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preservation
[2008]
[Attendee]
Most people are accumulating beans and grains and other things.
[Aajonus]
Do you wanna be around them when they're passing gas?
[Attendee]
Well, no. Let's say, how would a Primal Dieter if he did have some concern of a food shortage, possible famine, what would a Primal Dieter do in a famine or a food shortage and how would they prepare for it?
[Aajonus]
Okay. The way I did and the way I'm still prepared, I have deer meat thatt's floating in either coconut oil or olive oil, completely preserved. I did it in the year 2000, and that meat is still as fresh and as clean, and I can just pull it out and eat it.
[Attendee #2]
In the fridge?
[Aajonus]
No, not in the fridge. I have it in the lower cupboard.
[Attendee]
A couple weeks worth or what?
[Aajonus]
Well, let's say rationing it a half a pound a day, minimum. You're gonna be thinner, and if you're rationing, you're going to be thinner.
So, you're doing half a pound a day. I put 'em in gallon jars and two quart jars, half gallon jars, and it's floating in there. But let me tell you, there's very little oil compared to the amount of meat. So, I've got a week's worth of meat in a gallon jar. So, if I have three of those and three half gallons, I've got a good supply of meat for a long time. Unrefrigerated.
[Attendee]
It's high meat?
[Aajonus]
No, it doesn't. It doesn't get high. The fat oil seals it.
[Kathy]
Just soak it in oil, coconut oil?
[Aajonus]
What I did was I put layers of strips of meat around in a jar, pulled the oil in till it got on top, then I put more meat in and around, then I put more oil in just so it coated everything, but it's not a lot of oil in there. Just enough to seal everything, seal the air out.
[Attendee]
Olive oil, you said?
[Aajonus]
Olive oil and coconut oil is what I use.
No, you need it to cover it. You can't have air in the jar.
[Attendee]
The oil won't go rancid?
[Aajonus]
Olive oil doesn't go rancid. Coconut oil doesn't go rancid.
[Attendee]
So, that's the extent of your food preparation?
[Aajonus]
No, I have jars of honey, gallons of jars of honey. Butter, I always keep an extra eight pounds in my refrigerator cuz you never know what could happen.
[Attendee]
So, you got maybe a couple months worth of food. Whereas these people with the beans and the rice could conceivably have a couple years worth?
[Aajonus]
And then go out and eat a couple of people every day to get their to get their meat.
[Attendee]
But would you go to like beans and rice if you got to that point?
[Aajonus]
Never.
I would never get to that point, I'd be out hunting and growing creatures quickly.
These squirrels would not be my friends anymore, they would be my herd. I would have them in cages I build down there and I've got the cage ready. And the coyotes, I would be shooting because I already tried to raise chickens here and they got inside the coop and everything. It went right through that screen door. You can see it ripped and got one of my chickens right up against my screen door while I was sitting right there.
