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Coronavirus Prepping

1 by bajajoaquin
As I mentioned in the Supply Chain thread, I don’t think we will see any major infrastructure shutdowns, but I think we are going to see widespread “social distancing” coming into effect. For the past few weeks, I’ve been buying our regular stuff then extra, focusing on things we eat and things that freeze well. The idea is to have as much as a month of regular meals for when we’re told to stay in.

Some compromises have to be made, of course. Frozen veggies rather than fresh. More pasta and sauces rather than salads and fresh tomatoes. But we’ve done a pretty good job. We have stocks of butter, cheese, egg whites, meat and fruit and veggies. About 20 lb each of pasta and beans plus canned stuff.

My wife came home from the store today and asked me if I could make some room in the freezer for more supplies. Sure! I can take that duck out and make duck breast prosciutto. I can take those chiles out and make.... 5 gallons of hot sauce. :)
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She looked at all the peppers cut up and me with no gloves on and said, “don’t be getting any frisky ideas tonight. You will be practicing social distancing!”

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3 by lurker
i have a big stack of dinty moore meals and about a dozen campbell's chunky soups. powdered milk. i don't expect power to go down but don't want to place too much reliance on it, either. cats and a dog, need to stock up on kibbles for them too. fill the gas tanks, stuff like that. gotta cut the grass you know, not like it's the end of the world. refill my scrips.
i'm retired. what's your excuse?

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6 by lurker
it would be a shame if we ran out of food and had to eat the dog and the cats. or they, us.
when i was a poor college student i lived on dinty moore beef stew in the cans, and spam and peanut butter.
i'm taking l-lysine on the advice of a former member, we'll see if that matters. i've also heard that colloidal silver helps :rofl:
i'm retired. what's your excuse?

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8 by K9s
Marlene wrote: Fri Mar 13, 2020 12:09 am Extra sack of semolina: quarantini linguini.
Pasta is a necessity in any apocalypse.

And peanut butter.

And dog food for the pooches.
It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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10 by kronkmusic

SubRosa wrote:I need a bit more 9mm.
Unfortunately my gun buying budget just fell to zero for the foreseeable future, which sucks because this year was probably our last opportunity to get while the gettin's good. I'll still try to sneak in a cheap(er) .308 bolt action and justify it as an investment in food security, but no more fun guns. I'm happy I'm well stocked in 9mm and 22lr. I could use a bit more .223, maybe the manufacturers and retailers will also feel the squeeze and try to offload cheap while they can.

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11 by bajajoaquin
I am also going to pass on gun purchases. A local range was having an anniversary event Saturday with quite good prices. I was hoping to get a pistol and a new safe. SKSs are available again. But I think I’m going to lay low instead. Maybe I’ll spend the time getting the paperwork in for my C&R rather than going to public events.

I did buy an extra 20 or 25 (maybe 30) pounds of flour. We went through 5lb for last Saturday when we had deep dish pizza and bread for the family. Hit home how much we go through in raw ingredients.

With butter and bread flour, I can ride this out.

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12 by featureless
You all were busy last night!

Don't forget to hoard toilet paper! We've been buying double our weekly groceries for a couple of weeks. We have a bunch of earthquake food that will keep us fed if we're hungry. Got all prescriptions filled. Other preps for earthquake, fire and fucking PG&E already on hand. It is what it is at this point.

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14 by sig230
Love making bread and have several auto makers as well as an oven. Bisquick is your friend as well.

Love Dinty Moore and Swanson's Chicken A La King.

Love Pastas and rices.

Love coffees and teas.

Have Colman Stove and several bottles of propane.

Lots of jugs of water.

Large bottle of Hoppe's #9 and a passel of guns I can clean.

Give me AC and internet and I'm happy to hunker down big time.
To be vintage it must be older than me!
The next gun I buy will be the next to last gun I ever buy. PROMISE!
jim

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17 by shinzen
Picked up some whole chickens on sale yesterday and canned them up. Didn't live in Haiti, but grew up in a rural area where blizzards would regularly mean we were snowed in for a week or two. So have stuff on hand to last for a bit. Water/food/etc.
“Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.”
- Maya Angelou

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20 by bajajoaquin
YankeeTarheel wrote: Fri Mar 13, 2020 10:06 am I need to learn how to make bread...
Do you have a scale? If you do it in grams it’s easy to use bakers percentages.

400g flour (AP ok, but bread flour is a little better)
272g h2o (68%) (you can include a tablespoon of cider vinegar and 50-60 g of mild beer but keep total liquid to 272g)
8g salt (2%)
4g yeast (1%)

Put in a bowl and mix to shaggy ball.
Cover, leaving room to rise.
Let rise over night (20hours)
Punch down, fold over a few times in the bowl, re cover
Let rest for 30 minutes
Flour the work surface, form into a ball
Line a large-ish pot with parchment
Place dough in parchment
Let rise for 2 hours or until doubled in size
Pre heat oven to 425
Place pot with dough in oven with lid on
Bake for 25-30 minutes
Remove lid
Continue to bake for 20-30 minutes (total is about 55 minutes depending on your oven, etc)
Remove from oven, let cool for at least 5 or 10 minutes to set up the gluten

At this point, most recipes tell you to let it cool completely. They’re wrong. You can get a good loaf of bread lots of places. You can only get a good loaf of bread still warm from the oven at your house. Eat it with lots of butter while it’s still warm enough to melt it.

Repeat as necessary

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22 by highdesert
featureless wrote: Fri Mar 13, 2020 11:08 am
spara wrote: Fri Mar 13, 2020 10:44 am Spent 3 hours at the grocery store last night (mostly in the checkout line) for my elderly in-laws.
Well done!
Yes !
For quite awhile now I've been doing grocery shopping early Sunday mornings, very few people around and as much as I hate Wally World I use their self checkout area. I don't do all my shopping there, I also shop early at other grocery stores. This time of year I like soups and stocked up on soup mixes that I can hydrate.

WaPo
How to prepare for coronavirus in the U.S. (Spoiler: Not sick? No need to wear a mask.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2 ... rc404=true
"Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts." - Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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25 by YankeeTarheel
bajajoaquin wrote: Fri Mar 13, 2020 11:11 am
YankeeTarheel wrote: Fri Mar 13, 2020 10:06 am I need to learn how to make bread...
Do you have a scale? If you do it in grams it’s easy to use bakers percentages.

400g flour (AP ok, but bread flour is a little better)
272g h2o (68%) (you can include a tablespoon of cider vinegar and 50-60 g of mild beer but keep total liquid to 272g)
8g salt (2%)
4g yeast (1%)

Put in a bowl and mix to shaggy ball.
Cover, leaving room to rise.
Let rise over night (20hours)
Punch down, fold over a few times in the bowl, re cover
Let rest for 30 minutes
Flour the work surface, form into a ball
Line a large-ish pot with parchment
Place dough in parchment
Let rise for 2 hours or until doubled in size
Pre heat oven to 425
Place pot with dough in oven with lid on
Bake for 25-30 minutes
Remove lid
Continue to bake for 20-30 minutes (total is about 55 minutes depending on your oven, etc)
Remove from oven, let cool for at least 5 or 10 minutes to set up the gluten

At this point, most recipes tell you to let it cool completely. They’re wrong. You can get a good loaf of bread lots of places. You can only get a good loaf of bread still warm from the oven at your house. Eat it with lots of butter while it’s still warm enough to melt it.

Repeat as necessary
I'll try it! I do have a scale...
"Even if the bee could explain to the fly why pollen is better than shit, the fly could never understand."
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