Top ten foods for storage

A fantastic list from:
http://thesurvivalmom.com/

1.Wheat. Once ground, it’s the building block for varieties of bread, tortillas, flat bread, pizza crust and more. I’ve stocked up on hard red wheat for hearty breads, general purpose hard white wheat, and soft white wheat for pastries.

2.Rice. On its’ own, it’s a side dish. Mixed with herbs and a vegetable or two, it’s a simple main dish. It’s a great meal-stretcher when topped with, or served alongside, main dishes such as a stir fry. Note: brown rice contains oils which will become rancid after six months or so.

3.Dried milk. Without electricity, fresh milk will go bad in hours. In an emergency situation, fresh will be difficult to come by unless you own a cow or a goat. Dried milk provides not only milk to drink, but milk to use as an ingredient in other dishes.

4.Salt. Stock up on table salt at your local Costco. It’s inexpensive and has multiple uses.

5.Beans. Buy canned beans and dry beans in different varieties. Versatile, economical and a good source of fiber.

6.Tomatoes. Canned tomatoes, tomato sauce, tomato paste, tomato puree, etc. Watch for them on sale and then grab a few dozen cans. They’re the basis for salsas, soups, stews, and sauces.

7.Other canned veggies and fruit. These will help provide important nutrients, variety to your
recipes, and have a very long shelf life. If you can’t stomach canned veggies, try dehydrating your own or purchasing freeze-dried.

8.Peanut butter. High in protein, yummy on warm, freshly made bread! Add some honey and you have a winner!

9.Oil. Without oil, you’re pretty much stuck with boiling your meat and veggies.

10.Dried pasta. Another meal stretcher and a kid-pleasing dish any day of the week. My own kids have been known to dip bow-tie pasta in ranch dressing.

11.Sugar and honey. Okay, that makes eleven, but I’ve known women who were ready to kill when deprived of sugar for too long!

Stuff

Yesterday I received Ferfs tac pants, and my tac pants, but Wogs were not shipped. I guess they did not have them. I will try again next month.

I also got the second half of my ammo allotment.
20 .308
500 .22
50 9mm +P+
50 .380 Frangible

Mary and I started our diets yesterday. Neutrasystem. They send us a months worth of food (kind of neat sort of like prepping but with a regular rotation.) So far the food is odd and not overly good. But I probably have to much good food in my life and that is why I am a small round ball.

More weekend Prep

50 lb bag -o- rice
Big ol thing of coffee.

The AK for my wife will have to wait for the next paycheck.
We talked about saving more money. We don't think saving money is wise.
I have a co-worker at work who I believe is a preper. He is also a serious investor.
He has spent his whole life attaining wealth. He took all is wealth and dropped it into his home and a single condo. As he put it "A lifetime of equity". It vaporized over the last year. His home is now worth less than the equity he put into it.

Our family will continue to buy food, ammunition and other supplies. They seem more valuable than most investments. We also continue to pay down debit. Taxes are always something we fight with, and now they are going up.

I received about half my order of ammo, all of the shotgun and only the 7.62 AK rounds. The second part should be here soon. My first allotment of .410 rounds. I still have failed to find any 45 Long colt round.

The plan continues to be AK this month, and next month at the gun show Feb 13th I will get my AR-10

Prepping continues.

More Ammo

Purchased another shipment of ammo.
308 20
12ga 00 20
.22 LR 500
9mm +P JHP 50
12ga #6 Shot 25
.380 Frangible HP 50
7.62 X 39 FMJ 20

That's Jan ammo order
Made another payment on the Land!

Got tactical pants for the boys and I.
Paul said his tac pants are his fav pair of pants.
Green for Ferf
Blue for Wog
and a couple pairs of black for myself.

My sister is currently IM'n me all sorts of survival links.
I also advised her to start her own blog.

Snow snow snow

Perhaps it is weird but I hope for power failures so I can practice for a real emergency. What is weirder is my daughter said this weekend during the big "EPIC" snow storm here on the east coast that she "hopes the power will go out, we have the most fun when that happens". The boys agreed, my wife just shook her head. But alas the power did not go out and all my prep work for the storm was mostly for nothing. We only spent one day inside eating microwave buttered popcorn and drinking hot coco while gathered around a ceramic space heater in the middle of the living room. Not because we needed a space heater our central heating works fine, but because it was just family fun.

The next day the boy 19 and I shoveled out the truck and we went around saving as many folk as we could and getting some Christmas shopping done in the empty stores. Who would have thought just days before Christmas the stores would be void of people. It was very pleasant.

I think practice of emergency situations is important. I know in my heart I should practice more with my family. I typically only practice when the power really goes out. Turning the breakers off and not having hot water might upset the wife. Helping people extract their vehicles from the snow was great practice and way to much of a work out, I am still sore, as is the boy.

My children are older now the youngest being 17 and almost out of high school and the rest adults. They have some interest in prepping due to their crazy father but it is a game to them. Some of our great family memories are of us popping microwave popcorn, drinking coco and watching the weather channel while the rest of the neighborhood is blacked out. God made generators to pop microwave popcorn and run portable AC units so we could all be comfortable with our mattresses all in one room while the power was out. This is the kind of memory my daughter was speaking of during this last storm.

I do not know if they will continue to prep as they grow older. My 19 yr old son who helped the most rescuing people this weekend said that he needs a larger shovel for his car, or maybe two, a spade and a snow shovel. My daughter 21 who recently ran out of gas wants now to get a couple types of personal protection devices (she can not carry a gun on campus) that she can rely on and a small gas can for her car. These things give me hope.

My oldest 22 is in the marines and is receiving a medal for helping in the Philippines during the huge tropical storms they had. So obviously he makes me so proud that I get a lump in my throat as I write this. My middle son 17 is thinking hard about joining some service, and I am doing my best to guide him. Having spent 6 years in the Navy as a Construction Electrician in the CB's I hope he listens a little to me. My daughter 21 has spent years as a dance instructor for her local dance studio and is going to the university as a math major so she can teach high school math and be the dance coach, at her old high school where she is currently already an assistant coach. My 17 yr old is a fine young man who wants to enter the Navy like his old man as EOD to protect his fellow warriors from IED's. Scary to his Mother and I but how could I not be proud of a goal like that.

I see all the stories of young adults who are lost and wandering the world with little to no purpose and I wonder how on earth I ended up with such fine children who every day make me so proud to be their parent. I believe that prepping and talking to them about the possibilities of horrific change in the world has help in no small way to guide their choices.

Yes they are somewhere between Conservative and Libertarian, they are not very religious. They are familiar with guns but none of them own a gun. They are not hugely political and certainly are not a threat to the govt like some govt. officials write documents about. They just want a chance at living a life at least the same as what I have lived and I hope better than my life.

This is likely our last Christmas together and even this one our son 22 the Marine is in Japan. I wish them all Gods Speed in life and I know due to their character they will all be fine.

Bullets...

Got my order of ammo last night.

I thought I had ordered 5 boxes of OO buck but checking back it was only a single box.
Oh well that is how it goes if you are not carefull.

The wife unit does wonder why I order ammo for weapons we do not have. My answer is always "Yet" and she smirks.

I do have a plan to get the .22 cal weapons this month so I can take the girls to the range and not intimidate them.

Tonight is suppose to be a scary snow storm so when I get home from work the boy and I will pick up some fuel, water and a couple other good to have things.

I should make a list so I dont forget.

Bad Viscount

Well it has been almost a month since I blogged.

Mostly due to Christmas. Instead of getting sweet prep items I am getting cool kid items.

But.... as of yesterday I own my truck and the bank does not.
And the BoA CC is chopped up and gone forever!

I also this morning got some ammo but not the whole allotment for the month.
50 .380 jhp
50 9mm JHP
525 .22
20 308
20 .12ga 00
20 Russian unknown maker I hope they don't suck

All from a new vendor LuckyGunner.com

So there we have the update