Posted on 07/29/2011 1:21:49 PM PDT by Kartographer
One Valley "prepper" is stocking up on food for her family even though she isn't worried about the world ending in 2012.
Lisa Bedford is a prepper. She stockpiles food and supplies for something that "could" happen like the loss of a job or the economy getting worse.
Lisa Bedford thinks it's foolish for people to prepare for a certain doomsday date. "Y2K still haunts people who wasted a lot of money getting ready for one day. And when they discovered the morning after that nothing severe had happened, they felt foolish. They had wasted a lot of money."
(Excerpt) Read more at ktar.com ...
BTW, Thanks
Ahem...they were $2400 six months ago ;o)
There’s at least one “survival food” company that does, in fact, encourage people to place huge orders on their credit cards.
I have a ton of homemade dehydrated food in vacuum bags - even homemade dog food. Water stored, garden, chickens, shotgun and rifle and a lot of barbed wire.
I am ready for just about anything.
http://www.samsclub.com/sams/shop/category.jsp?categoryId=1340121
As well as a multitude of on line dealers.
Bwahahahaha!
The article is about Lisa Bedford from Phoenix. Probably not too hard to find out where she lives.
Got link?
Do you re-pack into smaller amounts?
I’m prepping the 25lb bag of white flour we just got. I HATE getting the 50lb. bags because it takes so long to do them :).
I break it down into 6+ cups per ziplock, freeze for several days to kill off any hitchhikers, then it goes into mylar bags w/oxygen absorbers, heat sealed. Pop into a food safe container in the dark cellar closet and I should be good for a five year shelf life if needed. We rotate though. And six cups does two loaves of bread. I do the same w/rice. The mylar bag thing is sooooooo easy and gives me peace of mind.
We’ve been “prepping” since I was a kid. My parents were preppers as were theirs. We can enough vegetables, meat, and fruit for the next year until next years crop. A few bushels of wheat on hand for flour and a few bushels of corn for corn meal and we’re good to go. Now people think it’s a “new fad” or something no one ever did before.
So, do you know where Kartographer lives or his/her name? The beauty of the forums is, you are anonymous. Not like facebook. Is there a preppers forum on facebook? I’d never post there about prepping.
So, do you know where Kartographer lives or his/her name? The beauty of the forums is, you are anonymous. Not like facebook. Is there a preppers forum on facebook? I’d never post there about prepping.
My comment was about the article. Sheesh.
No link. Lowest online price I saw was $26. Just went to the store and there it was.
Slow down - I haven’t even gotten it home yet! :-)
$34 for 100 lbs is so cheap I’m not sure it’s even worth all those proper procedures. With limited time, I’ve got other prep work to do.
Normally I wouldn’t buy it that way. It was primarily an exercise for my new A Buck A Plate blog (see tagline) to answer those “food desert” claims that people buy bags of chips because it’s cheap calories (not a >10x the price of a sack of rice it’s not). But I digress...
Slow down - I haven’t even gotten it home yet! :-)
$34 for 100 lbs is so cheap I’m not sure it’s even worth all those proper procedures. With limited time, I’ve got other prep work to do.
Normally I wouldn’t buy it that way. It was primarily an exercise for my new A Buck A Plate blog (see tagline) to answer those “food desert” claims that people buy bags of chips because it’s cheap calories (not a >10x the price of a sack of rice it’s not). But I digress...
The one year supply for one person hasn’t changed in the last six months.
Moisture, oxygen and light are the evils of storing food. Where do you buy your stuff? Links would be nice.
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