Preparedness and you - How prepared are you for a 30 day shutdown

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Originally Posted by greatwhite

So back to the thread.

I think I might have to sell the new freezer I thought it was enough but it's already full. It's 5 cubic feet and the old one was I think around 7 or 8.

I'm hoping to buy a side a beef in March when my friend send two steers to the butcher, so going to have to figure something out here.

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If I might make a recommendation, if you have the room a second freezer works great oppsed to one big one. J find it helps to store larger quantities of food without the "bottom loss" of food. The problem with the bottom of a big freezer is that the stuff down there rarely gets used.

I run two freezers and cycle the older food into one and the fresh stuff goes in the other, shuffling everything from side to side rather than too to bottom. I do believe that I will switch out my smaller chest freezer with an upright to help see whats actually in there.

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Originally Posted by MarkB

So,

(1) you did not respond to the fact that I hypothesize that the entire world WAS NOT practicing paganism on Dec of each year in the 4th century. Counter argument please?

(2) you did not respond to the fact that there are Roman records that record the date of Jesus' death on Dec 25th ... that is a non-Biblical source. Counter argument please?

(3) there's a difference between what you are doing ... trolling and criticizing ... and just expressing your beliefs ... you see, we are discussing this in a thread which is supposed to be about how prepared we are in case of a catostrophic failure ... and here we are, because of your trolling ... back to mocking Christian beliefs ... who started that fishy?

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Balderdash. What does, what some Christian Romans ,writing stuff 400 years after the fact, have to do with the truth? Who started this religious part of the thread . Well GW did in post 190 by assuming that I disliked and wanted to ban Christmas. I answered on post 193 that I love Christmas , celebrate it and explained why . So no I was not the one to take this off track. Do you guys even read some of the nonsense you write, before pushing send?

We already had one I think it's about 8 cubic ft or something, but I bought a smaller 5 cubic this spring to go with it. I think I should have bought the second one to be the same size as the old one. We filled the new one quite quickly. Good thing our group got only 1 deer I would have no place to put it. I see another one that is the same size as my first one. I should buy it and sell the other one. I don't need three.

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Originally Posted by oaknut

If I might make a recommendation, if you have the room a second freezer works great oppsed to one big one. J find it helps to store larger quantities of food without the "bottom loss" of food. The problem with the bottom of a big freezer is that the stuff down there rarely gets used.

I run two freezers and cycle the older food into one and the fresh stuff goes in the other, shuffling everything from side to side rather than too to bottom. I do believe that I will switch out my smaller chest freezer with an upright to help see whats actually in there.

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Originally Posted by greatwhite

We already had one I think it's about 8 cubic ft or something, but I bought a smaller 5 cubic this spring to go with it. I think I should have bought the second one to be the same size as the old one. We filled the new one quite quickly. Good thing our group got only 1 deer I would have no place to put it. I see another one that is the same size as my first one. I should buy it and sell the other one. I don't need three.

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We just got a upright 8 cubic foot freezer from Home depot (watch for sales), it will pair up well I think with the monthly delivery I just signed up for from truLocal (see https://www.oodmag.com/community/sho...ing-the-effort ).

The freezer in the fridge is for items we use daily and the dedicated freezer for the items that go in, stay and come out to cook so it isn't opened as often. The upright might not be as efficient as the chest ones but its small profile lets us put it in a corner of the kitchen and you don't have to dive to the bottom to find the item you are looking for. The uprights are a bit more money but easier to access stuff but not as efficient because you let out more cold air opening it according to one article, I guess it depends how often you open it. They have the same types at Lowes and Rona etc. but Home Depot had a slightly better price and a discount if you signed up for their card...which depending on if you need it, wait, cancel and cut it up in a few months.

Dang here I am thinking I need another freezer for the steer I’m butchering in January. Got two full-sized chest ones now, one is pretty well full of the three hogs I bought from my cousin back in the spring when he didn’t have a market for them. The other one is full of our own lamb and chicken and a couple hundred pounds of raw food for the Maremmas. Then 3 full-sized uprights, one for bread, baking, cheese and butter, one for vegetables and one for every day stuff

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Originally Posted by fishermccann

Balderdash. What does, what some Christian Romans ,writing stuff 400 years after the fact, have to do with the truth? Who started this religious part of the thread . Well GW did in post 190 by assuming that I disliked and wanted to ban Christmas. I answered on post 193 that I love Christmas , celebrate it and explained why . So no I was not the one to take this off track. Do you guys even read some of the nonsense you write, before pushing send?

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So no response to (1).

And AS PREDICTED ... you put (2) to a lie ... because it doesn't fit your insane theory of life ... so yeah, it's better to go against scientific evidence now ... let's pick and choose what non-biblical scientific evidence is out there ... why not! What a joke. Dude just cancel your account on this forum and go away, you are nothing but a fool.

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Originally Posted by MarkB

So no response to (1).

And AS PREDICTED ... you put (2) to a lie ... because it doesn't fit your insane theory of life ... so yeah, it's better to go against scientific evidence now ... let's pick and choose what non-biblical scientific evidence is out there ... why not! What a joke. Dude just cancel your account on this forum and go away, you are nothing but a fool.

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Ignore him, there are people who you can have discussion and debate and are worth the time and then there are ideologues, it requires an open mind and atleast some respect, he lacks on both. A bug when the lights come on at night will find the nearest crack, table leg to hid behind etc., there are those that just like the dark and nothing can be done until there is a change of heart. Feel free to flick the lights on him now and again but ... Proverbs 9:8

"To give truth to him who loves it not is but to give him more plentiful material for misinterpretation" - George MacDonald

"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened." - Winston Churchill

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Originally Posted by MoiraView

Dang here I am thinking I need another freezer for the steer I’m butchering in January. Got two full-sized chest ones now, one is pretty well full of the three hogs I bought from my cousin back in the spring when he didn’t have a market for them. The other one is full of our own lamb and chicken and a couple hundred pounds of raw food for the Maremmas. Then 3 full-sized uprights, one for bread, baking, cheese and butter, one for vegetables and one for every day stuff

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Have you thought of getting a walk in type freezer, there are a few places that will sell used ones or with some skills you can maybe make one, with all the restaurants etc. closing you may be able to get one for a fairly good price.
https://www.kijiji.ca/b-ontario/walk...b=true&dc=true

Make sure you have some kind of backup power with that much meat!

Upright freezer is definitely a plus, I had one ages ago, and it was so easy to get at everything.
Now I have a chest freezer ... and every time I see meat on sale and buy ... I have to go and unpack most
of it, to get the bottom stuff up. I'll do it every time, because I hate the thought of having to throw away
any meat.

I’ll probably get one at some point, demographics seems to point to being able to sell a lot more lamb locally in the future and it’s a good way to sell the ones that don’t fit in nice uniform groups to send through Cookstown

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Originally Posted by mosquito

Ignore him, there are people who you can have discussion and debate and are worth the time and then there are ideologues, it requires an open mind and atleast some respect, he lacks on both. A bug when the lights come on at night will find the nearest crack, table leg to hid behind etc., there are those that just like the dark and nothing can be done until there is a change of heart. Feel free to flick the lights on him now and again but ... Proverbs 9:8





Have you thought of getting a walk in type freezer, there are a few places that will sell used ones or with some skills you can maybe make one, with all the restaurants etc. closing you may be able to get one for a fairly good price.
https://www.kijiji.ca/b-ontario/walk...b=true&dc=true

Make sure you have some kind of backup power with that much meat!

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MB I think I will stay thanks. Please don’t start flinging proverbs around or I will come up some doozy ones from your the book.