Posted on 04/18/2011 8:48:01 AM PDT by Kartographer
The laundry room of Tamara Huffman’s split-level here in the Shenandoah Valley is filling up with cheese powder and freeze-dried ham, at the ready should her husband, Brian, lose his job anytime in the next 25 years. She carves a little bit out of their already tight budget every month to buy some more.
This sort of stockpiling was once the purview of survivalists preparing for Armageddon. But Huffman’s fear isn’t the end of the world so much as the $5 basket of grape tomatoes she bypassed the other day at her local supermarket.
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Put your rice, beans, or any other dry goods in the jars.
Take a small piece of tin foil and make a cup out of it.
Place the cup in the filled jar making sure it doesn't come up over the lip of the jar.
Clean the jar lip for a good seal.
Light a couple of matches and burn off the sulfur.
Drop the burning matches in the tin foil cup.
Place the top on the jar and tighten the lid.
The burning matches will burn the oxygen out of the jar and cause a vacuum.
If you want to be extra safe, put the jars in the freezer for a couple of days.
Whole ball o’wax.
A friend of mine wrote/recorded this song (click on “Apocollapse” and listen to the words of the verse.)over 15 years ago - listen to the words. (And they've done it.)
They will certainly need that, but what good is it going to do, when there may be thousands of rioters in their neighborhood?
Thanks for that advice, I’d never heard that, but it certainly makes sense. They are, after all, merely rapidly oxidizing iron!
Thanks for the Ping, Kart, and thanks for the link!
We took the smaller bags of rice and then vacuumn packed them with our food saver system in another plastic wrapping. Same with the small bags of beans etc. High volume rice etc is going in food grade buckets with Mylar liners.
You can get these granny lids that fit on the 5 gallon buckets so you can open a smaller lid and take out what you need and then seal it up again.
Is the term “food grade” when applied to the plastic buckets just hype - or a really good idea?
“Is the term “food grade” when applied to the plastic buckets just hype - or a really good idea?”
No you need to only use food grade buckets. Always. Ask the ladies in the bakery at the local grocery store to save their buckets for you. We get them all the time for $1 each.
Anyone who shouts from the rooftops that they have food while others go hungry is an idiot.
Civilized human behavior is a veneer that exists only hand in hand with full stomachs, let him go hungry for an extended period and man will quickly go feral.
I have to stick up for this lady. I know a personal friend of hers,and the reporter was told to not use her full name and location. She was shocked to see that all her info was just out there for the world to see.
In Toms Brook, the neighbors probably have their own supplies stocked up.
I think most people, especially the liberals will sit around and whine quite a while expecting the government to feed them. That is time enough for those that understand the situation to organize better to be able to defend what they have. People that live in cities and stockpile food will likely be murdered for their food, it may be a little harder to take food from rural folk...first they will have to have some survival skills just to get to many rural places if things are that bad. Also the rural folks food will be live meat animals and staple ingredients that most wouldn’t know what to do with if they had it.
You think I jest, but recently I was told about a single mom having a hard time due to unexpected bills and decided to help her out. I bought her some cereal and milk, some hamburger, and a few other things. Tomato sauce was on sale that day so I picked her up a case of that too. When I took her the groceries she actually asked me what you used tomato sauce for...
The poor lady must be plenty PU’d! Never believe anything a reporter promises you when they are after a story!
She may be shocked that the reporter put all her info out there, but I am not at all surprised. If she was a FReeper she would already know how much to trust reporters.
I think it is a must to get food grade buckets, many of the others are either made of questionable recycled plastic or some have been previously used for non-food items and will have residue and or odor that will transfer. Food grade buckets are not hard to come by, bakeries and large companies that produce food products often have a surplus of buckets that have been used for food items that they will sell cheap or even give away.
Aw man...now you're making me all misty.
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