Prepping Haul Cabela's Ammo Trail Camera Mountain House AlpineAire dehydrated backpacking
meals food hi it's AlaskaGranny Alaska Prepper I just got back from a shopping trip to Cabela's
in Anchorage Alaska I've been concerned about being prepared for more things because a few
days ago there was an 8.2 earthquake in Alaska which led to a tsunami warning it wasn't in my
area and it didn't affect me a lot of times I do have earthquakes here and I did have a tsunami
warning here a few months ago but this earthquake thankfully was not in my area but it did give me
a wake-up call a jolt you could say that I need to make sure that if something happens and I actually
cannot stay in my home and I need to leave my home I want to have some additional supplies in my car
I've also been concerned about forest fire since I live on wooded property
that if I did need to leave my home and maybe the whole area where I live was devastated or
under an evacuation it could be difficult to find a place to stay what if I had to stay in my car
so I thought I want to make sure that I have more emergency bug out supplies that I can
grab and go or keep in my car in case something happens and I'm away from home I can't get home
so I want to put extra supplies in my car so that if I need to to shelter in my car for
a period of time I could do it as comfortably as possible I haven't been to a cabela's in a
very long time simply because a pandemic's been going on and I haven't really been going anywhere
I was shocked when I saw what used to be aisles and aisles of every caliber
and type that you could want has been reduced to just a few shelves there was only the top
of this one aisle and the top of this other aisle here's some of the prices they've certainly gone
up and things are not available if these are items that you've been looking for they're in
extremely short supply and the price has gone up dramatically you can't get all of your supplies
the cheapest all the time sometimes you just need to pay the price that it is if it's something that
you need that's a good reason to stock up when you find supplies that you want when it's at a
price you can afford because definitely prices are going up and things are going to be crazy
I have trail cameras set up around my property it's nice to be able to see things like moose
bear foxes I even saw wolverine one time it's fun to see that but it also gives me an
element of security because I have found some trespassers on there when I went out to check
my cameras someone had actually removed two of the memory cards and actually burned them and
destroyed them and inserted them back into my camera so someone is definitely lurking around
and they're up to no good so the first thing that I did buy at cabela's was another trail camera
they're not that complicated to set up but it was nice that I could count on the cabela's clerk to
set it all up for me get all the batteries in it show me how to put in the memory card and make
sure that it's up and running that I can come home and immediately deploy this trail camera and try
to figure out what's going on that I have a lot of trail cameras they're all different and it can
become confusing it was so nice that I could have someone there just set it up for me and it's ready
to go I'm going to put it out and see if I can figure out what is going on out there and who is
messing with my trail cameras and on my property so that's a little scary so make sure that you are
doing the things you need to keep yourself safe trail cameras aren't that expensive they're
around 100 if it's something that you want to find out not only what animals are around but
what's lurking in your neighborhood that could be a threat to you I bought some extra memory cards
to go into the cameras that had been fiddled with because the memory cards in the cameras
had actually been damaged purposely and then placed back inside the cameras so I have some new
memory cards to put in those cameras and then I'm going to redeploy them into a different spot and
see if I can figure out what's going on nights are getting colder hand warmers are a great way
to help keep you warm on a cold winter's day or especially if you're ever stranded somewhere and
it gets cold you need to have a few hand warmers these do have a shelf life so they have a date
on them it doesn't mean that they're expired though the only way they become expired is if
they get a pinhole in them and then the air activates the inside and they heat up so as
long as they still feel flexible your hand warmers should be fine there's a lot of different ways to
use hand warmers I made a video about it quite a few years ago I'll put a link to that video
in case you're interested in all different ways you can use hand warmers to help make your life
a little more comfortable the hand warmers are going to be great addition to the emergency kit
that I'm putting together that I want to have in my car in case I have to live in it for a few days
the last time I went to Fred Meyers I was looking at the Mountain House meals and the backpacking
meals because they're a great kind of meal to have in your Bug Out Bag emergency kit
you only need to add water and it doesn't even have to be hot water if you only can add just
water to Mountain House meal they are going to rehydrate it just takes longer if the water is
not hot so they're a lightweight compact way that you can have food that will store in your
car that cans of food might get too hot or too cold but the Mountain House type dehydrated meals
are still going to be okay they can withstand a lot of the temperature changes that you can't
get with other types of foods but I noticed at Fred Meyers they had very few of them and the
prices have gone up quite a lot they are nearly ten dollars each and some of them are even more
so I didn't really see any that I wanted to buy and I thought today when I went to Cabela's
I was definitely going to stock up they had a huge variety Mountain House lots and lots they
are more expensive you can buy a box or a bucket of Mountain House meals that are less per unit
but they may not be the varieties that you want I did a review on one of the box kits from Mountain
House I'll put a link to that video and those are all very good but I wanted to be able to choose
for this kit the food choices that I actually wanted I didn't just want someone else's desire
of what I could have I want what I thought sounded interesting and I could have a larger variety
when you buy the boxes or the buckets Mountain House meals you might end up with two of each meal
variety that might be okay but I wanted to try one of each different kind of what I saw Mountain
House comes in two different types of meals they have adventure packs and pro packs and the pro
packs actually weigh a little less yet they have more calories in them and so if you're looking
at having additional calories to make sure that you're getting enough food you might check out the
pro pack if weight doesn't matter go ahead and get the adventure meals they're a little bit heavier
so if you're backpacking it can make a difference but most of us aren't going out backpacking we're
concerned with emergencies and having the foods that we need but it's also important to have those
things in consideration the calorie count and the weight in case you needed to actually bug out or
you needed to quickly grab some food and take it from your home you might want to make sure that it
was something that you were able to carry and you could get as much as possible cabela's also has
meals called alpine air and those are very good too and they're like 10 and 11 dollars they have
a lot of varieties and so it's interesting to see what they are you do need to read on the back if
you have any kind of food allergies because they may have ingredients that you care not to eat
and you can find by looking through them that you may find ones that you enjoy more than others and
that have the ingredients that you're looking for or avoiding when you're looking at the mountain
house meals the orange ones are usually the lunch and dinner and they'll have yellow on them which
is breakfast which would be like eggs and biscuits and gravy so that might help you find a selection
that you want if you're looking for certain things then you can pay attention to what the colors are
on the wrappers I didn't want any breakfast I just wanted lunch and dinner and let me show
you the varieties that I got Mountain House had a pasta primavera but AlpineAire had pasta primavera
with chicken so it's nice to have a little bit of extra protein and having meat can really make
a difference meat is becoming harder to get more expensive so getting an emergency meal
that includes some meat could be a nice variety this one is a sweet and sour grilled chicken
I love sweet and sour so Ii'm looking forward to that one here's one al pastor with cilantro
lime rice al pastor is pork so this will be a nice different variety of different types of flavors I
thought it was interesting the variety that they had and a lot of them sounded really delicious
pork pad thai have you ever seen that in a meal that's for backpacking or emergencies
doesn't that sound good I love pad thai I'm sure this isn't going to be the best pad thai you've
ever had in your life but it's nice to have a wide variety of emergency meals so that you can make
the best of what your situation is by having some variety I bought four AlpineAire and four Mountain
House meals and the mountain house varieties I got the first one was spaghetti with meat sauce
and this one I bought in the pro pack because it actually had more calories than buying it in just
the adventure meal it's the same meal but there's more calories which probably means there's more
food in it so if it's the only meals that you're having where some of these then you need to get
the calories to make sure you're getting enough food if you have other food this is also a good
way that you could split it with someone else if you needed to but you would need other food to eat
to go along with this if you were going to share it to make sure that you both got enough food for
a meal I also picked up the beef stroganoff it's very good if you've not tried the mountain house
beef stroganoff look for that one because it's nice and tasty I bought the chicken teriyaki
which is also good and a flavor I'd never seen before is yellow curry and I was almost tempted
not to get it because I'm thinking what if it like gave me a tummy ache when I was in an emergency
but sometimes we have to be adventuresome and we need to try new things if you see something
you think you might like buy one take it home and try it and if you like it you can always go back
and get more even if it's just 50 cents for a can of something or ten dollars for a backpacking meal
it's important that you know that you're going to like that food and that it's something that you're
going to continue to eat we can all suffer through a meal that's not our favorite once but you don't
want to look in your cabinet and you have 10 of these and that's all that's left and nobody wants
to eat it that would be a waste of your prepper pantry food storage dollars and also a waste of
your space where you need to store things that you actually want and need the mountain house
meals are dated for 2050 so this is going to be so nice to have for the long haul yes things need to
be stored the best to make them last the longest and trying to keep them in the car is probably
not ideal because then they're subjected to extra hot extra cold changing temperatures foods last
longest when you store them cool dark and dry but sometimes we have to have things in other places
and we make the best of it so you want to keep your eye on the food and then you need to rotate
it a little more frequently maybe I'll rotate it in 20 40. and if I don't need it till then the
downside of the AlpineAire is they're dated 2026 so they don't last nearly as long as the Mountain
House food that's probably why they have more interesting sounding menus and choices because
the combinations of foods just don't last you have to have foods that can all store for the long haul
for things to last for a very long time so when you're choosing your foods make sure
you're looking over not only the ingredients but the dates on the packages so that you're
getting the food that can last in the time frame that you want it was great to
go to cabela's today and to be able to find some of the things that I was looking for
I was glad I could get a nice variety of these eight meals that are going to go into my new
emergency kit that I'm building it'll give me a wide variety of foods that can last for a long
time I did run into an acquaintance and he was saying he tried the pepper steak
and he was so excited when he saw something had steak but he said when he was out camping and he
tried it it was so tough it just wasn't enjoyable so I took that as a warning I looked through to
make sure that wasn't one of the Mountain House meals I had and it wasn't if you've tried some of
the Mountain House and the Alpine Aire dehydrated meals let us know in the comments below what your
favorites are so we can start looking for that as well if you enjoyed my video I hope you'll
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