I stored a bunch of grain and other things along with oil press, grain mill etc.
You have to decide what kind of shortage you're planning for or it gets overwhelming. I chose disruption but not end of the world. We have plenty of animals on property but flour etc might be problematic and what I've got would keep you alive for at least a year, you might lose some weight but not be dead.
Water is key and I don't trust Berkey bc their testing seems weak so I have an entire skid of bottled spring water which will do for drinking and cooking. Bathing etc could be accomplished with pond or spring water drawn manually if power went out.
In five gallon buckets, food safe and airtight, inside mylar bags 7-mil, with oxygen absorbers. On a skid in the basement with a dehumidifier running and about 60 degrees year round
One thing to remember, anything a horse can eat we can eat. I was getting soft red winter wheat for $10 a bag at the local feed mill and corn for $7-8.
Almost all corn is GMO now anyway but I figure that won't matter when I'm rolling tortillas between incoming shells lol
Oh interesting. Idk either but again, going with what was cheap and plentiful I figured a GMO corn muffin as the world burns around me won't be too awful
Things that will last a while. We have a ton of canned vegetables with the dates as far away as the end of 2024 and beginning of 2025. We do the same with canned tomatoes and beans just check the best before dates most go quite a while into the future. Also canned fruits we bought several large jars of peaches with best before date 2025. All this stuff will keep at least until the dates and most long after the dates. If you dont have a home and live in an apartment this is the best way they dont have to be refrigerated. We also started growing our own stuff this year but as we are first time growers we dont know if it will work out well. We have many seeds for next year and most can start to grow inside before they have to be planted. We also bought a wood stove I live on an island so we have billions of trees and the wood stove is in case they shut the power down in the winter. We also have a BBQ with lots of propane stored in case we need something to cook on. Plus we have our trailer in the back yard, which has a propane stove a propane fridge and microwave. There are many things you can do to get read make sure you have a light source that is not electric.
You can apparently use the dehydrator to make just add water meals of stews and things. I haven't tried it yet but I'm aware of the concept and it is interesting to me.
Makes sense as I've bought noodle packets etc that are basically just that.
By locking down my flour supply I can do almost anything. Like, I can make fucking noodles if I am home all day with the power out. Lol. I have a pasta machine from Goodwill that I paid $8 for that will make some respectable fettuccine.
I have all the canning stuff, dehydrator, vacuum sealer, sauce master, etc I just need some help to do it all.
I buy top round on sale for like $8-9 and cut and marinate it in teriyaki and get a pound of passable beef jerky for basically the cost of the meat. Just finished my last bag as I had two pounds that were gonna get freezerburnt if I didn't use for something
Honestly I bought this teriyaki sauce in a gallon jug from a food outlet for 2.99 and its just about perfect. Tried next to some made with worcestershire sauce it seems a bit less salty which is cool bc I have high blood pressure anyway
Absolutely you need a Piteba oil press. Cooking oil goes rancid quick. Piteba will make oil from anything. I bought a bag of black oil sunflower seeds and got 4oz oil out of 8oz seeds
The sunflower seeds? No they go thru the press in the hull. The expeller squeezes the oil out and the press cake (everything not liquid) gets pushed out the end of the unit in a big wormlike structure similar to those fireworks you light and they make a coiling snake while they burn. Easy peasy.
Yeah the sunflower oil blew my mind it ran out like you turned a faucet on. And it was a relatively cheap setup at like $150 for the press. If I had chickens you can even feed the presscake to them as it's high in protein.
Also for all those who don’t know how to smoke foods, now is a good time to get a quality smoker and store up lump coal. Smoking and curing preserves meats for up to a year. If the power grid is out with no refrigeration you will need to do this. Stock your freezers and if shit hits the fan crank up the big green egg.
How many? For us (we free-range) the yard feels hectic with more than 35. It all depends how/where you keep them.
Canning is great, and dehydrating is pretty sweet too. The king shit rig is a freeze drier though imho. My boss has a four tray freeze drier running around the clock, and it is amazingly productive. What a useful machine if you can afford one.
I started saving last summer for a backup solar generator, large enough to run a refrigerator. I did this because I love my creamer, cheese and real butter. We had intermittent blackouts last summer here in good old Calif., I also fill the empty spaces in my freezer with small bottles of water, ice. I planted fruit trees and blue berries, strawberries, Goji berries, asparagus, and then any seasonal stuff. I just moved here 2 years ago and am having to improve the soil. My soil was so bad at first my beautiful cantaloupe tasted like wood pulp. I am composting like crazy and am going to get a vermiculture bin, I can dig all day long and not find one worm. I have a pecan tree that so far has put out about 8, 5 gallon buckets of pecans. I also got 5 truckloads of mulch. The mulch brought many types of mushrooms I haven't identified yet and MORELS! I have a small rocket stove I made from water heater vent pipe and use that right now to make charcoal. In the summer I can cook outside using sticks for fuel. The charcoal is for water purification if needed.
Biogas is another thing I am looking into. Turn your poop into fuel to cook with or heat your home. I am looking to replace my old septic system, so this might work for me.
I stored a bunch of grain and other things along with oil press, grain mill etc.
You have to decide what kind of shortage you're planning for or it gets overwhelming. I chose disruption but not end of the world. We have plenty of animals on property but flour etc might be problematic and what I've got would keep you alive for at least a year, you might lose some weight but not be dead.
Water is key and I don't trust Berkey bc their testing seems weak so I have an entire skid of bottled spring water which will do for drinking and cooking. Bathing etc could be accomplished with pond or spring water drawn manually if power went out.
In five gallon buckets, food safe and airtight, inside mylar bags 7-mil, with oxygen absorbers. On a skid in the basement with a dehumidifier running and about 60 degrees year round
It was really easy and fairly cheap too.
One thing to remember, anything a horse can eat we can eat. I was getting soft red winter wheat for $10 a bag at the local feed mill and corn for $7-8.
Almost all corn is GMO now anyway but I figure that won't matter when I'm rolling tortillas between incoming shells lol
Oh interesting. Idk either but again, going with what was cheap and plentiful I figured a GMO corn muffin as the world burns around me won't be too awful
Just don't let the kids name them.
Things that will last a while. We have a ton of canned vegetables with the dates as far away as the end of 2024 and beginning of 2025. We do the same with canned tomatoes and beans just check the best before dates most go quite a while into the future. Also canned fruits we bought several large jars of peaches with best before date 2025. All this stuff will keep at least until the dates and most long after the dates. If you dont have a home and live in an apartment this is the best way they dont have to be refrigerated. We also started growing our own stuff this year but as we are first time growers we dont know if it will work out well. We have many seeds for next year and most can start to grow inside before they have to be planted. We also bought a wood stove I live on an island so we have billions of trees and the wood stove is in case they shut the power down in the winter. We also have a BBQ with lots of propane stored in case we need something to cook on. Plus we have our trailer in the back yard, which has a propane stove a propane fridge and microwave. There are many things you can do to get read make sure you have a light source that is not electric.
bacon fat in candles
sacrilege!
Yes as a guy who has made candles from tallow and bacon grease your bacon needs some wax or something to make a better candle.
I put the bison tallow candles in regular ball jars. Seemed to work well enough. Those were cheap and available when I was doing that.
Candlewic in Philly sells some great bulk candle making stuff
You can apparently use the dehydrator to make just add water meals of stews and things. I haven't tried it yet but I'm aware of the concept and it is interesting to me.
Makes sense as I've bought noodle packets etc that are basically just that.
By locking down my flour supply I can do almost anything. Like, I can make fucking noodles if I am home all day with the power out. Lol. I have a pasta machine from Goodwill that I paid $8 for that will make some respectable fettuccine.
I have all the canning stuff, dehydrator, vacuum sealer, sauce master, etc I just need some help to do it all.
I buy top round on sale for like $8-9 and cut and marinate it in teriyaki and get a pound of passable beef jerky for basically the cost of the meat. Just finished my last bag as I had two pounds that were gonna get freezerburnt if I didn't use for something
Honestly I bought this teriyaki sauce in a gallon jug from a food outlet for 2.99 and its just about perfect. Tried next to some made with worcestershire sauce it seems a bit less salty which is cool bc I have high blood pressure anyway
High BP...then avoid processed table salt. Use other salts all you want. Sea salt, celtic gray, or Himalayan.
Absolutely you need a Piteba oil press. Cooking oil goes rancid quick. Piteba will make oil from anything. I bought a bag of black oil sunflower seeds and got 4oz oil out of 8oz seeds
Did you spend 8 hours shelling them though?
The sunflower seeds? No they go thru the press in the hull. The expeller squeezes the oil out and the press cake (everything not liquid) gets pushed out the end of the unit in a big wormlike structure similar to those fireworks you light and they make a coiling snake while they burn. Easy peasy.
Yeah the sunflower oil blew my mind it ran out like you turned a faucet on. And it was a relatively cheap setup at like $150 for the press. If I had chickens you can even feed the presscake to them as it's high in protein.
Here's a link with a picture, but I bought mine from Wise Men Trading Company for a little less money. Their link doesn't have pics or anything tho.
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Piteba-Nut-and-Seed-Oil-Expeller-Oil-press/286548571?wmlspartner=wlpa&selectedSellerId=11433&&adid=22222222228000000000&wl0=&wl1=g&wl2=m&wl3=42423897272&wl4=pla-51320962143&wl5=9006749&wl6=&wl7=&wl8=&wl9=pla&wl10=117088813&wl11=online&wl12=286548571&veh=sem&gclid=Cj0KCQjwqPGUBhDwARIsANNwjV6HSV8vx2te01UXfEhghxxdB7CJYiQnXQCYkz3b5_j0OviKI4EZ4egaAug7EALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds
https://wisementrading.com/food-storage/grain-mills/piteba-oil-press-2/
Also for all those who don’t know how to smoke foods, now is a good time to get a quality smoker and store up lump coal. Smoking and curing preserves meats for up to a year. If the power grid is out with no refrigeration you will need to do this. Stock your freezers and if shit hits the fan crank up the big green egg.
Again with the chickens lol.
How many? For us (we free-range) the yard feels hectic with more than 35. It all depends how/where you keep them.
Canning is great, and dehydrating is pretty sweet too. The king shit rig is a freeze drier though imho. My boss has a four tray freeze drier running around the clock, and it is amazingly productive. What a useful machine if you can afford one.
I started saving last summer for a backup solar generator, large enough to run a refrigerator. I did this because I love my creamer, cheese and real butter. We had intermittent blackouts last summer here in good old Calif., I also fill the empty spaces in my freezer with small bottles of water, ice. I planted fruit trees and blue berries, strawberries, Goji berries, asparagus, and then any seasonal stuff. I just moved here 2 years ago and am having to improve the soil. My soil was so bad at first my beautiful cantaloupe tasted like wood pulp. I am composting like crazy and am going to get a vermiculture bin, I can dig all day long and not find one worm. I have a pecan tree that so far has put out about 8, 5 gallon buckets of pecans. I also got 5 truckloads of mulch. The mulch brought many types of mushrooms I haven't identified yet and MORELS! I have a small rocket stove I made from water heater vent pipe and use that right now to make charcoal. In the summer I can cook outside using sticks for fuel. The charcoal is for water purification if needed.
Biogas is another thing I am looking into. Turn your poop into fuel to cook with or heat your home. I am looking to replace my old septic system, so this might work for me.