Dick Proenneke

Sugar is pretty important as a staple. Need to put it flour with yeast to get it to rise (unleavened bread). Also put it in sourdough to keep that yeast strain going. As mentioned, you cook it up with the berries to make jam. You can also make syrup by cooking it with water. The sugar isn't a preservative as pretty much everything will eat it. Sugar does keep as long as it is dry.
 
I bought the DVD I liked the story so much! You really have to be one with yourself to do what dick did. Not to mention surviving the elements but sanity. He never got sick...this does not amaze me in anyway considering how we eat and the exposure to other with sickness just perpetuates the sickness in a cycle. Sugar and Salt are very key! Salt for curing and sugar for preserving. Not to mention making thinks generally taste better. If the SHTF situation salt and sugar will be hot and rare to come by! You can certain get sugar from many things but it isnt easy.

But wow...what a story! Amazing guy just needed a dentist to see him from time to time!
 
I have the DVD and watch it occasionally with my kids. It's a very inspiring story and the film is well done.
 
bread,biscuts,pancakes,etc..
it's also used in cured meat..we buy suger by the 50# bag along with 5 gal of local honey every year.
we don't "eat" sugar. it's just used in cooking. as well as honey. it's all the same...
when you make your own food it is very useful. look at your packaged foods...
 
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I'm a huge fan of the man and his abilities and adventures.:thumbup:

When I get bummed about city life and the rat-race , I pop in " One Man's Wilderness" and I'm feelin' good again. Then I get this innate urge to pack some gear and head into the bush.Pretty good log building skills that man had. I'm wondering how he learned it himself. Smart fella!

I'm amazed that that man was able to live pretty much alone for all that time.
There was that fellow from the U.K. that tried the alone-in-the-bush thing ( forgot the link) and he went nuts after a month missing people and stuff. I'm guessing he had the wrong mind-set to start off with.

Visiting his cabin is on my bucket-list for sure:)
 
I remember watching this when it aired like few years ago. Good stuff!

Wow the W&SS has so many threads on Dick Proenneke and Alone in the Wilderness.
 
Sugar, yeast and water.

Thats the basics for a good and long life, after you mix em al together, let it sit and the run thru a still :D
 
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