Posted on 01/22/2016 6:26:13 PM PST by MtnClimber
Winter storm Jonas is brewing on the East Coast and is projected to start dumping snow and freezing rain on Friday night. So you should run to the store and buy bread and milk, right? Wrong. Bread and milk expire pretty quickly and require refrigeration. They're also pretty light on the nutrients and won't keep you satiated and supplemented as you ride out the weather. The trick is to buy foods that don't won't expire quickly or need to be refrigerated. They should be easy to prepare, easy to eat, high in protein, and provide enough variety to keep you full and happy for days. Here are 13 better items for your grocery-store run.
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This woman is kind of a beginner.
Also, if you don’t already have 3 weeks of easy to consume non perishables on hand, you’re very foolish.
I have a gas grill with 3 tanks of gas, a volcano stove with 2 five gallon buckets of charcoal. and a bunch of matches, butane lighters, candles, oil lamps and several battery lanterns along with a dozen flashlights.
Along with 6+ months of all prescription meds for both of us.
Cities don’t get blizzards?
Scotch with zero carbs, keeps decades beyond other survival
foods.
Nature always reasserts itself. And humanity has forgotten that. So the strong will survive as always and the unfit won’t. People are now taught to think we are above a widespread disaster killing us. Or war or whatnot.
Same thing many people that died throughout history said too. Then were proven wrong.
Unicorns fart and the methane warms the atmosphere locally.
Huh? You’ve gotta stock up? I did that in sept/oct...
Doesn’t hurt to have a box of candles too. A box or two of wooden matches and/or a lighter. Most of these lists don’t have fruit but Apples, oranges, grapefruit, pears, and bananas are great and keep well along with nuts, particularly walnuts and pecans.
I ran out to Aldis before it got bad and got essentials. Bread,eggs,hamburger, 2 fried cherry pies,1 box close out eggnog cookies, chips, hot chocolate, pizza raviola bites and wine. I feel so much better now. Polished off my cherry pie watching Gold Rush. :-)
“I have a camping stove that runs on Coleman fuel. The wood burning will keep at least the living room warm even if it is -30F outside. I usually start the winter with 4-5 cords of wood so I could last until the next spring.”
OUTSTANDING...you get where I’m coming from. There are options (and they are NOT expensive) to survive WITHOUT having to call 911 two hours after losing power, but you do have to reach the point that you are SERIOUS about looking out for yourself and your family.
MRE’s. Two cases will support a family of four sheltered in place for 10 days.
I have canned items to last for many months. Many have expiration dates for over 3 years out. We just use older cans and replace with new purchases to stay stocked up.
I’ve seen threads on Reddit of handling snow-ins by opening the door and shoving the beer bottles and cans in the four foot snow drift.
“We had the ability and knowledge. Today all of that is gone.”
It is FAR FROM GONE, it is AVAILABLE TO ALL, right over the Internet, and for no charge. For the really lazy, a private E-Mail to kartographer will take care of it. For most, a bit of Google searching. There is SO MUCH information out there that I’m just thankful I went to college in the pre-internet days, as there is simply NO WAY that I would have graduated given what’s on the web now.
But the bottom line is that people do have to realize that mommy is NOT always there for them, or their families, and that they REALLY DO need to do some of their own worst-case planning.
Nuts...
I homesteaded a year without electric and was amazed at how cheap nuts are per calorie. They became a significant food staple. And a delicious one!
Doesn’t hurt to have a box of candles too. A box or two of wooden matches and/or a lighter. Most of these lists don’t have fruit but Apples, oranges, grapefruit, pears, and bananas are great and keep well along with nuts, particularly walnuts and pecans.
Absolutely.
Now you’ve made me hungry. :)
I love the French Cepe....boletus but don’t remember the rest. Morelles, Trumpet de la mort, Chanterelles, Pied de Mouton, and a few others. But the cepe and chanterelles are my favorites. I lightly cook my cepes in duck or goose fat, seasoned with a little garlic and touch of parsley, then can them. The canning process finishes the cooking and when i open the jar, they are ready for an omelette, a sauce, or to add to whatever. They taste as if they just left the woods. Chanterelles also work well the same way. You MUST use duck or goose fat for them to retain the fresh taste. Most people can them in water and you know what water does to mushrooms...no real taste. I have kept dried trumpet de la mort in a sealed jar for years and it was still good. The others i only eat fresh, though morell will keep well a few months when dried, but not longer.
Spam!!!!!! The meat that won the war!!!! LOL
I always wondered why my dad never liked Spam until he said one day, boy, you would hate it to if for 2 years you had to eat cold spam and cold boiled potatoes. He was in WWII in Europe for those two years. I knew he didn’t have to eat all the time but I got the idea, especially after one day hiking in northern NM on a winter day and had cold spam and a couple pieces of white bread for lunch.
You’re a very gracious lady.
Years ago I went to a dinner that included Virginia smoked ham that had been prepared in the old way and it was delicious.
Oh I agree. The info is there for sure. But no one reads it. When I say no one, I mean the majority.
I think most people are so brainwashed into the idea that nothing catastrophic can happen in America, they wouldn’t read the book if you fedexed them a gold copy. Liberals bred the desire to learn out of them and assured them all their lives that outdoor things were bad for the planet or tinfoil territory.
In the kingdom of the blind, the one eyed man reigns supreme. When the SHTF, there will be a utopia alright. Just not the kind that keeps them in unicorns. More like Thunderdome.
Very good.
I have no doubt that you will stay warm and comfortable and well fed during this storm.
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