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Hi, I am a neurotic "old hippu preppy" with a problem storing food...or so my sons tell me. I'm 55 years old and was raised on the high plains of Texas to always store food in bulk in any way possible. But for last 20+ years I have resided in the wet Pacific NW...and have had some issues with storing foods as a result of the high humidity.
I am hoping to learn from others (your never too old to learn) and am hoping to find some folks that know the Pacific NW resources (cause Lord knows I have searched for places that sold them) and where a person can get things like mylar bags and O2 absorbers without having to order everything via internet. You see I LOVE shopping online...BUT it is a personal choice of mine to #1 support local businesses in my attempt to keep small town businesses running and #2 to buy all my bulk foods as close to local as I can thus saving shipping and gas a truck would use to deliver to me.
Does that sound a bit crazy? LOL OH WEll...I'm happy as I am. I know all about the LDS store house a few towns away...and I know of many online vendors of mylar, O2 absorbers....BUT if I can get it local...say within 30 miles N of Seattle...I'd prefer to spend my money there since I could pick up while traveling by. There has to be some place like that up here...it makes sense there would be. But I can't find them yet.
BTW...I'd like to say I am so happy to see young folks prepping. I simply never learned how to live any other way so it is second nature to me...I have been known to not go to a grocery store for several months at a time. In fact I rarely needed to go to the store...if I needed milk or eggs I just got it from the fruit market. I pretty much had everything else on order 1 a year. I always had at least a year of home canned food stored when my sons were home, put up 1/2 a beef, raised a few pigs, made cheese, canned all my garden and trees as well as gathered wild foods to can or dry. Abandoned farm houses were wonderful resources for abandoned fruit and pecan trees!! FREE FOOD is BEST! What we didn't raise ourselves in Texas we could barter for...ie,) traded services or pork for rabbit and turkeys. Sewed most of my kids clothes till they went to school. Sadly I've only met 1 person in the last 20 years I've been in Washington that actually knew how to can food and bake home bread. Feels a bit strange to have people think I am strange BECAUSE I make cheese, or bread, or store lots and lots of food. In Texas I was pretty common. LOL!
I am hoping to learn from others (your never too old to learn) and am hoping to find some folks that know the Pacific NW resources (cause Lord knows I have searched for places that sold them) and where a person can get things like mylar bags and O2 absorbers without having to order everything via internet. You see I LOVE shopping online...BUT it is a personal choice of mine to #1 support local businesses in my attempt to keep small town businesses running and #2 to buy all my bulk foods as close to local as I can thus saving shipping and gas a truck would use to deliver to me.
Does that sound a bit crazy? LOL OH WEll...I'm happy as I am. I know all about the LDS store house a few towns away...and I know of many online vendors of mylar, O2 absorbers....BUT if I can get it local...say within 30 miles N of Seattle...I'd prefer to spend my money there since I could pick up while traveling by. There has to be some place like that up here...it makes sense there would be. But I can't find them yet.
BTW...I'd like to say I am so happy to see young folks prepping. I simply never learned how to live any other way so it is second nature to me...I have been known to not go to a grocery store for several months at a time. In fact I rarely needed to go to the store...if I needed milk or eggs I just got it from the fruit market. I pretty much had everything else on order 1 a year. I always had at least a year of home canned food stored when my sons were home, put up 1/2 a beef, raised a few pigs, made cheese, canned all my garden and trees as well as gathered wild foods to can or dry. Abandoned farm houses were wonderful resources for abandoned fruit and pecan trees!! FREE FOOD is BEST! What we didn't raise ourselves in Texas we could barter for...ie,) traded services or pork for rabbit and turkeys. Sewed most of my kids clothes till they went to school. Sadly I've only met 1 person in the last 20 years I've been in Washington that actually knew how to can food and bake home bread. Feels a bit strange to have people think I am strange BECAUSE I make cheese, or bread, or store lots and lots of food. In Texas I was pretty common. LOL!
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