Do you have enough food in your house?

Canning 101 hacks.... If you have the jars, You can place any dry goods, rice beans sugar flour grains ect, Add an O2 packet and seal. Generally will last YEARS... Of course good old MREs... Got a few
 

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I purposely use up every last thing in my pantry and freezer at the end of every year, just to be sure nothing goes out of date. So right now I'm lower than usual, but we did refill a lot last week, so we could probably last a month, but it would mean lots of pasta meals, burritos, peanut butter and Ritz crackers.

Southern Ohio's main danger is a chemical spill from a big farm, so I always keep at least ten gallons of water.
 
I keep extra food, particularly kinds that can be eaten without any preparation and are not refrigerated in the event power fails. Then I keep an adequate supply of frozen foods, but I'm not planning to stock up for national emergencies. Will make it through somehow.
 

Aunt Bea said:
After reading your list I would say that water would be my weak spot.

I have enough food and prescriptions to last about a month with electricity and about two weeks without electricity.

Charging my phone and staying connected with the outside world would be a major concern.

The good news is that in 71 years, I’ve never faced a situation that I wasn’t able to muddle through.
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I have a few portable recharging banks like this one that happens to be on sale at Amazon today. I used them during long international flights (10+ hours to Europe) to power our laptops.

They'll charge a phone a couple of times and can be recharged in a car. If you plug your phone into it while recharging the battery pack, both the pack and the phone will recharge.

https://www.amazon.com/INIU-Portable-High-Speed-Flashlight-Compatible/dp/B0CB1FW5FC?crid=1H1XU1FEULL0&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.oNeCYgZ6-lqYU2b4BiiMORiD0nyDrF5hyyrkCI1l4LiP272heXxjmibT2vzX7OdECWyMfi7_mqCPVH0KgyF1jUgowmYi1H5DY1VeSQu4hAltVFHf0neAJXG67mOfC2KI_sLCYsGxImArpBzE8QEosIITO9SZt4zzBfTYGSi4PJ1HTQvP2rgKiigtSMLZRKVaJdldYsI6PLDvHpd8ymANdqLy_Ilxx0Cb-78zwvQxjvY.DF-z1hejL81zBWGxPCgnfri9XOG8-8ByyVsa6Fk1Ytw&dib_tag=se&keywords=phone+charger+battery+bank&qid=1768579084&sprefix=phone+charger+battery+bank,aps,225&sr=8-3&th=1

I should add that they hold a charge for a long time, but I plug them in every three months or so to make sure they're fully charged.
 
StarSong said:
I have a few portable recharging banks like this one that happens to be on sale at Amazon today. I used them during long international flights (10+ hours to Europe) to power our laptops.

They'll charge a phone a couple of times and can be recharged in a car. If you plug your phone into it while recharging the battery pack, both the pack and the phone will recharge.

https://www.amazon.com/INIU-Portable-High-Speed-Flashlight-Compatible/dp/B0CB1FW5FC?crid=1H1XU1FEULL0&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.oNeCYgZ6-lqYU2b4BiiMORiD0nyDrF5hyyrkCI1l4LiP272heXxjmibT2vzX7OdECWyMfi7_mqCPVH0KgyF1jUgowmYi1H5DY1VeSQu4hAltVFHf0neAJXG67mOfC2KI_sLCYsGxImArpBzE8QEosIITO9SZt4zzBfTYGSi4PJ1HTQvP2rgKiigtSMLZRKVaJdldYsI6PLDvHpd8ymANdqLy_Ilxx0Cb-78zwvQxjvY.DF-z1hejL81zBWGxPCgnfri9XOG8-8ByyVsa6Fk1Ytw&dib_tag=se&keywords=phone+charger+battery+bank&qid=1768579084&sprefix=phone+charger+battery+bank,aps,225&sr=8-3&th=1

I should add that they hold a charge for a long time, but I plug them in every three months or so to make sure they're fully charged.
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Oh my ex and my sis bought a thing to charge your phones with a dynamo and it's radio and a flashlight. I'm gonna order one too.

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They have been planning a war with Iran since at least 2005 and a bomb, just like covid. They said: China will catch a cold and they were laughing and it would spread all over the world. It was in a meeting in London. That's on a video from 2010.
 
I am so tired. I had to walk with my bike cause I bought so insane much. I told the neighbour who thinks it's nonsense that he can come eat if necessary.

Song from the 80s before Gorbatsjov:


Making a career before the bomb drops
Working on my future before the bomb drops
I'm running around my schedule before the bomb drops
Safe in the health insurance fund before the bomb drops
And when the bomb drops
I'll be lying in my suit, diplomas, and my checks in my pocket
My insurance policy and my vocabulary, awww
Under the apartment buildings in the city next to you
Just drop it then, it'll happen anyway
It doesn't matter if you run
I never knew you, I want to know who you are
I want to know who you are
I'm guaranteed success against fire and for my life
I have everything, but no time, not even for a little while
I have to think about my salary and my relationships
But I'd rather know who you are before it's too late
Because when the bomb drops (etc.)
You still have to do your homework before the bomb drops
Get a diploma before the bomb drops
E is MC squared before the bomb drops
Mit nach nebst naechst samt bei seit von zu zuwider entgegen ausser aus
 
Lavinia said:
It's only common sense to have a supply of tinned and packaged food. You never know when you might fall ill or have an accident. My main concern is food for my pets. I never wait until I've run out before stocking up.
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I just bought 5 kilo hay and 10 kilo/22lbs dry rabbit food.
 
Whenever I think about food storage for survival scenarios, I wonder how in the world young people would fare. At least in well-developed countries, most of them don't know how to cook, or that there are such things as edible wild onions, mushrooms, weeds, flowers, and pine nuts and such.

When those warnings and advisories go out, they should include urging seniors to teach young people how to cook and preserve and forage. Boomers would suddenly become pretty important, I think.

As for phone chargers, if connectivity satellites go down, a charger isn't going to be much help. And satellites would definitely be targeted.
 
Murrmurr said:
Whenever I think about food storage for survival scenarios, I wonder how in the world young people would fare. At least in well-developed countries, most of them don't know how to cook, or that there are such things as edible wild onions, mushrooms, weeds, flowers, and pine nuts and such.
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I'll pluck dandelions for us and the rabbits. In WW2 they ate flower bulbs and wall paper.
 
Dr.Colosso said:
I'll pluck dandelions for us and the rabbits. In WW2 they ate flower bulbs and wall paper.
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I wouldn't recommend wallpaper. In fact, wallpaper is a lot harder to find these days than dandelions.

I'm almost certain all types of wild tubers are safe to eat. There's a wild potato that tastes better than any commercially farmed potato I've tasted. I remember what its above-ground part looks like, but I don't remember what it's called.
 
We definitely have enough food for 72 or more hours. I look kind of funny at those folks hoarding food and keeping it in a cave. I would be more concerned about not having enough money to meet an emergency.
 
Murrmurr said:
Whenever I think about food storage for survival scenarios, I wonder how in the world young people would fare. At least in well-developed countries, most of them don't know how to cook, or that there are such things as edible wild onions, mushrooms, weeds, flowers, and pine nuts and such.

When those warnings and advisories go out, they should include urging seniors to teach young people how to cook and preserve and forage. Boomers would suddenly become pretty important, I think.

As for phone chargers, if connectivity satellites go down, a charger isn't going to be much help. And satellites would definitely be targeted.
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So many young folks live on fast food. They have no concept of cooking thrifty, healthy meals. It’ll be tough for them.

OR

If boomers have food, those without may just come to take ours.
 
Rider77 said:
We definitely have enough food for 72 or more hours. I look kind of funny at those folks hoarding food and keeping it in a cave. I would be more concerned about not having enough money to meet an emergency.
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Money for what? They say you need 70 euro cash. What for? If the grocery stores are closed and there's no water I rather have food and water. If I can't cook and use the fridge anymore I have some canned fish and saucages for the kids and other food and a thing for the camping to cook on with gas.
 
Murrmurr said:
I wouldn't recommend wallpaper. In fact, wallpaper is a lot harder to find these days than dandelions.

I'm almost certain all types of wild tubers are safe to eat. There's a wild potato that tastes better than any commercially farmed potato I've tasted. I remember what its above-ground part looks like, but I don't remember what it's called.
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I thought he was referring to the rabbits eating wallpaper and flowers??
 
 
Murrmurr said:
You probly saw Sunkist's post up there^

My Gramma told me that women used wallpaper in soup back then, but only because the paste, which was a simple wheat paste, was a great substitution for corn starch for thickening the soup. And gravy as well.
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I'd heard about some odd stuff, but not wallpaper til it was mentioned here and I looked it up.
 

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