Are You Stocked Up?

kcult said:
What's an airplane bottle?
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Mini bottles, what SC bars used to have to use before free pour was allowed in the mid late 2000s. They’re 50ml. Most NC red dot stores near me sell them. Seems like mostly in SC the stores either sell mini bottles or half pints (200ml), not often they have both
 
Me. said:
Back in Feb, I snagged a bag of driveway rock salt, and a bag of water softener salt (I have no softener).


Said to my wife...... ya never know.....
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SnowRooster said:
That’s a good find!
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Funny, just yesterday I was looking for articles and reading up on making things like dry cured sausage and would like to give it a try. I think the basement may be cool and consistent enough in temperature. Not sure about the humidity, but that can be dealt with. I've read about using curing salt #2 which contains sodium nitrate which decomposes into sodium nitrite (curing salt #1) overtime and that you can add good bacteria to the mix, both of which go a long way towards rendering the meat safe to eat.
 
noway2 said:
Funny, just yesterday I was looking for articles and reading up on making things like dry cured sausage and would like to give it a try. I think the basement may be cool and consistent enough in temperature. Not sure about the humidity, but that can be dealt with. I've read about using curing salt #2 which contains sodium nitrate which decomposes into sodium nitrite (curing salt #1) overtime and that you can add good bacteria to the mix, both of which go a long way towards rendering the meat safe to eat.
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It’s something I want to do myself. I have read a lot about it just never done it. My basement to very humid, not a good environment.
i vaguely remember my dads family curing hams when I was very young.

this seems very easy
 
SnowRooster said:
It’s something I want to do myself. I have read a lot about it just never done it. My basement to very humid, not a good environment.
i vaguely remember my dads family curing hams when I was very young.

this seems very easy
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It looks like they have a short play list on the subject, starting with using celery for curing. I understand that the process is a combination of getting the moisture out of the meat and simultaneously creating an environment that doesn't allow bad microbes, especially botulism, to grow. I read about things like the optimal environment as far as temperature, humidity, etc, and while I can understand that this leads to certain regions being renown for certain products, e.g. parts of Italy and (sausage) in the form of pepperoni and salami, but I would expect that people all over the world were using these techniques to preserve meat. Actual refrigeration like we have today wasn't even all that common until the 1950s.
 
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turkeydance said:
stocked up?
yes.

1. prescriptions refilled to the max allowable by law.
2. both chain saws (and other equipment) tuned up and ready.
3. will refill cans with non-eth gas tomorrow.

that's just this week.
our "regular" preps (hurricane, ice storm, etc.) are good.
as i have posted before, one good thing from the pandemic
was it got my wife on board with prep plans and execution,
which was her excuse to stock cases of wine.
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Not long after the pandemic started our office started giving our patients a 90 day supply with one refill on their medicines (BP meds, thyroid meds, arthritis, etc.) as a way to help them from having to go out so much. For anyone who is on medications and are only getting a 30 day supply at the time ask you Provider can you get a 90 day supply. If crap kicks off you'd rather have more than a months worth on hand.

As for stocking up, the wife and I had a small bathroom converted into a pantry. We're in the process of stocking it now. Besides essentials also consider Tylenol, Orajel, etc.
 
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maybe it is our insurance but we always got 90 day refills from CVS on our meds.
 
I placed an order for three more cases of #10 cans of Mountainhouse in June. They keep pushing the ship date out every month that I check, and still don’t have it. My card was charged in June by a long time reputable distributor. I told them today to cancel the order and refund it. I don’t remember Mountainhouse being this slammed in the past eight years
 
Picked up more pork, beef, and butterball turkeys today. Went to 3 different meat packing plants today. Trying them out for taste before buying more.
 
fieldgrade said:
I placed an order for three more cases of #10 cans of Mountainhouse in June. They keep pushing the ship date out every month that I check, and still don’t have it. My card was charged in June by a long time reputable distributor. I told them today to cancel the order and refund it. I don’t remember Mountainhouse being this slammed in the past eight years
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Midwayusa has a fair amount in stock. I grabbed a fair amount. I still have chicken diced beef and ground beef in cans for precovid crazy prices
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Always keep a pair and a spare of go-to items. Weird shit happens when people panic. I saw little old ladies buying 30 year supplies of TP in March.
 
Related - where are you guys at on the SHTF-meter related to election day?

I personally believe it is going to be a non-event but stay prepared regardless.
 
Can’t seem to find beef in quantities bigger than grocery stores. Anybody got any suggestions? I would like to add some poundage to the beef part of the equation.
 
My son works for one of the local grocers...

A month ago, their primary distributor was consistently running 30-36 hours behind. Now, it’s 72 hours.

2-3 days may not seem like a lot, but when you look at the amount of product sold in that time, it is.

Increased demand and a shortage of folks (truckers) to move product, from the beginning to the end of the supply chain, is a problem. If you throw others factors into the equation, say, unrest on a national scale or herd panic, you’ve got yourself the perfect storm.
 
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Dale Gribble said:
Increased demand and a shortage of folks (truckers) to move product, from the beginning to the end of the supply chain, is a problem. If you throw others factors into the equation, say, unrest on a national scale or herd panic, you’ve got yourself the perfect storm.
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Yup. The supply chain is an easy target from multiple angles. More than one of the bloggers I've been following has been saying to expect shortages and for things like utilities to become less reliable as the social condition deteriorates.
 
So the new panic is here. Reloading components, ammo, guns, toilet paper, Clorox wipes, paper towels are getting hard to find. It’s only been a short period of time since the last great toilet paper shortage.
People get complacent quicker than I thought.
 
Leadchunker said:
Can’t seem to find beef in quantities bigger than grocery stores. Anybody got any suggestions? I would like to add some poundage to the beef part of the equation.
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I ordered half a cow a couple of weeks before your post. Supposed to be picking it up on the 8th.
 
Other things that are overlooked:
reference material, books not digital
seeds for a couple years
fertilizer
pet food
water filtration
Clorox
basic building maintenance supplies
baking soda
bug spray
 
Leadchunker said:
So the new panic is here. Reloading components, ammo, guns, toilet paper, Clorox wipes, paper towels are getting hard to find. It’s only been a short period of time since the last great toilet paper shortage.
People get complacent quicker than I thought.
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check Aldis, havent seen a shortage on TP or p aper towels or bleach.
 
REELDOC said:
Other things that are overlooked:
reference material, books not digital
seeds for a couple years
fertilizer
pet food
water filtration
Clorox
basic building maintenance supplies
baking soda
bug spray
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Good list.
i couldn’t get my canned dog food this week, I thought they were just sold out but the lady said the MFG was having a hard time buying cans.
 
REELDOC said:
Other things that are overlooked:
reference material, books not digital
seeds for a couple years
fertilizer
pet food
water filtration
Clorox
basic building maintenance supplies
baking soda
bug spray
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I literally have a ton of everything on this list as well as everyday food and hygiene supplies. Have extra household water filter and I have the largest Berkey filter they make with extra filters for it as well.
 
Tuna!
I actually eat a can of tuna everyday; it's easy, protein, healthy, and low calorie. I asked my doc if I should worry about mercury and he told me that something else would kill me way before the tuna and mercury would.....so that made me feel better.
 
I have three like minded people near me, and two that are are interested. And about 500k of unknown.
 
I had this discussion with one of my neighbors at our campground this summer. He told me all of the preps that he’d made as far as food and water, toilet paper and the like. He asked if I prepped. I told him just bullets. He told me that I can’t eat bullets! I told him , no, but I can eat the food that YOU just told me about! It got him thinking that maybe he needed a gun.
 
DrScaryGuy said:
I was just digging around in my safe to put some things a way and found a gun i've been meaning to buy. does that count?
I do not remember buying it. Maybe vaguely but it all kind of blends together... Well, I guess I might as well buy some ...
aaand I just realized I also have holsters for it.
Please nobody tell my wife she's right about my gun buying addiction.
I think I must have bought it shortly before my move out of MI last year and jammed it in with all my other stuff and forgot about it.
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Been there, done that...a couple times.
 
Sp00ks said:
Nearly the exact same thing here. Went sky high, put on meds, kept reducing the dosage, went below 100, off meds, a year later 198/110, back on the meds. Now I'm typically around 118/74 range.
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look to plant protein insted of meats.
Sp00ks said:
Nearly the exact same thing here. Went sky high, put on meds, kept reducing the dosage, went below 100, off meds, a year later 198/110, back on the meds. Now I'm typically around 118/74 range.
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?ook to plant protein instead of meat.
 
Hammer21b said:
I had this discussion with one of my neighbors at our campground this summer. He told me all of the preps that he’d made as far as food and water, toilet paper and the like. He asked if I prepped. I told him just bullets. He told me that I can’t eat bullets! I told him , no, but I can eat the food that YOU just told me about! It got him thinking that maybe he needed a gun.
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He Needs to learn to keep his mouth shut also! lol
 
Picked up more canning lids and rings with lids yesterday. Also topped up the toilet paper stockade with our preferred brand. Costco and sams can sell thier house brand to somebody else.
 
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