Being Prepared - Updated Basic Food List On Page One

WA....Hi!!! I just this minute discovered this thread. My husband and I are 'preparers' (I hesitate to use the term 'preppers' because for some reason it seems many people have attached a negative connotation to that term. :-\ ) Anyway, I am looking forward to reading this thread. Thanks for starting it!

I thought the responses I posted on another thread are also relevant here.

Here's the direct links to my posts, go ahead and copy the posts here if you'd like WA.

Thread: Need carrot advice, harvest time, how to make them last all winter?
Thread: Need carrot advice, harvest time, how to make them last all winter?

I thought the responses I posted on another thread are also relevant here.

Here's the direct links to my posts, go ahead and copy the posts here if you'd like WA.

Thread: Need carrot advice, harvest time, how to make them last all winter?
Thread: Need carrot advice, harvest time, how to make them last all winter?

Depending on how cold it gets in your area you could have left your root crops in the ground all winter with a cold frame over them.

If they're already out of the ground, carrots should be put in sand, moist but not wet, and stored in a cool dark place. DO NOT wash the carrots before storage.

For potatoes they can be kept in a burlap sack, in a cool dark place.

Regardless of the vegetable, keep an eye on them throughout winter. If you see any of them start to turn get them out of storage so they don't taint the rest of your crops.

If stored properly (cool and dark) they shouldn't grow as they are stored in the dark and no photosynthesis can take place. Since your carrots are sans foliage, they wouldn't grow even if in light.

If you cannot maintain a cool, dark place, you'll need to can, freeze or dry. I believe you'll need to pressure can due to low acid content.

If you freeze them, dice them up, rinse, while still damp place in your deep freeze (you want them to freeze as fast as possible as that will help avoid rupturing cell walls of the food, making it mushy when thawed) on cookie sheets covered in wax paper. Keep the pieces separate so they don't freeze together. Once frozen, place in freezer bags and put in freezer. By having the pieces moist when you freeze them you will end up with a coating of thin ice on the outside which will help seal the veggie. The same method can be used with meat. The coating of ice adds some additional protection to your food while in the freezer.

If you dry, dice into equal sizes, dehydrate for however long you need to, store dried pieces in jars.

You may also consider freezing carrots and other veggies such as celery & onion, into ice cubes. You can freeze the veggies together or separate from each other. Fill ice cube tray with veggies, top off with water. Freeze and either leave in ice tray or place cubes in a freezer bag. By using this method, the next time you make soup or something you can just toss the proper amount of ice cubes into your mix to get your need veggies. Keep in mind the additional water that will be added when you do this. The ice cube will help avoid damage due to freezer burn.

This is a difficult question to answer. The light spectrum needed by the plant varies throughout the growing season.

When a plant first starts growing it needs a cooler/bluer color spectrum. You can achieve this with metal halide (expensive and hot) or a fluorescent light set up using 'cooler bulbs.' If going the fluorescent route, go to a pet store that sells aquarium supplies. Look for full spectrum lighting or bulbs that are cooler.

When the plant begins to bloom later in the season more of a red hue is needed. This can be achieved by using high pressure sodium lights or fluorescent bulbs that are warmer, which again can be found at an aquarium shop.

Fluorescent lights will need to be almost touching the plant to achieve the desired effect of replicating the sun. Your MH or HPS can be farther away from the plants and must be otherwise you'll burn the plants.

As far as how long you should keep the lights on in a given day depends on the plant and where in the growing season you are trying to replicate.

There's a whole lot more to it than simply providing light but for the sake of brevity I'll stop here and leave the rest of the research to you.

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WA....Hi!!! I just this minute discovered this thread. My husband and I are 'preparers' (I hesitate to use the term 'preppers' because for some reason it seems many people have attached a negative connotation to that term. :-\ ) Anyway, I am looking forward to reading this thread. Thanks for starting it!

Folks that are prepping on a budget can stick with sales, and close out items to stock up on. I bought 100 cans of vegetables this week while canned goods were on sale. However only 50% of that goes into my stock room the other half is for every day use.

Bought another case of wide mouth mason jars. Storing bulk black, red and white peppercorns; chocolate chips; caramelized sugar.

Testing to see if corn chips will store longer than exp date if transferred to jars...

They are suppose to. Especially if you vacuum seal those jars or add an oxygen absorber.

Get some cocoa powder, the stuff you use when baking. I know for a fact that it lasts at least 25+ years without any special care. Mine was stored above my stove in a large can, bigger than a #10, maybe a #20 if there is such a thing. Took forever to go through it all, but my aunt gave it to me in about 79 for free.

Just tested it and it works. Free...no account registering needed. Provides a link that can be shared. No downloads either.

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The ones with food will be obvious. They will still look healthy, they will still be fat. Their clothes will probably still fit. They won't have the anemic, starving look. How are you going to hide that from the hungry desperate people?

Here ya go, ready to print-

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Edit to add: Huge thank you to Simple27 and green for you!

And green for you for doing this!!

And green for you for doing this!!

Wow, awesome thread sister!!!!!

I wish I had money to do what you're doing!

100 lbs of this and 60 lbs of that can seem overwhelming to a non prepper.

Any amount of prep can save your life (and your childs life).

Don't be like the fools who died in NOLA for lack of drinking water...What a stupid and avoidable death!

Remember, if the water was cutoff but not contaminated, you still have 40 gallons of fresh drinkable water in your hot water heater!

Thanks so much for this wealth of information!!

I also made a document highlighting some of the main points in this thread, mostly the posts by OP.

I made it in word, made some tables for ease of reading, you can download and modify it to your liking.

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