Shelves are emptying and now prices are about to jump again. This is the moment your crazy prepper friends tried to warn you about. This is your last chance to prepare for the worst.
Guns and ammo: doesn't have to be fancy. Get something you are comfortable hunting and defending yourself with.
Food: canned goods. Anything that has a shelf life longer than 6 months. Hopefully this won't last longer than a few weeks, but hope is not a game plan. Anticipating the worst is.
Warm clothing and blankets: remember the Texas deep freeze? Plan for that times 10 if you want to make it.
That's all basic stuff you can and should get right now... God bless and protect, Frens... We'll make it.
I've never noticed any change in the taste of our sausage even after a couple of years.
We buy bulk, custom blended sausage from an old-time country store in the area. We make patties, spread them on parchment and sheet pans to freeze. After they are frozen, we use the Fresh Saver to vacuum seal them in meal-sized packs.
Vacuum sealing makes all the difference. The packaged bacon I get from the grocery store is vacuum sealed and lasts indefinitely in the freezer. But the sausage is not and I don't have a vacuum sealer, so I cook it into a recipe because it starts to taste a little off after a couple months.
The vacuum sealer is a very good investment. Our current one is a good number of years old. We wore out the previous one.
We had pork chops a couple of days ago that we packaged a year ago. They tasted brand new.