Prepper Pupil Version of the Mighty Spicy Meatloaf

Prepper Pupil Version of the Mighty Spicy Meatloaf

This is a prepper version of the Mighty Spicy Meatloaf from My Recipe Repository. This new recipe is perfect for a prepper with a free energy solar cooker. This can also be cooked in an old-fashioned Dutch oven outdoors (fire below and coals on top). While the s&$% has not hit the fan yet and the modern slow cooker or the trusty oven at home still work, perhaps you can use them but, really, nothing beats free energy from the sun to cook this Mighty Spicy Meatloaf.

Ingredients:

• 3 lbs ground beef
• 2 tbsp dried egg or 1 tsp egg powder
• 1 cup dried onions or 2 oz onion powder
• 10 dried red chilies or 2 oz powdered red chilies
• 1 dried red bell pepper or 2 oz powdered red bell pepper
• 2 tbsp dried garlic chips or 1 tsp garlic powder
• 1 large dill pickle
• 4 oz pickle juice
• 2 cups whole wheat bread crumbs
• 4 oz catsup
• 4 oz hot sauce
• salt
• ground black pepper

Directions:

1. Get the solar cooker heated up by placing it in an area where it will get plenty of sun for a few hours. 
2. Mince the dill pickle and set aside.
3. In a large bowl, mix together the egg, onion, red chilies, red bell pepper, garlic, minced pickles, pickle juice, whole wheat bread crumbs, salt, ground black pepper and the ground beef.
4. Form the meat mix into a loaf, place it in a bread pan lined with foil and into the solar cooker it goes.
5. Mix together the catsup and the hot sauce.
6. Dump the catsup and the hot sauce mix on top of the loaf.
7. Wait for the sun to do its work for about 4 hours, serve it hot out of the solar cooker or wait 5 minutes for it to chill a bit.

Make sure there is plenty of sun exposure to get a good 175 degrees of heat to work on cooking the meat. Before attempting to cook with your solar cooker, test the solar cooker’s temperatures on a sunny day and if it goes to 175 and over, holds steady from 9 am to 3 pm, your solar cooker will do just fine. 

The Mighty Spicy Meatloaf cooks much faster in a Dutch oven but it requires considerable amounts of energy from you and from your wood pile. In a situation where there is a limited amount of sunlight this may be an option but do keep in mind the resources you have, fuel in the form of wood may be a hard commodity to come by in some parts. 

If you are cooking for one then cut the recipe in half, cook it at half the time and you should have a lunch and dinner meal. Keep it in the solar cooker to keep it from going bad, don’t worry about it getting overcooked or burning, it just does not happen in a solar cooker. If using the Dutch oven method, a re-heat is due in 4 hours to keep nasty bacteria from forming and it should be ready for dinner. By the way, you can cut the recipe even more to just a quarter if you eat like a bird. Try to eat everything and not waste it.

Resourceful Prepper Pupil

Resourceful Prepper Pupil

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In a SHTF situation, being a resourceful prepper pupil can mean the difference between life and death. A person who can look into a problem and find a way of overcoming it (some even find several ways) is lucky to have such a skill and is ahead of the curve when it comes to prepping. Sometimes this resourcefulness is not an innate quality and sometimes it falls short of what is required for one to survive disaster. Whichever case it is, getting better at being resourceful is a step in the right direction for anyone who preps. 

In my view, one way of improving on one’s resourcefulness is learning from those who have that innate quality and are kind enough to share their knowledge with others. Doing so is an act of being resourceful in itself. I am sure some of the ones who have this natural talent also look to others and improve on themselves as well and they are better for it.

The resourceful prepper pupil learns from others and improves his own mind to overcome any obstacle, constantly training and maintaining a sharp edge to face the challenges of an uncertain future. Prepping is not something you do on the weekend, it is a mindset where you are proactively engaging life instead of reacting to events that happen in your midst. It’s like chess, trying to stay ahead of the game by thinking of moves the opponent is going to make and preparing counter moves to advance your side to win the game.

In life, the game is survival, we try to win against not just one opponent coming in from one direction but rather a number of directions, many of which are unknown. Such is life, filled with uncertainty and all we can do is be prepared to oppose these forces and survive. Being a resourceful prepper pupil increases our chances of making it to another day.

Prepping is a Natural Obligation

Prepping is a Natural Obligation

Photo from http://marinraica.blogspot.com/2012/09/natural-health.html

As a prepper pupil I am often faced with ignorant people who think that prepping is something that crazy people do. For a few preppers this might be true and they are certainly bonkers, not because of the preparedness they do but because of the reasons they do it. There is absolutely nothing wrong with being prepared and for that these wackos are to be praised. It is in my view that no one should be exempt from prepping. Those who do nothing are simply lazy, freeloaders who, instead of being self-reliant, choose to sit idly by and wait for aid that perhaps may never come. Prepping is a natural obligation and anyone with even the tiniest of brains is capable of comprehending the logic of being prepared. 

The way I see it, prepping is not something only reserved for the crazy few and the sensible majority but it is a task for all of us to take part in as a member of the human race. In life, we face constant dangers and a catastrophe is always looming. With us unaware of when and where it will strike, we have always tried to avoid and mitigate the effects of such disasters with some sort of preparedness.

I consider prepping to be an innate characteristic, not only of humans but all life on Earth, with some being more successful at it than others of course. All who inhabit the Earth are survivors, throughout time each and every living thing on this planet has fought to survive - all survivalists in this giant blue marble we call home.

It is safe to assume that close to 100% of humans are prepping in some way. The tiny percentage that do not are simply incapable, mentally they have no concept of the threat and ruin that awaits them. The rest are spread across grades of preparedness from a person consciously breathing to stay alive and going up to almost perfect pepping. I say “almost perfect” as the top level of preparedness because no one can really be perfectly prepared. Avoiding all sorts of cataclysms is simply impossible.

My mindset is tuned to allowing all information and dissecting said information for the purposes of possibly applying it to my prepping. I am eager to learn and as I learn I will share my knowledge in the hopes of educating others to be better at prepping.

Prepper Pupil Preparations

Prepper Pupil Preparations

There were many things to consider for getting this new blog off the ground, other projects are in motion and there may not be time in the future for timely updates. For now, in the advent of a cessation of tasks from clients, I am lucky to have time and make some posts but I do hope it will be at a balanced setup in the days to come. I need work that pays and really this is just something to occupy my time and practice on my writing. Writing other people's blog posts, among other things, is really what I do. 

Photo from http://www.thesleuthjournal.com/11-important-skills-for-preppers/

Prepper Pupil is something I had always wanted to work on but when one is engaged in other people's web content things get put in the back burner. I consider myself to be a boy scout and the term "prepper" was never really something I knew about until the TV show "Doomsday Preppers" came up. I hate getting caught with my pants down and I have always made sure I have a plan on top of a backup plan. That said, I still consider myself a novice when it comes to prepping and I wish to learn a whole lot more with the little time I have outside of family and work hours. 

The blog is all set, the layout is similar to other blogs I have created and thematically alike with their blog siblings. It is hoped that in time I will be able to fill in some quality content that may provide interesting reading material for visitors. I have not planned all the pages yet but a rough outline is already in mind and that should be finalized in a couple of days. 

I plan on featuring gadgets, recipes, techniques and much more. I hope even as a green horn survivalist or prepper, I would be able to educate others and have them become preppers too.