Posted on 10/01/2012 12:20:57 PM PDT by djf
http://www.ifrc.org/Global/Publications/disasters/142100-hwt-en.pdf
http://www.alpharubicon.com/kids/homemadeberkeydaire.htm
In my opion you need more than one way to clean your water, but ways that use the least amount of energy are the best. In shft fan energy=work and shtf fan is a lot of work.
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Still it has sugar and sugar is poison.
Still it has sugar and sugar is poison.
It’s not my list, it’s another website.
Personally, I’m not all that crazy on corn meal, but one thing that is a MUST IMHO is corn starch.
Help you thicken up stews/soups.
Now just to show I ain’t a person of all words and no action, I just got back from the store.
I bought a pound of ground beef to make a couple burgers for dinner, and a ceasar salad mix. Also a pound of butter I needed.
In addition:
I knew they were having a sale on oatmeal, so I got four of the big Quaker Oats oatmeal thingies, 2 lbs 10 ozs each.
16 pounds of various canned goods, almost all for less than $1 a can.
34 bucks and I have enough food to keep me alive for over a month, I admit I’d get damned tired of oatmeal, BUT I WOULD NOT STARVE!!!
That’s what I’m talkin about.
“...In fact, I, myself, am a chocolate Twinkie.”
This sounds slightly wrong. Perhaps sinister. Now everyone wants to know - do YOU have a 127 year shelf life?
Very little hypo is used for public water supplies.
They use a method called “break-point” chlorination that allows as low as 2 ppm to do the job. But you are right, it is killing those that drink it. I do not.
You are luck, that is not the normal shelf life of olive oil. What good is it to store something that for most will very likely go bad.
The point is you need food to get you by. In shft the fan you are going to eat a lot of stuff you would normally eat. That or you can end up a very health dead man.
Well we are working on the "tofer" system.
I designed our buildings heating system with the theory that my gas and electric may be off for extended amounts of time so we have a wood/coal heating system as well as both gas and electric.
Our coal/wood system is a modern day "Franklin Stove" which can also be used to cook on. I made my water distiller to fit nicely on the Franklin Stove and we have a goodly supply of fuel AND we live in timber country.
Not as fast as Dysentery, Cholera, Typhoid fever, Giardiasis or any other of two dozen diseases I can name would.
I’ve been wondering about the feasibility of using an old car radiator as a still...
assuming of course there was a way to flush it out good first..
I haven't stored cookies. I have several recipes for no-bake cookies and I'll use those. I have not tried to make them but it's no big deal to mix up the stuff.
I did buy an outdoor oven, a Camp Chef, that uses small bottles of propane so I can bake anything that needs an oven.
“do YOU have a 127 year shelf life?”
Nah. That’s an exaggeration some lyin’ Twinkie broadcast. That would be abnormal! I’m all about truth!!
I wouldn’t antifreeze is some very nasty stuff I doubt you could ever clean it enough.
the other good thing about Calcium hypochlorite is you can make your own sanitizing solution. In a real full blown SHTF diseases have and always will kill more people than the ‘zombies’ will.
You’re joking, right? That’s a good way to kill a few people.
That would scare me because of not knowing how the seams were sealed up.
Copper tubing and the newer type fitting (requires no soldering) work well. Its just expensive now because of the price of copper.
I’ve stored Canola Oil, regular Crisco and butter flavor Crisco. It’s all stored in the dark and cool.
True story.
A friend of mine (my neighbor, actually) has another friend who had a very bad weight problem.
So the heavy guy got very into nutrition and diet and exercise, lost a ton of weight, and became a personal trainer.
My neighbor friend went to visit him, and the trainer dude called him into the pantry.
He had a Micky D’s Big Mac in the original container.
He opened it up.
Except for being a bit shriveled, it looked and faintly smelled like a Big Mac.
Nothing would grow on it. No molds. No bugs or flies went near it. It was like Kryptonite or something.
My friend is very trustworthy, and I totally believe him.
Oh, btw, the Big Mac had been purchased something like eight months previous...
Well, that’s why I say I’m “wondering” about it instead of saying I’m “planning” to do it!
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