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Since 1999
Is it because you still have so much stuff from y2k, or because you think it will be a nothing burger?I have everything I need.
Is it because you still have so much stuff from y2k, or because you think it will be a nothing burger?I have everything I need.
Breadmaker = Too Easy.I am, as we speak, having a couple of thick, lightly toasted and buttered slices of Cornell bread. That is my breakfast. I just throw it in the bread maker and let it mix, knead, and bake without any effort from me.
Same here 1911user.We checked household stocks of vitamins, anti-acids, supplements, cold medicines, first aid misc, cleaning/disinfectant supplies, soaps, and other OTC things we normally use. Anything less than 6 months worth was a hole and was filled.
got to have limes for coronaAnd Vodka! Lol!
But on a serious note, it's always good to have those half gallon jugs of cheap vodka like I get at Safeway.
You can use it to make your herbal remedies and it makes the best cleaner from laundry to get smells out of clothing. V
As do we.... but a few extra slims jims may have fallen into the cart last week....I have everything I need.
As do we.... but a few extra slims jims may have fallen into the cart last week....
Don't hate on me! Sams is carrying the small sticks in a dispenser box.... I just set it in the pantry and when I want a snack, boom there I go. I figure I am saving about $12 over the package store, (southern talk for quickie mart) and easier to handle than the long sticks.That sounds like Cary and his beef summer sausage!
We can get them drop shipped fresh & cheap direct from SOPAKCO facility. Seriously, nothing is fresher or cheaper.I really want a couple cases of fresh MRE's . I know the cost vs value ration compared to other foods are way off but I like having them for hand outs and while I'm out and about. Super easy to grab, and use. If I had to bail a few days I would want an MRE or the main entree. The epicenter has great price anyone have a source for quality/fresh MRE's at good price?
Don't hate on me! Sams is carrying the small sticks in a dispenser box.... I just set it in the pantry and when I want a snack, boom there I go. I figure I am saving about $12 over the package store, (southern talk for quickie mart) and easier to handle than the long sticks.
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In my day there were lots of things that "fell" off the truck....... another part of a past life....lolYeah, I know the ones you're talking about at Sam's! Was in there, yesterday. We were going down the aisles, and Cary was grabbing stuff off the shelves like a kid. Beef summer sausage is his weakness. Loves snacking on it with crackers. Sometimes he slips things into the cart without me noticing. When we start checking out, I come across all kinds of things. He has a funny look on his face, telling me that it all just fell off the shelves into the cart! That's what made your post so funny!
Refrigerated eggs will keep for many months,especially if you wipe them in some kind of oil,like crisco, butter,lard or even mineral oil.My Aldis sell eggs for$.48 a dozen.I have been cooking soups, some with chicken, some with beef. I have been putting them in freezer ziploc bags in quart size (for 2). I have 3 chest freezers so I have a little room. The chicken and rice soup is even better after freezing than when fresh. I have cooked chickens, deboned and put in freezer bags with the broth that it was cooked in. I have plenty of beef, several pork butts, ribs and hams. My pantry overflows lol! I don't have chickens yet but hope to very soon. My problem would be eggs, milk and stuff like that. I buy toilet paper when I go to SAMs. Now you can but quilted northern from their website. Some is free shipping. I am getting my meds refilled this week. I have 4 months already.
I've not heard of using vodka in laundry. Sounds like alcohol abuse to me! And a very expensive cleaner, too!And Vodka! Lol!
But on a serious note, it's always good to have those half gallon jugs of cheap vodka like I get at Safeway.
You can use it to make your herbal remedies and it makes the best cleaner from laundry to get smells out of clothing. V
I use the bread maker to do the kneading and breads turn out perfect.Breadmaker = Too Easy.
Too easy to have bread around when I know I shouldn't. Besides, nothing made in a bread maker is as good as my hand-made loaves.
I've not heard of using vodka in laundry. Sounds like alcohol abuse to me! And a very expensive cleaner, too!
And crackers. Saltine crackers.
I'm running with this idea and picked up some containers of baby food because it: comes in a variety of foods, small serving size, easy to digest and shelf stable. Also picked up canned meats and soups.
This idea is out of the 1950's: cassarolls. They can easily be made out of shelf stable foods. It's an easy one dish meal. It's also a good way to use up leftovers so they don't go to waste.
Start with a cooked carbohydrate (dried pasta, dehydrated potatoes, rice or other grain)
Add a reconstituted can of condensed soup (creamed soups work well)
Add a can of appropriate canned meat.
Bake
In our area it comes in both jars and plastic. Good point. I purchased canned fruit in #10 cans for that reason. If the refrigeration goes out my plan is to add brandy to any leftover fruit from the open cans and let it get happy.BABY food is "shelf stable"?\
Are they still putting baby food in the good old GLASS jars where you live?
I was shocked to discover a few weeks ago, in grocery stores here in Atlanta, that almost NONE of the baby food is in PROPERLY SEALED GLASS JARS. Almost all of it is in some plastic container with a pull-off lid, like yogurt---and the shelf-life dates are VERY short.
I know this has happened since the year 2000, since my last son was born in 1998 and ALL the baby food was STILL IN GLASS JARS at that time.
Chocolate is like ammo, never enough.Added some OTC meds I rarely use but thought might be good to have on hand (Mucinex, Naproxen, Acetaminophen, & breathe right nasal strips to help widen nostrils in case of congestion). Took advantage of the sales going on at Amazon & bought a lot of boxes of facial tissue, plenty of laundry detergent, and another case of Georgia Pacific Tp paper.
Moved all cans of freeze dried foods out of sight into readily accessible storage area inside. I was able to inventory everything that way too and now know exactly what I have and where it is if needed. Started pressure canning chicken and beef hearts for the dogs and placed those home canned jars in the auxiliary pantry where I used to store the cans of freeze dried foods. That's the only sort of thing anybody looking for food is going to find!
Working on making my own meals ready to eat. Canned beef stew, chicken breasts, and chicken bone broth. I also tried canning ham for the first time ever. I opened a pint to check it out and though it works fine, the only way I'd eat it would be in soup, so I made a gallon of potato & ham soup, added the ham chunks to it and froze it up in double bagged quart sized bags.
The freezer is full --- I feel like a food horder sort of -- but if this gets to lock down stage I'm going to have the kids come over here to weather it out so I'm planning on more than just me. Got propane for the outdoor griddle - wood for the fireplace, and enough of just about everything -- except chocolate!!! Is there such a thing as "enough" chocolate????
Yep. So glad I stocked up on it this past summer.Dried elderberry seems to be running short.
Refrigerated eggs will keep for many months,especially if you wipe them in some kind of oil,like crisco, butter,lard or even mineral oil.My Aldis sell eggs for$.48 a dozen.
Those USED to KEEP FOREVER---many of you may not remember, but they started using these sorry little plastic bags to store them in in the early 1990's--and if stored in them very long at all the CRACKERS GO BAD. They have the most god-awful SMELL, and taste. I think some kind of chemical from these sacks is leaching into the crackers. I remember as a girl mama could buy a box of saltine crackers and they would KEEP ALL WINTER, unrefrigerated. Now, even in a sealed container, if they're in those plastic bags they come in inside the box, they go bad within a couple weeks.