Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
This General Chat area started off as a place for people to talk about things that are off topic, however it has quickly evolved into a community and has become an integral part of the GAW experience for many of us.
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Rules for General Chat
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ISO: Prepping books that cover alternative antibiotics, sanitizing water and anything related to being sick during a blackout, health related things you need to stock on. Also same topic but for a toddler in case of getting sick and can’t get antibiotics. We are set on food and land we can hunt if required.
Bread cook books, sour dough
I swear by Colloidal Silver, also Golden Seal, Turmeric, and aactivated charcoal for infections, charcoal will save you from food poisoning, infected teeth abcesses in mouth or gums. Don't listen to the warnings about silver turning you blue, you have to consume a lot of it daily to do that. Toddlers would only need antibiotics if they are exposed to other kids with infections, so I imagine if the shtf, you would remain isolated and safe. I had a few cases of MRE's, but I have a neighbor and friend who is off the grid and very base, and he came up on hard times so I gave them to him. I have lots of Mountain House dehydrated foods, Iodine tablets for water purification,also have a pound bag of frankinscense, another antibiotic. Bulk gauze and bandages, silver ointment, saline. Raising rabbits is good for protein, they are maybe the cheapest, you only have to feed the does pellets, the babies can be raised on mothers milk and hay and grass, then bop them and skin em and eat them. You cannot survive totally on rabbits though because they have no fat. Get a pig, render the fat from pigs, chickens, beef and save it.
Where do you get everything. Are you using tinctures or dried herbs. I have a good amount of herbs but not enough to treat people. I need books and don’t know what to by. My library and book stores don’t have good books. I have lots of rabbits at my house. They are always around our houses eating grass. I had a 1/4 cow but less now. On the list for more in March, they don’t process in the winter. Intend on getting pork from same people. I started carnivore 12/27/23 so we are using it fast. I’m always buying meat at the store. We have at creek less than a mile behind the house and can drive down if needed. That’s why I was asking about sanitizing. Probably need to get rain barrels if we don’t have any around. We usually don’t throw out stuff like that.