Posted on 10/01/2012 12:20:57 PM PDT by djf
Using crisco, or any other artificial fat is extremely hazardous to your health. Margarine is even worse.
Those oils are a guarantee of getting type 2 diabetes. They cause your cell membranes to become impervious to water, thus not allowing water soluable nutrients in, leaving them stranded in your blood, to be later stored as fat.
There should be space under the bed, under the couch, behind the dresser. Build a small box as a window seat with storage inside. Change out end tables and coffee table with trunks or other storage containers. Use a garbage can, top it with a piece of wood and throw a piece of fabric over the whole thing for a night stand. Two by fours fit perfectly behind open doors so make some shelves.
Agreed. Throw in if the country isn't trying to make a comeback then it's done.
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One of the best ways I have found (if you have access to a good fire/heating source) is to use a "moonshine still" design.
The basic ingredients are a container you can seal up. An old crock pot is good. the bigger the better.
A goodly amount of flexible copper tubing. and you will need a fitting to attach it to the lid of the crock pot. Then a plastic 5 gallon bucket for the "sump" and then we used another fitting to run the copper tubing out the side of the bucket at the bottom.
The idea behind this is you put your water in the crock pot then seal it up and the copper tubing is ran to the bucket and coiled up (looks like a spring when you get done.) and run out the side of the bucket. you need a fitting here because the bucket needs to hold water.
The water in the crock pot turns to steam is forced along the tubing until it gets to the bucket where the water in the "sump" (Water that surrounds the outside of the copper tubing) will cool it back down and the steam then changes back to fresh "distilled" water.
Also if The SHTF you can make both wood and grain alcohol (which has hundreds of uses) with the same still.
Here is a brief youtube video that gives you the idea. Crock pot Water Distiller
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Whatever you do, do not buy the 2.5 gallon polyethylene bottles with the spigots; they all will fail after 2-3 years from cracks due to poor design. I have lost probably 150 gallons of spring water that way.
I hate to be the one to break it to you, but all white and all yellow pvc plastic paint buckets meet the conditions listed in your Wiki link.
Good point.
In a serious SHTF scenario where there is death there will be an explosion of rodents and varmints. A rat can chew through a 5 gallon plastic bucket with ease.
The book "Earth Abides" is a classic post apocalyptic novel by George R. Stewart. In the story almost everyone dies from a mysterious disease. The central figure is a survivor who is faced by a plague of rats that attack his food stores. His solution is to store non-canned food in steel filing cabinets.
I thought that was a great idea.
In my area used filing cabinets are fairly plentiful at places that resell used office furniture. Filing cabinets with scratches and dents are usually pretty cheap but as long as they still close tightly are perfectly good for rat proof storage.
PS - If you haven't read the book I recommend it as a good read.
It's an oldie but well written and the theme of survival in a post apocalyptic world is timeless.
Used paperbacks are commonly available for $1 or so.
Great places to store stuff AND you can enhance this area by removing bed frames and couch legs and building bases for both using plywood etc. and making proper storage shelves under them.
Its amazing how much stuff you can store under these just by raising them a few inches and making proper shelves under them.
Check a bucket for the proper markings, don’t rely on the color. Easiest way is to get them for next to nothing is at a bakery.
Calcium hypo chlorite is a really poor choice to ‘purify’ water. It is quite toxic, and the taste alone will render the water unpalatable.
Just 2 or 3 drops of SSKI will purify the water better, without making it toxic, or unpalatable, and you can carry the little bottle of SSKI in your pocket wherever you go. That little bottle will purify over 100 gallons of water.
Well I think that during shtf it’s going to be a little hard to run down to the Whole Foods or Trader Joe’s and get a quart of extra virgin olive oil don’t you?
Yes - freezing and refrigeraton work well.
In fact, those are really the only ways to prolong the shelf life of common cooking oils and shortening.
Seeing how Calcium hypochlorite is used pretty much by ever by every city water treatment facility in the country I am surprised we are all dead already.
“Cornmeal: All-purpose flours are good to store, but cornmeal may be the best overall.”
I’ve been a prepper for over 2 decades and this has never been a consideration for 2 reasons- pellagra, and the fact I never use it. I’m surprised it’s at the top of your list. One size does not fit all when prepping. If you don’t eat it, wouldn’t eat it, don’t store it. Also, #1 law of prepping- don’t show off your preps.
Yeah but the chemical from the PVC leech into the Nestle Quick and will kill you eventually kill you, not to mention what the sugar and other ingredients of the Nestle Quick will do to you.
“Two by fours fit perfectly behind open doors so make some shelves.”
Some years ago I got long metal racks with hardware to slip over the top of a door. Each one has six rows of attached racks. I have three bedrooms and each one has those racks behind the door.
We found a solution: go shop at the Latin mercados or the British ex-pat stores. Their stuff is packaged in metal for export. Prices are comparable to Wally World.
No harder than getting crisco?
The point is not to store poison for food.
Coconut or olive oil would be a far better choice. I have olive oil stored up at the ranch that is 5-6 years old and is still in good shape; used some of it sunday making breakfast.
The quick recipe now has half as much sugar as the original.
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