Les talk about homemade superpails. Last week I ordered 5 - 5 gallon mylar bags, last weekend my wife and I picked up 40 pounds of pinto beans. Over the weekend we are probably going to pick up some rice, maybe 40 pounds or so.
This is the game plan so far:
Superpail #1 - Pinto Beans. Pinto beans are an excellent source of protien, websites like the CDC and world health organization rank pinto beans as some of the healthiest beans out there.
Superpail #2 - Rice. Just because.
Superpail #3 - Rolled oats. A buddy of mine is trying to convince me to buy a grinder with the different attachments, so that the oats can be ground or flaked for oatmeal or other purposes.
Superpails #4 - Bisquick. This was my wifes idea. She said that bisquick has so many uses in baking, that it should not be overlooked.
Superpail #5 - undecided. I might throw a bunch of smaller mylar bags in it and ship it to the camp for a backup.
I have a 10 pack of 2,000cc oxygen absorbers. The plan was to put 2 of the 2,000cc 02 absorbers in each homemade superpail, and then seal it up. If the 5th superpail is not made up, then I could lose 2 of the 02 absorbers.
Help me decide what should be in the 5th superpail.
The goal for the Homemade Superpails:
Is to have 4 or 5 at my home, and 4 or 5 at the camp, for a total of around 10. This is going to be my first try at making superpails, so its also going to be an experiment for me.
I want enough food at the camp, so that if my family and I have to leave our home, we will have several months worth of food ready for us.
Besides 5 gallon buckets full of food, I also have several 1/2 gallon mylar bags and several 1 gallon mylar bags on the way. I am hoping to store pasta, oats, pancake mix, other stuff,,,,,,, in the 1/2 and 1 gallon bags.
My wife has 3 grown children that live close to us, and a 4th that lives a few hundred miles away. With those 3 grown kids we have 8 grand kids. Then I have my grown and almost grown kids. So lets just add a total of 12 people, plus my wife and I, my dad, mom, brother,,,,,,, lets just round that to 20 people.
If I ever have to open a superpail under a SHTF situation, we might have around 15 - 20 people to feed in a worse case situation.
~~~ April 27 Update ~~~
The video about my first attempt at making a 5 gallon superpail
This is the game plan so far:
Superpail #1 - Pinto Beans. Pinto beans are an excellent source of protien, websites like the CDC and world health organization rank pinto beans as some of the healthiest beans out there.
Superpail #2 - Rice. Just because.
Superpail #3 - Rolled oats. A buddy of mine is trying to convince me to buy a grinder with the different attachments, so that the oats can be ground or flaked for oatmeal or other purposes.
Superpails #4 - Bisquick. This was my wifes idea. She said that bisquick has so many uses in baking, that it should not be overlooked.
Superpail #5 - undecided. I might throw a bunch of smaller mylar bags in it and ship it to the camp for a backup.
I have a 10 pack of 2,000cc oxygen absorbers. The plan was to put 2 of the 2,000cc 02 absorbers in each homemade superpail, and then seal it up. If the 5th superpail is not made up, then I could lose 2 of the 02 absorbers.
Help me decide what should be in the 5th superpail.
The goal for the Homemade Superpails:
Is to have 4 or 5 at my home, and 4 or 5 at the camp, for a total of around 10. This is going to be my first try at making superpails, so its also going to be an experiment for me.
I want enough food at the camp, so that if my family and I have to leave our home, we will have several months worth of food ready for us.
Besides 5 gallon buckets full of food, I also have several 1/2 gallon mylar bags and several 1 gallon mylar bags on the way. I am hoping to store pasta, oats, pancake mix, other stuff,,,,,,, in the 1/2 and 1 gallon bags.
My wife has 3 grown children that live close to us, and a 4th that lives a few hundred miles away. With those 3 grown kids we have 8 grand kids. Then I have my grown and almost grown kids. So lets just add a total of 12 people, plus my wife and I, my dad, mom, brother,,,,,,, lets just round that to 20 people.
If I ever have to open a superpail under a SHTF situation, we might have around 15 - 20 people to feed in a worse case situation.
~~~ April 27 Update ~~~
The video about my first attempt at making a 5 gallon superpail