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Ping for BiWeekly Prepper Thread

[Billthedrill]

A bump for the Prepper Thread. Same story here: they were laughing, now they’re asking for advice.

[outofsalt]

Ping for all

[tired&retired]

Just purchased a 30 ft long walk in with last 8 ft freezer. 8 ft wide with 8’ 6” ceilings.

That gives flexibility.

[MercyFlush]

Just got done restocking. We’re good through 2022.

[SuperLuminal]

For later...

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National Center for Home Food Preservation

https://nchfp.uga.edu/publications/publications_usda.html

Canning, Curing, Drying, Fermenting & Pickling

All as pdf files

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I’ve been a low key prepper since 1960. Always figured I had better be prepared for anything.

So far I have not needed to use any of what I learned but did have a decent “stockpile”.
When out of a job my stash of food came in handy.
In an ice storm a few years back we were without electricity for several days. We did just fine as I listened to the one radio station still broadcasting and realized how many people were crying for “HELP”.
Some people were advertising their only bottle of lamp oil for anyone who needed it at a high price.

[Varsity Flight]

Corn beef hash

Water

[Pollard]

Funny, I mentioned hackers in the OP and now there's a new hacking/ransomware attack article. https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3975056/posts

[sauropod]

Bkmk

[Pollard]

Just figured something out. If you’re browsing say, the “Curing” files and decide you want all of them, there’s a button at the top that says, ‘Download all files’ that will pack them up into a zip file for you.

I just installed this cloud app, Nextcloud and I’ve played with it before didn’t know that trick.

Also, when you’re viewing a file/pdf, there’s a close X button for the file viewer at the top right but it fades away after a few seconds. Just move your mouse pointer off of the file viewer or up to the top right corner and it will appear again.

[bgill]

Canned tomatoes went up from 50 cents to 72 cents. Produce is up, too.

Never let anything go to waste. I made burgers a couple days ago and immediately turned the meat grease into gravy.

Anyone who makes homemade jelly, don’t forget to turn the pulp into fruit butter. Save corn cobs for corn cob jelly. Look around the neighborhood for honeysuckle or cactus fruit, etc. for interesting jellies.

[Lurker]

Thanks.

L

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Thread from last month

Bread In 10 Minutes - No Oven - No Yeast - No Eggs - 3 Ingredients - The Hillbilly Kitchen

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3969428/posts

[The FIGHTIN Illini]

Thanks for the links. ALWAYS something new to learn

[georgiabelle]

please add me to the ping list

[pollyshy]

Thanks. bfl

[greeneyes]

Thanks for the ping.

We always had well stocked pantry. And usually we purchased a quarter of beef which was a year’s supply. Just a way of life before anyone started calling it prepping.

In 2008, I could see that prices were going up, so I took some of our savings and we built a storage area in the basement to increase our storage place for pantry items, and stocked up on a lot of things.

For example, Peanut butter was at a buck for 16 oz. So we bought about 18 months worth. It went up to 1.89 bucks shortly thereafter. Eventually it did go back down to 1.25 bucks.

Anytime the oil prices spike, that will shortly be reflected in the stores, either by raised prices or shrinking containers at around the same price.

We didn’t really do anything different for the Plandemic, except to go ahead and stock up on our normal monthly purchases ie restock what we had used, and buy some extra milk, cheese, bread etc.-planning on no shopping for 1-2 months.

Then our Walmart started offering the pickup option, so we were able to go ahead and get what we needed and just pick it up.

More recently, we have increased our storage space again. Concentrating on canning the meat specials each week right now.

Lack of time, and Cooler temps mean our garden is pathetic so far this year - so likely will not have as much produce to can as usual, unless we can get some at the farmer’s market.

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Prepper Recipes

As a zip file
https://permasteader.com/cloud/index.php/s/mtXgf7Boops7pSF

Individual files
https://permasteader.com/cloud/index.php/s/QZiDCNptCT3TgeH

Caveat; The cloud software file viewer doesn't render html as a web page but instead, displays the html code. All the Dutch Oven Recipes are htm/html files as are a few other misc recipes. Once downloaded, open in a browser and they'll look fine. Also, there are links on the Dutch Oven Recipes but they do not work. These html files were once someone's website which no longer exists. However, all the Dutch Oven recipes have descriptive names and they are all in their own folder so after downloading, just open any that interest you one at a time from that folder and the html will render into a web page just fine.

At the second link above, there is a ducth_oven_recipes.zip that has just those recipes, the html files in a folder. It's less than 1mb unzipped so the best way to get a look at those is to just download that zip file, unzip, open the resulting folder and double click any htm/html file and it should open in your default browser and look something like this;

A lot of the Dutch Oven recipes are desserts. There's 126 recipes therefor 126 html files which is a bit much for me to go through and convert to pdf or to go through and create an index page and make the links work. Any other html file outside the dutch oven folder will be the same way. The cloud file viewer will show html code instead of rendering the web page. If the title sounds good, just download the htm/html file and open it in a browser to view. If you like it, keep it, if not, delete it. Html/htm files are tiny so you won't be filling up your hard drive. All the recipe files, pdf, htm etc all add up to less than 10mb which is still pretty small. All the other Food files, Drying, Curing, Storage, Misc from yesterday's links add up to about 50mb.

Dutch Oven note: The recipes are for using charcoal briquettes but I've cooked using just coals from a wood fire before. I made sort of a keyhole shaped fire pit using rocks with a fire in the big circle and used a shovel to pull coals over to a the slot part of the keyhole shape where the Dutch Oven was. Just like the briquette method, some go under the dutch oven(with legs) and some go on top of the lid. The dutch ovens with legs also have a rim around the edge of the lid to contain the coals. I used this keyhole fire pit method to make leg quarters quite a few times and it worked great. IIRC it took a couple of hours and fresh/hot coals had to be placed under and on top of the oven every half hour or so. You'll need a pretty heavy hook with a handle to lift the oven. I think I might have used welding gloves because I had some. For the lid, I did use a hook and you have to brush any ashes away from the edge of the lid before you take it off so that you don't get ashes in your food.