Weekly Preppers' Thread

5/18/12 | Kartographer

[Kartographer]

Weekly Preppers' Thread to post progress, good buys, DIY projects, advice and ideas

[Kartographer]

CVS runs them on sale about ever 8 Months or so 2 for $5.00. Big Lots carry Celebrity for around $3.00 and they taste about the same to me.

[Drango]

I have no idea about the cost of wheat or grains. What I do know is that putting the wheat into a superpail with the process of a oxygen absorber, vacuum seal and the mylar bag etc and achieving a 30 year self life, is something I rather have done by others. So the cost to me isn’t what I can buy a bushel of wheat for, it’s the cost of what vendors sell the superpail for.

So as I look at other superpail vendors, calculate shipping....Walton Foods comes out the best. Anyone see a better site? I’m price shopping!

[piroque]

What your doing is giving 80 something dollars for a 7 dollar a bushel product , the bucket you can buy for about 8 dollars the mylar bags , just off hand I think I saw them at 12 or 13 dollars a dozen. You can cheap hand warmers and use as the oxygen absorbers.

just trying to help you out ,everything on the net is not always the best buy.

[Kartographer]

CVS runs the Dak on sale about ever 8 Months weeks or so 2 for $5.00 and Walgreens does the same for Celebrity. Big Lots carry Celebrity for around $3.00 and they taste about the same to me.

I also believe Dollar General and Dollar Family carry them, but not sure of the price.

[mojo114]

Walmart.com or amazon.com
I was surprised how many plants you can buy on line at amazon. I ordered Sweet 100 tomato plants. They came fast and looked good, planted they are great.
Have ordered through Walmart.com and items come fast also. Or you can have items sent to your local Walmart for pickup without paying shipping.

[EasySt]

Here’s good prepper reading, if you haven’t got your copy yet:

Starving the Monkeys: Fight Back Smarter
by Tom Baugh

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0982543107/ref=sc_pgp__m_A9222F4SBTLQ6_2?ie=UTF8&m=A9222F4SBTLQ6&n=&s=&v=glance

[tbw2]

Thank you.

[Iron Munro]

BTW - is it just this area, or are turnip seeds in short supply all over??

I checked our local Walmart.
They still have their seed displays out but they are picked over and there are no turnip seeds. I can't tell if there were any to begin with or not and no one there could tell me.

[Uncle Ike]

Thanks for checking, FRiend... ;)

It appears that, even if the turnip seeds ain’t available in the retail stores, there’s plenty online.. It’s too late, now, for Spring planting, but should be able to order them and get ‘em in time for August plant to harvest in November....

[Iron Munro]

Here is something interesting:

Free Seed Swap at:

Heirloom Seed Swap - The FREE Seed Exchange for Seed Savers

http://www.heirloomseedswap.com/

[dervish]

Emergency Essentials has wheat superpails for less ($43.99) and shipping is $12 for everything.

[Drango]

I was looking at the EE prices the other day. Very competitive. Very. Note that the price drops if you get 4+ superpails. Depending on what you get they are cheaper than Walton.

costco.com seems to have some good prices too.

This is like looking at the Sears catalog. I’ve got to stop looking or I’ll buy something!