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supplies 
Fri Jul 24, 2009 at 11:25:08 AM EDT
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This diary is for the reporting of pandemic related shortages. These shortages may be supplies which are industry specific, e.g.- medical supplies/medicines, or they may be supplies individuals or families utilize on a day to day basis or for emergency preparedness.
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Fri Apr 11, 2008 at 09:48:22 AM EDT
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Discuss your prepping here.
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Sat Dec 15, 2007 at 20:04:09 PM EST
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I noticed this in the news items. Austrialia is recommending preping for 10 Wekks of food.
The nice thing is they give a list of supplies made up by nutritionists. It breaks it down by grams of each item per day and Kg per person for 10 weeks. The list runs about $250 (AU) for preping for 10 weeks -with vitamins and $500 without vitamins.
It seems like it has been a while since we had a intro. prep list here - so I thought I would start one.
PS does anyone know what Vegemite is?
(it sounds like something on I love Lucy)
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Sun Aug 05, 2007 at 21:55:11 PM EDT
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My storage closet was beginning to look really good, but now it's just blah. I don't want to take a picture to post here. I decided that the oats, Bisquick, sugar, and mac-n-cheese were better off placed in plastic buckets, so I reorganized everything tonight. It now seems so much less appealing.
I don't have the feeling of comfort looking at all these white buckets, the way I did seeing all the colorful packages. I don't mean to sound corny, but when I could see all of the labels, I felt more secure. I could quickly glance around and see how much I had, but now I feel like I don't have enough! Adding this stuff to my bucket stacks of wheat, rice, pasta, and flour, just makes a wall of unappealing buckets. It's all labeled, but so much more difficult to quickly see what I have. Am I weird? I really feel like I need to see everthing.
I'm also worried that my little guy won't be able to get to things, should anything ever happen to us. He could never open or lift the buckets the way he could individual packages. Crap! I purchased special can openers and such for him, but never gave any thought to the buckets.
I need to rethink what I'm doing. I'm going to purchase some easy lift tops for my buckets. If we end up SIP, I can switch the lids and line up the buckets so they are more accessible.
Any ideas?
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Tue Jul 10, 2007 at 13:21:40 PM EDT
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I posted this to another persons diary and after thinking about it decided others might want to consider these Refrigerator - Freezer Tips should we experience power outages or go to intermittant generator power. Of coure the same holds true for every day of the year with or without a pandemic:
To get the most out of the food in your refrigerator and freezer while saving energy too, stock every extra available inch of it with bottles filled with drinkable water. I like to use the half gallon juicy-juice type bottles because:
1) they're squared off on the edges (allows you to fit more into the nooks and crannies)
2) the plastic is so thick that they will last a long time
3) the bottles will take up space that would otherwise have to be cooled
4) they'll keep things cold even when the refrigerator is not running
5) and lastly, you'll have some extra water on hand for whenever the freezer finally does thaw out.
Another tip I came up with since moving into the hurricane zone of Central Florida: Put a bowl of ice cubes in your freezer when a storm is near or when you have to evacuate. If you return and open the door and find a bowl of solid ice, you know that the power was off long enough so that it got warm enough in there to melt the ice. Therefore it might be wise to assume that your food is spoiled.
Without doing this trick, you would open your freezer and because all of your food was still frozen you'd assume that everything went fine while you were gone. Not good, especially if you get food poisoning during a bird flu pandemic when medical help may be as scarce as, um, hens teeth.
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Thu Mar 29, 2007 at 09:30:13 AM EDT
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We decided to do some spring cleaning and found one container (about 25 lbs) of beans invaded with mice. I have been putting out mouse poison and it has been pretty successful, but not enough. The problem (now resolved) was that the plastic bin lids we put the beans in, got cold in the basement and a little brittle. One edge had cracked enough to allow the mice to get in. Well, we lost about 15 lbs of beans and the rest were salvaged ( hadnt been invaded ). We reconfigured with shelving and stronger bins. We are not stacking anymore except to put light stuff on heavy stuff. We are much better off now.
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Sat Mar 03, 2007 at 08:16:46 AM EST
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(so it doesn't disappear... - promoted by DemFromCT)
Does anyone have a really easy shopping list for a 3 month prep?
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Wed Feb 28, 2007 at 10:37:38 AM EST
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(Continued from the original Diary by DemFromCT - promoted by Bronco Bill)
This is a continuation of discussions based on DemFromCT's diary of the same title, with Part 1 here
This is a diary you all need to help me write. We've been discussing this on line elsewhere (Nightowl at PFI has a post up), and examples are given of food distribution service advice, teacher's union, and (as we know) pandemicflu.gov all saying that people should prep for two weeks, or 1-2 weeks.
While a big jump from the three day all-hazard approach, many on line feel differently. Help write the rationale for more.
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Sun Feb 18, 2007 at 10:56:38 AM EST
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This is a diary you all need to help me write. We've been discussing this on line elsewhere (Nightowl at PFI has a post up), and examples are given of food distribution service advice, teacher's union, and (as we know) pandemicflu.gov all saying that people should prep for two weeks, or 1-2 weeks.
While a big jump from the three day all-hazard approach, many on line feel differently. Help write the rationale for more.
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Wed Dec 20, 2006 at 07:09:42 AM EST
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Get a 21% discount on your order
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