Posted on 11/15/2013 6:05:15 PM PST by Kartographer
Weekly Preppers'Thread to post progress, good buys, DIY projects, advice and ideas .....
Kart, Thanks for the post and the tips.
Re: Keystone Meats All Natural Canned Beef.
To all posters - If you live near an ALDI market here is another possibility:
ALDI sells A 12 ounce can of their house brand (Brookdale) Roast Beef and Gravy.
I can’t recall the exact price but I think it is in the range of $3.50 or so.
We have tried quite a few cans of it and think it is very good.
It has good texture and flavor, not greasy at all.
We served it with rice, noodles, mashed potatoes and on bread as as open-top beef sandwiches.
As an aside I’ll add a plug for ALDI markets based on our experience with the one we patronize:
They are somewhat like a cross between a warehouse style store and a regular supermarket.
Products are presented in warehouse style but you do not have to buy giant sizes or multi-packs.
They have a good variety of food products with weekly specials.
All of the products we have tried I rate as good to excellent - I would say in general on a par or better than national brands.
Prices are very good, the store is always clean and the employees helpful and courteous.
I recommend a visit to ALDI’s to check it out if there is one in your area.
Getting back was something that occurred to me early on.
We have the Cascadia Fault due to put out a massive 9.0 earthquake with an added super tsunami. Roads and bridges will be out and people will be isolated on the slopes of the coastal mountains or on the wrong side of the Coastal Range.
I recently followed a hiking path which passed underneath an old bridge which crosses the Columbia River. The concrete pilings were crumbling to where you could see the original poor worksmanship.
My pleasure. I consider Keystone a high quality product. It fills an important niche in my stores that I was having trouble with before.
Also, here is a great recipe that you can use now, or scaled down slightly, in a SHTF situation.
Margaret Holmes canned beef stew fixings called “Simple Suppers”. At WalMart. $2 a 27oz can. Mix it with 1 can of meat, 1 can of corn and 1 can of green beans. Add a little water to extend the gravy/sauce. That’s for emergencies. Normally you add some fresh carrots, celery and onions to the above and you get a nice tasty beef stew. Always add the meat last, just long enough to get it hot. Otherwise it will fall apart into shredded state.
One more quick note. Alway wear or take shoes with you which you may have to walk back wearing.
That is my experience also, in and out of the Corps.
4" Church Key Can and Bottle Opener $0.39/Each
"This 4" V-Key can opener is nickel-plated. This standard can opener / punch is used to open small to medium sized cans, as well as remove bottle caps. This item is sometimes referred to as a church key."
How would y’all recycle an old water heater into your preps?
Less Traditional Recipes 2 c Flower
Would that be daisies, pansies or day lilies?
Most dams were built with a 50 year life expectancy which have long past expired. If you don’t want to have nightmares, don’t look too closely at the backsides of them. Any wonder that the 100 year flood plain maps were expanded in recent years.
Pick up an inflatable canoe for about $150.00.
If it doesn’t leak, you can add it to your water line going to your current water heater, as an additional holding tank of fresh drinking water.
if you are travelling, carry activated charcoal to filter water. it is also good if someone has ingested poison. activated charcoal is cheap at the pet store, or make it yourself
If you run out of antibiotics, oil of oregano is awesome. Also, if you need topical antibiotic, PineSol rocks. If you get a nasty cut (like with a chainsaw), pour PineSol on your wound. It will stop the bleeding and sterilize all at the same time. Some feed stores have the civilized version, called Pineoil (for mending horse flesh torn by barbed wire and such), but I have seen folks use PineSol with the same results.
I am surprised I did not think ahead better myself.
Suitable walking clothing and shoes as well as researching floatation are new areas to consider. I would be very comfortable in a canoe. I would be OK on a raft. I am even wondering about a body surfboard, foam encased in strong fiber.
I can't believe I never thought about dressy suits and hose and shoes I wear to my many mainland tea party meetings...
Thanks again.
I saw people in Minnesota and Wisconsin, who would jump up off the couch in tennis shoes, and jeans, trow on a light jacket, and get into their comfortable automobile for a 75 mile drive, without a thought of a breakdown.
They didn’t think of what walking in the snow, getting their cloth shoes and jeans legs wet, meant at 10 below zero during a 40 minute walk, not to mention sitting in a car without a heater, as the interior dropped to zero, especially after getting their clothes wet while checking the engine or looking in the trunk and walking around in foot deep snow.
A strange story (at least it was strange to me):
I lived on Lake Livingston in San Jacinto County, Texas, when 9-11 happened. Within one day or less, helicopters were flying over Lake Livingston dam in the county and kept it up day after day. Why in the world would that dam in that little county have helicopters flying around the dam?
At some time, a county official, I think it was the emergency coordinator for the county who told me, explained why that happened. That water is the San Jacinto River that flows to Houston to the oil refinery area of Houston and down to Texas City where huge oil refineries are. That fresh water from that river is required to keep those refineries going. That is gasoline, heating oil that goes to the northern states, natural gas that goes everywhere by pipe line, components of plastic from cracker plants there - all that happens in those areas and they have to have that water or they have to shut down and that would cripple the country.
Our little county with that dam was of vital importance to the entire country when someone took down the towers.
It gave me pause to think about so much we don't know about our country. I'm sure very few or any of you know where the dam for the San Jacinto River in Texas is. That dam means you have gasoline and heating oil if you use that, and natural gas and all forms of chemicals that make plastics. Maybe you want to use a map and see where that dam is. You won't get close to it if there is another attack somewhere in this country.
That is my “dam” story.
Read my 135.
Thanks Marcella. I will look into it. It would be good to have a renewable power supply for my batteries.
Thank you. I never thought that I would ever need to know these things. We live in a different world .
I am sure I picked up the term “church key” at Parris Island or infantry training at Camp Lejeune. That’s the first time I ever heard the term and you can bet we never had any bottle openers. I did hear them once or twice later referred to as John Waynes. Sure, if you go to the Wikipedia it says bottle/can opener, of course Wikipedia didn’t exist back then. Who knows what the Hollywood marines had though, for all I know they may have had feminine products in their kits too, LOL.
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