Posted on 03/29/2020 12:59:52 PM PDT by Libloather
RINGTOWN, Pa. - When Dan Wowak went to live alone in the wilds of Patagonia in 2016 for a chance to win a half-million dollars on reality television, he was allowed to bring 10 items. Toilet paper wasn't one of them.
Wowak, a Mahanoy City native, did bring an ax and saw, a sleeping bag and a ferro rod, which you can strike to make sparks in just about any condition. He also chose fishing line and hooks, which proved invaluable. Over 51 days, he ate nothing but fish he caught in a lake: nine of them.
"I lost 54 pounds," he said. "I know what hunger feels like."
Wowak, who worked in the juvenile justice system before becoming a full-time woodsman, left the reality show "Alone" early, choosing sanity, food and his family over the big prize. Today, at age 38, he teaches survival and outdoors classes through his company, Coal Cracker Bushcraft, giving crash courses in how to stay alive in the woods or when goods are scarce. He said he's recently gotten hundreds of emails expressing interest as America quickly went from normal to empty supermarket shelves. He's seen people making smart decisions, like social distancing, and bizarre ones, like grabbing all the toilet paper they can.
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Good idea!
Might I suggest a clipboard, with a sheets of your inventory, along with a pencil on a string.
The clipboard should be in close proximity to your pantry, and kept current.
"Store what you eat, ..and eat what you store " will assist you in keeping the rotation of foods current
Organizing on a computer is a good fundamental idea, but somehow those sheets never makes it to the clipboard, or pantry.
I've been there , and done that !
But watch out for them tribbles!
Dehydrated fruit makes a good snack as is.
It’s the veggies and I realize they’d be used for soups and stews.
I’ll have to give it a try.
Acidic foods are hard on metal cans.
Even canning jars lids sometimes.
Anything non-acidic should keep much better.
My main concern is if the tap water were to stop due to whateveer. As long as it's running we don't need cases of bottled water. I always like to remind folks on these prepper threads that the average hot water heater contains 50 gallons of drinkable water. No, that won't help with end world scenarios, but that and whatever other liquids you have could last until the water trucks get to you.
With advance notice of water shutoff, we have 2 bladders (WaterBOB) that fit in any average sized tub and will fill to brim.
We also have the original folding Sun Oven. Works great providing the Sun is out. Other than that, good old 2 burner propane camping Coleman stove. Run out of propane, we have a fire pit, providing the gas is still on.
Also, still have the camping gear in case of earthquake and house uninhabitable.
Last precaution most don't think about is human waste. Other than taking a leak, we have 2 five gallon buckets with plenty of lawn bags. We will bury ours, but others may have a different disposal protocol.
FYI, we live in suburban OC, CA. Think we'd be good for at least 6 months or more.
Wow. Our Costco (Greenville, SC) had a Disney-like queue to get into the store, and a board with over a dozen items listed of out of stock items. No toilet paper, paper towels, chicken, or, horror of horrors, mini coffee cakes. I didn’t see what gas prices were but Sam’s Club down the street was down to $1.39 for regular the other day.
Abortions may never stop, since we could be “aborting” many that are and have been for some time, outside the mother!
Spam keeps for a long time and is high in protein. Not a bad choice. :)
Online resources can teach you how to create and maintain your own sourdough starter.
Starter includes potatoes, cloth cover, sugar , salt, and water, and it will bubble as fermentation occurs; most of the starter ingredients are already common in the pantry or refrigerator.
As i recall, natural fermentation takes about four days, and needs to be refreshed daily, or regularly.
There is just so much you can do with 'self-rising flour', or a mixture of baking soda and flour.
Since the Chicom cootie hit, we didn’t go without anything...And no, were not preppers nor panic hoarders. We keep a few supplies on hand, but that it!
And check this out, they'd had all the carts lined up in front of the store like divider to funnel people in, not a single person in line, AND they had two employees handing out the carts after they sprayed the handles with sanitizer and wiped them down and they said, here's your cart!
It was very impressive how they've responded. And the store was nearly empty...And this was at about 11:00 a.m.
I worked in a convenience store when I was in college. Two things I remember to this day are rotate your stock and face your products. I still face cans of soda or bottles of Lipton ice tea in my refrigerator, but more importantly, I always rotate all foods and any other items that have an expiration date. When you put away your groceries, just pull out the old stuff and put the new stuff in the back, once you've confirmed the expiration dates. I also pull from the back of the shelf at the store and check to see if it's newer than the stuff up front. Some stores rotate, others don't. A lot of times I find older items in the back. Military commissaries are notorious for putting new stock up front, but I've also seen in in other grocery stores, so always check the expiration date before buying.
If this was a disaster, things would be very different.
The way to prevent that is to freeze it for a few days before you store it away. Freezing kills any baby insects and kills all the eggs too.
I just did an experiment and cooked some 11 year old baby lima beans. I could eat them if necessary....otherwise, no.
Agreed.
I’m not a prepper and I was ready for this. Not sure what that says or means ....
For those who want to store food for the next time: https://providentliving.churchofjesuschrist.org/food-storage?lang=eng
The Mormons have food storage available to everyone. You can order online and have it delivered (once things are back in stock - they are sold out of everything), or you can get very reasonable prices in many cases if you go to your nearest Home Storage Center. They tell you the shelf life, and so far nothing I got from them has gone bad. It may be worth looking now to see what they might have for anyone who is still interested a few months from now.
Considering the elections are coming up in NOV, prepping for next winter sounds like a wise course of action.
Especially if the COVID virus kicks up again.
The Spanish flu came in three waves over the course of a couple years.
I think prepping for next year should be high on the priority list for anyone.
***Offer your left hand to a moslem camel jockey.***
How do moslem women pat out flat bread using one hand?
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