Dumplings are great! Dumplings are cheap! Dumplings are high calorie and filling! (Mine do not look like this)I bought a bag (1 kg) of self raising flour today because it was very cheap (28p) and because this is something 'proper' survivalists do. The great thing about flour is that it is a dry food so a single kilo of flour can make more than a kilo of bread or dumplings.
Actualy I have been experimenting with dumplings on and off all day. There are a surprising number of different kinds. The easiest to make is something the Jamaicans call 'Jack'. This simply involves splashing some milk and self raising flour together to make a non sticky dough. Then squish it together and fry it slowly with some oil. The instructions are a bit confused but the final result tastes OK. English dumplings require self raising flour but also require suet which is bad for you. Most Jamaican boiled dumplings rely upon non raising flour which I do not have.
Dumplings are now a standard austerity food of mine- quite apart from the survival value.
English survivalism differs from the US variety in two respects. Firstly, there is no 'bugging out' to some pristine wilderness because we are a small and crowded island. There is very little wilderness to be had..JPG)
There is a movement towards slowness sweeping Europe- well hardly sweeping- this would be far too stressful, but spreading nonetheless. Most of the links are from the UK but there are probably equivalents in your own countries.
First came the Slow Food Movement this originated in Italy as a reaction to McDonald's. Italians are nationalistic about their food and the farming lobby has a great deal of clout so this was not greatly surprising. The movement became something more than a protest and became more a celibration of community and of the family. One reason families have become so fragile is that they rarely eat together and it is often not home cooked food if they do. If efect the Slow Food Movement became an anti feminist movement because families where both parents work cannot have time for the civilizing influence of good food that the movement advocates.
Next came the concept of Slow Towns. The motivation behind some of these projects may be slightly suspect. Expensive local traders often lobby to keep the national chains out of their area because they cannot compete. You will notice that the only customer in the Ludlow greengrocer is clearly a tourist. I feel a little sorry for the local consumer who has to pay tourist prices. The chief motivation behind making Ludlow and other similar towns into slow towns seems to be tourism rather than the quality of life for local people. Ludlow also takes great pride in its local food and hold a food festival each year and supports taste real food. Ludlow also has a longstanding survivalist group which takes this self sufficient ethos one step further.
We have the sublime Idler magazine with its mix of upper class anarchism, practical idling tips, humor and parenting advice in the form of the Idle parent that became a minor cult of its own. The slow movement even has its own mass movement in the form of the International Institute for Not Doing Much. I say 'movement' but the truth is they do not actually do anything at all. You may also like Early Retirement Extreme,
Feminism keeps us all running round in circles to buy things we do not need. If we ever stopped we might wake up and realize we were men and women rather than cogs in a machine. The whole movement is pro human and anti feminist without even realizing it. I support idleness! Just don't expect me to do anything about it!
All photographs are from Ludlow- the first UK slow town.
This software seems just as good as programmes I have paid for in the past. It is also regularly updated, unlike some free services.
A man was crossing a bridge to meet his future. He met a woman half way across who approached him and handed him one end of a rope. "Hold on to this very tightly" she warned "for my life depends upon it."
The liberal is often the enemy of freedom. This is not say that they are bad people. Very often they are compassionate with a real mission to help. They tend to vote for big government because this provides helping roles for themselves.
When you were about to be born, your life expectancy was less than sixty years. This is because all of the dangers of life were still ahead of you.
SITUATIONS LIKELY TO RESULT IN A BREAKDOWN IN FOOD AND WATER SUPPLY..jpg)
As a child I was a great fan of CS Lewis and the Narnia books (the Christian subtext passed me by at the time). In one of the books there was a world known as the World between the Worlds- this was a silent place, a sort of crossroads from which it was possible to travel between an infinite number of worlds.
This is part of a series of articles on 'survivalism on �1 a day'. It could also be called 'urban survivalism' because most urban dwellers do not have the space to store a years worth of food.
It is quite simple really- but not easy.
A bug in box is the common name for a box of supplies that will be useful if you ever have to hide out in your own home for a while.
Most electric boilers are set at about 90 degrees. This is far too hot for most purposes- particularly if you live alone.
Every survivalist has their 'favourite' disaster. Here is a list of my top three.
All the best MGTOW blogs disappear sooner or later. I always promised myself that I would not do this with my own effort -Carnival of Reaction but it has happened anyway.
Human beings need drama- and one of the most persistent notion is of the end of days. The story is always the same- the world is coming to an end due to the folly of the rich and the powerful but fortunately a small group see it coming. This is also the motivation behind a lot of survivalism. Survivalists often look forward to a new and more pure society that will follow the fall. This is an illusion- but a beguiling one.
Alpha mirroring is the phenomena by which a woman who is attached to an Alpha man takes on Alpha characteristics of her own. The first thing you will notice about her is her posture, she walks with an upright grace and smiles often. She is outgoing and friendly and seems not to have a care in the world.
If you live in the UK and can join Nectar you should do so. It is free and fairly enjoyable even though it has the potential to waste a great deal of time- like Facebook I suppose. So what is it? In industry jargon it is a 'cross platform, multi retailer loyalty scheme'. In normal language this translates as a loyalty card that may be used in many different shops. 
We are all nine meals away from anarchy. Once a person has gone hungry for three days he is likely to become violent.
White tea is a more delicate and smoother version of green tea. This is the famous 'slimming tea' that we sometimes hear of. It is slimming because it slightly raises the metabolic rate but tea also causes fat to be stored differently within the body.