canned 12 pints pickled beets. ran out of lids*gasp*, so i sterilized a giant Vlasic pickle jar and filled 'er up for the fridge. 2 more pints dehydrated mushrooms, and dehydrated more garlic powder.

Been slacking on "prepping" for months as focus has been on the new baby boy and firewood and building our new sugar shack.

Finally got around to bumping up the food stores after visiting my aunt & uncles market garden to grab all their extra vegetables they were no longer picking. Ended up filling the fullsized truckbed 3x!

- Canned 80L of salsa (we use it as salsa, pasta sauce base and a fish bake w/ cornflakes crust)
- Canned 35L of green pepper jelly
- Canned 100L of cubed chicken
- Canned 50L of cubed pork
- Froze 19L of potato/leek/chickpea soup
- Froze 19L of carrot/chickpea/squash soup
- Froze 140lbs of tomatoes
- Harvested and stored 300lbs of potatoes
- Harvested and stored 200lbs of pumpkins, squashes & gourds

Saving remaining freezer space for a whitetail (hopefully).

Two Baofeng UV5RE PLUS portable HAM radios. Extra capacity batteries. Antennas for extended range. Multiple chargers for 12v and home charging. Push-to-talk handset and air tube headsets. The entire package with accessories for under $200.

The Baofeng can also be used for MURS or as a portable FM radio.

As of June 2014, Industry Canada will allow Multi-Use Radio Service (MURS) on our shores, following the lead of the U.S. MURS is similar to CB radio, in that it does not, unlike HAM, need a license to transmit.

That looks like a terrific package deal! It would be interesting to get a review. The price looks great for all this but I remain skeptical as per the old adage "if it sounds too good..."

Also picked up two Baofeng UV5R PLUS portable HAM radios. Extra batteries. Antennas for extended range. 2 Chargers . Push-to-talk handset. Cable for computer ham radio programing. Scoby for my kombusha brewing and 12 swivel cap brewing bottles. Hand cranked wheat grass juicer.

That looks like a terrific package deal! It would be interesting to get a review. The price looks great for all this but I remain skeptical as per the old adage "if it sounds too good..."

Being in the process of getting my ham certificate, I have been looking at these sets quite a bit.
A review would be great!

Added 150 pounds of potatoes into the food cellar this morning. Also bottled two batches of beer last weekend and have 2 more batches due for bottling in a few more days roughly.

Added 150 pounds of potatoes into the food cellar this morning. Also bottled two batches of beer last weekend and have 2 more batches due for bottling in a few more days roughly.

very nice Joe, do you have a recipe book for the beer? Been looking for a recipe for Waterloo Amber 🙂

After I get my mead racked, I'd like to try my hand at beer. It's getting way too pricey.

Added 150 pounds of potatoes into the food cellar this morning. Also bottled two batches of beer last weekend and have 2 more batches due for bottling in a few more days roughly.

very nice Joe, do you have a recipe book for the beer? Been looking for a recipe for Waterloo Amber 🙂

After I get my mead racked, I'd like to try my hand at beer. It's getting way too pricey.

Hey Wolf,
For beer, right now i'm just using the kits from either Bulk Zone or sometimes Superstore. I've got 3 of the 5 gallon pails with lids and 3 of the big glass carboys Plus a bunch of 1 gallon glass jugs I'm playing around with as well for "Hobo Wine".
2 of the 1 gallon jugs are fermenting now and I have two batches of beer on the go as well, one that will be bottled tomorrow or Saturday.

And you are right...way to costly at the stores now. And far too much of the cost is the damned taxes. I've switched over to making it myself and, so far, I'm liking it better too.

Canned 10 qt jars of pulled pork
Canned 20 pt jars of spaghetti sauce
10 pairs wool socks
10 cans thrive instant milk

Two Baofeng UV5RE PLUS portable HAM radios. Extra capacity batteries. Antennas for extended range. Multiple chargers for 12v and home charging. Push-to-talk handset and air tube headsets. The entire package with accessories for under $200.

The Baofeng can also be used for MURS or as a portable FM radio.

As of June 2014, Industry Canada will allow Multi-Use Radio Service (MURS) on our shores, following the lead of the U.S. MURS is similar to CB radio, in that it does not, unlike HAM, need a license to transmit.

How good of reception, or range does it have? Can it do 20 miles?

Completed 4 box traps for squirrels
Got all the hinges and hard ware for my smoke house begin construction tomorrow

this week i have added one bag (18lbs) of rice ( payed $6.04),de-hydrated 18 eggs and bagged (did it on my de-hydrater at home), ordered 1320 rds 7.62 x 39, oredered a rocket stove, bought a wood stove. next week more beans,rice, whole kernal wheat (its $10 bucks 40 lb bag at tsc)

Got my water off the concrete and got two boxes of 30-30

IFAKs (Individual First Aid Kits or Improved First Aid Kits)

I have pictured a pocket sized kit and a larger 'full sized' kit that can be worn on the body or carried in a backpack. Most of the supplies have been made smaller and individually sealed in plastic using a kitchen food sealing machine. Any clear plastic of a certain thickness can be used to make custom packaging. Labels are from a hand-held 'label maker'.

There are many websites offering advice on contents. Consider weight and compactness. Also consider how far away you will be from a hospital.