I made a few homemade oil lamps, gave my manual grain mill a workout (along with me) and baked a few times this week, DH and I met with another member on this board and had a great chat about prepping and permaculture, traded some canning lids with a friend for a yogurt maker and bought 11 new chickens.
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just doing some D.H.Apples now.....
Better to have it and not need it; then to need it and not have it...
Bought a few food items for long term storage and went to the range.
35 more lbs dry dog food
8 cans tuna @ .77
4 cans flaked meat (chicken & turkey) @1.00
test run the generator
lots of general food stockup.
still need buckets, they are getting harder to find for free!
did my meat yesterday and put them in my freezer and it will be good for 2 to 3 years,bought my meat at costco,Im preparing onions to freeze as well as peppers Im adding another pantry room in my garage and got to buy more food vaults, it will keep flour rice sugar ect.ect good for 20 years,that about it for now.
Today spent $100 worth of gift certificates at Canadian Tire:
More lighters, matches, one more flint+steel, one more roll-up dry-bag, duct tape, gorilla glue, water tablets, 9mm rope, AA batteries, a second/back-up AA flashlight; also a handful more veggie seed packets for my stockpile; and some jiffy pots for starting tomatoes, melons, and other seedlings.
working on 10kgs of meat for jerky....shacker flashlights at pevemart
Better to have it and not need it; then to need it and not have it...
Busy week this past week but around work I am dehydrating corn, peas, onions, did 4 more gallons of water and bought another batch of veggie seeds.
Will be dehydrating chunk tomatoes tomorrow, curious to see how they turn out...
Hooked up a leaf bypass on the down spout to my rain barrels, up dated my first aid kits, rechecked my food stock for when/if TSHTF and prayed to God that I will never have the need to use them. Did some target shooting with the airguns.
"We 'Prep.' to live after a downfall, Not just to survive."
Went to the range Friday night. Spent most of saturday making elk sausages. Organized some food storage at home.
Dehydrated 10 lbs of oranges...NoFrills had them on for 47cents a lb.
Made a small batch of kimchi today
Bought 12 cans of canned chicken at Costco and 6 more cans of Stagg Chili
4 Snap-On LED Hybrid Lights at Costco...these were a really good buy at under $19.00 each and man do they throw light, better than any camping lantern...LED bulbs are good for 100K hrs. The same lights are $46 through amazon.ca.
I'm the lady you're stuck behind in the grocery store with the over loaded cart filled with cases of tuna, peanut butter, huge bags of rice and the weary looking husband
I brought home a couple of food grade 45 gallon drums from work this week for water storage. (Cleaned and sanitized them at work, so they're all ready to go) 😀
Picked up a couple of case-lot canned goods from Costco along with 25lbs of rice...and Safeway had good ole Mac N Cheese on for 6.99 a case so I picked up 4 cases of that as well.
Doublestorm,
If you don't mind me asking, what industry do you work in? It would be helpful to know where to look for food grade containers that size.
Thanks
Denob,
I'm in a beverage industry. Just about any manufacturing plant in the food and beverage industry would have food grade barrels. The thing to look for is that they are made of HDPE - those are the types that will not leach anything into the contents. I would also make sure that they did not originally contain anything too pungent - that could be difficult to clean out. The best thing about getting them from a food and beverage plant is that you know that they were single use - CFIA regulations mandate that. I work mostly in water quality analysis - BSc in chemistry. It comes in handy sometimes! 😉
Dehydrated another couple pounds of carrots. They were on special.
As I live in an earthquake zone I do not store in glass jars, but I can get many of the square yellow (w/blue screw-on lid), corn starch containers from the recycle bin in the kitchen at work. The containers are about 3 and 1/2 inches square and will hold 6 lbs of dehydrated carrots. (well, they don't weigh 6 lbs after dehydration) I use small silica packs that that I sew, they are about the size of a tea-bag.
Got a few bargains at the Sally Ann downtown, an American Harvester dehydrator for $7, a rubber hot water bottle for $3 (for paintergirl), a couple of books for post-shtf entertainment (one is a crossword puzzle book).
Filled another 1 gal. jug with water.
Oh, and another package of pinto beans from Wal-Mart, and ABC soup mix from Safeway. When the shtf I'm going to be up to my ears in soup. yum.