi-Bag-OD?b7=z1

Helikon Tex poncho liner

https://www.survivalsuppliesaustralia.com.au/Helikon-Tex-Swagman-Roll-Ponchos?b7=z1

Valhalla Tactical poncho

VALHALLA PONCHO/HOOCHIE ACC

AMK ultrlight 0.7 first aid kit

https://www.survivalsuppliesaustralia.com.au/AMK-UltraLight-and-Watertight-.7?b7=z1

Platatac water bottle pouches

https://platatac.com/accessories-water-utility-pouch.html

Blackie Thomas the 10cs of Dave Canturbury explained

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=blackie+thomas+10cs+of+dave+caterbury+explained+youtube&t=newext&atb=v263-1&iax=videos&ia=videos

Ranger field craft and survival 10cs

Notes on Nutrition for long term storage

Proteins have two main functions, firstly to promote growth. Secondly they maintain supplies of enzymes, hormones, antibodies to regulate body functions. Proteins are made up of amino acids, approximately twenty act like building blocks. Eight of these are essential, that our bodies cannot do without or synthesis them itself.

Proteins from animal sources contain all essential amino acids. No single vegetable contains all of these and need a combination to provide a complete protein.

 Rice / Chickpeas

 Corn / Lentils

 Corn / Rice

 Corn / Beans

 Beans / Rice

 Rice / Lentils

 Pasta (Wheat) / Chickpeas

To achieve a complete amino chain with vegetables; beans, corn and squash need to be used in combination. These are also referred to the three sisters. Corn, beans and squash also complement each other nutritionally. Corn provides carbohydrates, the dried beans are rich in protein, balancing the lack of necessary amino acids found in corn. Finally, squash yields both vitamins from the fruit and healthful, delicious oil from the seeds.

Carbohydrates consist of two types 1) Simple e.g.; sugars and 2) Complex e.g.; starches. Sucrose the most commonly eaten (sugar) have no nutrients and is used mainly for taste and fast energy. Complex carbs are from potato’s wholemeal bread and flour products.

Before being used by the body must be broken down into simple sugars and absorbed through the small intestine. Then used as energy or as a reserve to maintain blood sugar levels, between meals or during exercise.

Apart from providing energy, carbs are needed to metabolize protein, so they can be used for the above functions. To release the energy from carbs the body needs sufficient quantities of vitamins. Everything is connected.

Wheat

10 cups of wheat makes 14 cups of flour

1 Litre = 1 Kilogram

4 cups per 1 litre/kilogram

60 cups per 15 litres/kilograms

60 cups of wheat should make 84 cups of flour or

42 loaves of bread per 15 litre bucket.

Rice

7.4 Pounds dry per Gallon

37.0 Pounds dry per Five Gallon Bucket

16 Cups dry per Gallon

80 Cups dry per 5 Gallons

Prepared Food Yield:

24 2 Cup meals per Gallon

120 2 Cup meals per 5 Gallon Bucket

Single Serving Size Ratio:

1/3 Cup of dry to make 1 Cup of prepared

2/3 Cup of dry to make 2 Cups of prepared

Beans, Great Northern

6.7 Pounds per Gallon

33.5 Pounds per Five Gallon Bucket

16 Cups dry per Gallon

80 Cups dry per 5 Gallons

Prepared Food Yield:

32 2 Cup meals per Gallon

160 2 Cup meals per 5 Gallon Bucket

Single Serving Size Ratio:

1/2 Cup of dry to make 1 Cup of prepared

1 Cup of dry to make 2 Cups of prepared

HEALTHY PINTO BEANS – and PEOPLE

Someone noticed that the people in one remote village (A) on the East coast of Mexico were very healthy, yet the people in another remote village (B) about 70 miles away were not healthy. Their diets were virtually identical: a little fish, their home grown beans, some corn, and a few vegetables. The soil conditions and water available for gardening were virtually identical, and the villagers used similar clay crocks or jugs for storing their harvests.

Another obvious difference between the two villages was that the first one was able to store beans from one harvest to the next, but the poorer villagers often ran out of stored beans, as bean weevils destroyed their dried beans.

The people in village A were healthy and industrious, their children full of energy, with strong limbs and teeth, ran to their tasks and games as healthy children do. Meanwhile, in village B, the people were listless, did less work, and the children all had symptoms of rickets and scurvy.

So what could make such a tremendous difference in the health of people in two neighbouring villages? After considerable study, it turned out there were two things the people of the distant villages were doing differently.

In village A, a watchful villager had noticed that bean weevils had to brace themselves against one bean in order to gnaw through the hard outer shell of another bean. So they only filled their storage crocks three-fourths full, and once a month would shake them. The shaking of the beans would by itself kill the been weevil larvae, and thus their beans would remain unharmed in storage.

Again, in village A, persons long before had noticed that beans were hard to digest, which meant that all of the food value was not being extracted from them. So they added a teaspoon full of wood ashes (lye) to the soaking water for their beans, then rinsed the beans and discarded the soaking water before cooking. The lye altered the state of the lysine in the beans, so the available amino acids were much more readily assimilated by the human digestive tract. It worked: they were healthy.

You are wondering if the researchers took those lessons from Village A back to Village B, and everything turned out just fine, like in a fairy tale, right? Well, they tried, but the B villagers said they had been growing and saving beans for years, they knew what they were doing, and something as simple as shaking their beans was dumb, and they weren’t going to put any wood ashes in their beans. Sounds like the tale of the ant and the grasshopper.

Toxicity

Before they are eaten, the raw bean seeds should be soaked in water for several hours and then boiled for at least ten minutes in new fresh water to degrade a toxic compound – the lectin phytohaemagglutinin – found in the bean which would otherwise cause severe gastric upset. This compound is present in many varieties (and in some other species of bean), but is especially concentrated in red kidney beans and white kidney beans (Cannellini beans). Although in the case of dry beans the ten minutes required to degrade the toxin is much shorter than the hours required to fully cook the beans themselves, outbreaks of poisoning have been associated with the use of slow cookers whose low cooking temperatures may be unable to degrade the toxin. Sprouts of pulses high in haemaglutins should not be eaten. Kidney beans, especially, should not be sprouted.

This is the most commonly used bean used for refried beans (fresh or canned) and in many dishes. Rice and pinto beans served with cornbread or corn tortillas are often a staple meal where there is limited money for meat, as the combination of beans and corn creates all the protein amino acids needed in a meat substitute.When it comes to making chilli, if a bean is added, this is the one typically used, although the kidney bean, black bean, and many others may also be used in other locales.

Mormon Four

1. Wheat

2. Milk Powder

3. Sugar

4. Salt

An alternative is the Kearney Diet of;

 Red Wheat

 Corn

 Pinto Beans

 Olive Oil

 Salt

A One Year Grub Stake consisted of;

 Split Peas

 Beans

 Flour

 Salt

 Sugar

 Dried Eggs

 Cooking Oil

 Coffee

 Rice

 Pepper

 Baking Powder

 Baking Soda

 Yeast