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- Product code: 15971
- ISBN: 1856230155,
ISBN13: 9781856230155,
256 pages, paperback
Published by Permanent Publications on 1999
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Description of Self-Reliance: A Recipe for the New Millennium |
A daring and entertaining book full of 'recipes' in the broadest sense; from getting out and staying out of debt and becoming financially independent, to tried and tested recipes for household items and life sustaining meals made from the simplest (and often free) ingredients. Some are highly unusual!
Packed with essential information for anyone wanting to live a more independent, self reliant lifestyle. This book is genuinely radical in very beguiling ways; more than a mild-mannered 'green consumer' guide, John Yeoman questions very basic habits and assumptions, and does so in a way that is thought-provoking and audacious.
You will discover...
- Ideas for freeing yourself from the expense and nuisances of the consumer society, becoming personally stronger, more self-reliant and more self-fulfilled, and including – saving money, living better, and thriving, in the very heart of the city jungle... or even the wilderness.
- Ideas that are entertaining, often highly unusual, but always practical...
- More ideas for practical self-reliance than have ever before been published in Britain in one book... including:
HOW TO:
- Make money – or gain valuable use – from even the unlikeliest household scrap.
- Get out of debt – and avoid getting into it.
- Save 30% or more on household fuel bills without costly home improvements.
- Buy everything at low trade prices, or even below them.
- Earn a predictable income from manufacturers contests.
- Make your own delicious food 'products' to save money and eat better.
- Cut your commuting costs dramatically, or get more miles to the gallon (kilometres to the litre) from your car.
- Make even the cheapest shopbought, or home made, cosmetics, household goods, foods and drinks – which are indistinguishable from the most luxurious prestige products.
- Save cash in your household spending to a degree you never thought possible.
RECIPES FOR:
- Preparing free gourmet meals from common wild plants growing now by your own doorstep – even in the city.
- Growing cheaply all you need of your own vegetables without a garden or even a window box.
- Eating healthily on just £1 ($1.50) per day.
- Making elegant and potent wines and beers from easy to find wild plants.
- Compounding your own effective cosmetics and medicines from simple cheap ingredients.
- Cooking protein-rich, tasty and nutritious dishes from common grass (yes, grass).
- Buying better, fresher, healthier foods much more cheaply than you ever suspected – or for stretching what you have much further.
REALISTIC PLANS TO:
- Be sure of finding food – even during famine.
- Collect and purify drinking water – even during a drought.
- Set up a well stocked 'survival retreat' in the country – even on a very low income.
- Leave the city in an emergency, and take out 'self-reliance insurance' en route.
- Safeguard your family against virtually every foreseeable crisis, from your own unemployment or disability to even a national (or global) emergency.
And much, much more...
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Contents of Self-Reliance: A Recipe for the New Millennium |
INTRODUCTION: How to use this book
Part One: RECIPES FOR FUN
1.1 Confessions of a credit card hobo
1.2 How to get out of debt
1.3 Cleaning up at the clearing bank
1.4 Sentimental rapists, the importance of avoiding
1.5 Getting off the product cycle
1.6 Toolkit pioneering
1.7 Sell – and buy – by the yard
1.8 Falling off the back of a lorry
1.9 Think small for big returns
1.10 If all power corrupts...
1.11 ...Then declare a power cut
1.12 Put a tabby in your tank
1.13 The wanton’s guide to wasting less
1.14 Be a cottage industrialist...
1.15 ...And become your own best customer
1.16 Santa’s grotto, and how to afford it
Part Two: RECIPES FOR ECONOMY
2.1 Seven cheaper brands of food purchase
2.2 How to profit from rising food prices
2.3 Conspire – and halve your food bills
2.4 Making food go further
2.5 Maximise on food nutrition
2.6 Cooking to save fuel
2.7 Start your own food factory
2.8 Grow tastier, cheaper vegetables at home
2.9 Eat better on less... with store-cupboard food
2.10 ...With instant vegetables
2.11 ...With home produced ‘meat’
2.12 Four low-cost ways to better health
Part Three: RECIPES FOR EXPERIMENT
3.1 Free food from the wilds
3.2 Discover the twelve survival plants...
3.3 ...And gourmet ways to enjoy them
3.4 Dandelion
3.5 Berries
3.6 Seeds and nuts
3.7 Sorrel
3.8 Fat hen
3.9 Comfrey
3.10 Yarrow
3.11 Wild mushrooms
3.12 Stinging nettles
3.13 Chickweed
3.14 Plantain
3.15 Grass (yes, grass!)
3.16 More fresh ideas with wild food
3.17 Cooking tips for tastier wild greens
3.18 How to farm the wilds
3.19 A lazy man’s way to enjoy wild food
3.20 Free medicine from the survival plants
3.21 ...And free cosmetics
3.22 ...And free drinks
3.23 Not strictly for moonshiners
Part Four: RECIPES FOR REAL
4.1 Planning for the unthinkable
4.2 Emergency food improvisations
4.3 Hunting tips for hungry carnivores
4.4 How to cheat at fishing
4.5 ...And eat what you catch
4.6 Animal husbandry, and other fantasies
4.7 Take out your own survival insurance
4.8 ...Against everyday shortages
4.9 ...Or temporary family emergencies
4.10 ...Or long term disasters
RESOURCES
Bibliography
Further Reading
Sources of Supplies
Family Food Storage Suggestions
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