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Checking the Prpper Supplies
victorj19
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Going a bit stir crazy being inside so much or is it that my wife is home more. Anyway I decided it might be a good idea to check on my SHTF supplies and make a few observations. The supplies are likely 5 to 7 years old now.
The ammo and guns should all be good but it would be fun hurt to test some of each.
Unless there's some big external reason, we'll shelter in place at home.
The old tootsie rolls are still tasty. I had cheap access so I stored a few.
Krustez buttermilk pancake mix isn't worth storing longer than the recommended shelf life.
Unless you know what to do with the four basics (flour, salt, honey and ???), stick with the professionally prepared freeze dried survival food kits. Yes they are expensive but require less room to store (freeing up space or other things and will be easily to take if bugging out), will store for a longer period.
Don't store more than a year's or so worth of canned goods unless you can commit to using it up an replenish it.
Will need to reconsider cleaning products and quantities. A dozen or so bars of soap seems insufficient for the long. Thinking of researching how to make liquid soap, hand sanitizer, etc., making some and then storing the ingredients and recipes. Seems more flexible if there are multiple purposes for some ingredients.
Would recommend drying food over canning.
Comments?
The ammo and guns should all be good but it would be fun hurt to test some of each.
Unless there's some big external reason, we'll shelter in place at home.
The old tootsie rolls are still tasty. I had cheap access so I stored a few.
Krustez buttermilk pancake mix isn't worth storing longer than the recommended shelf life.
Unless you know what to do with the four basics (flour, salt, honey and ???), stick with the professionally prepared freeze dried survival food kits. Yes they are expensive but require less room to store (freeing up space or other things and will be easily to take if bugging out), will store for a longer period.
Don't store more than a year's or so worth of canned goods unless you can commit to using it up an replenish it.
Will need to reconsider cleaning products and quantities. A dozen or so bars of soap seems insufficient for the long. Thinking of researching how to make liquid soap, hand sanitizer, etc., making some and then storing the ingredients and recipes. Seems more flexible if there are multiple purposes for some ingredients.
Would recommend drying food over canning.
Comments?
Comments
Soap is extremely simple to make. Every “preppier” should know how.
Might want to check out the old “Foxfire “ series of books . Virtual how to manuals of all things homemade like our grandparents and great grandparents made , farmed used living in the country 100 years ago
My attempt faied The popular recipe for hand sanitizer calls for aloe vera but that is hard to find for an individual now. Experimented this morning by mixing 70% rubbing alcohol and sugar free jello mix. Regular jello likely would have left your hands sticky. My concoction failed to jell as hoped. Now just have some colored alcohol. A few drops at a time will still work. Any ideas.
There shouldn't be a nationwide shortage of alcohol in North America. Corn prices are low and the ethanol plants would like another use for their product other than mixing it with gasoline especially with the extremely low price for oil.
I'll have to search for the "Foxfire" books for ideas.
Jim
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And you could mix that up with some five gallon buckets of black beans, and lentils. Protein, complex carbs and fiber.
These foods will keep for about 20 years.
Right now, this stuff is probably all sold out.
These oxygen absorbing packs were invented by a genius. They are little cloth bags containing iron shavings. Put them in the bucket and they get rusty. They oxidize, which absorbs all the oxygen.
You want the whole grains they keep much much longer than flour. Also, while brown rice is a wonderful food and easy to fix, it will keep only 18 months. Corn, wheat, beans will keep for decades.
It is weird. Brown rice is the "staff of life" and is one of the most nutritious foods. Just doesn't keep very long.
Ironically white rice will keep for years. But, all the good stuff has been milled off of the white rice so it is not very good for you in the first place, just a bunch of starch.
Better to stick with corn, hard red winter wheat, red beans, black beans, lentils etc. Use the oxygen absorber packs and these grains will last for decades.
When this "crisis" hit 2 weeks ago I did buy 5 pounds of brown rice and will make sure to eat it all in the next year.
I just went and checked one of my good online suppliers. None to my surprise, most of the stock is sold out.