What did you do Today to Prepare?

[PA PATRIOT]

Not to much I added some very light weight mess kits to the BOB's that I picked up and had the kids practicing their marksmanship with a pellet rifle/pistol which they love to do. Going to start looking at BOB water purification units, any recommendations?

[hatidua]

-picked up 40 cans of black beans and 40 of those little cans of diced chili's at Costco today - the poor checkout lady couldn't help herself commenting: "wow, you sure have a lot of beans here!".

[NWPilgrim]

-picked up 40 cans of black beans and 40 of those little cans of diced chili's at Costco today - the poor checkout lady couldn't help herself commenting: "wow, you sure have a lot of beans here!".

You should have replied, "If you like my beans you should see how many 'bullets' I have! I'll be back for band-aids later."

[docsherm]

You should have replied, "If you like my beans you should see how many 'bullets' I have! I'll be back for band-aids later."

That is a good way to get some strange looks.......

[Jellybean]

.....Simply going without modern conveniences will be a shock to most. As Doc and Dave can attest, no a/c takes some getting used to. Thanks to Lenny and Katrina I've had crash courses in no running water, inside toilet, a/c, or power(just like camping except with looters). Getting time w/o these things may be a valuable prep for many.

Guess I'm already halfway there- the area I live in, the power goes out all the time if you so much as sneeze, and the house has not had air conditioning for almost the entire 18 or so years I've been here (finally got some window units just because the heat was really getting annoying). It's actually kind of funny hearing people complain about the heat in an air conditioned building, while you're sitting there comfortably.

As far as prepping goes, since I'm still on the ground floor, I spent about 5 or 6 hours (yesterday-sorry) reading/researching an assortment of things. Then I went job searching.
Maybe I'll make a trip over to my neighbor and have a nice long chat...

Working on getting in shape, but it's starting pretty slow as I've had some health problems over the last few years that pretty much cut the legs out from under me, so I'm waaaay out of shape and I don't want to just dive back in.

[hatidua]

That is a good way to get some strange looks.......

-yeah, that might not have flown so well

[hatidua]

Going to start looking at BOB water purification units, any recommendations?

I keep two different water items on hand:

1. Sweetwater Guardian filter (pump)
2. Steripen

Between the two, I can make most any water drinkable (I spent a full year in Indonesia with nothing but the Sweetwater Guardian for water filtration and never contracted a water related illness (the malaria episode sucked though...).

[PrarieDog]

I bought the large Cabelas food dehydrator today. Plan on doing some industrial dehydrating for my family and rounding our the food storage with fruits and vegtables.

[Dave L.]

I bought the large Cabelas food dehydrator today. Plan on doing some industrial dehydrating for my family and rounding our the food storage with fruits and vegtables.

That's awesome man, do you have a vacuum sealer also?

[PrarieDog]

That's awesome man, do you have a vacuum sealer also?

I do not but the guy I went in on with does. One of the few things we have done to reduce cost is for us and like minded others is to acquire or split equipment cost to lower the overall burden. Plus it demonstrates to the others in the group that I or others refuse to be a burden if the time shall come.
Going down in a week or two to assemble food buckets for some bulk product and hit some of the farm stands in teh area for produce to dehydrate. Unbeliveable pricing from the farmers. a tenth of teh price you pay in the grocery store and fresh out of the ground.