So what did you put away this week?

Got some reference books:
1. When Technology Fails (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1933392452/?tag=survivalmonke-20)
2. When Disaster Strikes (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/160358322X/?tag=survivalmonke-20)
3. The Prepper's Pocket Guide: 101 Easy Things You Can Do to Ready Your Home for a Disaster (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1569759294/?tag=survivalmonke-20)
4. How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It: Tactics, Techniques, and Technologies for Uncertain Times (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0452295831/?tag=survivalmonke-20)
5. SAS Survival Handbook, Revised Edition: For Any Climate, in Any Situation (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0061733199/?tag=survivalmonke-20)

Also got another 1k pieces of fedorthedog's hi-velocity, long range, chemically propelled paper hole punch applicators.

 

4 of these:

http://www.survivalmonkey.com/threads/team-club-house-and-site-supporter-limited-offers.34536/


Thanks #bear

 

Sure! Just cut whichever way you like and then parboil in lightly salted water until they lose the raw look. Drain well and carefully and lay in single layers on your dryer shelves and dry on the veggie setting until they are absolutely completely dry. When dry, lay out just until cooled and put straight into jars with a tight lid(I use canning jars and lids) You could add an oxygen absorber but I never have. Just don't leave the lid off very long at a time. Hope this helps! The parboiling keeps potatoes from turning dark as they dry.

 

P.S.... a mandolin cutter really helps with hand fatigue and gives you such perfect even slices every time which helps it all to get dry at the same time.

 

Thank you for reply it is a great help especially how to keep them from turning brown .

 

you are very welcome! I love to help others to get prepared. I hope you will teach someone else and ask them to do the same!

 

(By the way... is that a Hello Kitty gun?????) tee hee!!!

 

about 36 porkchops fer $14 went in freezer, & of course more peas, with hopes of more Butterbeans tomorrow. Also got me a straw hat & a ball cap fer keeping sun out of my eyes working outside.

 

I saw a sale on crutches...bought some in different sizes. It beats the homemade ones.

 

More canned goods

 

yes this gun is on my christmas wish list lol and thanks again for info ill be checking back for more ideas

 

15 more gallons of gasoline.

 

Found some red wheat at the superWallymart and bought it out of curiosity. But I have got no way to mill it. What is it good for besides flour? Might try planting it.
We experimented with growing our own food this year . We found that our soil is too poor and our knowledge too scant. No topsoil. And no inate knack for farming, I guess. It must take some skill and luck. Our tomatoes are struggling along and nibbled upon. The bean yield is one bean per 2 beans planted. Everything else died or was harvested by wildlife at night. I figure we could starve easily enough if the super market closes or I don't nail the local racoons. Probably the same ones we were growing chickens dinners for last year.

 

How to Stitch-up Wounds Suturing Course [Kindle Edition]$2.99

 

If this is your first year with gardening, then you are doing well. Find a local county extension office, they may be able to help with your soil. Usually there is no "luck" in farming/gardning, just knowledge. Keep trying, learn something new each year and your garden will continue to grow.

You can sprout the wheat berries.

 

Throw a handful of wheat in the next pot of soup you make.Pretty good that way.

 

I traded for two Aladdin Lamps, got a few gallons of kerosene, and an Enders Benzin-Baby single burner backpacking stove.

 

inexpensive 115v flux cored mig welder. Woot! W00t!