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Universal Edibility Test There are many plants throughout the world.Tasting or swallowing even a small portion of some can cause severe discomfort, extreme internal disorders, and even death. Therefore, if you have the slightest doubt about a plant’s edibility, apply the Universal Edibility Test before eating any portion of it. Before testing a plant for edibility, make sure there are enough plants to make the testing worth your time and effort. Each part of a plant (roots, leaves, flowers, and so on) requires more than 24 hours to test. Do not waste time testing a plant that is not relatively abundant in the area. Remember, eating large portions of plant food on an empty stomach may cause diarrhea, nausea, or cramps, eat it in moderation. You can see from the steps and time involved in testing for edibility just how important it is to be able to identify edible plants. To avoid potentially poisonous plants, stay away from any wild or unknown plants that have: Milky or discolored sap. Beans, bulbs, or seeds inside pods. Bitter or soapy taste. Spines, fine hairs, or thorns. Dill, carrot, parsnip, or parsleylike foliage. “Almond” scent in woody parts and leaves. Grain heads with pink, purplish, or black spurs. Three-leaved growth pattern. Using the above criteria as eliminators when choosing plants for the Universal Edibility Test will cause you to avoid some edible plants. More important, these criteria will often help you avoid plants that are potentially toxic to eat or touch. #survival

Cooking Fish Do not eat fish that appears spoiled. Cooking does not ensure that spoiled fish will be edible. Signs of spoilage are: Sunken eyes. Peculiar odor. Suspicious color. (Gills should be red to pink. Scales should be a pronounced shade of gray, not faded.) Dents stay in the fish’s flesh after pressing it with your thumb. Slimy, rather than moist or wet body. Sharp or peppery taste. Eating spoiled or rotten fish may cause diarrhea, nausea, cramps, vomiting, itching, paralysis, or a metallic taste in the mouth. These symptoms appear suddenly, one to six hours after eating. Induce vomiting if symptoms appear. Fish spoils quickly after death, especially on a hot day. Prepare fish for eating as soon as possible after catching it. Cut out the gills and large blood vessels that lie near the spine. Gut fish that is more than 10 centimeters long. Scale or skin the fish. You can impale a whole fish on a stick and cook it over an open fire. However, boiling the fish with the skin on is the best way to get the most food value. The fats and oil are under the skin and, by boiling, you can save the juices for broth. You can use any of the methods used to cook plant food to cook fish. Pack fish into a ball of clay and bury it in the coals of a fire until the clay hardens. Break open the clay ball to get to the cooked fish. Fish is done when the meat flakes off. If you plan to keep the fish for later, smoke or fry it. To prepare fish for smoking, cut off the head and remove the backbone. #Survival

https://t.me/SurviveNow/28 #Supplies To grow potatoes, place them in a cool, dark, airy area. Here, they will sprout. This takes about 1-2 weeks if you're using seed potatoes. Sprouts have stems and leaves. Once they sprout, you can isolate the stems by cutting the mother potato. Do not isolate roots! Each piece should be cut the size of an egg and be left to dry overnight. Once dry, they are ready to be planted.

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1.Dakota Fire Hole (Discreet/Smooth burning) 2.Tipi Fire (Fast setup/Fast burning) 3.Fire Torch (Slow setup/Slow burning) 4.Top-down fire (Slow setup/Slow burning) 5.Log cabin (slow setup/Fast burning) 6.Star Fire (Quick Setup/Long burning) 7.Lean Fire (Quick Setup/Quick burning)

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https://t.me/mhz1488/896 Water: You should store 1 gallon of drinking water per person per day you are preparing for. You can get away with half of this in an emergency situation, but if you’ll also be out doing strenuous activities I’d suggest going ahead with a full gallon. Don’t forget, pets need water, too: my rule of thumb is a half gallon for every 50 pounds but your mileage may vary. It may be best to record how many times you fill the water bowl in your house per day, and the capacity of it and go from there. (When you have that value, I’d multiply it by 1.5 to be safe). Water is cheap, easy to store, and in an emergency can be the difference between life and death. Personally, I like purified water using reverse osmosis. I’m not a fan of spring water but many people are. You can buy water in cases of bottles, 1 gallon jugs, or 5 gallon jugs. You can also get NEW food-grade blue 55-gallon drums and store your water there. I like a mixture of bottles and drums. Bottles allow for ease of access and ease of transport. They are also cheap enough. $50 should get you more than 12 cases of 45 16-ounce bottles (or 67.5 gallons). That’s over 2 months of water for one person, or around 4 months of water in a real SHTF scenario. Purified water comes clean, free of bacteria and chemicals (check the bottler’s quality report) and other unwanted things. It can store for a long time just by keeping it out of light and heat. When storing your own water, you must take precautions to make sure it is pure enough to be shelf-stable. The best option is to make sure the water you’re storing is pure and free of bacteria going in. This means boiling, purifying, or otherwise treating the water before it ever goes into storage. Water purification tablets work well for this purpose, but make sure you always keep some on hand for emergencies. If there is ever growth of anything in your stored water, you should throw it out. Don’t ration drinking water. If you’re thirsty, drink water. If you’re low on water, drink water then work to secure a new source of clean drinking water. Rationing food makes sense as the body can live much longer than it tells you it can without food, but dehydration happens suddenly and severely and can keep you from making further rational decisions. When drinking water from an unknown or untrusted source, use a filter like a sawyer, purification tablets, or boil the water for a full minute prior to consumption. Boiling will kill bacteria, filtering will filter out things like heavy metals and do a decent job removing bacteria, distillation will do both. Chlorination also works to make water safe to drink. Use only pure bleach, non scented, non anything. Use 1/8 teaspoon per gallon of water and let sit for 30 minutes. You’re looking for your water to have a slight odor of bleach. If not, it’s possible you miscalculated volume, or that something in your water is keeping the bleach from working. Retreat the water once more and if still no smell of bleach, find another source of water. #Water

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