Posted on 01/24/2010 7:51:38 AM PST by Kartographer
I freeze rice and flours and keep them in the freezer until I use them. I keep all my nuts and dried fruits in the refrigerator. You could probably do the same with dried milk and buttermilk and dried egg products, I would guess.
Good. He's one less concern for you as he won't be coming with his hands out.
So, he's bent out of shape because you won't let him come and mooch off of you? Who needs a friend like that anyway?
The more people who we can get to think this through, the better.
I put my stuff in canning jars and then freeze it, or store it in our back hall, which is refrigerator cold in the winter, and move it to the basement for the summer.
I freeze nuts until we’re ready to eat them.
Really. Announcing that you intend to mooch off someone who has spent literally years making sure I've got my family taken care of isn't a good plan for nurturing a long term friendship.
The more people who we can get to think this through, the better.
Roger that. We started picking like minded folks out of our Neighborhood Watch and sort of cultivating them in a 'prepper' sense.
It took a couple of years but now we've got half a dozen families stocked up for months. They're helping their neighbors the way we helped them.
Then we've got the "government will take care of us" types. They'll get nothing from us.
L
Well, if they're expecting the government to take care of them, let them.
Idiots......
You’re going to need the neighbors for your biodiesel.
The only people who aren’t living with us who we’ll take in is my college age kids. They are in apartments on their own with very limited budgets and simply CANNOT make the kind of preparations necessary. What I’m doing, I’m doing with them in mind for the present.
When they are finally self-sufficient, I will have a good long talk with them about preparedness and they’re on their own at that point.
It is so easy to have a small store of non-perishable food that will be enough to get you by for a couple months.
We intend to do just that ma'am. LOL.
We don't have many but the Section 8'ers in the area are well known to us. Whenever we've got a problem with a gang, the open air dope dealers, or other petty crimes we know right where to go to find them. We haven't been wrong yet.
So when the crap hits the fan we know who we can count on and where to expect trouble from.
L
I've got 6 months worth of food for 3 at 2,000 calories a day. It all fits on a standard sized shelving unit, albeit a bit tightly.
Water was an issue, but where I live I think we've got that covered.
Good luck to you.
We’ve got that easy.
Our little town is trying to go energy independent. It has a town well and other infrastructure in place, so if it can get the windmill/solar power thingie going, it ought to be enough to get us by.
I don’t think that they are thinking survival so much, as being able to sell back the electricity and cut costs. IIRC, at the town meeting, though, someone did make reference to the NE blackout.
I ought to contact the mayor and see where the town is on this.....
He won't listen to the facts. They're noisy. They nearly never put out as much power as the proponents say they will. And for an added bonus they toss hundred pound chunks of ice around in the winter.
If I were you I'd think about investing in a few of those soft solar panels for home use. Not cheap, but...
You have to have sun for solar panels.
I live in NYS.
I’ll mention it to mr. mm however....
The problem with keeping your flour and rice or anything for that matter that you truly will depend on is what if the power goes out for a extended lenght of time?
Yea, they're kind of funny that way. LOL.
I am thinking of getting one of these:
Sunforce 50044 60-Watt Solar Charging Kit
Sheesh, you can get everything on Amazon, can’t you?
Mr. mm had mentioned getting a marine battery at one time. I’m not sure exactly what he was looking at, but apparently, it was a deep cycle battery and held a good charge for a long time.
Right now, even if I stored it in my garage (well-sealed, of course), it would not thaw until March some time. Usually, our power goes out in the winter, with ice on the power lines, etc., rather than in the summer. And once the little “friends” inside the rice and flour have been sufficiently frozen, they’re less likely to make an appearance after thawing.
Whatever flour that I do keep out, I put a few whole bay leaves in it. I haven’t had any problems since I started doing that.
speaking of dried milk...I cannot abide the powdered milk in stores...but if you can get your baker to sell you some of the powdered milk they use - it’s very fine and feels like cornstarch - You can mix that up (takes good stiff mixing) and cool it - not many people will ever think it’s not ‘real’.
That’s a great tip! Thanks!
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