The Prepper Broadcasting Network - DAC - R&R Ending

Episode Date: May 31, 2025

To oppose tyranny and fight for the rights of the creator of this status in the United States Constitution. We are the proper broadcasting network. Hello everyone out there in Internet radio land this is Dave Jones the NBC guy coming to you on Saturday, Saturday after the wrap up of the ration and ruin did you catch that last night? I was at a Costco, not my normal Costco, and I was trying to connect. There were internet issues

but I got to listen to the whole program after the fact. I got to listen to a lot of it during, but could not add anything. And it was all about the Jonesstead rations this week. And now keep in mind that we have just started freeze drying. We're still learning all the stuff about freeze drying. And so what we started with was what we had most of. And that was eggs. And so what we started with was what we had most of,

and that was eggs. And we just started freeze drying them, a dozen to a tray, four trays. So, and just to see how it was, we would vacuum seal them in a plastic bag. We did not use the Mylar, it's quite a bit more expensive, and we didn't know how long we were gonna leave them in there

and all that kind of stuff, it was an experiment. So when rational ruin came up, we had very, very little prepared, absolutely no calorie counts or anything like that. The only reason we knew the calories of eggs is because we could Google it and we knew we had a dozen in a pouch. So that's the whole backstory behind that, okay?

And we decided not to cook the eggs to freeze dry because you have a little more versatility. If you wanna bake with them or if you want to make something it's hard to cook with scrambled eggs. It's also not advised to freeze dry them cooked because they get a rubbery texture. A rubbery texture there you have it from the boss. The lady that makes up my mind, the prepper extraordinaire because I'll tell ya, I wouldn't be doing, I would not be doing more than half the shit I'm doing if it wasn't for her. She drives me every day and I got the scars to prove it. Anyway, freeze dryer

is not for every prepper. How many years? How many years have we looked at the freeze dryer and kept pushing it off? Five? At least five years. When HarvestRite first came on the market and they were outrageous. Now HarvestRite is not the only freeze dryer you can get. But it's the one we got because we got a scratch and dent special I think it was $1,400 and then we added the oil free pump if if you are looking at freeze dryers definitely if you can afford it

go with the oil free pump right yeah it Yeah, it's no more orc. Yeah, because the pump that comes with it, it'll say premium pump, but you have to add oil to it and filter it. And Ryan Buford gave me that tip. He had been freeze drying way way long time ago he actually won his freeze dryer in raffle so you know force I told you I only want okay well okay okay but he said if you can afford to get them get the oil free it's

just lots less hassle so that's an extra what $700 I think no $1000 in some. Yeah it's a lot it's a lot but it's worth every penny yeah this is this has been on our prepper list for a long long time but because we can freeze dry. What else do we do other than freeze dry? We've done every kind of way you can preserve. We salt, we smoke. And freeze drying was the last thing. We have done everything but freeze dry. And it's always been a price point that was

outside of our yes we can do it. So we started looking we got a scratch and dent thing and then we decided okay let's pull the trigger on this thing. There is a learning curve with this freeze drying and we're still learning here. So the stews, what can you tell me about the stews? One of them was beans, right? Beans and smoked pork. And the other one was

Chicken. Chicken, chicken and something. Chicken. Like a chicken stew. French braised chicken. Yeah, French braised chicken. Yeah French Breeze chicken. Now the great thing about freeze drying is it's your food. It's exactly the way you eat the food daily. So there's no difference in taste. If your kids eat it now they'll eat it then.

They'll eat it then. Um, and you could package and freeze dry it and eat it 25 years later. I told Maria, you can make a soup and, and tell Deanna that she can give it to her kids and say, your grandma made this soup for you. So, that's, that's the one big, well, a big thing.

Another big thing is it's super, super light, easy to transport, it's freeze dry. You know about freeze dry food. Also, no preservatives, no additives. Maria would not let me participate in the ration of ruin because she didn't want me to eat that crap food that those guys were going to eat. So, it is your food the way you like it.

That's a huge, huge advantage to store bought freeze dried food. Yeah, and the label and the calories, well, we didn't worry about that because we thought we were going to eat it and you probably wouldn't worry about it if you're packaging it and putting it away for your family. Now Future Dan mentioned something that I think is a great point to bring out. You do not want to get into a situation where you're having, I mean, to ration, okay?

Because once you start, if you can't pull out of that, you're on a downward spiral, okay? And as the Intrepid Commander pointed pointed out even if you're an avid fisherman or an avid hunter you can't count on that that has to come into your calculations as a bonus as a plus you know to add to your menu. Do not go into prepper food storage thinking that you're going to hunt your way out of anything. Hope is not a strategy. I mean, how many times have we gone out hunting compared to getting something?

I can't even do the ratio but it was never a requirement. If your life depended on it, man what stress. You'd be burning more calories than you could possibly hunt your way out of. So that's definitely a factor. When you're looking at freeze-drying, see I can't get Maria to talk until I pause it. So if you're looking at freeze-dried food, in order for the freeze-drying companies to make a profit, they look for the cheapest most economical way to freeze dry the food. So the quality of the food you're getting is somewhat questionable.

Because they want to make the maximum amount of profit on the freeze drying themselves. So that's just a fact of life. Store-bought packaged freeze-dried food should probably be your last option. Or maybe an option when, you know, other things are not available or not practical. Like in movement. Okay? So that's the way I see store-bought freeze-dried food. Now... It's not just the companies who do this. People. Yeah. When I am in this group which is they do only freeze-dried. They all go to Costco, get the rotisserie chicken, put it in the tray and eat it.

But that chicken it's the worst possible. Even the chicken at Costco It's still you know it has 10% water which it's mixed with chlorine We stop getting that because each time I arrive home. They smell so terrible we We stop getting organic chicken from Costco, so we grow ours Yeah, so there is no sense to go get stupid You know cheap food and freeze-dried if If it's to, you know, survive the end of the world, go get rice and beans and that will make a complete protein and those they can keep forever. It don't have necessarily to have meat

in a situation like that. There you go. So we're gonna do a lot more freeze-drying this year than we do canning. And the canning we have we're going to keep canned food. So that's just our plan. Hey, let's talk about the weather because the weather has been wild here. We found out today that there's a place where you go to pick your own strawberries

and they have no strawberries. So expect food shortages going forward. This weather, tell us about the weather here mom. You're telling that. Well the weather has been the freezing, the cold. Everything that is yellow right now in the garden, that means the roots doesn't have enough heat. That's why they will yellow up peppers, tomatoes. So you will get less food and some countries all over the world, they will get nothing. For example, Romania, they lose everything

with the freezing, which was just one week ago and hail which destroy everything including greenhouses. So they're gonna import from France and Germany so nothing in there, but here the same. Yeah, I think probably for the first time ever, Romania has long been a country that can always feed their own people. But this year it may be in question. Um, so we've, we've had this cold snap. I mean, it's June tomorrow.

No, Saturday, Sunday is June. Tonight. It's supposed to be 44. You need to have 58 degrees for photosynthesis to take place and the amount of water as well it destroyed my only ones they are all kind of yeah we had a record amount of rain this past week I mean the other day they said it rained three inches. Yeah. In 24 hours. That needs to be spread out to be to be good. Now watch us go into a dry spell. Well that's okay. Yeah. We are doing the Eden garden this year mostly so

that's gonna help with the watering. Okay explain the Eden garden. It's a way of gardening without to use too much water so what you do around your plants you put chips with chips which will they will they compost over the time and they will add nutrients to the soil, but also you will not need to water. Now I don't have enough with chips, so around the tomato plants I'm gonna put straw. Yeah, and we get the wood chips from, there's a company that comes up to the mountain there, and chips, it's a grant to stop forest fires.

Yeah, but there were a lot of companies which will deliver to you for free It's a grant to stop forest fires. There are a lot of companies which will deliver to you for free if you are close enough. We are quite far away. In Lesbuk, for example, they beg you to get their chips. We are too far. Companies that do this, chipping and landscaping, they will come and deliver if you're close and of course if you donate some money to their you know for gas or something like that but you can get truckloads of chips for free you just have to look for it. Let's get back to the to the garden what are you planting this year? What changes did you make in your gardening?

From last year? So we added more beds, more I'm trying to freeze dry as much as possible, herbs, a lot of herbs. You see in this What our friends did, if they were having nettle tea, they would have survived way better. Because nettle tea is like a multivitamin. They will give you all the nutrients you need. Yes, now James was talking about nutrients and nutrition and supplements for his family. Nettle is like a multivitamin that you can grow. You see today I just collect the raspberry leaves.

Raspberry leaves also it's a leaf which will give you a lot of vitamins. So what I do different this year, I collected walnut leaves which again they are very healthy. You get the powder or you make a tea so I'm collecting a lot more herbs this year a lot more yeah and vitamin c right from from rose hips well Well, I collected the petals for tea. Yeah. And we're going to collect the rose hips in the fall. Yeah. So that's a way you can get vitamin C if you don't live in Florida where you can grow an

orange tree. You can grow roses, harvest the rose hips, and get your vitamin C that way. So there's all kinds of nutrients that you can get out there and you can actually grow yourself. They're more absorbable than supplements so you need less of them to get as much nutrients as possible. Now it depends, I don't know if James has around his house dandelion leaves because you could have eight dandelion leaves and clear his liver and his system and he ate a raccoon by the way. I told you that. Dandelion leaves and there are a lot of weeds which we think they are weeds.

You can cook them as spinach. You see our garden it was full only. We did the tomatoes today. Yeah I have tomatoes. Oh yeah we have tomatoes today. Yeah, I have tomatoes. Oh yeah, we have tomatoes already. Hey, so James is never going to live down that eating a raccoon. Okay, his dogs killed it.

He cooked it up and ate it. Wow, wow. That's opportunity right there. An opportunity that I think I would save until SHTF, I'm telling you. Well, we're getting ready to pull into tractor supply. I'm either going to pause this or post this. Yeah, you go ahead and post it. Go ahead and post it? Okay then.

PBN Family, that's... I know we're going to do a big recap next week. We're gonna shoot and we're gonna do a whole bunch of stuff next weekend. So stay tuned for that and stay tuned to PBN. Gosh, if you got people that you wanna get into the prepper sphere, share this. We're the best kept secret in the prepper world, I'm telling you. Oh, man. We are.

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