Prepping away

Every can of food, bag of rice, camping equipment or first aid equipment, ect.. you put by for preps means security in any emergency.
There are many people here on this board that have been preping for a long time, there are also newbies and also a lot of people who have limited amount of money.
If you buy items you are going to use and a long shelf life you are on to a winner.
I have been buying a couple of extras each week that is stashed away for the just in case,

I have quite a nice stockpile at this point, but even today after reading the board this morning I still felt I needed a bit more and bought another 20 pounds of dried pinto beans, 3 lbs more pasta, a few more canned items like tamales, beefaroni that type thing. I just woke up this morning feeling a bit uneasy. I am going to start adding a little more every time I go to the store again, I have been just using some of my stockpile and not replenishing, but not anymore.

I did not buy huge amounts of rice, I think I only have about 25 pounds, maybe a bit more. I was going to cook mine in a solar oven (I had a link and plans somehwere to www.solarcooking.org shows you how to build several. I tried the car sunshade one, very simple and works well.  You can always heat canned items using candles and a fondue pot (I found one at a yard sale for a $1 and chafing dishes, found one also for $1 at t thrift store. The only cooking type fuel I have is some stuff in a can like sterno, again used to heat. Anything larger we will use charcoal in the grill, but only plan to use the grill method at the begininng when people will still have plenty of food and not have run out yet, will move to the other cooking methods later if there is no electricity. Water is my big storage problem also. We do have a pool which holds 12,000 gallons and I keep open year round, but for drinking I got several of the big water jugs (actually goes into a cooler which we don't have, Sparklets, Culliga, etc) 10 of them from my recyclying center for free, I just asked for them and they gave them to me. I also have some 50 gallon rain barrels  and some rinsed out empty soda 2-liters. I will wait to fill them at the start of anything. I don't have to hide anything in my house, hubby and child are on board as long as they don't have to do anything, except carry groceries. Hubby is all for a generator now since we had the ice storm and were without electricity for awhil, so I will look into that in the next couple of weeks.

Target has 36*gal tubs for $9.99 ^_^/
*i think its 36....w/e it is, its HUGE!

hachiban08 wrote: Target has 36*gal tubs for $9.99 ^_^/ *i think its 36....w/e it is, its HUGE!

You know on an earlier post I talked about candles being cheap after Christmas....well...year after year I have always been able to find them..not this year!!! Not a candle in site...In a way that was scary in another way it was comforting to know that there are others that are prepping.

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