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Store or Starve: A beginner’s guide to food storage
nationalexpositor.com ^ | 1/21/10 | Ron Shirtz

Posted on 02/10/2010 7:29:27 PM PST by Kartographer

I want people to store food not only for their sake, but for mine as well. I don’t want to decide which of my kids have to go hungry when you and your unprepared kin come knocking on my door. Contrary to progressive-collectivist thinking, every individual who takes care of themselves and their families benefits society by not becoming a burden. So take responsibility now and start today. Don’t expect the Feds to come by to hand you your ration of government-rationed cheese. You could be in for a long wait. Wait too long, and you may end up with a green-stained mouth from eating grass, like the poor Irish during the potato famine in the mid 1800’s. Or seriously reevaluate your aversion to cannibalism. Compared to those desperate methods, dumpster diving comes off as luxury cuisine.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: cannedgoods; canning; food; foodstorage; groceries; grocery; lping; preparedness; preppers; preps; survival; survivalism; survivalists
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To: o_zarkman44

“Stand your ground’ could be a tough go unless you’ve got help. Talented help. We’ve made some discreet arrangements with some of our neighbors to ‘double up’ when it starts looking dicey.

And yes, the key is to call it before most everyone else does. Time for a ‘vacation’ or something like that. I’m prepared to excuse myself from work citing a ‘family emergency’ and head back ASAP. I can walk the 48 miles home if I have to.


101 posted on 02/11/2010 5:50:17 AM PST by Noumenon ("Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed, that he has grown so great?" - Julius Caesar)
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To: o_zarkman44

so anything pre-1980 should be ok?


102 posted on 02/11/2010 5:54:55 AM PST by WOBBLY BOB (ACORN:American Corruption for Obama Right Now)
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To: o_zarkman44

I preheat my canning jars in the oven, just like they tell you not to do. :)

I make sure they’re all spotless and dry, line them up on the oven rack and set the over to 200. And yes, they are hot, but they are close enough to the temp of the food that I have NEVER had one break. The problem with the boiling water method that they recommend, is that you are still putting cold jars into hot liquid and to my mind, that’s no different than dumping hot liquid into cold jars.

I tighten my bands to hand tight and probably have only had maybe one in a hundred not seal properly, which annoys me to no end. But then again, if it’s not my last canner load, it gets resealed and reprocessed or it goes in the fridge and we use it first.

I grew Heinz variety sauce tomatoes from seeds I got from Territorial Seed company. Best sauce I ever made. Excellent flavor. My tomatoes last year nearly got done in by blight, but I was able to salvage enough to make a few jars of stewed tomatoes.


103 posted on 02/11/2010 6:20:35 AM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: o_zarkman44

I didn’t know that half jars would break as I never can a half jar amount. I use the next smallest jar and anything under a half pint, I put in a bowl and use right away.


104 posted on 02/11/2010 6:21:51 AM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: Noumenon
Betting pool: how long will it take for the raccoons to start going cannnibal once the raccoon chow runs out?

Whitey: 48 hours

Victims of Whitey: 3 meals or 1 pack of smokes, whichever runs out first.


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

105 posted on 02/11/2010 6:22:27 AM PST by The Comedian (Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
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To: Painesright

Read “Patriots” and “How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It” by Rawles.

Then, anyone that wants to “go in on” a couple hundred acres near the rockies with us, let me know... :)


106 posted on 02/11/2010 6:24:42 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: bog trotter

Mr. mm is planning on using some of our old windows to make a cold frame for the spring. We have some pretty big old ones that would work nicely to get a start on the cold sensitive plants. Since we can’t count on not getting a frost until even early June, we could EASILY gain more than a month of growing season by being able to protect them like that.

We also have lots of old curtains and mattress pads stored in the barn that we could cover the cold frames with to help hold in heat if worse comes to worse.

Sometimes I hate all the clutter from storing stuff, but we have what we need and don’t have to go out and waste money buying it.


107 posted on 02/11/2010 6:26:16 AM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: robomatik

Not much chance of having to “protect the Book”, according to scripture, at least:

“The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God stands forever.” Isaiah 40:8

“...having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever....” 1 Peter 1:23

“For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle [a tiny mark in the original spelling of a word] will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled.” Matthew 5:18

“And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one tittle of the law to fail.” Luke 16:17


108 posted on 02/11/2010 6:33:14 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: KarlInOhio
Right now they are saying the same thing about you.

LOL!

It would be done already, if they were only larger. :-)

109 posted on 02/11/2010 6:33:48 AM PST by TChris ("Hello", the politician lied.)
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To: Noumenon
how long will it take for the raccoons to start going cannnibal once the raccoon chow runs out?

48 hours.

110 posted on 02/11/2010 6:56:33 AM PST by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
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To: hope
nor an outside propane barbeque cooker with a side burner,

fish cooker is all I ever use ,cuts down on the heat in the house

111 posted on 02/11/2010 6:58:24 AM PST by piroque
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To: GovernmentShrinker

Glass top stove - The standard canner (I think 23 qt) is too heavy. It’s supposed to be ok with the smaller pressure canners.

Outside propane - supposed to be too hard to regulate propane, therefore temperature/pressure.


112 posted on 02/11/2010 7:20:07 AM PST by nina0113
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To: o_zarkman44
The key is to get the hell out of dodge by being on the road within minutes before everyone else realizes the event is not a drill. And stop for nobody.

A friend of mine who worked in Falls Church at the time clocked out of her office when the plane hit the Pentagon, went home and loaded up her camping gear, and didn't stop to make a phone call till she got to the mountains.

I believe she'd have to do differently today, with several small children, but I'll bet she's just as quick-thinking and prepared.

113 posted on 02/11/2010 7:25:52 AM PST by nina0113
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To: All

thanks


114 posted on 02/11/2010 7:29:38 AM PST by Maverick68
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To: hope
>>>> "if you are looking to pressure can you cannot use a glass top stove...nor an outside propane barbeque cooker with a side burner...I am working on changing out my glass top for an electric stove..." <<<<

Thanks, I didn't know that.

115 posted on 02/11/2010 7:30:03 AM PST by hennie pennie
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To: Red_Devil 232

Possible garden ping list here.


116 posted on 02/11/2010 7:34:49 AM PST by Arrowhead1952 (Hey zero, It is NOT Bush's fault anymore.)
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To: 70times7

In China they eat dogs, horses, and cats. My niece was just there. She said the only thing they don’t eat that has four legs.... a table.


117 posted on 02/11/2010 7:40:26 AM PST by buffyt (Glowbull Warming: The Greatest Hoax Since Y2K! Follow the money Coldest winter in 100 years.)
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To: Kartographer

We always store food and water, for hurricane season. Then try to use it up after Nov. 1. But I always have canned tuna, veggies, fruits, etc and bottled water on hand. IF we don’t lose power i have plenty in the freezer. If we lose power I will have a huge mess. We ahve a gas generator, but getting gas is impossible without elec., because the gas stations can’t pump gas without it


118 posted on 02/11/2010 7:47:06 AM PST by buffyt (Glowbull Warming: The Greatest Hoax Since Y2K! Follow the money Coldest winter in 100 years.)
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To: hennie pennie

I use a pressure cooker all the time on my glass top stove, but not pressure canner.....


119 posted on 02/11/2010 7:48:14 AM PST by buffyt (Glowbull Warming: The Greatest Hoax Since Y2K! Follow the money Coldest winter in 100 years.)
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To: Kartographer
Never could get the article to load, dial up here until DSL gets fixed. Oh well. Last year I put in a 60x20 raised bed garden and build a green house too. Unemployed now so I'm looking to save money and growing my own food seemed like a good idea. Not so sure about canning, don't want to kill myself or anyone else. I suppose canning tomatoes is safe and easy so I might try that. I've got a pretty good pressure cooker (not a canner) but it doesn't have a pressure guage on it. Can I use that? Money is a concern and canners are not cheap, neither are the jars used to can with. Anyone know of a good inexpense supplier?

Hope this cold wet weather goes away soon, I should be planting stuff next week here in se Texas but it's looking to be to cold and wet for a while yet.

120 posted on 02/11/2010 7:51:42 AM PST by jpsb
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