Prepping Challenges Adding To Prepper Pantry Food Stockpile Rat Infestations How To Set Rat or Mouse
hi it's AlaskaGranny Alaska Prepper we've all been through so many challenges in the last year
making sure we have enough food and prepping supplies should be an absolute priority I
recently went to the store I was able to get a bunch of more rice 20 40 60 80 pounds I bought
80 pounds of rice I also ordered gallon size mylar bags on amazon mylar bags come
with a gusseted stand up bottom so that you can open them up flat and then they have a zip lock
top I can fill them up with rice add oxygen absorbers zip it and then seal it but then
you don't have to go ahead and heat seal it but I'm going to do that anyway the ziploc seal is
supposed to be effective enough but you can get something as simple as your clothes iron or even
a hair crimper flat iron and you can seal it for the additional security to make sure that your
food is safe this is a better size of food for me and my family I would rather have a food stored in
a container that's a size that I can use easily I don't necessarily want to open up 50 pound bucket
I can open the 5 gallon bucket take out one of the bags of rice and close the bucket back
up and all the rest of the food is still sealed up nice and safe so that's one way
to consider how to store food in prepper pantry stockpile stored food doesn't have to be all or
nothing in a bucket you can make packages of food that suit your needs that's how you should store
food in amounts that meet your family's needs so I bought 80 pounds of rice 25 gallon sized zip top
mylar bags and then 100 oxygen absorbers I found the oxygen absorbers online from the lds or the
mormon church and you get 100 oxygen absorbers for 10 dollars I thought it was a really good deal and
these are supposed to each one seal up a gallon of food I've had a hard time getting buckets
with lids but I found some 5 gallon buckets at home depot so I bought three 5 gallon buckets
and three lids when you look for bucket lids make sure that they have the inner rubber seal
gasket so that when you put the lid on to store food helps make them airtight so then I'll have an
extra layer of protection I'll have a bucket which is a good solid container with an airtight seal
then I'll have the food in the mylar bags with oxygen absorbers so the stored prepper pantry food
should be able to last practically forever I bought some more gallons of water they're easy
to just pick up bring them home line them up and have more water on hand it takes a lot of water
to cook foods like rice if you look at how much water you use in a day having more water stored
is going to go a long way towards helping your family be comfortable if you lose water for some
reason now I went out in my shed and was I ever shocked when I saw this chewed up mess down in the
papers fortunately I did not have any food stored in this location but I don't want this infestation
in anything in my property so also when I went to the hardware store I picked up a couple of the
Tomcat snap traps rat mouse traps these are easy to set because you don't get your fingers into the
contraption that you can snap them bait the trap in the bait well then you place the trap facing
the wall where you see activity press the set arm with your foot or hand and you can hear it click
and that's all there is to it I've used Tomcat snap traps for mouse rats mice before that's
surprising what kind of bait you can use that's successful you can use peanut butter you can use
a piece of hot dog you can use a little piece of cheese I've even had good luck with a little
bit of a stale burrito these are nice because you don't risk snapping the trap on your fingers then
you can either dispose of the entire Tomcat snap trap rat mouse trap once you've achieved success
or you can press them open reset them and use them again if you have pets and children don't
set these Tomcat rat mouse traps where they could get in them and I'm very leery about using poison
simply for those reasons I wouldn't want anyone to get into poison that shouldn't have it we can't
allow critters to move in and chew up the things that we own so whatever your unique challenges are
keep prepping get a supply of food make sure you have some water and then get extra supplies that
help keep your standard of living going like a rat trap you just never know look around
for what are your challenges and leave comments below and tell us what are some ideas of some
unusual challenges that you face lately that will help us think of other items to stockpile
before those challenges hit our world too if you liked my video I hope you'll share it
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