The Perfect Survival Food

Yesterday; some friends came up to the homestead kitty to fire off a few rounds through a new Bushmaster AR-15 one of them bought the week before at a gun show.

Anyway after blasting off maybe three hundred rounds, we sat under the tree out behind the trailer with a drink and spoke of old times and past dreams.

Anyway after about an hour Jim asked what I had to eat, he is the type that never leaves your house without fixing a plate of your latest cooking.

You know the type, always looking for a free meal. You would swear he was starving to death, but looking around the waistline proves such thoughts unfounded.

Luckily I made a batch of what I think is the perfect survival food, or “the mix” as I call it. It is cheap at only a few cents per serving and loaded with protein, carbohydrates, vitamins and mineral.

I think you could live on this one food for years with no bad health affects associated with malnutrition, it has everything the body needs and then some.

To start grind (you do have a grinder?) one pound each of pinto beans, corn, wheat and rye. You may need to grind several times to get the meal ground to the desired consistency. Mix the flour.

Measure 5½ cups of water and pour into a large bowl, measure two cups (10 oz) of meal and slowly pour and mix with the water. Now add two tsp salt, one tsp chili powder (or other flavoring to taste), one tsp black pepper and three tsp of onion or garlic powder.

Pour this into a CROCK POT and cook on medium or high, depending on how hot your crock gets at a set temperature. Cook for about two hours, stirring every 20 minutes to keep the mess from sticking to the bottom of the pot.

Pour out into a baking pan, be sure to lightly grease the bottom of the pan first and wrap the whole thing tightly with plastic wrap, now put it up and let stand over night.

The next morning it should have hardened enough that you can cut it into thin slices that can be fried on the stove top. Just cut and fry like pancakes.

Anyway my hungry friend ate two huge servings with bacon and eggs on the side. I have never seen anyone eat like that, I could hear what I thought was him saying something about how he wished his wife would learn to cook.

Or I think, that was what he said – hard to tell when they talk and eat at the same time. I think I need to find new friends…