Posted on 12/17/2010 12:09:03 PM PST by Doctor Prepper
We ventured into wheat berries this week. 50 lbs to start.
Actually I need to look into those – how are they used?
Recipes?
How will people in the more heavily populated areas get fuel for cooking?
I started gardening, canning, freezing and now am venturing into dehydrating. I live in a rural area - moved here because of that. A self-sufficient and kindly people. I have enough land to have chickens and goats and maybe a mini-cow.
My only worry is that I live 20 miles as the crow flies from a nuclear plant. Oh well - can’t do much about that except iodine tablets enough for the family and pets. :)
Propane, kerosene, White gasoline.
Something else that points out the importance of planning of whether to evacuate or not.
Thank you
590 quarts canned in the basement.
200 pounds of rice.
40 pounds sugar.
40 pounds of flour.
2 chest freezers full.
Generator.
250 gallons of gas.
Pantry has 3 shelves, 15 feet each, 18” deep, packed with caned goods like soup, beans, tomatoes.
But I lost my gun in a terrible boating accident.
Deconstruct your tinfoil hat and tape it to a carboard box. Viola! You just made a solar oven that uses free fuel from the sun.
Actually, in a crisis scenario where there is an extended break in infrastructure and/or utility services, by the time the event happens the time for getting fuel or anything else will be, for all practical purposes, gone. That's why it's so important to ask those questions to oneself now so that you can assess what you would need to do now pre-SHTF to prepare and ensure you were able to continue having sources of fuel to cook food.
In that line of thought, you have several options, i.e. buy a coleman stove and several gallons of Coleman fuel like one uses when camping, or buy a single or dual propane burner, or better yet, a propane BBQ grill and keep several 20 lb. tanks of propane on hand. There are other options as well. It just depends on the option that works best for that individual.
Frog Mom’s linky don’t worky.
Yeah! Now That’s what I’m talking about.
Just be sure you Cycle through your stock of food.
Too bad about the gun…. I hear a lot of that’s been going around lately.
Like this, kept in a sealed food storage bucket supposedly they will last 20 years or so. But once you grind them into flour, they are only good for a week or two because the oils released can go rancid.
How does this fuel get re-supplied?
That’s great in areas with an abundance of sunshine.
How does one plan for the long run, like >6 months or so?
Rather than planning how to eat and stocking food for a year, most folks would be better off planning how to (1) sh1t (2) piss, (3) drink clean water, (4) stay warm and (5) treat sickness and wounds for a measly two weeks, when forced to stay indoors because of radiation hazard.
That’s similar to items that will last a few years in their original containers, but need to be refrigerated or used once they’re opened.
Something to consider when deciding on what size cans or bottles of a particular product you are buying – a large can is great if you are going to use the contents within a short time or have some refrigeration.
Smaller cans may be comparatively more expensive, but easily used up before they spoil.
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