Any yarn you can spin, I can spin thinner...

I have been boasting for some decades now that I can get the wool from a sheep's back on a man's back. That is, I can shear sheep, spin the wool, dye it, weave it, knit, crochet, and dozens other ways of making things from fibers, I can felt wool, and I can sew. And I know how to handle linen and nettles as well. To me making a suit is not a challenge. It's what I am trained to do. I could have been one of his teachers :-D

But making my own tools?

I could be making my own spinning wheel and loom, and other tools like that... what about needles? 

Also, I haven't worked with cotton. I wonder how different that would be, and if it was any idea of me to do that, because I live in Sweden. 

I don't want to work with silk, though. 

Then there are the accessories. He made a belt of deer skin he was part of hunting, and that he tanned himself. So, I'll need to add hunting, butchering, tanning, and leather work to my list.

Basically, how to use every bit of an animal. I mean, the step isn't that big.

Also shoes, socks, hosery, belts and bags, gloves, scarfs, and hats. And jewelry. :-D

Anything you can do, I can do, too!

 So... the tools and equipment needed to make a sandwich, could I do that?

For bread... hmm...

- farming equipment... what is the minimum for growing wheat? 

I'd need a hoe. 10 square foot farm area is possible to prepare with just a hoe. I think I'd like a rake, too.
It's possible to make both of wood, but I would prefer a metal one.
So, for that, I'd need some metal and wood... and I could collect iron ore and create a kiln of some sort... 

I can make the dough on the table (or any flat surface), but I'd prefer a bowl. So ceramics. Collecting and cleaning clay, and then some sort of kiln for that :-D I suppose it needs to be different from the iron kiln. 

Then I would need an oven. Again, it's possible to build an oven of clay. 

I would need some sort of pail or bowl to collect the milk in, and to make the sourdough/yeast. 

I think I'd like a tin bucket for the milk, and glass jar for the sourdough. I don't have the slightest idea if glass jars are even possible... But, why not. I have always wanted to learn to blow glass :-D
Until then, a ceramic jar is adequate.

The same with vinegar.

I would need some sort of cooking pot or kettle to boil sugar and salt, and some sort of strainer... I wonder if cloth would do, or do I need to draw metal thread and weave a net?

I would need a mortar and pestle. Ceramic one should do. Or maybe I need to make it of stone :-D
(I know how to polish stones for jewelry, I suppose mortar requires a little different techniques.)

Frankly, THIS impresses me more than growing and processing wheat :-D

Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better...

 So... I found this YouTube channel, "How to Make Everything", and... er...

Well. 

OK, then. 

Let's make a sandwich from scratch. I mean, scratch.

I want a BLT.

So... I'll need bread, mayo, bacon, tomatoes and lettuce. And salt and pepper.

For bread, I'll need
- flour
- milk
- water
- butter
- sugar
- salt
- yeast

To get enough flour for a loaf of bread, I'll need about 10 square feet of wheat.

To get enough milk, I'll need a cow or a goat. I know how to milk. 

To get enough water, I'll need... would I need to find a fresh water spring, dig a well, or learn plumbing? Or would it be enough to use the water that is already accessible? Like with cows, I'm not going to buy a cow for a cup of milk. I have had milk goats, I know what it takes to take care of goats.

To get butter, I'll need the milk :-D

To get sugar, I'll need sugar beets. 

To get salt, I'll need the ocean.

To get yeast, I'll need sourdough. To get sourdough, I'll need some flour and water. Maybe some sugar, or fruit, or something... Hmm...

For mayo, I'll need
- eggs
- vinegar
- mustard
- oil

To get eggs, I need hens. 

To get vinegar, I need some sort of juice and a vinegar mother. I think the easiest is to take apples. I wonder if it would be enough to just pick apples, or do I need to grow an appletree from seeds :-D
(I know how to do that, too.)

To get mustard, you need mustard seeds and water. You can use beer, and add honey, vinegar, and perhaps some turmeric to dye it yellow, and add a bit of flavor. I can grow turmeric.

I think I'll brew some cider. 

To get honey, you need bees. I don't know beekeeping, but it's on my to do -list ;-)

Oil, then... I'll need some oil producing seeds or nuts, and an oil press. They make these small hand cranked table presses, but basically, if you make nut butter, and let it stand, the oil will separate and float on the top, and it's just to pour it out and use it. So one doesn't really need an oil press. A mortar and pestle are quit enough.
Now, we don't get groundnuts in Sweden :-D But there's rapeseed, linseed, sunflowers, hazelnuts, hemp... 
And, actually, you can use ghee to make mayonnaise. Any liquid fat is fine. You can make mayo out of bacon fat, if you like.

Which leads us to bacon.

To get bacon, I'll need a pig, and I need to kill the pig, and process the corpse.

I'll need curing salt, and that... I think you get sodium nitrate and nitrite by... mining... and doing stuffs... chemistry and so on. And I think that is a bit too dangerous considering that I'm going to eat that thing, and if I don't get it right, I assume I could be killing myself. So better buy the curing salt ready... mined and chemistry stuffs doned. :-D I assume curing your own bacon is hard core enough for this challenge.

Now, I haven't cured my own meat yet, but that, too, is on my to do -list.

I'll need also sugar and spices. Black pepper... I can't go and pick it from trees, so I suppose I'm allowed to use the black pepper one buys from store. But paprika powder. It's just sweet peppers dried and ground.

Tomatoes and lettuce grow in the garden, so that's an easy piece.

Now, if I'd want some cheese and ham on the bread, in stead of bacon?

Then I'd use the ham of the pig to make ham. I've done that.

And some more milk to make the cheese. I have done soft cheese, but not hard cheese, so that would be a challenge.