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Best Prep Food?
09/01/2021 | 4everontheright

Posted on 09/01/2021 12:50:14 PM PDT by 4everontheRight

Folks - I want to buy some "prep" food for my son & his soon-to-be-bride. I want to make sure they have some stored food & the easiest way (unlike how I've done it) is to just buy some stored food from Patriot Food Supply or such. I'm curious if any Freepers have purchased & what they consider the best options, where you have purchased from or what advice you might have. Appreciate the advice!


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KEYWORDS: food; foodstorage; medication; medications; prep; prepper; preppers; shtf; wboopi
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To: metmom

I have plenty of iodized salt and meat preservation salt. I also have food grade wax. Dip a block of cheese several times in the wax and it be be good to eat for a long time without refrigeration.


121 posted on 09/01/2021 3:32:26 PM PDT by Scarpetta (Trump won...by a lot. )
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To: bgill

Didn’t forget about the pets. Have a crate of sardines packed in water for the cats.


122 posted on 09/01/2021 3:34:32 PM PDT by Scarpetta (Trump won...by a lot. )
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To: 4everontheRight

Beans, Rice, Pasta, Canned Meat and any canned veggies.


123 posted on 09/01/2021 3:38:01 PM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: 4everontheRight

https://www.costco.com/emergency-kits-supplies.html


124 posted on 09/01/2021 3:39:03 PM PDT by hercuroc
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To: jy8z

I have a question, is that uncooked roast? Do they charge?


125 posted on 09/01/2021 3:40:58 PM PDT by Mazey (Missing the soft green hills of Western PA)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

Look into kitchen garbage gardens. Some vegetables can be grown in the ground or window sills. Onions, garlic and potatoes are some that can be grown outside. Carrots and celery can be grown in a window sill for their tops only.

If you can’t get seed packets, you can save and dry the seeds out of grocery store tomatoes, berries, bell peppers, chilis, melons, etc. Place some seeds on a saucer and let them air dry on a counter, then put them in an envelope with the name and date. Some won’t germinate but most will.

Don’t forget looking for foragables or ask neighbors around your neighborhood. Transplant sprigs (not the whole plant) or wait until it goes to seed or harvest.

Tip for growing lettuces and greens - harvest the older lower leaves only. A few days later, again harvest only the lower leaves. Continue that practice and the plant will last long into the season. Harvesting all the leaves or only the new leaves will kill the plant.


126 posted on 09/01/2021 3:49:15 PM PDT by bgill (.Which came first, the vax or the virus?)
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To: 4everontheRight

Canned corned beef will last 5 years. Food properly packaged in a vacuum sealed bag and frozen can last indefinitely.

For vegetables, grow from seeds.


127 posted on 09/01/2021 3:50:51 PM PDT by cpt_dave
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To: 4everontheRight

I bought basics from LDS on line store - very good pricing. Packed in #10 cans good for about 30 years.

Rice, Beans, Oats, Wheat, Flour, Potatoes, carrots, apples, onions, pasta to name the main ones.

Excellent planning tool for preparing:

http://everythingunderthesunblog.blogspot.com/

Good Video on you tube by Wendy Dewitt. There’s also a DVD that can be purchased on Amazon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GY5kiCzaeYc

Best thing I ever did was get a pressure canner. I purchase meat on sale and can it - serves as preps and saves money.


128 posted on 09/01/2021 3:55:04 PM PDT by greeneyes ( Moderation In Pursuit of Justice is NO Virtue--LET FREEDOM RING)
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To: Pollard

The best IMHO.

I see adds for the 4Patriot brand - might get some to try.


129 posted on 09/01/2021 4:04:54 PM PDT by 1FreeAmerican
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To: Leaning Right

>>You need hot water to activate them. And hot water would be a luxury in hard times.<<
If things are hard enough that you don’t have access to hot water, then you are in big trouble if the water is not safe to drink.


130 posted on 09/01/2021 4:05:51 PM PDT by SauronOfMordor (A Leftist can't enjoy life unless they are controlling, hurting, or destroying others)
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To: bigbob; 4everontheRight

Printing instructions for making a rocket stove is also a good idea if you live where there are lots of twigs. I have instructions for one made of 26 bricks, but you can make them out of cans and other materials.


131 posted on 09/01/2021 4:19:34 PM PDT by Silentgypsy (In my defense, I was left unsupervised.)
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To: SauronOfMordor

> If things are hard enough that you don’t have access to hot water, then you are in big trouble if the water is not safe to drink. <

That’s a very good point. Someone here mentioned the importance of having a water purification device as part of your kit. And someone else mentioned spices, just to make your food more palatable.

Lots of good info. on this thread!


132 posted on 09/01/2021 4:22:32 PM PDT by Leaning Right (I have alrseady previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: Mazey
I have a question, is that uncooked roast? Do they charge?

Yes uncooked. I pick out a packaged roast or two off of the shelf and have the butcher cut the meat into 1/4" slices. Then they repackage the meat. They have not charged me yet. In fact they use the same sticker. I'm in Texas and I get this at HEB.
133 posted on 09/01/2021 4:42:12 PM PDT by jy8z (When push comes disguised as nudge, I do not budge.)
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To: 4everontheRight

My friend and her husband bought 2 huge deyhdrater ovens at 4K a piece. They are doing meat, eggs, fruit, veggies. They put them in barrels with oxygen packets. She gets 700 eggs a week from chicken farmer who can’t sell eggs that are double yoked, wrinkled, defected and turns them into powder and seals them in special bags. She has cans food like crazy. They have 20 acres and bought goats and she makes goat cheese as well.

I was thinking of buying survival kits from patriot.


134 posted on 09/01/2021 4:54:22 PM PDT by Engedi
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To: 4everontheRight

It’s already surpassed the number of posts than my three stand-alone prepper threads did.


135 posted on 09/01/2021 5:12:00 PM PDT by Pollard (#*&% Communism)
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To: 4everontheRight

Following thread


136 posted on 09/01/2021 5:21:45 PM PDT by Baldwin77 (Traitor Joe is NOT my president)
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To: 4everontheRight

Snowmageddon back in February here in DFW sure opened my eyes about being prepared - especially about water. Power was out for 20 hours but water was not running for several days.


137 posted on 09/01/2021 6:03:30 PM PDT by Moonmad27
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To: 4everontheRight

Beans and rice and canned meat.


138 posted on 09/01/2021 6:30:06 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: GreyHoundSailor

Where do you store/keep your Harvest Right? Sure seems like it takes up a LOT of space.


139 posted on 09/01/2021 6:33:24 PM PDT by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation.)
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To: Moonmad27

Did you fill your bathtubs, with water, before the freeze hit?

We had to do this, in hurricane areas....I know you’re not hurricane...but...serves the same purpose.


140 posted on 09/01/2021 6:35:37 PM PDT by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation.)
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