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Prep of The Day Thread
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Dehydrating limes for
Food and medicinal use.
The Excalibur Dehydrator is easily 25 years old and runs like new.
Oranges are next today!
Food saver jar sealer is the bees knees.
Removes all o2 from jar.
Food and medicinal use.
The Excalibur Dehydrator is easily 25 years old and runs like new.
Oranges are next today!
Food saver jar sealer is the bees knees.
Removes all o2 from jar.
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Mtn_Guy
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Are you getting beans in bulk or 1lb bag at a time at market basket?
I always feel like I get funny looks when I’m loading 20lbs of dry beans in my cart at MB.
Well, used to. Probably not so much these days
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Great karma, but should be posted in the members section karma thread
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If any mods read this please feel free to move the karma post to the members section. Thanks.
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I've been buying the Goya 4-pounder of Roman Beans at MB... yum.
Shelf life:
about 2 to 3 years
Properly stored, dried cranberry beans will generally stay at best quality for about 2 to 3 years at normal room temperature, although they will usually remain safe to use after that. To maximize the shelf life of dried cranberry beans, keep the package tightly closed at all times.
Nutrition Facts
Roman bean (Cranberry bean)
Sources include: USDA
| Amount Per 100 grams1 cup (195 g)1 cup (195 g) |
| Calories 653 |
| % Daily Value* | |
| Total Fat 2.4 g | 3% |
| Saturated fat 0.6 g | 3% |
| Cholesterol 0 mg | 0% |
| Sodium 12 mg | 0% |
| Potassium 2,597 mg | 74% |
| Total Carbohydrate 117 g | 39% |
| Dietary fiber 48 g | 192% |
| Protein 45 g | 90% |
| Vitamin C | 0% | Calcium | 24% |
| Iron | 54% | Vitamin D | 0% |
| Vitamin B6 | 30% | Cobalamin | 0% |
| Magnesium | 76% |
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BarnBuilder
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Every time I went to the grocery I would pick up 8 or 10 pkgs. and when I get enough to make project out of it on a rainy day that's what I do. Truthfully IDGAF what anyone thinks. They can go hungry.
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Be Aware and Prepare
Yes, I will call you in the morning..You put them in the coconut and drink them both up, right?
I love supporting GOYA as the owner seems to share my views.
2-3 years on that packaging right? I’m thinking vacuum ball jar sealed or bucket / Mylar they should be good for 20-30 years.
Go mylar with O2 absorbers/bucket, they won't break if dropped like a glass jar.
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Yep. 2-3 years if you take the most basic storage practices. Cool, dry, dark, pest-free. Can easily triple it with even just a small amount of preparation. Nearly indefinitely if you like to be well-prepared.
Most basic of all the food storage tenets is: First-In-First-Out. Meaning; the item that you just bought gets used after all the other items you have in storage.
I can't tell you how many people that I know will buy a can of beans and put it on the front of the shelf; leaving all the older cans behind it.
Or, worse... that was the only can they had because they counted on more being on the shelf at the grocery store...
We are entering a time that will try Men's souls. Austerity of mega proportions. The time to prepare was yesterday...
I truly wish you all well... ~Matt
The Grand Experiment is nearly over...
Don’t call it yet, lol.
My new house doesn’t close until mid April and I need time to collect food for there! Also need to get to a cattle auction and buy a few goats for f***ing...I mean uh, meat.
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High Mowing. But they are OOS on a lot of things which i haven't seen this early in the year before.
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Burgess catalog just came in. Might try some more berry bushes. Blueberry, currant, lingonberry.
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VetteGirlMA
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Does anyone on here own a geiger counter? They don't seem to be every expensive and I think it might be a decent thing to own.
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You could order from DoorDash every day. If the driver doesn't make it from his vehicle to your front door it is probably not safe.
(Sorry, I didn't have anything constructive to say but I wanted to contribute anyway.)
I have an older version of this. It has doubled in price since I bought it, but that was probably 10 years ago. I used to visit nuclear plants for work and would double-check their counters after I left (to make sure I wasn't contaminated; turns out the counters at the plants were always right). Gotta keep it in a faraday cage of some sort though, it's solid state.
IMI Inspector Alert™ V2
ETA: on that meter, at the max count rate of 1,100 mREM/hr you have ~3 hours till you get to the NRC nuclear plant worker max allowable 3 REM of exposure for a year. If it saturates (goes over 1,100 mREM/hr) it will still read 1,100, so you might be taking more than that.
more info on max does here, TLDR version: 350R of dose = 50% survival rate. REM and Roentgen/RAD are roughly equivalent.
Ch. 10: Fallout Radiation Meters - Nuclear War Survival Skills
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Knob Creek
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Ordered 20 LBS of Light Kidney Beans @ $1.79 LB and 50 LBS of Black Turtle Beans @ $1.27 LB from Sysco.
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Do anyone else have a recommendation as to best place to get quality mylar bags and 02 absorbers?
Also need to pick a sealer - or just use a hair straightener?
Also need to pick a sealer - or just use a hair straightener?
Soundwave
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Hair straightener works for me. The problem is I can't find my 02 absorbers or mylar bags after we moved
What are you guys doing about your septic and waste systems? I still would like to well know you use my thrown in the morning and of course that that means I am going to flush with rain water or grey water if my well pump doesn't have power. But what about draining the septic system its self.
I have a couple of gas powered pumps and hose that connects to them but anything to know to help break it down.
Yes I have seen the inside of a septic system and know that there isn't to much heavy solids as most of it turns to a liquid as it breaks down over time, but I am looking for info on once it out and how to dispose of that brown liquid, dig a hole, or drain it into a small broke and let the down stream people worry about it.
I have a couple of gas powered pumps and hose that connects to them but anything to know to help break it down.
Yes I have seen the inside of a septic system and know that there isn't to much heavy solids as most of it turns to a liquid as it breaks down over time, but I am looking for info on once it out and how to dispose of that brown liquid, dig a hole, or drain it into a small broke and let the down stream people worry about it.
