Help me stock up my STORE ROOM!

You won't find a better list than the one you build for yourself by simply keeping a record of everything (meals, snacks, takeout, and so on) for a month or so. Put it all down on paper then start quantifying how much of what you used.

Right off the bat you'll find that some things won't be storable in any practical sense. Some things will be too expensive to store too. What's left is the beginning of your storage program. It won't be complete, you'll have to work at plugging those holes, but it's a beginning.

If you're not yet accustomed to eating 100% whole wheat flour i wouldn't store a lot of wheat berries just yet. Buy a bag, get a mill, then start scaling the learning curve learning what you need to know, most importantly whether you can even stand them.

As has already been said that's probably way too much Bisquick unless you're a major user of the mix and you have some way to preserve it from going rancid, the leavening going flat, or both. Vac-sealing it in jars would work, but that's going to be a heck of a lot of jars. You'd be better off just to make it from scratch.

From the list you have so far I'd say you need about four or five times that many wooden matches, safely stored in several moisture proof containers. You also need to store some sort of fats such as cooking oils, shortening, lard, peanut butter and so on. I'd also add some yeast (keep it in the freezer) and some baking powder.

.....Alan.

Lots of good suggestions here. I will TRY not to repeat.

I hope you meant 75 boxes of matches, not 75 matches. If not, you don't have enough means of starting a fire. Probably just a typo.

I think the best advice one can follow is to stock what you eat and eat what you stock - keep it rotating. So, with that in mind, buy whatever it is that you eat, only a lot more of it. Except, I think the Bisquick is a problem, as others already pointed out. Learn to make your own Bisquick - it is simple!

I'd add vinegar, baking soda (so very many uses, not just for baking - it will even do for a toothpaste substitute), wicks for your oil lamps, and also some replacement parts for your oil lamps.

Store what you eat...

lots of great advice... I'd like to recommend instead of ten cans of an item, make it ten cases...

six months of supplies isn't too much to have on hand... Figure out what you eat, and stock up on that much, as much as you can.

Food is cheap... Now!

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Save your grocery receipts for three months and then figure out how to store four times as much of the same stuff.

We keep our pantry stocked with three to four months worth of food pretty much all the time. That's mostly because we buy stuff on sale and buy as much as we can afford at the time. We also produce as much of our own food so the garden kinda fills in for what isn't in the pantry. A lot of herbs and spices can be grown, too.

Oh, for spices, see if there is a health food store which sells herbs and spices in bulk jars. We have several around here and an entire spice rack can be refilled very inexpensively.

The current issue of Backwoods Home Magazine has instructions on canning butter and cheese. The magazine may be available at your local library.

Soulsurvivor,
It should be possible to remove the spikes from the bottom of the lights. That would allow them to be carried and placed where needed.
Replacing the Ni-Cad batteries with the newer Nickel metal hydryde cells will extend the useful life of the devices. There is probably information on emergency lighting at sites like Alpha Rubicon and others

You can freeze the flour wheat berries and bisquick so it does not get rancid. any seed floury kinda thing.

"...... and then figure out how to store four times as much of the same stuff."

LOL. The bane of all preppers: Finding space to store everything!

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Soulsurvivor and also to faithful one with regard to lighting.

I have the same thing except I got the one that have a group of four lights with a seperate solar panel for them. Cost about 29 bucks on sale and I think you can get them even cheaper now. Anyway, I leave them outside for now, but I have tested the process. Leave the solar panel part, which is very small, outside and take the four lights with their 20 feet of line each and bring them in. No hauling them in and out everyday, just keep them inside but turned off during the day and let the charger do its' work from the sun. I found it worked really well during my week long test so we're ready for one room of lighting at least during hurricane season. Be sure to get the ones with the good batteries. Ni-cad is fine, but longer term I agree with Wayne. Also, the cheap post lights, we stuck those in old planters with sand in them instead of in the ground so they can be plucked out to bring inside should we need more than the group of 4. We left the pointy thing off and we have several containers and a big bag of play sand so if we need them, we will just pluck them out of the outside bin at night and carry them from room to room like candles and leave them and plunk them into the containers of sand, say when you go to the bathroom or what not. Be sure to get the ones with off switches! It allows you to take one to the bedroom at night, but turn it off for sleep and still have a good charge should you need light quick after the several hours have elapsed. So important!

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sg142 wrote:

" someone posted a pic of their panty, and there was a few jars of marshmallow creme in there"


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Wouldn't this get to be a bit uncomfortable?

LOL --- I had to read this 3 or 4 times before I "got it". ROFLMAO

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Scotch tape, luminum foil, and vodka.

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