Post-Collapse Survival, "7" & comments

The 7th installment of Post-Collapse Survival is now available over at the Access To Destiny blog.

Here are a couple of random ideas that this series has evoked:

1) At my suggestion, my wife bought some lentils this week. We need to buy them in bulk, to store. It's not that I'm fond of lentil soup or cooked lentils of any kind -- I'm not.

The reason she bought them is that they are very easy to sprout, and sprouts are good for you. If, for any reason you cannot get fresh vegetables, you can sprout some lentils. You can supply yourself with fresh veggies this way, even in an apartment in the city.

You get the most enzymes from sprouts before they turn green. But the greens are good for you as well. I plan to let some start to push out those tiny, tender green leaves to balance against the white sprouts.

Why lentils? Because they're cheap, and each sprout contains more food value than, say alfalfa sprouts. Also, they're easy to store and easy to sprout.

Good eating, too! Better than cooked lentils any day.

2) A number of years ago, I read a post-apocalyptic novel in which people used .22 cartridges as a kind of money substitute. They were used as "change" for larger purchases or barter deals.

When you think about it, almost everyone has a .22 lying around somewhere, so the recognized utility & value would be almost universal. The cartridges are small, very portable and could easily serve as a unit of exchange if hyperinflation should eviscerate the dollar.

And right now, a brick of 500 is still relatively cheap.