Rice and Beans Question

Was anyone able to answer the question about getting water from a 70' well with out electricity?

I have been getting it for years, and the latest one looks great, havn't read it yet, but can't wait. It is basically libertarian, and so very practical. I am a Christian, yet it is not, but I have yet to find anything offensive, well, maybe the "irreverent joke page", but that's not so bad. I recommend it highly for everyone, even if you live in the city. This issues articles;
Preparedness issue:
Making bread
Survival gardening
Family Medical Kit
Storing food protein
Preparedness friends
Long term food storage
Whole grains for health
3 tiers of preparedness
Stock up on guns and ammo
Get building materials cheap
Understanding energy basics.

Well, don't bother me for a couple hours, please, and if you don't get it, eat your heart out. Just kidding. Will share anything wonderful I read later.
They have a website. www.backwoodshome.com

Sorry Lisa, lets just try it like this : Miscellaneous supplies to store up
• 25 pounds laundry soap
• 12 28 oz. bottles dish soap
• 73 rolls toilet paper
• sanitary napkins in sufficient quantity
• 8 gallons bleach (used for sanitation as well as laundry)
• 12 bars hand soap
• 6 24 oz. bottles shampoo
• personal products, such as toothpaste, deodorant
• chainsaw oil and other items to keep things running
• pet foods
• livestock feed
• 55 gallons kerosene for lighting
• 25 gallons Coleman fuel or other lantern fuel

Suggested contents of a good medical kit
A good first aid book
Thermometer
Daily prescription meds for all family
members
Antibiotics
Ointments for the eye, fungus & cuts
Antidiarreal medication
Pain and anti-inflamitory medication
such as asprin
Burn treatment, such as Burn Free
Iodine/Betadine
Alcohol
Oral electrolytes (for dehydration from
fever, diarrhea, stress)
Cold remedies
Cough medicines
Cough drops/throat discs
Bandages
Gauze
Cotton
Surgical tape
Scissors
Hemostats
Tweezers
Needles to remove slivers
A dental kit to patch dentures,
replace fillings, etc.)

* Food and water for family, pets & livestock for at least 14 days; 55 gallons of fresh water will last a family of four for over seven days.
* Daily medications for family for 14 days
* Alternative heat source & fuel
* Alternative cooking source & fuel
* Alternative lighting source & fuel
* Flashlights & batteries
* Transistor, crank or solar radio
* Medical kit
* Matches
* Butane lighters
* Magnesium, flint & steel fire starter
Checklist for vehicle emergency preparedness
Jack & lug wrench
Spare tire
Shovel
Battery jumper cables
Basic tool kit
Fix-A-Flat
Oil
Lighter air pump
Gallon of drinking water
Blankets
Basic first aid kit
Flashlight
Emergency food
Candles with matches
Map
Cell phone or C.B. can
be a life saver

Evacuation Needs
Storage food in large cooler #1

Instant potatoes
Dry milk
Canned tuna
Dehydrated eggs
Dry noodles
Flour
Shortening
TVPs
Dry soup mixes
MREs (military instant Rice
meals; meals ready to eat)
Dry beans
Margarine powder
Dehydrated fruit
Dehydrated vegetables
Tomato powder
Baking powder
Salt
Spices & condiments
Pudding mixes
Cornmeal
Instant coffee, tea, drink mixes
Sugar

Kitchen box in large cooler #2

Frying pan
Large pot
Smaller pot
Mixing bowl, steel (can double as cooking utensil)
Matches & lighters
Toilet paper
Paper towels
Dish towel
Dish soap
Candles
Dish scrubber pad
Bowls for family
Silverware for family
Metal spatula
Roll of duct tape
Small roll of wire
Metal cups for family
Small water filter
Propane stove & tanks
Flashlight & batteries
Hatchet

Medical Kit (as previously detailed)

Sleeping Gear (in large plastic box) Sleeping bags
Candles & lighters
Coleman lantern
Unopened gallon of lantern fuel
Bow saw
Warm socks & jackets
10’ x 12’ plastic tarp
lightweight tent
Radio

Rifle/shotgun and ammunition (food procurement, signaling, and family protection)

Personal backpacks

Warm clothes
Emergency food
Socks
Stocking hat
Basic fishing gear without rod
Small first aid kit
Space blanket
Flashlight
Roll of wire & rope
Pocket knife
Canteen with cup
Lighter
A few dollars in quarters & bills

Grains

• 300 pounds of hard wheat or in combination with 150 pounds of wheat and 150 pounds of flour.
• 50 pounds of dry corn to grind for cornmeal
• 50 pounds of soft wheat
• 50 pounds white rice
• 50 pounds brown rice
• 50 pounds oatmeal
• 25 pounds of masa harina de maize (corn flour for tortillas and tamales)

Legumes

• 50 pounds of pinto beans
• 50 pounds of combined other beans, such as navy, kidney, etc.
• 20 pounds of split peas
• 20 pounds lentils

Dairy

• 18 #10 cans dry milk or in combination with boxes of store-bought dry milk
• 2 #10 cans cheese powder
• 5 #10 cans dehydrated eggs
• 3 #10 cans butter or margarine

Sugar

• 50 pounds white granulated sugar
• 10 pounds brown sugar
• 10 pounds powdered sugar

Shortening/Oil

• 10 3# cans shortening
• 5 48 fl. oz. bottles vegetable oil
• 2 16 fl. oz. bottles olive oil

Salt

• 10 pounds iodized table salt (used in pickling & meat preservation as well as table use)

Fruits

• 52 pints peaches
• 52 pints apple sauce
• 52 pints fruit cocktail
• 52 quarts apples (includes pies, etc.)
• 52 pints pears
• 104 pints misc. fruits
• 1 #10 can raisins
• 1 #10 can dehydrated strawberries
• 2 #10 cans dehydrated apple slices
• 2 #10 cans dehydrated banana slices

Vegetables

• 104 pints of green beans
• 104 pints of sweet corn
• 104 pints of carrots
• 104 quarts of tomatoes
• 104 pints of tomato sauce
• 104 half pints tomato paste
• 104 quarts of potatoes and/or 22 pounds instant potatoes
• 26 quarts of squash or pumpkin
• 26 pints beets
• 2 #10 cans dehydrated sweet corn
• 4 #10 cans dehydrated peas
• 1 #10 can dehydrated onions
• 2 #10 cans dehydrated broccoli

Pasta

•15 pounds spaghetti
•6 pounds assorted noodles
•6 pounds lasagna

Meat

• • 52 pints lean beef/venison roast
• 52 pints chicken/turkey
• 52 pints ham/fish/misc.
• 52 cans tuna
• 52 cans Spam
• 52 pints home canned hamburger for tacos, casseroles, etc.
• 1 #10 can ea. TVP (textured vegetable protein), bacon, chicken)

Seeds

A heavy selection of garden seeds to replenish your food supply, should the period of hard times last longer than a few months. Always opt for the worst and prepare ahead.
Most garden seeds last for years, if kept dry. One notable exception is onion seed, which should be replaced yearly.

Miscellaneous

• 1 pound baking soda
• 3 pounds baking powder
• 1 pound dry yeast
• spices usually used
• 25 dozen canning jar lids, wide mouth & regular
• coffee, tea, powdered drink mixes in sufficient quantity
• A grain mill to grind grains
• An Amish or other “cooking with basics” cookbook or two
• 1 gallon inexpensive pancake syrup
• An assortment of “treats”, such as pickles, jams, preserves

I have like 2000 bucks worth of freeze dried "food" from the 1980's and it is holding up great. I opened a can of peaches.. they were pretty tasty with the adding of water... and a short waiting period.

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This is what a family of five would need for a year to survive. This article is from backwoods home magazine and is a little dated from the Y2K scare but has excellent info for anyone.

With commonsense planning, you can survive hard times By Jackie Clay
http://www.backwoodshome....

Walton feed also has some good info. http://waltonfeed.com/

My wife and I just recently purchased $1200 worth of supplies and it sure didn't buy much ! We will keep adding to our supplies as we can.

GOOD LUCK !
R Tucker

Should be more than enough.. but I would consult a mormon.

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best way to store the following

wheat, which i've heard is hard to store with potential bug problems.
rice
water

and any others you feel you have advise for that could help your fellow countrymen.

thanks for your help.

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Only buy food you actually eat, keep it rotated and you should not have a "rancid rice" problem. It is a rookie mistake to buy a bunch of food and wind up throwing it away. That is like letting the Fed manage your food budget - lol! Lots of things can go wrong with long term food storage, but throwing it away because you bought a bunch of something you have never eaten and never intend to eat is perhaps the worst.
Learn the tricks Granny used, like bay leaves in with your flour to keep weevils out.

pYou also want to be sure and get a stock of spices. Rice and beans are good with onions, peppers, garlic salt and an endless of recipes look them up.

I find it difficult to ween myself off of white Thai jasmine rice and still keep quite a bit of it around. But in my search for a good brown rice. I managed to find an Organic brown Thai jasmine. It's pretty good, not as aromatic at the white but better than most other brown rices.

As for water filtration... every system has it's own degree of quality. If you want your water to really be clean you gotta filter it down to at least a reverse osmosis unit with preferably a .5 micron sediment filter and a .1 micron carbon filter. If you really wanna get crazy you can run your water threw an ultra violet filter and de-ionizing unit. If your water comes from a natural source then ultra violet may be necessary as well as an additional prefilter. Deionized water is the cleanest water but it isn't good to drink. Deionized water has so few minerals in it will actually strip your body of whatever it can absorb. Plus the deionizing unit itself is runs the water threw a positively and negatively charged resin bed which there is no telling what it'll do to ya if you drink it. Your fresh water fish will love it though and it works good for cleaning windows.

"It is like a finger pointing away to the moon, don't concentrate on the finger or you will miss all the heavenly glory." - Bruce Lee

But how are you going to stock up for a decade?

Channel monies towards self-sufficiency if you are not in a crashproof job.

I am getting to the point of total hysteria! I want to stock up on food, guns, ammo, water, tobacco, etc. I can only afford maybe $25 every 2 weeks. That sure won't buy very much. Are there still such things as co-ops that you can join and buy bulk? I am starting the garden, relearning how to can, and how to use the food dehydrator. Also want to buy a few chickens. I am just at a loss as to how to organanize all this fairly soon. I guess the thread about them collecting DNA from people is what set me off. A few calming words would be nice...lol! Oh, I am on well water that requires electricity, how can I change that?

We're starting to make preparations for the worst right now. How about buying wheat grain for bread and how to prepare it? Any help is appreciated. We're also going to stock up on canned vegetables and rice. Any other food suggestions?

Lisa,
go to www.emergencyessentials.c... they have food programs for 1, 2 or a family of 4. this may give you an idea..

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