April 17th-What have you done to prep this week?

Task for the day was to find the kitchen floor...and I did!!  Dirty old thing tho so I did the hands and knees thing and washed it down to its shiny depth.  Gathered up all my rugs, shook them mightily and tossed them in the washer.  Was a very good day...til i discovered the dryer was not working.  Will call rapairman tomorrow...sigh. 

Printed off various recipes for tortillas and other breads like bannock to make in a skillet.  Put a bunch of various dehydrated veggys in small canning jars for a soup starter.  The jars pinged when I put them in the fridge.  What's up with that?  I guess it is a good thing though. 

Edited by Thordawggy - April 21 2006 at 9:20pm

From my surveys this week I made enough to get a food dehydrator and food saver free from Amazon.  Yes, I love free stuff.  Meijers has mens socks for three dollars today, so I am getting three packages. I will be broke so I can't get anything else until May.

Last week I planted 4 dozen cabbage plants.  I plan to make sauerkraut with these--they are o-s cross which grow really huge.  Later I plan to plant more cabbage and try to save them during the winter either in the cellar or a pit in the ground like my grandparents did--I'm not sure how that was actually done.  Earlier I planted 50 lbs of potatoes, onions, garlic, peas, broccoli, and 50 strawberry plants.   I also bought an 8-lb. bag of pinto beans and 20-lb bag of rice at Walmart, as well as 2 large packs of toilet paper and some canned beans and spaghetti sauce.  I have been writing things down as I buy them, but have no idea how long they will last or even how many people will be eating them.

I am sooo excited, I got a hand crank dual band AM/FM radio I know that sounds crazy but it is very cool, has a lamp light and can charge a cell phone. Radio Shack-29.99   

Thanks Bookfinder

hi to all , i took out 200.00 dollars from the bank today and went to BJ's shopping club, when i buy in bulk, it doesn't seem like much, and prices have gone up from a few weeks ago.   25 lbs of sugar up a dollar, i know it doesn't sound like much a dollar, but add that across the board, on things to prep it adds up . we tried the dry fruit in small packages, and some of us liked it, i like the cranberries, it was cheaper to buy ib bulk , but once you open the bag,  you will need a air tight containers to store of of this bulk stuff, i have been saving glass containers, brought also the cheap  heavry duty alumiun foil, for lining cooking pots, great idea from  a poster here , lined them then you don't have to waste water to clean them. they had a coleman lamp for 29$ RECHARGABLE, but brought a out side  copper look table lamp also chargeable for 18.99, i,m charging it now, the only thing the coleman globe was clear, better light source, the one i brought frosted glass, may take it  back, also  one restorant size can of pepperstrips, can use with eggs, to make pepper and egg grinders and sauage and pepper grinders,  they had can turkey breast 12.5 oz cans 3/6.99  , i'm gonna try and make soup with it.  spent 102$ there and didn't get much. but did observe those 10 for10 prices at the regular grocery stores are the same regular prices there at BJ's so stocking up on 10 for 10 is no big deal unless you knows it's a big savings,.  for the last 100$, i'm goiing to try to spend it wisely tommorrow lol     roxy

Hi Femvet ...

Today I went to the Dollar General and picked up bottles of spices and such. Got a couple more towels and washcloths. Spent some more time organizing the house so things will be as easy as possible. We are having a yard sale in a couple of weeks and part of the money will go to open our pool and the other part will go to preps.

I'm new to this forum but have been avidly reading it for several months.  Thanks to the  many thoughtful and wise individuals and their suggestions, we began prepping in earnest in November. 

sweetpea wrote: Hi Femvet ... I'm interested in how you make dried turkey (similar to hamburger rocks)?  I guess chicken is also done the same way as well?  I was drying some veggies for veggie flakes and thought it might be nice to add some dried chicken bits?  just don't know how to do it that way ...   It's nice to have a pressure cooker, I really enjoy the "one" I have - I hear it helps to have more than one ... I saw some on sale in todays paper so I may wander down to pick up one or two tomorrow ...   How do you store your ghee?  in canning jars?  on the shelf?