Posted on 06/12/2011 8:42:06 AM PDT by doug from upland
I recommend freezing the beans and rice for a week or two before packing in the five gallon buckets. Freezing kills any bugs and their eggs.
If you can some of those dried beans it’ll give you a quick base for meals, without having to soak the beans overnight. You can add a few bits of salt pork to the beans for flavoring. I think home canned pintos are better than store bought.
Both my parents lived through the Great Depression and while things were bad it was not a post apocalypse Mad Max world. People did what they could to get by, raised their own food and preserved it by canning, mended and reused clothing and learned to conserve what you had. People survived and even in the worst hit areas on the Great Plains there was no breakdown in society. Perhaps today in urban areas where a culture of government dependence and violence exists there may be riots, but in fly over country we will get along like our parents and grandparents did.
For instance, I quite using my 6-bucks-a-can rug shampoo for carpeting spots. I now use a $1 can of Barbasol Shaving Soap in an aerosol can from the dollar store. It works the same, just spray a blob on, let it sit, dip your little brush in a dab of water and scrub off the stain (a hint from Helloise, BTW).
Yesterday, I bought a quality oven mitt, sandwich bags, eyeshadow, a bag of ice cream dixie cups, a large bottle of dishwashing soap plus a great door decoration for the Fourth of July....each item only a dollar.....only $6 total for that list.
Our dollar store is jammed every day now with more and more folks discovering the tremendous amount of money they can save during this horrible inflation. The dollar stores stay at a dollar and don't inflate. I make my purchases at "The Dollar Tree" store.
I wish I had bought stock in the company.
Leni
Where do you live? Can you get a restraining order? Can everybody band together and get a media event on this? How does draining a lake save money?
We live in the high plains of NM. “They” started releasing water way early this spring, in fact, implimenting their decision, but keeping it all secret. Just this week the news got out. Especially evil as we are in the midst of a major drought...no rain since October.
One stupid, female legislator set this in motion, and everyone else jumped.
There is a public meeting coming up, but we’re sensing it’s a done deal.
Totally stupid, senseless, and apart from doing great harm to people, and the all important fish, environment, blah, blah, blah, purposeless.
As you know, “the inmates are running the asylum” is a gross understatement and an insult to the mentally impaired.
There is a great list in my Preparedness Manual called: The First Hundred Things to Disappear When SHTF, I recomend preppers to study it. That list and much more is avaiable in my Preparedness Manual which you can downloard at:
http://www.tomeaker.com/kart/preparedness1i.pdf
If you haven’t already it’s time to prepare. You needed to be stocking up on food guns, ammo, basic household supplies like soap, papergoods, cleaning supplies, good sturdy clothes including extra socks, underwear and extra shoes and boots, a extra couple changes of oil and filters for your car, tools, things you buy everyday start buying two and put one up.
I think that we are at the very least in for a collapse much like that of Argentina’s ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yerKMQc7-w&feature=grec_index), but as a armed society with a very large entitlement minded population our collapse will be much more violent and I see many many small business wiped out by flash mob looting, and large scale violence (look at what happened just this past Memorial Day weekend)and then there is this is going on in Chicago:”Emanuel said he spoke with McCarthy over the weekend and again this morning about the situation. The mayor said the city’s reputation as a safe place to work and shop downtown is being endangered by the thuggery. Many of the attacks are happening near the biggest tourist and shopping attractions in the city.
But, CBS 2’s Jim Williams reports, the problem of mob attacks downtown is much bigger than the weekend beatings, according to beat cops who wanted to remain anonymous.”
And it’s not just Chicago most major big ‘Blue’ cities are increasingly reporting such flash mobs and gang muggings.
I see what I call ‘Pocket Pogroms’ taking place in many big ‘Blue’ cities and if you aren’t a “0bamamites’ yute” it’s going to get Reginald Denny bad for you very quickly.
As the LDS say “When the emergency is upon us the time for preparedness has past.”
Or as the bible says: A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it.
NIV Proverbs 22:3
And a little something for those who do not believe:
“Chance favors the prepared mind.”-Louis Pasteur
PING!!
Our 99 cents store has fresh and frozen food - strawberries, blueberries, tomatoes, 6-oz chicken, salmon, milk, butter, eggs, bread, cheese, etc. For those on a really tight budget, shopping there instead of 7-11 will allow a family to eat well for just a small amount of money. All the food your family would need can be purchased here.
It’s quite easy to put up some shelves in an apartment for foodstuffs. Windows and patios/balconies can be used for container gardening or closets for (legal) mushrooms. Sure, a few container veggies aren’t going to feed the neighborhood so think of it as a fun experiment or lesson for the kids.
Hey...there are a few important details about packing away beans and rice that are worth noting .. for example being sure you are using ‘food grade’ buckets (that have never been
used for non-food purposes), using mylar bags that are at least 4.5 mls thick, etc.
I’m in the middle of writing a book on disaster preparedness.
I’ll include a link here you can use to download that ‘work in progress’ - it already has a lot of important information that is the result of a couple of years of constant study. Here’s a link to download a ‘sneak peak’:
http://allita.net/PracticalPrepper.pdf
What I've done to deal with possible bugs was to sprinkle in some "DE powder" on the food before sealing. Also, I would imagine the lack of oxygen would also hamper insects.
BTW, here's a link to the disaster preparedness book I've been working on (with some chapters still unfinished):
http://allita.net/PracticalPrepper.pdf
The strawberries there are the same brand Von’s is selling across the street for three times as much.
Freeze all the grains, flours etc for at least 5 days to kill the bugs. Most White flour has mite eggs in it. Little black bugs that you can cook and eat for their protein value, myself I prefer to freeze the eggs.
In “Todo #4” you might want to check the number of “zeros” in the quantities of beans and rice ... there seems to be at least one inconsistency.
Agree.... It don’t have to be fancy.
Thanks.
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