by: Susan Gast / Author, Blogger at Beesville Books, Bored Boomers, and a Food Dehydrating Fanatic!
Fight inflation and be survival savvy. The word 'survival' conjures up many unpleasant imagesālike surviving a car crash to surviving COVID-19.
It's a conscious thought, but we rarely go beyond anything more than just the thought.
Yes, some of us get a kick out of watching the Survivor TV show, but that's an altogether different ball game.
The word 'disaster' gets demoted to the disastrous feeling of 'our home team lost the game'āthat's a disaster?
It's 'disaster survival' in other parts of the world, from famines or mudslides and earth-shattering earthquakes here and abroad to refugees seeking safe havens.
How about:
Now those are disasters!
And we feel helplessāincapable of doing anything.
And there are the terrorist attacks in Israel. We watch from afar and really feel for all the families involved and how they're dealing with the loss of a loved one, their home, and a way of life as they once knew it.
Most of us are powerless to help them cope, right?
Let's pay attention, then, to what we can doāin our own backyards. Being able to take care of ourselves lessens the stress on government servicesāif and when that awful need arises.
My first experience of Survival Savvy after hurricanes Frances and Jeanne in 2004 was easy, I'm sure, compared to poor souls who lost everything they ownāincluding their livesāin mudslides, volcano eruptions, earthquakes, and wars. Read my brief story and see photos of how we got through the hurricanes.
When violence happens in your own backyard, you need to be survival savvy too. I can only imagine what the poor person felt like after discovering the Boston Marathon Bomber terrorist survivor hidden in his boat in his backyard. Drop the tarp like a hot potato and call for the police! He did the right thing.
Food prices ARE still rising (no doubt they always will!), and we need to offset that expense by dehydrating foods while they're plentiful, i.e. "in season."
Take ACTION to save money by baking your own bread. YES, you CAN do it too. I'm proof of it! (Pun intended).
I'm no baker, but this bread recipe is amazingly simple and yields great results every time. Click the red bread link above to see yummy photos and the link to get the MOAB (mother of all breads!) recipe. ;-)
Is it possible to save money and stop throwing it down the toilet? You bet! Save money by cutting out things that aren't absolute necessities, such as
We still haven't had a balanced budget from any presidential administration since the '90sāand yet they expect all us taxpayers to stick to a budget!
Sadly, most people DON'T have a budget, they spend more than they earn, and charge everything on their credit cardsāand wham! It hits 'em like a ton of bricks... hence all the bankruptcies across America.
People are not saving as much as they used to because prices are skyrocketing, so they've nuttin' leftover TO SAVE. It's called INFLATION. The more the government prints/spends, the less our real-life paper dollar is worth (because there's more of 'em in circulation).
The funny thing is, you may not notice it on a day-to-day basis. When you look back to only a year ago, you'll see a price percentage rise in the double-digitsāof many goods!
You may also find companies are packaging their product differentlyāi.e. same containerābut it has an ounce LESS of product in it, but sold at the same price.
They do all this in the name of stopping us from panicking and putting
"two and two together." Yeah, right. How's that workin' out? The answer is still "four."
If you need help to create a balanced budget, Dave Ramsey heads the list of folks to check out.
Take a moment to learn how to dehydrate fresh food before it spoils!
Then, check out the eBook and/or paperback below on how to use your dried food in our special recipe book.
Learn how to cook with dehydrated food. Contains over 20 Taste-Tested Recipes:
HEADS UP: I'm tryin' NOT to be doom and gloom, so thanks for taking the time to read my Fight Inflation and Be Survival Savvy page.
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