Heat the tortillas. Slice the cabbage into slivers approx. 1/8 inch wide. Mix the ranch dressing and a healthy amount of tapetio.Fill tortilla with fish, cabbage, salsa, and guacamole. Top with special sauce and lemon juice.
Fried Ramen with Egg.
Boil a package of ramen. Drain. Fry in oil for a minute or so. Add season package. Drop an egg or two into the water with the noodles. Cook for another minute.
Other Special Ramen Meals
Add vegetables, meat, or peanuts to ramen to make it special. Anything livens up ramen.
Spam Eggs and Rice
This is a favorite in Hawaii. Slice your spam thin and cook it like bacon. Serve scrambled eggs with rice and spam.
Smoked Salmon Chowder
Cook a can of cream of potato soup and add in a piece of smoked salmon shredded into bits. Cook for five minutes more. Use plenty of black pepper.
Smoked Salmon Hash
Fry potatoes and onions in small pieces. Add smoked salmon.
Stick bread
Mix flour, salt, baking soda, butter , and water to make a thick dough. Flatten it with a can. Wrap it around the end of a clean stick and hold it over coals. Pull the bread off after a few minutes and fill the hole with jam or peanut butter.
Huevos Rancheros Especial
Heat an opened can of black beans on the fire. Fry a couple of eggs. Heat a few corn tortillas. Toss the beans on the tortillas, the eggs on the beans, and salsa and sour cream on top of that. Chopped onions, garlic, and cilantro make this one ten times better.
Perfect Rice Every Time
The secret to making perfect rice is simple. Rinse your rice. Put it in the pan. Add enough water to go from the top of the rice leveled to the first joint of your first finger. Boil until water is gone. Leave covered for five minutes before eating.
Tuna Melts
Mix the tuna with onion, garlic, and whatever else you think will taste good. Put tuna and cheese on bread. Put mayo on the outsides of both slices of bread. Fry until brown on a dry pan. The mayo has enough oil.
APPENDIX 3: MAKING GEAR
Tin can stoves.
Tin can alcohol stoves are great. They are smokeless and boil water in about 7 minutes.
Cut the bottoms off two soda cans about one inch high. Use a nail to poke holes in the bottom of one. Use a small nail and poke a bunch of holes. Fill the holeless can with cotton balls, strips of t-shirt or whatever cotton material you have. Nest one can inside the other so you’ve got a sort of hockey puck. Set it with the hole can facing up. Pour in a little kerosene, or alcohol and light it up. Not recommended with gasoline or other highly combustible fuels.
Here are a couple of sites that show how to make tin can stoves
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SekjzXDa52w
www.instructables.com/id/Alcohol-Stove-4
Camp and Food Storage.
Scrounge around some restaurants and see if you can get some of the big gallon cans or glass jars with lids. Clean them out and then fill em up with flour, rice, dried beans, and other staples. If you don’t know how to cook with these get yourself an old cookbook and start practicing.
Sleeping Bag
If you have a decent sleeping bag use it, if not old curtains and blankets etc can be made into a nice bag with a little bit of sewing. A sleeping bag is just two bags, one inside the other, with the space in between them stuffed with insulation. So, really, any insulation will work. One good thing if you’re caught out in the weather and you don’t have enough insulation is to simply use the junk you find under trees like pine needles or something. Don’t laugh but newspapers are very warm. Cardboard is too. And who would steal a camp full of cardboard? No one. You can supplement a lighter sleeping bag that you take with you with cardboard and crumpled newspapers. Just be sure to keep the stuff dry. Plastic will do that.
Groundcloth
Plastic or burlap makes a decent groundcloth, pad, or tarp. the ground will get cold and uncomfortable without it. Heavy-duty 33-gallon garbage bags can be used to make a ground cloth, a poncho, or a small tent.
Get a Rope.
Spend the money to get a nice 50-foot nylon rope. I like the parachute cord, you’ll find a million uses for it. If you don’t want to spend do some dumpster diving and tie together a bunch of shoelaces and reel em on a stick. It will come in handy, I promise.
Finding Gear
Apartments usually have people that throw tons of stuff away, also keep an eye out for garage sales and scour the free boxes after the sale ends. Books can usually be sold at used bookstores, a lot of vintage clothing can be sold, and other stuff can be sold at garage sales, on Ebay, or on craigslist.
There is no limit to what you can make from the garbage of other people except your own ability to figure it out.Here are a few suggestions to get you started:
Old curtains or material can easily be made into a blanket. The ideal size is at least 60” wide by 2 yards.
There is no shortage of old shoes in the trash and shoestrings can be used to make all kinds of rope and cordage simply by tying them together and spooling them on a stick.
Beat up sandals usually have useful leather straps attached to them.
Old mesh orange sacks work well as a carryall bag or a pot scrubber.
Empty soda bottles work great as canteens. Wash them out with a little bleach first.
Filling egg carton cups with sawdust or lint and pouring old wax over the top can make fire starters.
The list goes on and on. Use your imagination and you will find that you rarely need to buy anything. Especially expensive gear.
Finding Fresh Veggies and Fruits
Abandoned houses often have old gardens that still have edibles growing in them, feel free to harvest, but I always like to leave things better than I found ’em so think about throwing some beans or corn seed in the ground…it’ll help you or someone else. If there’s a hose, water the garden, if not, piss on it. Cultivating a community garden is another good idea…
If there are farmers markets in your area go there early and late and offer to help load or unload boxes and grateful farmers will usually hook you up with what they don’t sell at the market or sometimes with grade a produce.
Get a book from the library or read it in a bookstore or online to familiarize yourself with the edible wild plants in your area.
Volounteer at the foodbank and you usually get prime stuff… they appreciate your help and you get to help other folks out which feels good by itself.
Leaving a Camp. I always like outfitting my camps with stuff I find in dumpsters or the woods (abandoned camps) that way if it gets ruined or lost it’s no big deal. At one point I had five camps all stocked and left in tact.
APPENDIX 4: MORE RESOURCES
The truth is I can only show you so much. Happiness is in your hands. Find you passion. Find your freedom and find a passion income. All there is to it, is to do it. Here are a few places you can find freelance work and more resources.