Primitive Prep

🪓 Primitive Prep

Strip the Noise: Rituals for Elemental Resilience

Welcome to the metabolic foundation—where tools are minimal, instincts are sharpened, and every prep is a protocol.

Primitive Prep isn’t about reenacting caveman cosplay or romanticizing hardship. It’s about ritualized simplicity, feedback-driven sourcing, and metabolic literacy. We’re not prepping for aesthetics—we’re prepping for autonomy.

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🔥 What Is Primitive Prep?

Primitive Prep is the practice of:

• Using minimal tools to prepare nutrient-dense food

• Sourcing raw, whole inputs from land, animal, and environment

• Tracking metabolic feedback (energy, warmth, clarity, resilience)

• Teaching clients to adapt with instinct, not dependency

It’s not just survival—it’s sovereign simplicity.

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🧩 The Primitive Grid

Here’s the cartoon-style grid I use with clients—each ritual is a metabolic anchor:

🔹 Ritual 🔍 Function 🛠️ Examples

Source Raw Inputs Whole, unprocessed fuel Root veg, organ meats, wild greens, eggs

Prep with Minimal Tools Strip down to essentials Fire, stone, broth, fermentation

Pair for Function Synergize for uptake Fat + fiber, salt + citrus, heat + root

Track Feedback Visual loop Skin, breath, cravings, clarity

Teach the Ritual Empower instinct Draw primitive prep maps, sketch fuel loops

Clients turn fire pits into metabolic labs, not just campgrounds.

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🧨 Myth-Busting: Why Most Prep Advice Misses the Primitive

Let’s dismantle the kitchen clutter:

• Myth: “You need fancy gear to eat well.”

Truth: You need feedback, fire, and instinct.

• Myth: “Primitive means deprivation.”

Truth: It means precision—every input is earned, tracked, and respected.

• Myth: “Modern prep is more efficient.”

Truth: Efficiency without feedback is noise. Primitive prep is signal.

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🎨 Visual Rituals: Teaching Clients to Prep with Intention

We turn elemental prep into curriculum:

• Sketch the input: root, meat, egg, green

• Map the prep: fire, ferment, soak, pair

• Color-code synergy: warming, cooling, digestive, clarifying

• Track feedback: breath, cravings, clarity, bowel rhythm

• Draw the loop: input → prep → feedback → regrow

Primitive Prep becomes a metabolic ritual, not a recipe.

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🛠️ Build Your Own Primitive Ritual

Here’s a starter protocol:

1. Choose your input: root veg or liver

2. Prep with minimal tools: fire, broth, salt

3. Pair for synergy: fat + fiber, citrus + salt

4. Track feedback: warmth, digestion, clarity

5. Sketch the loop: primitive → prep → signal

Sketch it. Simmer it. Feel it.

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🧠 Final Thought: Simplicity as Sovereignty

Primitive Prep teaches us that resilience is built from the ground up.

Every fire is a signal. Every root is a ritual. Every bite is a feedback loop.

So next time someone asks “How do you stay resilient?”

You’ll say: “I prep with instinct—I strip the noise and fuel the signal.”