Prepping food for the winter

[EWO]

Ive never thought of my self as a prepper, but often if find when I look in my fridge its empty and I'm wondering what to eat.

With this whole Sep 23 2015 thing buzzing around I figured it would not hurt to have to extra food in the house.

So i went to Costco and spend $500 on food that I eat every day but I bought bulk of everything.
Some things will last a month other like the rice and flour can last 6 months.

For the next 2 months I'm not going to use any of it, after that I will slowly start using it and replace it with fresher food.

This is what I got

• Advil
• ALL purpose Flour
• Almonds
• Batteries
• Bottle water
• Brenton crackers
• Can corn
• Can pine apple
• Canned tuna
• Canola Oil
• Cheerios
• Clif bar
• Cold Medication
• Corn meal
• Crab meat
• Cranberry Cereal
• Cup mandarins
• Cup mixed fruit
• Dried berries
• Dried plums
• Fig bar
• Gator aid
• Honey
• Jam
• Kashi cereal bar
• Ketchup
• Nutella
• Oat meal
• Organic Sugar
• Penne pasta
• Rice
• Ritz crackers
• Soda water
• Spaghetti
• Spam
• Tamato sauce
• Toilet paper
• Vitamin c
• Walnuts
• Whole grain crackers
• Raisins

[Zionbrion]

Sounds good to me. Wether or not society may crumble at any moment I always try live this way. At the co-op in my town they allow you to order direct from the distributor so I will get flour, rice and beans in 25lb bags, 5 gallons of cooking oil at a time etc... This way is much cheaper as well.
The last order I made I got 25 lbs of sea salt as well.
I am not sure where you live, but I would be sure to have water available as well...our well started to go dry this year...in California, so we had to get a huge water storage tank, which I am happy about because 3000 gallons of water will be sweet if SHTF.
If you don't have room to store water I would recomend some sort of filtering device..not like brita, but hardcore. They actually sell water bottles now that self filter as you drink through them.
Also if september passes and nothing happens don't feel bad if you don't eat the spam.

[chancy]

Hello Everyone:
Predictions, predictions, predictions, predictions.......if I had a penny for every prediction I would be wealthy! There has to be a time when one of these predictions will actually come true! Getting tired of everyone coming up with predictions and wasting everyones time! Best to live a great life and take each day as if it was your last and when that last day comes you have NO REGRETS! NO UNFINISHED BUSINESS and you lived a GREAT LIFE!

as far as prepping this is something everyone should do. I was listening to a talk show about food and making meals. The talk show guest suggested that everyone have at least enough food in their home to make 5 meals. People were calling in and telling her that was impossible because they didn't have enough food in their homes for one meal. The talk show guest said that enough food for 5 meals would give you options in changing your meals.
I believe in having enough food for much longer than that. Sometimes I don't want to go to the store. Sometimes I want to cook something completely different and sometimes I like to think what it would be like with no store to go to. With a great circulated storage you don't have to panic because you have time to relax and be ready for just about anything.
Good luck being and becoming ready for almost anything!
chancy

[Aspen]

Its a great feeling to have some food independence. We have created some cold storage for the potatoes we grow, have bought a water distiller and I froze an entire fridge full of green and yellow beans that we grew ourselves this past weekend. They were so easy to grow, bush beans. Two weeks ago I picked enough wild chokecherries to make five gallons of wine! A few years ago my husband grew a small field of organic wheat. I have insisted on him keeping one grainery full "just in case." I am getting tired of all the predictions that don't come true as well, but am grateful for the small measure of independence the extra pressure has created. We live near a small river. I hope we never have to drink the water out of it as it is full of beavers. But at least we can wash ourselves if something happens, and water our garden. I think it is not a healthy thing that most people are so dependent on the stores. Its quite silly really. It is our own doing . . . . Time to change it! You will be healthier for it in mind and body.

[loveoflife]

In days gone by before supermarkets when people depended upon the land for nourishment, fermentation was one of the main and exceptionally healthy ways to survive a winter.

Nowadays buying in bulk makes sense as its cheaper.

If you need to you can always eat the weeds in your garden. You may feel that you do not now what to eat. Its simple try a nibble if it tastes good eat it, if not move on.

[Aspen]

Yes there are many weeds that are safe to eat, boil or steam them up like spinach. There are a few like some varieties of mushrooms that are very toxic however. Thistles can be eaten, cattails, lambs quarters. Often the roots.

[Aspen]

Thistles are edible and other common plants like cattails and lamb's quarters and nettles, pig weed (amaranth) quack grass. Apparently thistles should only be eaten is small amounts

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=V7IfsNET9C0

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=vVaxCyExab8

I like to harvest wild berries. I think that they may have more nutritional value than the ones we grow in the garden, it is more concentrated. Here in Alberta we have lots of raspberries and blueberries, also saskatoons and chokecherries. I think the first nations ate a lot more plants than we realize.

Heat often helps remove toxicity. For example choke cherry pits contain cyanide and need to be dried in the sun if you smash the pit. That is how pemmican was made.

[loveoflife]

I met a guy who knew what plants to eat he told me that there are more plants available to eat in the winter than in summer. When in december in the uk he bent down and started eating.

[Ron Mauer Sr]

Posted by Zionbrion (here)
snip... If you don't have room to store water I would recomend some sort of filtering device..not like brita, but hardcore. They actually sell water bottles now that self filter as you drink through them. snip...

Sawyer Mini Filter, $19, useful life of 100,000 gallons, 0.1 micron filter. Use it with a straw or use it to fill a container. Cost per gallon is only $0.00019.

Sawyer Products PointOne Squeeze Water Filtration System, $30 with one bag at WalMart. One million gallon capacity. Filter is 0.1 micron.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=xnZCPJk89Vo

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[Lost N Found]

Posted by EWO (here)
Ive never thought of my self as a prepper, but often if find when I look in my fridge its empty and I'm wondering what to eat.

With this whole Sep 23 2015 thing buzzing around I figured it would not hurt to have to extra food in the house.

So i went to Costco and spend $500 on food that I eat every day but I bought bulk of everything.
Some things will last a month other like the rice and flour can last 6 months.

For the next 2 months I'm not going to use any of it, after that I will slowly start using it and replace it with fresher food.

This is what I got

• Advil
• ALL purpose Flour
• Almonds
• Batteries
• Bottle water
• Brenton crackers
• Can corn
• Can pine apple
• Canned tuna
• Canola Oil
• Cheerios
• Clif bar
• Cold Medication
• Corn meal
• Crab meat
• Cranberry Cereal
• Cup mandarins
• Cup mixed fruit
• Dried berries
• Dried plums
• Fig bar
• Gator aid
• Honey
• Jam
• Kashi cereal bar
• Ketchup
• Nutella
• Oat meal
• Organic Sugar
• Penne pasta
• Rice
• Ritz crackers
• Soda water
• Spaghetti
• Spam
• Tamato sauce
• Toilet paper
• Vitamin c
• Walnuts
• Whole grain crackers
• Raisins

Very nice, I have stored a lot of the same thing and I do keep it fresh as I can. I will give you some advice on storing flour and rise. Go to home depot and buy some of those 5 gallon buckets with the lids. Get some of those big trash bags and put your flour in one and your rise in another. burp and seal the bags and place in the buckets and seal the lids as best you can. This will keep this stuff for a long time until you start eating or whatever. Best way to keep bugs out. I have been doing this most of my like simply because my soul mate and I grew up with parents that came through the great depression and that is what they taught us.

Canned goods or food in cans that you buy at Costco or other stores will last a long time as long as you don't open them and they are stored in a dry cool dark place as best as you can. The date on these products is always bogus simply because the manufacturer wants you to continue to buy there product. Vitamins are the same. Always good to have them on store. These products you are going to take on a regulare basis anyway so you can always keep replacing. If the shtf, At least have enough to last 6 months. The 6 month supply is a standard time period for any thing but most folks can't do that so the best is at least 2 months worth of foods, water, and medications. Always have a backup cookery. (colman stove, Charcoal briquette cooker, something that you really don't need to store a lot of gas for. My Colman uses white gas which lasts a lot longer than regular gas and propane so have that on store and easier than a real flammable type gas.

Yes I know, I am so tired of the fear porn about this system going down but I do prepare for not being able to get to a store to buy something or going anywhere for a time. So common sense prevails here more than the fear porn so take care to do what is needed in case of emergencies.