Posted on 10/01/2012 12:20:57 PM PDT by djf
Like you I have both regular Crisco and butter flavor Crisco. Shelf live is indefinite. And no one says you got to sit down with a open can and a table spoon and and scarf it down like Ice Cream my dad is 79 my Grandmother lived to be 97 and she cooked with lard or Crisco her whole life. She didn’t stop cooking fried chicken Sunday diner for everyone that wanted to come almost every week until she turned 90.
I apologize if I sounded snarky. I didn’t mean to. I’ve just been a prepper for so long...guidelines are great, but nothing beats experience. A few dozen cans of “X” might be the perfect food, but if you don’t eat it or don’t like it, when you’re under extreme conditions, it’s just going to be more torture if you have to choke it down.
Don’t. It’s a very bad idea that has occurred to others in the past, and people died as a result.
Thanks for all you tips for water purification. I have printed them out and will look into each one.
And I wasn’t taking a shot at you either, FRiend. In fact I would not get tired of oatmeal because I have a good 500 pounds of various canned goods stored, canned meats, pasta (CBD!!), canned veggies, stews chiles, soups, you name it.
My shopping experience tonight was meant to be a bit of inspiration, guidance to people to help them get more in the prepper mentality.
;-)
I haven’t made those in over 25 years but now that we are talking about it I’ll have to try it. I do save my bacon grease, I spoon the clear grease into ice cube trays and freeze. I only fill them up halfway. Then I bag them up and freeze them. When I wan’t to do some hashbrowns I drop a couple in the pan. They come in handy.
As if I am not already paranoid enough about the maintenance folks and the pest control company coming into my apartment with barley 24 hours notice. As clean as I keep my apartment, all I need is for them to find me storing food stuffs in my end and coffee tables, under my bed, behind my dresser and behind my couch, turning my bedroom night stand into a food storage locker when my building has a bug problem, even if I’m not the source. Seriously, when I get evicted, will you be willing to take me in :) ,
“no one says you got to sit down with a open can and a table spoon and and scarf it down like Ice Cream’
Oy,you owe me a keyboard! (I can’t quit laughing to come up with something pithy to say.)
I'll rely on my Big Berkey purifier plus I have 3 Katadyn water filters.
I have a 55 gal. FOOD GRADE barrel attached to a diverter in a downspout to catch rainwater and a 100 gal. WaterBob for a tub and two kiddie pools to sit on a deck to catch rainwater. There is also a 15,000 gal. pool in our small gated community.
If one doesn't have clean water, it's a life and death problem.
They are also very annoying, telling people what to eat, what not to eat. Being superior for their expensive lifestyle choices.
Meh. I'll eat as I damn well please. Given my lifestyle and history, I'm much less likely to die from what I eat than many other things.
Personally, I don't make pie crusts or tamales without lard. Given a chance (twice in my life), I'll use tallow (hard beef fat) for pie crusts. Amazingly good.
/johnny
My Dad told me more than once about the sparrow stew they ate during the depression in Chicago. They trapped them near the graineries.
I used to take pigeons on the farm with a .22
Corn-fed.
HUGE breasts!
Amazingly good char-b-q’d!
City pigeon, who knows what it’s been eating. But I doubt the zombies will worry much about that.
Recommendation- don’t try Alton Brown’s over night oatmeal in the crock pot. Epic fail! I’m always looking for on sale oatmeal. It’s a versatile food. I’m married to a pilot, so many food missions have been gifted with preps as we’ve moved and I think one friend might have opened a bar with the duty free liqueur ;)
Just adding a water tip. We have a well so water has always been a challenge when the power goes. Generators, no thanks. people will be listening for them and they will just be a magnet. I have about 30 big kitty litter jugs in the garage full of hose water just for flushing the toilet. About 40 gallons of water softened water with a few drops of bleach stored for washing up and brushing teeth, cases of bottles water for drinking and a Britta and a bunch of filters. I would like to figure out a good setup for catching gutter water if I can keep it fairly clean.
There ya go.
Today I took an small envelope and started harvesting some seed heads.
They look just like dandelion seed heads.
Wild lettuce, aka prickly lettuce. Very prolific in my neck of the woods. Also extremely nutritious.
To most people, it’s just a weed...
Thanks for the link!
Coconut oil does not have a long shelf life; less than one year. I'd keep some around and with lots of regular popcorn and a bit of canola/vegetable oil and salt for seasoning, have a delicious and high calorie food.
I dated a single gal for a while after the whole Y2K scam. You are about 1/4 of the way to what she had.
This is the subject of a lot of debate. Some maintain that it is one of those foods that never goes bad, keeping for years even in tropical climates. Others maintain that it only has a shelf life of 1 to 2 years. I wonder if some people are looking at hydrogenated coconut oil?
I know that I have had 4 year old coconut oil (opened, in the original container), and it tasted like new. It was stored on a kitchen shelf, that was warm and not particularly dry.
I don’t eat canola or vegetable oil, as a rule, but I do remember from my deep frying days that vegetable oil seemed to go rancid fairly quickly.
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