What non-perishable items are you buying?

[Anonymous]

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Try the mom and pop grocery stores that ppl overlook. My mom was just at Chevy Chase Supermarket in MD and they have them! Goodluck!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Damn it did not post right.

Try the mom and pop grocery stores that ppl overlook. My mom was just at Chevy Chase Supermarket in MD and they have them! Goodluck!

Thanks! Will try that next. Just tried CVS and they are sold out.

[Anonymous]

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This was my main concern! And a lot of D batteries.

Why d batteries?

Only get D batteries if you have emergency items for power outages that take D batteries, obviously!

battery powered:

flashlights
emergency radio
DVD player, CD player, computer games

etc.

You know what you have!

[Anonymous]

I got a lot of cereal and shelf stable milk. My son LOVES cereal, so I can at least keep him happy with that for a bit.

We got bread and sunbutter (allergic to peanuts).

Fresh fruit and tomatoes.

Kashi cereal bars

Slim Jims

Made a bunch of hard boiled eggs.

Fortunately, I already have tons of water, a power pack (the inverter thingie Penguin 6 is talking about), battery powered fans, millions of batteries, etc. because of the hell we went through with the snow storms.

I also charged up my nook, which is critical.

[Anonymous]

Take empty plastic juice and soda bottles (NOT milk), clean them, and fill them not quite to the top with clean drinking water. Pack your freezer with these.

Also you can put almost full plastic bottles of juice in the freezer. It will serve the same purpose. Or buy some bottled water, empty them a little bit, and freeze those.

They will help keep your freezer cold longer if your power goes out or you can use them ina cooler. Plus you will have cold, clean drinking water.

This is wrong. Yes, you should stock your freezer with water-filled plastic containers, but is should NOT be water you intend on drinking. The whole point of packing the freezer is that full freezers keep cold longer than half empty ones, and the ice will help preserve the frozen food. But if you open the freezer to pull out the containers, you let the cold air out, dramatically reducing the time things will stay frozen/not spoil.

If you think you're going to lose power for a few days, pull stuff for the next 3-5 days out of your freezer and refrigerator and put it in a cooler with lots of ice. It will slowly defrost, but will still stay cool enough not to spoil. Then, put containers of water in the freezer (and pre-stock some in the fridge if you can) and don't open the freezer if at all possible if power goes out. Try to limit the times you open the fridge, too.

Put drinking water in clean containers and leave them on the counter. It won't kill you to have room-temperature water for a while.

[Anonymous]

Here is the start of my list of MUST haves. Some are perishables. Please feel free to add to it.

Gum

Twine

Whitening strips

Orange tic-tacs

Pea Shooter (fights the zombies)

Walnuts (for Protection Shield)

Duct tape

Bamboo Poles

Palm Branches

Machette

Crow Bar

Dove (to send out to check for land)

Pigeon (mail services)

Night vision goggles

Jet pack

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here is the start of my list of MUST haves. Some are perishables. Please feel free to add to it.

Gum

Twine

Whitening strips

Orange tic-tacs

Pea Shooter (fights the zombies)

Walnuts (for Protection Shield)

Duct tape

Bamboo Poles

Palm Branches

Machette

Crow Bar

Dove (to send out to check for land)

Pigeon (mail services)

Night vision goggles

Jet pack

Damn it, my jet pack is in the shop! Any alternatives I can build with dry ice, soda bottles filled with water, and D batteries?

[Anonymous]

I just bought some D batteries at bed bath and beyond. so that and the chocolate chip cookies I bought should last me a few days