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Posted on 01/05/2013 4:20:13 PM PST by Kartographer
1. Bic Lighters
2. A Good Winter Hat
3. Bullion Cubes
4. Baby Wipes
5. Glow Sticks
6. Paper Maps
7. Paper Plates
8. Ziplock Bags
9. Tabasco Sauce
10. Duct Tape
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Sorry for the double post!
Thanks for confirming my aversion to the beef cubes! Wondering why there isn’t a good one? (Rhetorical question...unless you or someone really knows!)
Chicken stock is much easier, as is shrimp stock.
I've taken 3 days to make a good beef consomme.
There is one commercial beef glace but it comes in buckets, and is darned expensive.
Ferget it. Lots of times, even in things like beef stew, I'll use chicken base, to give a stew that full, rounded meaty flavor.
/johnny
Thank you for the tip about using the chick base in other meat situations!
My other half likes most of our beef to be simmered in onion, garlic, celery, and green pepper for a few hours... yum...then we have been saving the broth for soups to eat off of either that week, or frozen for later.
I have been assembling equipment for canning and just bought a book yesterday with basic instructions (from US Ag Dept.) We got a pressure cooker the other day. Haven’t tried any of this stuff yet, but hope to do so soon.
The cooker is from ACE hardware, and is aluminum. We have concerns that aluminum cookware is not the healthiest to use if you are wanting to cook beans, etc. But it should do fine for canning, I would think.
Sense of perspective there... If you are forced to use a pressure cooker to cook beans because fuel is scarce.... potential long term health problems are not my top priority.
Besides, my parents and grandparents used aluminum for years, and all got their 70 years that God promised.
Except for one grandfather, but he was a special case, and died violently.
I don't use aluminum for general cooking, because it doesn't do well with acids, and discolors food. But if push comes to shove, my aluminum pressure cooker is gonna get used to make large group stews, or beans, or whatever.
/johnny
Thanks for the advice and perspective. Logic is a good thing, isnt it???
I agree about the better than boullion. It has to be refrigerated. I like the broth base & seasoning better than the boullion cubes; the first ingredient is salt, and doesn’t have to be refrigerated.
Dissolves quickly in hot water.
Guess you won’t need to grow any hot peppers to make your own Tabasco sauce then will you?
Right after shelter, water, food, seeds, and medicine comes duct tape. JMHO. I even use white duct tape to make labels for my home canned meat and veggies.
Duct tape: I have white, red, gray, and black and thick rolls of see through sticky tape to seal boxes for mailing, etc.. I didn’t buy any for actually storing them, they just built up over years. There are some duct tape kinds stacked in my laundry room on a shelf and a roll here and there around the house. Need to get them all in one place.
Every time I turn around I buy duct tape. All colors, especially white and black though. Then Hubby needs some, and never puts it back.
I don’t know what he does with it, I can’t find it anywhere. Same thing with flashlights. Really hard to keep them.
My flashlight that I keep in a drawer next to the Micro Wave just disappeared this weekend. Hubby borrowed it a couple of times. Now it’s gone and no one can find it.
I told him, I am going to buy some and hide them and the next time he asks if I have some, I’ll just look at him blankly and say “I haven’t a clue dear”. LOL.
Another useful item that I hardly ever hear mentioned is clothes pins. The old fashioned wooden ones with a spring. I use them for all sorts of things, not including hanging clothes up to dry.
These things “1. Bic Lighters
4. Baby Wipes
5. Glow Sticks
6. Paper Maps
7. Paper Plates
8. Ziplock Bags”
Are indicative of a *hoarder* mentality instead of a prepper. In a full-on societal breakdown, you aren’t going to care a whit about any of that, and you sure don’t want something disposable.
The few things that you carry had better be tough and re-usable.
Hand-Crafted instant Coffee (Colombian Arabica beans) & raw, unrefined Cane sugar in a CUBE. Hot or Cold, its Coffee on the go!
Beef boullion?
Going by your handle, you should be able to find a Mexican grocery that sells canisters of Maggi or other brand of soup powder. That good enough for your needs?
I really like their flavor of chicken-tomato blend, which has much less sodium & a meatier flavor than Knorr’s.
“I don’t know what he does with it, I can’t find it anywhere. Same thing with flashlights. Really hard to keep them.”
My husband was the same. I had to hide various items so I would know where there was one. His operation was, if he couldn’t find something, he would buy another one and after he used it, that one would disappear so next time he needed that, he’d buy another one. Men....
Thanks, Titan Magroyne! I have tried Maggi, and they’ll do in a severe pinch, but have not been as pleased with them in the past as I might wish.
I have not tried the Maggi chicken/tomato blend, although I have seen it. I like the lower sodium idea, so I’ll certainly give them a try the next time I see them! Thanks for the tip!
Sounds kinda like my guy too.
I’m late to the thread, but still hoping someone will be here to help.
Bic lighters - I’ve been doing matches since the lighters I’ve bought tend to not work after while. I get the long-handled ones to light our wood stove, so maybe Bic brand short ones don’t have that problem.
What is the best way to store matches? I wonder if the chemicals on the tips don’t last with time. I could put them in mylar with oxygen absorbers if that would help. (I’ve stored silver that way - because the coins look much prettier untarnished ;)
I would say you have a good way of storing them.At present I just vaccum bag them.
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Mike Reagan Forum.... That was a hundred years ago, wasn’t it. What I wouldn’t give to go back and argue with Rainbird just one more time.
It was before my wife passed... seems like forever ago.
Glad to see your name and hope you are well.
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