What have you added to your preps this week?

Went to the garden center to pick up some indoor plants to add some colour and life to the new place. While there we noticed they had several hurricane lanterns on sale, so picked up another one. Then the misses picked up some spare oil and wicks at the Home Hardware the following day. Also added more TP in the same trip; up to one year's worth per person at 1 roll/week. Very important.

Dollarama has 28 hour candles on for 1.25 got 20 of them. Restocked the first-aid kit. Added another 80 rolls of TP, 2 cases of pasta and a case of soup, plus a bunch more coffee - can never have too much coffee 🙂 Also rotated the stock in the dogs BoB.

Costco has the newer version of the FoodSaver on for $40 off, $127.00!!! So I gots me a new one...this one has a moist/dry foods and a gentle setting, the marinade container...if you go to Costco.ca you can see the specials this week...they have the bags on too $9 off but we use Canadian tire money to purchase bags every year ... http://www.costco.ca/warehouse-instant-savings-nt.html
I also got a metal, sturdy, shoe rack that I plan on using in the fruit cellar to make maximum use of the height of the space between the fixed shelves to give better visibility to my canned goods. This way I don't have to stack the cans more than two or three high and eliminates some of the problems with tall stacks of cans. I can put what needs to be used up first in front and the rest in back of them on the shoe rack shelves.

did my 1st small batch of dehydrating.. mixed veges, bought some fruit to do over weekend, 2 Keyring CPR masks, 2X 6 in 1 Whistle Compasses, Pair tweezers with LED light for main 1st Aid, 3 small tweezers, 3X mcro sd usb readers, Altoids style Survival lkit, 3 X 5LED 3AAA headlamps, 3 XEmergency blankets, 2X 7 in 1 Multi tools with LED light, 5 X Credit card size Fresnel lenses, Small folding knife with pocket clip,

Hey razerp. How did the dehydrating go? How are you storing it for long term?

JAB

Added more cold hard cash....from another post here I think adding a small amount of money every week or so will ultimately give us a small nest egg if needed. Now...to look into gold/silver purchases! 🙂

8 pts of beef...pressure canned for the first time today.

Now that I've done it....I'll be doing it again! Can't wait for next weeks flyers to see what I'm canning next! 🙂

Spent some time this week end with a cold so not out side much.
I spent the time doing some leather work and made myself a buckskin bag for all my fire makeing stuff and a smaller one for tinder bag inside.
Works great havin themm all in one bag ready to go as required
Also managed to make a sheath for a nice little buck knife I good a squeel of a deal on cause it came without one
All in all a productive weekend

o, pictures of the buckskin bags? please and thanks..

Freshco has skinless chicken breast on sale...so now I have 5 pts of chicken canned up.
I'm becoming a pressure canning fiend!

Good job ratdogmom! You have the disease - congratulations 🙂

o, pictures of the buckskin bags? please and thanks..

Here some of the bags I have made
-Large one for firestarting gear ,matchs lighter, flint and steel, favorite bow string,magnifying glass, piston,plastic for convex fire starter
-Medium for tinder cotton balls, lint, birch bark, lichen, chaga , vasalene , bull rush fluff
-Small one for my hearing aids
-Two of my personal use knife sheaths
-My gun case for 22
These are all hand punched and stitched useing a hand awl and a waxed braide sinew

now those are some things of beauty!! Love that rifle case! O my.. Can I get more details on that, and a photo of just it! Please an thanks..

Wow, very nice. Perhaps a demo at one of our get togethers?

Thanks for the positive comments
Here are a couple other cases as well