Sneaky Cooking, can it be done?

After SHTF I am gonna be damned unfriendly and unneighborly...SO DON'T COME SNOOPING AROUND MY HOUSE! The first couple of times I'll fire a warning shot or two...but that's gonna start eating into my ammunition stockpile, so eventually I'll just let the decaying corpses do the talking instead! I don't care how thirsty, hungry, cold, sick, etc. you and yours are...DON'T COME AROUND MY PLACE! IT WILL GET YOU AND YOURS KILLED...AND FED TO MY DOG OR CAT!

 

LOL! When I was in England, long ago, I remember driving by fields where farmers hung up dead crows that they had shot in their fields as a deterrent to other crows. I really don't know but apparently, it worked! I guess this is sort of the same...LOL!

 

It worked for Vlad the Impaler, an entire Turkish army came, saw and went home!

 

Anyone have plans for a food smell generator to put out there like frying French fries?
Animals should be lured in as well?

 

Frying onions and bacon would really pull them in, but what then?

 

"Tag 'em and bag 'em!"

 

The people too? OK!

 

I'M NOT LAUGHTING! NOR AM I KIDDING, JOKING, ETC.

 

Recommend the wood stove option, but if you are goinig to use propane, make sure you get heaters that are certified to use indoors (don't emit carbon monoxide). I have a couple of small Colemans that use the small propane bottles and they work great.

I have a stash of freeze dried food. Coupled with my pantry and frozen goods, I'm good for 6 months+, maybe more. During the first months of Covid gave it a test drive, and never even had to go out for a couple of months. Was giving gloves, masks and hand sanitizer to the post office and police depts in my town.

RE hiding cooking smells, others have posted a lot on that. Happy New Year!

 

Very true.

That sounds like wisdom, yet is actually utter nonsense.
I can tell you from first hand experience that food fatigue is real.
One of many examples is I've lost 86lbs in five months and yet when I finally got access to just one food... had severe food fatigue and literally could not gag it down after only two weeks of eating it. Mind you, I was still massively under weight, fainting from low blood sugar (I am neither diabetic nor hypoglycemic) and having issues from scurvy.
So yeah, it actually *IS* super important to have as much variety and make it as appetizing as possible.

Cheers Y'all.

 

Having clothing 2 or 3 sizes too big for yourself and others could fool them long enough for them to starve! Once they get weak it doesn't matter anyway. I recommend staying indoors and out of sight, conserving your energy, and shooting trespassers! YES, SHOOT THEM, BECAUSE THEY ARE THERE TO STEAL!

 

But with a wood fire there is smoke! Propane doesn't have that problem, and while I have fireplaces (one has both an insert and gas-logs) I also have two vent-free propane heaters and a couple of smaller units. There are several smaller propane tanks, ranging from #1 to #100 that can be refilled from two residential tanks.
Also, to cut wood for fuel you must go outside and expose yourself to danger, plus that expends a lot of energy! Better to use the propane for heat, if it's winter, and wait for the great die-off to remove many of your problems!

 

My dogs need to go out , need to fire up the well pump and charge the battery's if its in the winter (no harvest of solar ) .

 

Dogs might end up in somebody's cookpot, other jobs need to be done at night or be automated. Also, assets scattered over the farm might be stolen! My plan is to locate as many assets as possible in the barn or house, that way someone can guard and tend them at the same time without exposing themselves to danger. The well house would be difficult to relocate, but it is halfway between the house and barn!

 

whatever you do during those initial days post SHTF - don't tip your prepper hand - keep up the OPSEC >>> there's no way to take it back and as the severity deepens - it can get you back shot ....

best way is to keep prepping - see if you can better your hand - there'll be opportunities >>> one thing to be doing if the conditions allow - be working with the neighbors bugging out - see if you can become a legal property manager - if nothing else see about trades for the SHTF type goods they'll be leaving behind - especially if the frig/freezer foods are still good .....

 

If anyone asks about your preps, tell them that you are not that well prepared because of loss of interest, high costs of replacing food, fuel, etc., loss of job, fixed income, etc., whatever gets you off the hook. Yes, keep prepping after SHTF, as long as it is safe to do so! I'll be helping my neighbors bug out, Hell, I might even spread rumors of a FEMA camp somewhere far enough away that they will never make it back. I might even post some pre-printed FEMA flyers and fake a radio announcement. I can see the legal advantages to being a property manager, but then again possession is 9/10ths of the law.

While I enjoy varied and appetizing food as much as the next guy, the people that survive hard times are those that eat whatever is placed before them, those that don't, won't. It's been called the Great Die-Off for a reason. As I said, I eat to live!

 

I own three of these. Heat any food to boiling. Close it up and let it set. I have cooked roast, steaks, pinto beans and rice. The cooking time is the time it takes to come to a full rolling boil, that’s all. No smoke, no smell after that.

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Here's a thought ,, a few days after the collapse,, start going around to your neighbors, and start bumming food and supplies from them ,, they'll think you're worse off than themselves,, and possibly they won't be bumming from you .

 

We do that with coyotes

 

I'm part of a group of neighbors. I've lived here for 51 years and my farmer neighbors know I'm a prepper like they are. Our Czech farm community is becoming an international and Anglo urban flight bedroom community.

The new people don't know shit about us old timers and we don't know much about them.

There are a couple of threats within a few miles. Hopefully they are bug out-types for the good of all.