Posted on 11/30/2012 11:17:00 AM PST by Kartographer
Over the last year or so I have written a number of “reports” for our small group that have guided food and water purchase and storage, meds, weapons and ammo, finances, communication, etc. In each of these I have usually tried to look ahead, seeing both the disaster period, survival and then the recovery, if we are skilled and lucky enough to get to that shore. If you manage to survive but are not prepared for the long term recovery what are you going to do, wait for FEMA?
Some of the un-thought of items and ideas that I have addressed:
Water Meds Batteries Tools Materials Fluids
(Excerpt) Read more at modernsurvivalonline.com ...
I also have an inverter - you mentioned that in regard to a car.
Thank you for the reference.
Ok. Thanks. Now I know what to tell Hubby.
I’m with you, simple works. KISS is my motto.
I don't know about that. What's the use in cooking if the flame is smaller than your Thanksgiving Day turkey? If it's not worth overkill, is it even worth doing at all?
By the way, the "Fire Magic Echelon Diamond E1060s Stainless Steel Free Standing Grill" is on sale at Amazon for $14,679.50. That's over $2500 off!
I expected a guy to come back at me about what I said about men and canned heat and Sterno stove. You can get the monster grill at the great sales price of $14,679.50, and I paid maybe $1.00 for a can of canned heat and $3.00 for a Sterno stove years ago. Inflation has happened and now a Sterno Stove is closer to $10 and canned heat could be $3.00. I haven't looked at canned heat price recently.
Thank you for pointing out men have not changed - cook outside with monster stove - canned heat and a Sterno Stove is only for sissies. I love guys, they are so predictable.
More important though, did the idea of a $15k grill to do a $1 job make you smile?
Thanks for posting your recipe. That’s a great idea. I’ve stocked up on powdered boullions (beef, chicken & chicken-tomato) but even in their original containers they want to clump & harden over time. As to your storage questions:
Washing & reusing containers with screw lids, like the clear, sturdy plastic canisters some tree nuts come packaged in. To better the seal for your goods, wrap the container’s threads a few times in plumbers tape, in the direction of tightening the lid. (Plumbers tape is a thin, slick plastic. No sticky involved, but it’s clingy much like saran wrap.)
You aparently have or intend to buy a vacuum sealer. A technique I have seen in Youtube videos but not yet geared up to try uses the Food Saver jar sealer lid, and for reusing former grocery jars, the same demonstrator was using Food Saver’s vacuum sealing canister. She put the odd jar inside, ran the vacuum til done, then opened the canister. That sucked down the target lid.
Food Saver’s website markets pricey sets of differently sized canister. I’d rather expend on the one & use it to seal reused grocery jars. With that technique (assuming it works), you could stack your individual packs in a “free” container that also gets vacuum sealed.
There’s another technique that uses a manual or electric pump, hose & hollow pin. You drill or punch a tiny hole in the target lid, vacuum seal, then quickly remove the pin & seal the hole with tape similar to electrical tape. I have my doubts about long term vacuum storage relying on a sticky tape seal, tho I suppose its first inclination, given the tiny hole, would be to get physically sucked down enough to seal the hole.
Went to one of the public libraries in our area. I was looking for the recent Rawles book (Founders.) It was in the catalog, and had not been checked out, but I couldnt find it! Finally one of the staff showed me a display of the books which are on the list of reading for the library staff - that’s right... they are reading prep books! It gave me a warm and fuzzy to have it acknowledged that a LOT of unknown compatriots in my area are prepping...or at least interested. The library also has a full set of the Foxfire books.
If I had to pick out one,(Foxfire book) which one would you start with?
It depends on what you’re interested in - foraging, hog butchering, homebrew, cabin or furniture making. Review the subtitles. IIRC, some start with vol. 3 but I might be wrong as I don’t have them here to verify.
mmmmmmmm raisins.... like the 72 raisins Allah gives to martyrs...
/sarc
Thanks!
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