Posted on 07/07/2012 3:23:24 PM PDT by Kartographer
Field meals? Meh, who knows? You have to listen for it and know what mess call sounds like. ;)
/johnny
So, your parents brought TP over on the boat?
/johnny
WHat! No Aporkalypse Then?
I didn’t include MREs in my preps, except I changed that after Ike. I have a small garden area in back of my townhouse. The yard of the house behind me has two big oak trees as tall as the Empire State building (they look that tall to me). I was afraid one or both of those trees would land in my house if they fell in my direction and big limbs at the top are leaning toward my house.
I had my husband during that, but he died last year. I don’t want to be in this house by myself the next time a hurricane comes through so bought 12 MREs that have a heater in each box (those things are expensive). Will take Yorkie and go to a very close hotel and stay there with the meals and other preps until the hurricane has past. If house is okay after it passes, I’ll be back in the house.
I’ve never eaten an MRE but it wouldn’t matter what they taste like for that short amount of time. The heater being in the box makes them heavy when there is twelve of them. I put them in a rolling bag to get them out of the house to the car.
During Ike, there was a woman here killed in her bedroom when a tree fell on her bedroom. My upstairs bedroom will be the first landing place if one of these trees fall. I do the best I can to prepare and those trees are a danger.
Not such a bad plan.
I have news for you. There are 48 million Amerikans who collect food stamps (well, it's called SNAP and it looks like a credit card)and eat better than you.
Now I know why Obama calls it SNAP! Jokes on us.
But as we know, something ALWAYS happens, such as that derecho from last week. I lost power for six hours and consider myself lucky.
After the scarcity of gasoline attending that event, I’m going to make sure I fill my gas tank every time it gets below half-full.
Send away for FEMA's brochure on stocking up with food and water and get put on their list as a "Known Hoarder" at no extra cost!
We got a bunch of them here. The kids were and still are trouble makers at school and the adults are ripping off the county so us taxpayers have to take on an extra burden. Chaps my hide every time I drive past their ever expanding tax free compound.
I don’t know if it’s true or not but supposedly adding a spoon of vinegar when you’re boiling down chicken bones will help leech out the calcium from the bones and put it into the broth. Have you heard that? Sometimes I add and sometimes I don’t. It’s not enough to taste and is good for you so whatever.
stuffing in the bird.
dressing baked in a separate pot.
I once mentioned on another thread, the homesteading life is the life I choose to live. The one I’ve always wanted to live. My mom can vouch for that!
Even if the economy was booming and Christ himself were elected president, and unicorns were found that ate pollution and poo’d clean energy, I’d still choose the homesteading life. That’s just the way I am.
I’ve tried that a couple times. The vinegar wasn’t enough to taste, but I think it leached out more than calcium from the bones, because the stock had a weird, almost insipid flavor to it. I didn’t like it, so I haven’t tried that again.
Did you have it in a metal pot or used a metal spoon? Maybe that was the problem. I never noticed any off flavors but my pots are glass corningware. For something daring, next time you put a beef roast in the crock pot, add a cup or more of pickle juice and lots of onions and pepper. Careful on the salt because the pickle juice is usually salty enough on it's own. It helps tenderize the meat and flavors it nicely. Noooo, it doesn't taste like pickles, lol. I save up pickle juice to make quick cucumber salad pickles and to use in place of the vinegar when cleaning out sink drains because, hey, it's vinegar. Waste not, want not.
Heya Kart, I saw your exchange, and want to thank you for your well reasoned (as always) and helpful posts. Some people just like their head in the sand, or worse, want to be the cowboys in a disaster.
Due to the power outages back east, my brother’s family, and folks were out of power for a week. My brother fired up his generator and asked his friends if they needed to use his freezer to store all of their frozen goods, or at least the most valuable. He explained that power might be out a while, but they insisted it would only be a few hours without power, maybe a day or two tops. Within days, they came with coolers of meat, begging to salvage what little had not already spoiled in the heat wave. He, of course, helped them, but they had lost hundreds to thousands of dollars in meats, etc. The saddest part is that they could have saved it all, if only they had accepted the invitation. They DIDN’T EVEN HAVE TO PREPARE THEMSELVES, my brother offered to share his preps (in this case the generator and freezer) to help them, and they still declined until it was too late!
May we all take that as an example. As you often quote, the wise see danger and take shelter, and the foolish don’t, and suffer (I don’t remember it verbatim, sorry). God bless you and yours, and thanks for all the work you do, in Jesus’ name, amen.
IMO it is much better. I had plenty of spam as a kid, not high on my list now.
The best canned corned beef comes from Australia and New Zealand. In the US the best place to find it is an Asian grocery store. PALM or OX AND PALM brands. Philippine grocery stores carry it, but they are not as common as Asian grocery stores.
http://www.amazon.com/Ox-Palm-Corned-Juices-11-5oz/dp/B005XB496W
Fry it up with a can of diced white potatoes and some fresh onions, yum.
Actually, that is how most preppers start.
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