Posted on 01/22/2016 6:26:13 PM PST by MtnClimber
Winter storm Jonas is brewing on the East Coast and is projected to start dumping snow and freezing rain on Friday night. So you should run to the store and buy bread and milk, right? Wrong. Bread and milk expire pretty quickly and require refrigeration. They're also pretty light on the nutrients and won't keep you satiated and supplemented as you ride out the weather. The trick is to buy foods that don't won't expire quickly or need to be refrigerated. They should be easy to prepare, easy to eat, high in protein, and provide enough variety to keep you full and happy for days. Here are 13 better items for your grocery-store run.
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Our native Americans depended on pemmican for the message carriers who could sustain their 2 day run with a few slices of pemmican and a sip of water now and then. I’ve made it a few times just for fun or to carry when hunting. Great stuff.
When we had 5 ft of snow it would not have done any good to call 911. The roads were all covered in at least 5 ft of snow, some areas 7 ft closer to the continental divide. The divide is about 8 miles west of here. No one was going anywhere until the snow plows that blow the snow up and over could get the roads cleared. And that took a long time. The snow storm was from Monday night until Thursday afternoon. The snow plows got here on Sunday afternoon.
There is nothing as wonderful as a fire in a fireplace during bad weather. It waems the body and the spirit as well. A house smells like a home when a fire is burning. At least it does for me.
With 400 quarts of preserves, and two freezers full of veggies and meat, and twenty bushels of potatoes, and ten bushels of apples, and lots of other various sundries, as well as three pickup loads of good dry firewood outside the back door, I don’t think we’ll starve or freeze in a blizzard.
City folk. Sheesh.
LOL Yup.
You’ll have an ample supply of gas to heat the house if the power goes out.
Can’t most canned goods be eaten a few years past the expiration date if kept cool?
Yes!
And food prepared on an old wood kitchen stove.........
Just got a 12-can case of split pea and ham soup that expires in mid-2017. Also have some high calorie Boost complete nutritional drinks that don’t expire for at least a year.
Our wood burning stove is an insert into the existing fireplace. The stove is much more efficient and is the double wall type with a fan that blows air between the walls and out into the room. It needs power for the fan, but it provides good heat without the fan. It is running now and will run pretty much constantly until spring which is the end of May here at 8,500 ft elevation.
I have to agree. I was lucky to be taught survival skills, hunting, and fishing, as a child. Several times in my life,
I’ve needed those skills. Taught my children and they are teaching my grandchildren (with my 2 cents worth of course from time to time.) I find it amazing how little people are aware of their surroundings. Rote zombies mostly and afraid of their shadows.
Yes, the date is normally the sell-by date.
I ate mine down last year, just to see... never bought anything all winter except produce and junk food... Made it to summer, but I broke my knee and went another 8 weeks. So about 7 months and still could have gone a bit more, maybe 2 more months... but things were getting pretty inventive.
It's a good exercise. I sure found out some stuff I should have had more of, and my rotation has been adjusted on some stuff - about 1/4th of my canned meat turned out to be a little rank... but the pup sure liked it fine. Handy to figger that out before I needed it.
So long as I can be in my cabin, winter really isn't a bother, unless I have to dig out the windows. Other than that chore, all my shovels have motors... : )
Thanks.
I heard that Antero Reservoir got down to -51 or so in Dec.
I have always been a hardcore gamer. Video and board/paper/pencil games. Right now there is an active and concentrated effort by social justice warriors to stop games with guns, survival themes and the like, from being published and destroying their ratings when such games are released.
People have, for some time now, been intentionally NOT taught the means of survival. They are actively discouraged from outdoor activities via legislation and land closure. They do not WANT us to survive. Like 1984, they want us to lack even the thought of fending for ourselves.
They do not WANT us to survive. Like 1984, they want us to lack even the thought of fending for ourselves.
That’s the damned truth. They are evil and must think themselves immune to the disaster they’re bringing on.
I imagine he also didn’t like to eat it again because it brought back some unpleasant memories, friends lost, etc. Scents and taste seem to work that way. Somehow they trigger the memory..............a certain perfume or shaving lotion...... a turkey in the oven.........the smell of a wood fire, or a cold crisp snow in the air smell..... salt air, the smell of the sea.....good and bad memories can come back easily.
and very very good for your health. A small handfull of nuts every day for me...
That is true that Antero got down to -51F in December. That reservoir is in the San Louis Valley. Cold air sinks so the valleys are often colder. I live on a mountain ridge at 8,500 ft. It is the best of both worlds except for the snow. In the winter it is often warmer than lower down. in the summer it is cooler. We don’t even have an air conditioner. But, we have to be more self sufficient.
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