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wareagle69
02-14-2009, 11:12 AM
i usuall like to do this on the first of the month but have been unusuallly preoccupied lately so please check your bug out bags day packs and so on. Look closely at your gear and tools, if you have food nuts raisins trail bars ect eat them and replace with new, maybe stick them in your lunch this week and have fresh in your pack. always helps to check things over

welderguy
02-14-2009, 03:59 PM
good tip thanks

SARKY
02-14-2009, 04:28 PM
I usually do that every 3 months unless I have a class or seminar I am teaching. Then I do a through preop and prep just prior to the event.

Rick
02-14-2009, 06:14 PM
And check your smoke alarms while you're at it.

Kimchi Raven
02-16-2009, 07:55 AM
Good point.

I always keep a case or two of MREs for emergency. I would like to keep a 5 gallon jug of water but my wife says it takes up too much room. She also insisted on keeping the MREs outside where the shelf life goes from about 10 years (cool dry/climate controlled place) to about 6 months.

On my part, I simply did not rotate them as I should have- I should have eaten these wonderful meals from time to time but I left them here and let them be improperly stored.

Thus, about $150 worth of food had to be pitched. Store it properly, rotate it regularly.

wareagle69
02-16-2009, 08:16 AM
kimchi raven
first hello and welcome
2nd- being prepared is not what i do . it is who i am, if some one cannot honor a part of me i personally would not have them in my life. it would be like asking me to gamble with my life (which i have done) in an emergency situation, uhuh, nope. now my wife is not as enthusiastic or diligent about it as i am but i have shown her many points of good merit of being prepared, especially when you live out in the bush, now that being said i have never been to korea do not know your living quarters, but no room for 5 gallons of water? i hope that the both of you do not learn the hard way
sincerly wareagle

Beans
02-16-2009, 05:27 PM
if you have food nuts raisins trail bars ect eat them and replace with new, maybe stick them in your lunch this week and have fresh in your pack. always helps to check things over

I was watching TV last night and there is recall on a lot of trail mixes because of the Salmonella outbreak.

Ten-pound boxes of Aunt Patty’s Cascade Trail Mix and Aunt Patty’s Mt. Hood Trail Mix are also are being recalled.

Consumers with questions about the recall can contact Steve Lenox or Whitney Whelan of GloryBee Foods at (800) 456-7923.


http://wcco.com/recalls/supervalu.trail.mix.2.935587.html

http://cbs11tv.com/consumer/Alberstons.trail.mix.

http://www.ktvl.com/news/harry_1188835___article.html/salmonella_mix.html

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2008666606_appeanutbutterrecalls.html

http://www.fda.gov/oc/po/firmrecalls/palmer02_04_09.html

http://healthyliving.freedomblogging.com/2009/02/04/more-trail-mix-recalled-amid-salmonella-outbreak/2808/

ON & ON & ON Etc, Etc, Etc, Etc

It is best to check with the manufacture of the trail mix before consuming it.