What have you done this week to prep?

[Bisley Man]

Originally Posted by pjcalla

Where does one find the mylar bags, 5-gallon buckets and O2 absorbers? Also, how many buckets does it take to store a 50lb bag of rice? Are the 5-gallon buckets rated "food grade" or do you just use the ones from the hardware store?

As for what I have done this week.....water, canned goods, ramen noodles, ammo, organized the stores, tested my camp stove that I haven't used in a couple of years, went shooting. Also discussed "the plan" with my wife and discussed future plans.

FWIW: Kroger has cans of "Chunky Soup" for $0.99/can, about $0.60 off regular price. I thought that was a good deal. I wouldn't mind eating it when it gets close to the "expiration" date.

We stocked up on that also. Chunky soup agrees with our system. If I eat a bean meal more than once a week, my stomach and everyone around me is SORRY!

[Armed-N-Ready]

More MREs, beefed up the first aid kit with an IFAK and misc. supplies, reloaded 200 rnds of .45acp. It never ends.

It's always better to be prepared. After your computer crashes is not a good time to make a backup.

[longbow]

rotated and used some of the back up food....kids liked it!

slept on the front porch, in my sleeping bag and woke up with the dog licked my face at 8 am...

[Dr Falken]

Went shooting today with the wife. I'm so proud of her and her new Marlin 1895 in .44 mag.. Goal is to get that deer, and process at least one ourselves.

We have bought a canning kit (hot water bath) and plan on canning stuff soon. I've organized our extra food on a Metro Shelf in our pantry and have been trying to fill in the gaps. We've also become more financially organized which has helped us be more together on preps...Thanks Dave Ramsey!

Bought a meat processing/butchering book, "The Ball Book of canning recipes", Rawles new book "TEOTWAWKI", and Carla Emery's book, "Encyclopedia of Country Living", all good resources. Oh, got a service manual for my Stihl 017, and a parts book, cheap by the way ...

Showed the wife how to split wood, and bought an extra maul...Not all in the last week, but the last couple of weeks. We've been trying to check things of the list, buy a little extra, get organized, try things out etc. It's been good!

[fg12351]

Bought a case of water and some canned soups.

[Beau]

I have anti-prepped. I have had to start dipping into the shelf stable food I started to accumulate.

[Pamcake]

Originally Posted by Beau

I have anti-prepped. I have had to start dipping into the shelf stable food I started to accumulate.

Although it won't help your personal situation, I'd like to congratulate you on having already had preps in place. Disasters aren't always "the big one", and prepping can assist you in many different ways.

[Pamcake]

Attempting today to resurrect our online backup subscription for Quicken financial files.
I have no idea if they are EMP-proof or what, but at least if we have a house fire I won't lose all our data!

[2ADMNLOVER]

Bought some more can goods , nuts and peanut butter .

[lumpy39us]

I bought some stuff, lol.
But the biggest find...
I was working kinda out in the middle of nowhere and I found a gun shop!
Great ammo prices!