Yeah thanks Sarge! And what a signal! It will be hard to miss you screaming like a girl.
And the signal is:
Posted on 03/13/2013 3:42:42 PM PDT by Kartographer
Some foods to consider for longer term storage are:
Carbohydrates: white rice, pasta, wheat, oats, dehydrated fruits and vegetables, sugars, honey, fruits, roots and tubers (cook these well) and cereals. For those with wheat allergies, click here. Proteins: legumes, eggs, nuts, peanut butter, canned meats and fish, oatmeal, grains, wheat, quinoa, seeds, MREs, popcorn Fats: whole milk, ensure, peanut butter, oil (preferably plant based oils), nuts and seeds Vitamins and Nutrients: Vitamin C, Vitamin D, vitamin powders, dehydrated fruits and vegetables, seeds to grow vegetables and for sprouting, survival bars
(Excerpt) Read more at shtfplan.com ...
“We’ve got those blasted little moths all over around here. I use DE a lot because they get into any kind of carbohydrate like beans, rice, corn...”
No more of those moths for me, one time did it for me. My beans and rice and cornmeal and pastas are also in the long term Walton cans. The flour is good for ten years, the rest of the foods for 20-25 yrs.. Cans under all the beds. I sleep over my food - how comforting.
/johnny
“I grow a lot of mine, so I don’t have the fancy canning stuff to turn to.”
And, even if I could grow stuff (which we know I am a killer of plants), I don’t have enough ground to grow what is necessary nor can I have enough pots for that much food. You and I had to get to the same place taking different paths. Yours is better than mine in the long run - mine is good for quick getting long term food in cans in the house because I can’t grow it.
Notice I did not say off in the woods by yourself.
I said a medium sized city or large town but one that is somewhat isolated from large metropolitan areas.
I won’t want to be withing 200 miles NYC, LA Chicago or Houston if the worst happens
None of us know how long our run will last.
We should all make that most important preparation of all. Having a personal relationship with God.
I do what I can while I'm here. In the long, long run... It's in His Hands.
/johnny
Good thinking, as far as it goes. Now go here, http://www.afailureofcivility.com/ buy the book and turn it into an operational plan.
Recommend one key change in your thinking: done try to go this alone as one nuclear family. You need more numbers. Go here and at least read the excerpt: http://www.afailureofcivility.com/
Strongly recommend you buy it a consider it as the backbone of your plan.
Sweet corn can also be blanched and dehydrated. If you buy the large bags of frozen corn you can pour that corn straight into the dehydrator, as you can with all frozen veggies. They are blanched, which preserves the color and nutrition content. I have also blanched and dehydrated potatoes, carrots, sweet potatoes, celery and other veggies.
Fruit can be dehydrated, but is best if an acid (lemon juice or Fruit Fresh) is used to prevent oxidation. I have dehydrated tons of apples, bananas, peaches plums, grapes become raisens, etc.
The benefits of dehydrating are that it takes perishable food, and makes it into a long term storage item that doesn’t require refrigeration . It takes the water out of food that, was once heavy, and becomes very light. It takes bulky food and makes it compact. A 20 lb bag of potatoes if peeled and diced will fit into a gallon size ziplock Baggie once dehydrated, with a little room left over or more.
Meats can be made into Jerkey.
In a SHTF scenario, it is best to use up the contents of your fridge first. However if you have a solar dehydrator, and the power goes out and it looks like it might not come back on any time soon, if you have a solar dehydrator, you could save much of your refrigerated food by dehydrating. The foods you can’t dehydrate could be eaten first.
Yeah thanks Sarge! And what a signal! It will be hard to miss you screaming like a girl.
And the signal is:
html for links is pretty easy (I learned it, can't be too hard).
Just copy your link, then type the following - replace LT with < and GT with >
LTa href="http://www.thehealthyhomeeconomist.com/video-making-limewater-for-soaking-corn/"GThttp://www.thehealthyhomeeconomist.com/video-making-limewater-for-soaking-corn/LT/aGT
You can replace the second instance of the link with the name you'd like to call the link (name of article, quote, etc.). I like to leave the link name intact, so it's readily apparent where the link will take you (you can also see the link itself by hovering over it).
So your link could also look like this:
LTa href="http://www.thehealthyhomeeconomist.com/video-making-limewater-for-soaking-corn/"GTVideo - Making Limewater for Soaking CornLT/aGT
Which would show up like this:
I stand corrected. I should not believe everything I read on the internet. It is nice to know I don't have to go through nixtamalization with all my corn.
Great post. Thanks much, and may God bless.
Tatt
If I thought a huge economic upheaval was going to occur I’d buy some property in a fairly remote medium sized town, think Lubbock Texas or similar.
It's not as easy as you think to be 500 miles from a major metropolitan area. Lubbock is within 500 miles of Dallas, Ft. Worth, San Antonio, Oklahoma City and Albuquerque.
"We will kill you. We will kill you and take your stash. We have our orders, we couldn't care less. This is from an active duty military."
And no one challenged that post.
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