Weekly Prep Thread 16 Mar - 22 Mar
 

Not a bad week. Managed to get 15 tomato, 9 jalapeno, 9 cucumber, 9 cabbage, and 3 strawberry plants planted. Oh, and 3 bell peppers. Not too bad considering we're leasing here and don't own the land. Now, when I retire back to our place in TX in May or June '09, I'll have a half-acre set aside for the garden.

Last season I only planted two tomatoes and the dang things grew to 11.5 feet tall! I had to stake them with 2x4x12's that I ripped to 2x2.

Anyhoo... How's it going with the rest of the Gimmers?

Re: Weekly Prep Thread 16 Mar - 22 Mar
 

Packed 200 lbs. of wheat berries in mylar bags and buckets.
5 large cans of a cheap/generic type coffee at Krogers....

REMEMBER back in the early 80s the generic BLACK and WHITE labels for the basic stuff in your local grocery store? Well it's back here only with some color on the labels..toilet paper, paper towels, coffee, etc.

Maybe next year the whole damn store will be filled with this stuff.

Good luck folks

Re: Weekly Prep Thread 16 Mar - 22 Mar
 

- bought a portable stove with 48 canisters of fuel(will need more)

- also finally bought a Sun Oven since the price has come down about 20%.

- purchased extra pots, pans and silverware.

next on my list are back-up gel batteries with solar chargers, as well an alternative charger and an inverter.

Re: Weekly Prep Thread 16 Mar - 22 Mar
 

Bought some solar cells from china. I'm planning on building a small solar system for recharging batteries/TV/laptop and other low W appliances. Just gotta find some good batteries...

and:

20 LD AA batteries.

1AA led Flashlight

Lot's of candy (for improving morale) <--- very important :D

Various spices

Re: Weekly Prep Thread 16 Mar - 22 Mar
 

sleeping bag for the van, canned kidney beans@.25 per can at the walmart! invertoried and repacked first aid kit. will finish that prep today. rigged slings to both rifles, taped buckles for noise reduction. started assembling bug out backpacks. good week.

Re: Weekly Prep Thread 16 Mar - 22 Mar
 

two cases of veggies, 5 #10's of Mountain House stews and 950 rds of 5.56 gotta starting thinking more about food.
tj

Re: Weekly Prep Thread 16 Mar - 22 Mar
 

Starting the inspection/repacking process of 500lbs wheat berries, 500lbs rice, 500lbs barley, 500lbs corn, 500lbs soybean.

Unfortunately, looks like preparing for my wife and four children is not enough. I will likely be dealing with at least 30 other local family members. :banghead:

Dave

Re: Weekly Prep Thread 16 Mar - 22 Mar
 

Looking to purchase some more PMs this week. Also hoping for an interview for a job that pays substantially better than my current one.

Re: Weekly Prep Thread 16 Mar - 22 Mar
 

I'll admit that I'm a bit behind on my preps. I have lots of ammo and a pretty minimal amount of PMs and about 2 weeks of food. This week I started looking at my tools. I think my tools are going to be as important if not more so than anything I could store. I'm moving away from power tools and into traditional hand tools and I've actually got a pretty good selection so far. I did make one impulse buy last week. I was at the hardware store for matches and nails and as I was standing in line a rack of 24 inch crowbars were calling out to me. Since I only have small flat bars at home I picked one up. I also bought the bolt-cutters that were hanging next to it. Hardware store guy looked at me funny and then gave me a wink. Wonder what that meant.

Re: Weekly Prep Thread 16 Mar - 22 Mar
 

Went to the store yesterday, got a dozen eggs a loaf of bread and a 1/2 gallon of milk. Still had plenty of food left from last week so I should be all set for this week.
Saturday I also ordered a pizza. I cant see any reason to stock up longer than a week or so. If all else fails theres always the local chinese place and they deliver. So does dominoes although I dont really care for their pizza.

Oh I also still have a 30 day supply of oatmeal and at least a 2 month supply of toilet paper just in case the S does hit the fan. gotta have something to clean it with.

Re: Weekly Prep Thread 16 Mar - 22 Mar
 

Hey!!!!!! where did you get your BARLEY?????

sb

Re: Weekly Prep Thread 16 Mar - 22 Mar
 

Bought a 30 qt canner and some more canned goods (tuna, salmon) and sugar, flour, honey. And some more silver.

Re: Weekly Prep Thread 16 Mar - 22 Mar
 

I bought it in a group purchase a couple of years back. I will take a look at the label and see if I can get a harvester/packager for you.

Are you having a hard time finding it now?

Dave

Re: Weekly Prep Thread 16 Mar - 22 Mar
 

malted barley for making beer (very important prep, IMO) is probably readily available in 50 or 55 pound sacks at your local homebrew store. It is at mine.

Re: Weekly Prep Thread 16 Mar - 22 Mar
 

I haven't prep shopped this week but I did pick up:

12 cans of delmonte Spinach @ 40 cents each (meijer all cans are 40 cents vs reg 89 cents, I plan on buying a few more cases when I go back to actually shop)

100 round bulk pack of 12ga #7 bird shot, winchester at wally world $20.96

Re: Weekly Prep Thread 16 Mar - 22 Mar
 

I picked up seven boxes of grits today. Of course, since I eat grits every day for breakfast, that is only about a 14 week supply. I need to buy 150 lb of whole flint corn before I'll feel good about my grits supply.

Re: Weekly Prep Thread 16 Mar - 22 Mar
 

Picked up 15 more pounds of White Sage Honey, some Lavlin dry yeast, a few nutrient packets, 5 gallons of water and some yeast activator. Of course this will be turned into a sweet Mead and completely consumed by the end of summer, but I figure preps should include multiple timeframes and my summer was starting to look a little dry.:D

Re: Weekly Prep Thread 16 Mar - 22 Mar
 

Do you share? :D

Re: Weekly Prep Thread 16 Mar - 22 Mar
 

2 packs of canned kirkland chicken $11.59
1 pack of canned kirkland beef $8.99
5 pounds salt $1.29

still gotta go buy those canned goods.

Re: Weekly Prep Thread 16 Mar - 22 Mar
 

Weekly Prep Thread 16 Mar - 22 Mar

I avoided another audit this year.

Re: Weekly Prep Thread 16 Mar - 22 Mar
 

I just pulled the trigger on a Royal Berkey with an extra set of Black Berkey filters (so I'll have four total filters), and a Country Living Grain Mill and a larger auger for corn and beans.

I plan to get another set or two of Black Berkey filters down the road if TS doesn't HTF right away. But for now, I need to increase my food stock.

Re: Weekly Prep Thread 16 Mar - 22 Mar
 

I bought two cases of motor oil at Kragen auto. 1 case of Valvoline, and 1 case of Chevron. After I get the mail in rebate check, the Chevron will have cost me .49 cents per quart, and the Valvoline .99 cents per. The rebate thing is a hassle, but they are all combined together, and you get one check for everything. Also did the same thing with Autolite platinum plugs. .99 cents each after rebate.

Re: Weekly Prep Thread 16 Mar - 22 Mar
 

40 cans of tuna and 40 cans of salmon (6oz). They expire the end of 2011.
Another 10lbs of rice (exp 1/2010)
Several cans of black beans that expire Dec 2010.
10lbs of whole wheat spagetti (9/2010 exp)
Lots of spagetti sauce (6/2010 exp)
A new 20lb propane tank (filled).
A second Surefire G2 LED with 12 spare batteries.

Headed out again tonight because there is 40% off sale on more canned tuna and salmon. Will pick up another 10lbs of rice, and some more beans.

Re: Weekly Prep Thread 16 Mar - 22 Mar
 

6 car loads of food from BJ's. 1 new dual gas coleman stove, 1 new medical bag (STOMP) for all my medical goodies, and 1 case of wine, Rojo Mojo. Oh yeah, and how could I forget- IOR scope and Eotech 557 for the AR.

Re: Weekly Prep Thread 16 Mar - 22 Mar
 

wife is into food preps now, she says it makes sense because we buy what we eat anyway and will save money given current inflation even if no SHTF. She's out right now buying a ton of beans. Have onions started fom seed in january doing well in flats on window, start other stuff next new moon.