DAC - R&R Ending

[00:00:12] To oppose tyranny and fight for the rights are created with stodas in the United States Constitution. Here are the Prepper Broadcasting Network. Hello everyone out there in internet radio land, this is Dave Jones, the NBC guy, coming to you on Saturday.

[00:00:36] Saturday after the wrap up of the ration and ruin. Did you catch that last night? I was at a Costco, not my normal Costco, and I was trying to connect. There were internet issues, but I got to listen to the whole program after the fact. I got to listen to a lot of it during, but could not add anything.

[00:01:05] And it was all about the Jonestead rations this week. And now keep in mind that we have just started freeze drying. We're still learning all the stuff about freeze drying. And so what we started with was what we had most of, and that was eggs. And we just started freeze drying them, a dozen to a tray, four trays.

[00:01:34] So, and just to see how it was, we would vacuum seal them in a plastic bag. We did not use the Mylar, it's quite a bit more expensive. And we didn't know how long we were going to leave them in there and all that kind of stuff. It was an experiment. So when rational ruin came up, we had very, very little prepared. Absolutely no calorie counts or anything like that.

[00:02:04] The only reason we knew the calories of eggs is because we could Google it and we knew we had a dozen in a pouch. So that's the whole backstory behind that. Okay. And we decided not to cook the eggs to freeze dry them because you have a little more versatility. If you want to bake with them or if you want to make something, it's hard to cook with scrambled eggs.

[00:02:30] It's also not advice to freeze dry them because they get a rubbery texture. A rubbery texture. There you have it from the boss. The lady that makes up my mind, the prepper extraordinaire, because I'll tell you, I wouldn't be doing, I would not be doing more than half the shit I'm doing if it wasn't for her. She drives me every day and I got the scars to prove it.

[00:03:00] Anyway, freeze dryers not for every prepper. How many years? How many years have we looked at the freeze dryer and kept pushing it off? Five. At least five years. When Harvest Right first came on the market and they were, they were outrageous. Now Harvest Right is not the only freeze dryer you can get, but it's the one we got because we got a scratch and dent special. I think it was $1,400.

[00:03:29] And then we added the oil free pump. If you are looking at freeze dryers, definitely if you can afford it, go with the oil free pump. Right? Yeah, it's no more work. Yeah. Because the pump that comes with it, it'll say premium pump, but you have to add oil to it and filter it.

[00:03:56] And Ryan Buford gave me that tip. He had been freeze drying way, way long time ago. He actually won his freeze dryer in a raffle. So, you know... That's false. I told you I only want free oil. Okay. Okay. But he said if you can afford to get the oil free, it's just lots less hassle.

[00:04:23] So that's an extra, what, $700, I think. No, $1,000 and some. Yeah, it's a lot. It's a lot, but it's worth every penny. Um, yeah, this is, this has been on our prepper list for a long, long time. But because we can freeze dry, uh, what else do we do other than freeze dry? We've done every kind of way you can preserve.

[00:04:51] We salt, we smoke, uh, and freeze drying was the last thing. We have done everything but freeze dry. And it's always been a price point that was outside of our, yes, we can do it. So we started looking, we got a scratch and dent thing. And then we decided, okay, let's pull the trigger on this thing. There is a learning curve with this freeze drying.

[00:05:21] Uh, and we're still learning here. So, uh, the stews, what can you tell me about the stews? One of them was beans, right? Beans and smoked pork. And the other one was, uh, chicken. Chicken, chicken and something. Chicken, the... Like a chicken stew. French brees chicken. Yeah, French brees chicken. Now, the great thing about freeze drying is, it's your food.

[00:05:50] It's exactly the way you eat the food daily. So there's no difference in taste. If your kids eat it now, they'll eat it then. Um, and you could package and freeze dry it and eat it 25 years later. I told Maria, you can make a soup and, and tell Deanna that she can give it to her kids and say, your grandma made this soup for you.

[00:06:18] So, that's, that's the one big, well, a big thing. Another big thing is it's super, super light. Easy to transport. It's, it's freeze dry. You know about freeze dry food. Uh, also no preservatives, no additives.

[00:06:37] Uh, Maria would not let me participate in the ration of ruin because she didn't want me to eat that crap food that those guys were gonna eat. So, it is your food the way you like it. That's a huge, huge advantage to store bought freeze dried food. Um, yeah, and the label and the, and the calories.

[00:07:04] Well, we didn't worry about that because we thought we were gonna eat it. And, and you probably wouldn't worry about it if you're packaging it in and putting it away for your family. Now, future Dan mentioned something that I think is a great point to bring out. You do not want to get into a situation where you're having, I mean, to ration. Okay? Okay?

[00:07:33] Because once you start, if you can't pull out of that, you're on a downward spiral. Okay? And as the intrepid commander pointed out, even if you're an avid fisherman or an avid hunter, you can't count on that.

[00:07:53] That has to come into your calculations as a bonus, as a plus, you know, to add to your menu. You, uh, don't, do not go into prepper food, uh, storage thinking that you're gonna hunt your way out of anything. Hope is not a strategy. I mean, how many times have we gone out hunting compared to getting something?

[00:08:23] I, I can't even do the ratio. But it was never a requirement. If your life depended on it, man, what stress. You'd be burning more calories than you could possibly hunt your way out of. So, that's definitely a factor. When you're looking at freeze drying, see, I can't get Maria to talk until I pause it. Ha ha.

[00:08:48] So, if you're looking at freeze dried food, in order for the freeze drying companies to make a profit, they look for the cheapest, most economical way to freeze dry the food. So, the quality of the food you're getting is somewhat questionable.

[00:09:12] Because they want to make the maximum amount of profit on the freeze drying themselves. So, that's, that's just a fact of life. Um, store bought, packaged, freeze dried food should probably be your last option. Or maybe an option when, you know, other things are not available or not practical. Like in movement. Okay?

[00:09:42] So, that's, that's the way I see store bought freeze dried food. Now, we're... It's not just the companies who do this. People. Yeah. And I am in this group which they do only freeze drying. They all go to Costco, get the rotisserie chicken, put it in the tray and eat it. But that chicken, it's the worst possible. Even the organic chicken at Costco, it's filled, you know, it has 10% water which is mixed with chlorine. Yeah.

[00:10:09] We stop getting that because each time I arrive home, they smell so terrible. We, we stop getting organic chicken from Costco so we grow ours. Yeah. So, there is no sense to go get stupid, you know, cheap food and freeze dry. And if it's to, you know, survive the end of the world, go get rice and beans and that will make a complete protein. And those they can keep forever. You don't have necessarily to have meat in a situation like that. There you go.

[00:10:38] So, we're going to do a lot more freeze drying this year than we do canning. And the canning we have, we're going to keep canned food. So, that's just our plan. Hey, let's talk about the weather because the weather has been wild here.

[00:11:00] Uh, we found out today that there's a place where you go to pick your own strawberries and they have no strawberries. So, expect food shortages going forward. This weather, uh, tell us about the weather here, mom. You're telling them. Yeah. Well, the weather has been how it's been. The freezing, the cold, uh, everything what is yellow right now in the garden, that means the roots doesn't have enough heat.

[00:11:30] That's why they will, you know, up peppers, tomatoes. So, uh, we'll get less food and some countries all over the world, they will get nothing. For example, Romania, uh, they lose everything with the freezing, which was just one week ago, and hail, which destroy everything, including greenhouses. So, they're going to import from, uh, France, uh, and Germany. So, nothing in there. But here, the same.

[00:11:59] Yeah, I think probably for the first time ever, Romania has long been a country that can always feed their own people. But this year, it may be in question. Um, so we've, we've had this cold snap. I mean, it's June, uh, tomorrow, no, uh, Sunday is June. Tonight, it's supposed to be 44. You need to have 58 degrees for photosynthesis to take place.

[00:12:28] And, uh, the amount of water as well, it could destroy my own ones. They are all kind of, uh, yeah. We had a, uh, uh, record amount of rain this past week. I mean, the other day, they said it rained three inches. Yeah. In 24 hours. That needs to be spread out to be, to be good. Now, watch us go into a dry spell. Well, that's okay. Yeah.

[00:12:57] We are doing the Eden Garden this year mostly. So that's gonna help with the watering. Okay. Explain the Eden Garden. It's a way of gardening without to use too much water. So what you do around, uh, your plants, you put, uh, chips, wood chips, uh, which will, they, uh, decomposed over the time. And they will add nutrients to the soil. Soil. But also you will not need to water.

[00:13:26] Uh, now I don't have enough with chips. So around the tomato plants, I'm gonna put straw. Yeah. And we get the wood chips from, uh, there's a company that comes up to the mountain there and, uh, chips. It's a grant, uh, that, to, to stop forest fires. Yeah, but there are a lot of companies which will deliver to you for free if you are close enough. We are quite far away. Yeah. For example, they beg you to get their chips.

[00:13:55] We, we are too far. Yeah. Uh, companies that do this, uh, chipping and, and landscaping, uh, they will come and deliver if you're close. And of course, if you donate some money to their, you know, for gas or something like that, but you can get truckloads of chips for free. You just have to look for it. Um, let's get back to the, uh, to the garden. What are you planting this year?

[00:14:23] Uh, what changes did you make in your gardening from last year? Plant more. Yeah. So we added more beds, more, uh, I'm trying to freeze dry as much as possible. Herbs, a lot of herbs. Uh, you see in this, uh, what your friends did. If they was having nettle tea, they will have survive way better because nettle tea, it's like a multivitamin. They will give you all the nutrients you need.

[00:14:53] Yes. Now James was talking about nutrients and nutrition and supplements for his family. Nettle is, uh, like a multivitamin that you can grow. You see today, I just collect the raspberry leaves. Raspberry leaves also, it's a, uh, it's a leaf which will give you a lot of, uh, vitamins.

[00:15:14] So, uh, what I do different this year, I'm, uh, I collected, uh, walnut, uh, leaves, which again, they, uh, they are very healthy. You get the powder or you make a tea. Uh, so I'm collecting a lot more herbs this year. A lot more. Yeah. And, uh, vitamin C, right? From, from rose, uh, hips.

[00:15:39] Well, I, I collected the, the petals for tea. Yeah. Uh, and we're gonna collect the rose hips in the fall. Yeah. So that's a way you can get vitamin C if you don't live in Florida where you can grow a orange tree. You can, uh, grow roses, harvest the rose hips and get your vitamin C that way.

[00:16:04] So there's all kinds of nutrients that you can get out there and you can actually grow yourself. They're more absorbable than supplements. So you need less of them to get as much nutrients as possible. Now it depends. I don't know if James has around his house, uh, dandelion leaves because you could have eight dandelion leaves and clear his liver and his system. And, uh, he ate a raccoon by the way. I told you that.

[00:16:30] Dandelion leaves and there are a lot of weeds which we think they are weeds. Uh, you can cook them as spinach. You see our garden. It was full only, uh, we did the tomatoes today. Yeah. We have tomatoes. Oh yeah, we have tomatoes already. Hey, so James is never going to live down that eating a raccoon. Okay. His dogs killed it. He cooked them up and ate it. Wow. Wow.

[00:16:59] That, that's a, that's an opportunity right there. An opportunity that I think I would save until SHTF. I'm telling you. Uh, well, we're getting ready to pull into tractor supply. I'm either going to pause this or post this. Um, yeah, you go ahead and post it. Go ahead and post it. Okay. Then PBN family. That's, I know we're going to do a big recap next week.

[00:17:23] Uh, we're going to shoot and we're going to do a whole bunch of stuff next weekend. So, uh, stay tuned for that and, uh, stay tuned to PBN. Gosh, if you've got people that you want to get into the prepper sphere, share this. I, I, we're the best kept secret in the prepper world. I'm telling you. Oh man. We are. Yeah. Okay. Say goodbye. Bye.

[00:17:52] Take care and prep on.