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Preparedness Nuggets
A Cyberbook of Practical Wisdom for Daily Living
Part the Second
More Preparedness Lists one families' lists regarding food, camping gear,
shelter, water, garbage, evacuation, and many other categories.
Basic Wheat Cereal Recipe
Dry Potatoes
Hard Candy, Canned Meat
Sources for bulk grains and beans
Pop Bottle Greenhouse

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AND MORE Y2K PREPAREDNESS LISTS! TOP
From: <Hausmutti@aol.com>
If you haven't seen this, here is a good list and planning guide. The theology
of these guys is a little weird, but this is useful.
http://www.millennium-ark.net/News_Files/Hollys.html
Look at the Long Term storage at the Mormon 12 month and 52 week lists. Here is
the list we have drawn up so far. Some has been implemented. Much of it still
needs work. God bless all of you, Jeff Ottle,
jaggedrock@aol.com:

Y2K Preparation List

SPIRITUAL PREPARATION & ITEMS
Pray in all manner of ways constantly
Prayer with every preparation performed
Prayer for continuous discernment
Rosaries, Scapulars, Medals, Prayer cards
Devotions, Novenas

PRIMARY FOODS
Wheat
Oats
Other grains
Corn meal
Canned foods
Bulk dehydrated fruits/vegetables
Powdered milk
Pastas
Kool aid
Cocoa
Coffee
Creamer
Wine
Top Ramen
Pallet Red Dog
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FOOD ENHANCEMENTS TOP
Honey
Peanut butter
Vitamins
Herbs/spices (fight blandness)
Dried tomato powder
Dried cheese powder
Staple cooking items; sugar, salt, pepper, flower, corn meal, brown rice,
various beans, white rice
Sugar
Salt
Pepper
Chili powder
Various spices
Pallets of cigarettes/Drum/Rolling papers

COOKING/FOOD PREPARATION SUPPLIES

Need to coordinate
Cooking oil
Shortening
Baking soda
Y
Yeast

CLEANERS
Dish/pot/pan cleaners
Laundry soap
Scour powder
S

COOKING HARDWARE TOP

Charcoal top Dutch oven/regular Dutch oven
Frying pan
Cast iron cook set - all items including coffee pot
U
Utensils

DISHES/EATING THINGS
Paper plates
Cups
S
Silverware

FOOD STORAGE HARDWARE & RELATED

Food storage bags
Variety of Tupperware's

ENERGY ITEMS
Alternative power
Generator, batteries
Candles
Extra car battery for 12V power; rotate them
Solar battery re-charger/NiCad-cads
Variety of alkaline cells/NiCad-cad cells
Calculator batteries
LIGHTING PLAN TOP
Candles
Oil lamps
Kerosene lamps
F
Flashlights

HEAT PLAN
Blankets
Warm clothing
Wood stoves/pallets
W

SURVIVAL ITEMS
Make list from Family Survival handbook
Military quality survival knife
C
Campus/instructions

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS
Pencils
Paper
Markers
Plastic bags
Paper bags
P

FUEL ITEMS
Gasoline
Propane, gas cans for cars
5 gallon propane bottles
Gas cans
White gas
Motor oil
M

WATER STRATEGY ITEMS TOP

Pool kit for water
Cover of some type
Water filtration system plan (Jason)
Silver tablets
Iodine tablets
Water jugs
W

MEDICAL/FIRST AID ITEMS

Medicine
Complete first aid kit
Various shelf medicines
Prescription drugs just to have them (ampicillin, etc.)
Aspirin
Excedrin
Antacid
Alcohol
Hydrogen Peroxide
O
Ointment
HUNTING EQUIPMENT (we live in deer country)
Rifle
Ammunition
Cleaning/care items
Certification/training to use them
Butcher knives
Hide tanning supplies
H

SHARING POLICY
We will share. We will rely on the Lord to multiply supplies as they run down
via sharing
v

EXIT SCENARIO
Keep cars gassed up. Make contingency plan to get out (cars, trailer, gas plan
for that, etc.). All camp gear rigged and ready. Need small utility trailer,
loaded. Need large gas tank trailer (150 to 300 gallons). Have emergency bags
packed and ready to go. Have quick exit scenario - primary and secondary routes
planned.
Maps
A
Atlas

VEHICLE ASSETS
Get trailer and connection
G

PERSONAL HYGIENE ITEMS TOP

Feminine pads
Toothpaste
Soap
Shampoo
Deodorant
Razors
Shaving Cream
After Shaves/Cologne/Perfume
Personal packs
Junk wood, pallets (to burn and build with)
J

COMMUNICATIONS
Power 895XLT from car and other equipment too
Cobra's, ATS 803A, SSB, mobile antennae, 895XLT
Tape recorder to tape monitoring
Baygen radio/solar cell/light
Frequency lists/books
Power plan for 895XLT, replace XLT100 battery
Replacement cobra antenna
Roof antenna for SSB/cables
Mobile antenna for 895XLT/cables
Order 895XLT mobile mounting kit
Save box for scantenna
Take down dipole SW antenna
Get new SW coax/connectors
Handheld AM/FM from work
H
LAUNDRY STRATEGY
Wash boards
Wringer
T
Tubs

GARBAGE STRATEGY
Garbage bags
B
Burning

TOILET STRATEGY
Toilet paper
Lime
Picks
S
Shovels

GAMES
Dice
Cards
Chess, Checkers, Cards, Scrabble, 5 in a row, Chips, Puzzles
Hoyle game rule book
H

PERSONAL RECORDS/PAPERWORK TOP

Taxes and major financial events boxes
Family member/Assets/Warranties/Insurance file box
Social security cards
Birth certificates
Vaccination records
Medical records
M

LIBRARY
Bibles
Spiritual books
Spiritual booklet/pamphlet box
Survival handbook
Medical
Gardening
Water storage
Food storage
Family preparedness handbook
F

BARTER STRATEGY
Make rosaries
Make sacrifice beads
Supplies for above
S

TOOL ITEMS
Have tool kit packed
H

NEIGHBOR STRATEGY
Who can we partner with
W

UTILITY STRATEGY
Get utility deposits back
G

EFT/BANKING DISCONNECT STRATEGY

Withdraw money timely
Disconnect from use of Quicken timely
Cut off EFT of paycheck timely, or would it work better than US mail for
checks?
Have supply of checks on hand
H

GARDEN PLAN TOP

Watering plan
Fertilizer
Non hybrid seeds
Garden sticks
G

CAMPING EQUIPMENT & RELATED ITEMS

Rope
Bungies
Tarps
Tents
Sleeping bags
Stoves
Lanterns
Mantles
White gas
Complete tent stake bag fully loaded up
Ax
H
Hatchet

CONTINGENCY PLANS
Stop pay EFT paycheck to checking account and payment EFT's
Get inoculations ahead of time
Bankruptcy
Plans for extended family???
All cash out of bank and in hand
A

THINGS THAT COULD GO WRONG TOP

Car chip problems
Job loss
Continuing income loss
No mail service for paychecks
How do I pay bills?
No electricity, gas lights, running water
No phone, PC net, scanner out, no lights
No heat, no hot water, no laundry, no TV, no wall power only radios
No refrigerator/freezer
Chaos in neighborhood, entire city, state, country, the world = get out?
Unable to leave as planned
Problems on the road
Government/military goes wacky on us
PDD's/EO's implemented
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From: Jeff Ottle jaggedrock@aol.com

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BASIC WHEAT CEREAL RECIPE TOP

Simmer a cup of wheat in about one and a half cups of water (from your stored
water supply, for a little realism) until some of the kernels start to burst. If
the cooked cereal is too strong for your taste, discard the cooking water and
rinse wheat kernels; a little sugar, butter or margarine will make them more
enjoyable. If you soak the wheat kernels in the water overnight, they will start
to burst after about forty minutes of simmering.
If you soak them for a few days, they will soften to the point where you can
even eat them without cooking them. But remember that a given quantity of seeds
will expand to about double its original volume after absorbing water, so don't
soak them in a too-small container.
Although I have never had a problem eating whole kernels of wheat, there have
been experiments where people ate nothing but boiled whole kernels of wheat for
2 days and wound up with loose bowels. Further experimentation revealed that
cracking the wheat into small pieces before boiling it got rid of the problem. A
pepper mill or even stones can be used to crack wheat if necessary.
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POP BOTTLE GREEN HOUSE TOP

You can cut some of your empty soda bottles in half, put dirt in the bottoms,
plant wheat seeds, and put them on the dashboard of your vehicle, and park so
that the windshield faces south and acts as a greenhouse; you can even push the
bottoms back into the tops (with the caps off, for ventilation) to make
individual greenhouses and put them on the roof or hood of your vehicle if you
have no more room on your dashboard! Just make sure you secure them by
surrounding them with rocks or tying them together so that the wind does not
blow them over.
My own experience with greenhouses is that how cold your plants get at night is
not nearly so critical as whether it gets warm enough during the day, and if the
sun is shining, the interior of a vehicle is much warmer than outside. If
growing some wheat for greens seems like a good idea, also store garden seeds
and use the same method to plant Swiss Chard, a fast-growing leafy vegetable
whose leaves you can keep harvesting over a period of months; Collard Greens are
similar, and grow better in hot conditions (like behind a south-facing
windshield in summer).
But wouldn't it be a good idea to try this method out now? We all know that
garlic cloves keep well for months; they will grow into plants when planted
small end up; the green shoots are edible and garlic is beneficial for health.
If these last two paragraphs on sprouting and growing inside a vehicle seem
far-fetched, consider the psychological benefits of causing something to grow
that can be eaten, instead of just living off dwindling stored supplies. And if
you have to move your vehicle again, your sprouters and planters are portable!
I once heard a nutritionist on the radio say that when you eat white rice
instead of brown rice, YOU THROW AWAY FORTY NUTRIENTS. I guess a good analogy
would be eating white-flour products instead of whole-wheat products
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LOCAL SOURCES FOR BULK GRAINS AND BEANS: TOP

FOR SEVERAL YEARS, I milled and made bread and pancakes with whole yellow corn
that I purchased from a local feed store because it was not available anywhere
else, including my bulk food supplier.
I recently asked another local feed store if they could supply me with wheat,
and they indicated that I could purchase a FIFTY-POUND BAG OF WHEAT FOR ABOUT
EIGHT DOLLARS, although at the bulk food supplier that I use, a 50 lb bag is
about $15. The difference is that the cheaper variety is mainly used for
planting and to feed animals; however, the same feed store said that they sell
this kind of wheat as well as corn and beans to people from Mexico all the time,
who cook it and eat it themselves.
I understand that such food might not be subject to all the inspections required
for human consumption, and might not have been transported in food-grade
containers. + the storage facilities in feed stores may not conform to
regulations for storage of foods for human consumption.
In any case, the corn that I used to get from the feed store was very clean, and
any invisible pathogens must have been destroyed by cooking anyway. If you have
no other way to obtain grains and beans at a reasonable cost in the very near
future, you may want to consider a feed store. You can upgrade to higher quality
grains and beans later, if the opportunity arises.
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HARD CANDY, CANNED MEAT TOP

Consider a supply of hard candy, especially the "sour" kind that has ascorbic
acid (Vitamin C) to provide energy without your having to use up your more
valuable protein foods for body fuel.
In August 1998, small cans of Libby's Vienna Sausage have an expiration date of
October 2000, and are not expensive. Neither are small cans of sardines, and
they have a good storage life as well; the ones packed in oil would probably be
a better choice than those packed in sauce. A recent telephone call to Hormel
Foods revealed that their SPAM AND OTHER HORMEL CANNED PRODUCTS HAVE A SHELF
LIFE OF FOUR TO SIX YEARS because they are cooked in the can. Again, consider
these items for bugout packs, in addition to tabouleh.
Surely, you have opened a jar of peanut butter and left it in the cupboard for a
close to a year at some point; it kept pretty well, didn't it? It's inexpensive
enough to buy several jars. Ordinary canned vegetables (but not all fruits) are
generally edible for about two years.
My own experience with everyday cooking oils has been that after opening, they
were still quite usable two years later. Some olive oil I opened was good three
years after I opened it. A manufacturer of vegetable shortening has told me that
their product has an indefinite shelf life if left unopened.
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DRY POTATOES TOP

I found this in my dehydrater book.
Preparation; Peel, wash and slice 1/4 to 3/8 inch thick or shoestring
3/16 inch thick , or grate or dice depending on how the dried potato is
to be used. Pretreatment: Steam blanch over water containing 1 tsp. sodium
bisulfite per cup of water 4 to 6 min or until translucent but still firm.
Rinse well in cold water to remove gelled starch.
Drying Temperature: 160F for 1 to 2 hours, or until done.
How to use: Grate slices and rehydreate for hash brown potatoes.
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