Posted on 12/30/2010 2:24:04 PM PST by Doctor Prepper
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Wow,
can you believe its been over 10 years since the 1999 doomsday nutter’s ran amuck buying up all the end of the world stuff?
You fail at it.
determine what you family needs
add a few extra emergency items to you list
you may want to go with a two-tied storage system
you will at first store you more recent acquisitions
shift them to you main pantry
For you long term storage
I’ve read others suggesting you stock up on guns and ammo, which don’t spoil and will make sure you get all the food you need.
> ... you neighbors may raise a few eyebrows if you run out an buy ½ ton of rice.
Not a problem. My wife, who never had enough to eat while growing up, is a food hoarder. She easily has 2 tons of rice stored away. If they stopped selling food tomorrow, we’d probably be good for 2 years.
Cans are not what they used to be. I prefer the fully sealed cans to those that have tabs. Then there’s coffee. Bought 2 large cans only to find out that they have a plastic pull tab seal. Somehow I don’t think these will last long.
My primary WSHTF supply is lead.
And dirt. I have more and more really good dirt. Which I can protect with lead.
Sometime proof reading doesn’t catch all the mistakes – our apologies.
The information we’re trying to impart is more important than whether a typo or misspelling was caught.
Have you done anything to prepare?
Can I freeze white rice, or will that ruin it?
Our? Others helped write this and didn't catch those mistakes?
Have you done anything to prepare?
Well, I haven't written any third-grade quality vanities about it.
The rest I don't publicize.
Freeze it for a couple of weeks in the coldest part of your freezer, then store it in a dark, cool, DRY place, and it will keep for a nice, long time.
Thanks for the response. I’ve had a lot of it frozen for longer than a couple weeks, more like several months. Is it going to be mush?
Part of the reason we are engaging in this exercise is to cajole some people into doing some prepping – some may not have property to grow or hunt their own.
But they need to do something whatever their circumstances.
Wow. Who peed in your Cheerios this morning?
Do you actually have anything useful to add to the conversation?
I don’t consider most folks such a bunch of dumbasses as to need coaching on this stuff.
And if I did, I’d do the coaching in proper English, so as not to seem like a dumbass myself.
Do you frequently need advice from dumbasses?
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