canning supplies Alaska prices prepping supplies everyone needs hi it's AlaskaGranny Alaska Prepper
it's a beautiful day to be alive look at the wonderful sunrise we had this morning Alaska sky
was so beautiful and the colors it almost seems like it can't be real but it is isn't this just
beautiful i love taking pictures of Alaska sky in so many places the colors are just magnificent
it always reminds me to wake up and say thank you Lord for another wonderful day
and count my blessings because we truly are blessed even if we're living in a time
that's scary and uncertainty we're still very blessed for all the things that we do have and
the opportunities we still have well I went to Fred Meyers today which is part of Kroger
and guess what they were loaded up with canning supplies the traditional canning season is here so
it's time to stock up if canning jars are supplies that you use my experience once the canning
supplies come out within a month or two you're scraping to find them if you want them don't
wait until the day you're going to use canning jars stock up when you see them that's how you
take advantage of your opportunities Fred Meyers has the regular mouth half pint canning jars
those are very popular in alaska because we have fishing season we catch a lot of salmon that is
a wonderful sized jar for canning your salmon and so that's very popular i think those are also nice
for jam but i particularly like them for salmon the sign says low price 19.99 for select varieties
but canning jars weren't all that much some canning jars were less they had pint jars they're
probably 17.99 the sign by the quart size regular mouth quart size jars was 19.99 as the jars were
bigger so was the price so the half pint was 16.99 the pint was 17.99 and the quart jar was 19.99 i
did notice the only jars that were wide mouth were the half pint they had lids with rings for 8.99
and regular mouth lids just the lids 12 count for 5.49 they did not have any wide mouth lids or wide
mouth lids and rings which are my favorite but you have to get what you can get so that's why
if you have a variety of jars make sure you have a variety of lids they had a nice variety of salts
that you would want for canning they have the coarse kosher salt without iodine which is what
you want when you're canning the morton coarse kosher salt was 4.79 and the kroger brand was 3.99
if you look at the top shelf there they had brown sugar 4.29 for brown sugar which i thought that's
increased a lot the small containers of salt have gone up in price to a dollar forty nine remember
when you could get a handful of them for that price they had Gulf paraffin canning wax for 4.49
they also had ball freezer jars for 9.49 i've not tried those freezer jars i would be interested to
hear if you have tried these and if you like them they've changed what they're like i have used
other of the ball freezer jars but they changed what they're like the ones that i use they don't
make anymore so i was wondering if these are going to be an addition that i should have and you can
see there was a spot for regular caps and they're gone here's something you don't see very often
the pressure canners they had several of the presto pressure canners and i didn't get a
picture of the price but i think it was about 159 dollars they had the presto digital pressure
canner for on sale from 349.99 to 329.99 and it's interesting because it says the date of 6-21-22
and that date is long gone but it's still on sale so that's nice to see if it's something you want
look at this three packs of the coleman fuel the little propane tanks bottles hold on to your heart
three pack propane bottles on sale reduced from 23.99 to 20.99 i guess the days of
picking up propane bottles for about three dollars each are completely in the past
Fred Meyers had these nice little Coghlin emergency stoves if you don't have
any emergency stove check these out it's a sturdy little metal frame it folds out the sides fold up
and then it comes with these little fuel tablets which i think are very toxic smelling but you can
see you can put little candles in there i have several of these emergency stoves they work very
nicely you can get one of these emergency stoves for 5.19 reduced from 6.49 then you can get some
of the little tea candles and then some little pot and you should use pot with a lid so that you hold
the heat in and then you'll have something for emergency cooking and if you're just using the
candles this would be perfectly safe to use inside those hexamine tablets that come with them i think
they're extremely toxic and i try never to use those but i guess in a real shtf apocalypse i
would be glad to do anything if i needed to i also made a stop at Cabela's and something to
think about are the bear attack deterrents bear spray Cabela's had a lot of bear spray in stock
it's made out of capsaicin which is like a hot pepper spray and it fires up to 30 feet
and you have a two pack bear spray for 69.99 the thing to remember about bear spray is it saves you
from a dangerous encounter it doesn't have to be a bear think about anything that could try
to attack you and you might want to have some bear spray with you but do check your rules and
regulations the laws where you are make sure that you're only carrying things that are legal it was
surprising to me someone was signing up to join the Cabela's credit card club and they pulled out
a big old knife here's your free knife and a hat and i thought we're not in new york city are we
nice to be in alaska where you're allowed to have any kind of a knife that you want
there aren't any restrictive rules on what you can carry so they're perfectly fine
gifting it to you at Cabela's and then it's up to you though to treat it safely
something i did pick up when i was at Fred Meyers was an additional bottle of lamp oil
because i have some oil lamps and you know in a grid down situation it's going to be nice to have
different ways to have light in your home so be sure that you have some candles some oil lamps
solar lights battery operated lights have a different variety and learn how to use
them for example of oil lamps and make sure any lamps you have you have spare wicks to go with it
and a way to light them so this was 9.97 i think so i thought it's pretty expensive but
it's certainly priceless if there's a power outage and i need some extra lights
gasoline has stayed the same at 5.59 a gallon and the price of propane is four dollars a gallon
i was looking at the propane tank exchange where you can either trade in your tank
and get propane tank that's full and it was 19 dollars and something cents and then to actually
buy propane tank was 56 something so those prices i don't think have gone up as dramatically as the
price of other things and so we still have options so get some supplies make sure you have fuel to
use those supplies and keep stockpiling things that you know you can use think about all the
things that you do every day and try to have a way to make sure that you can keep your life rolling
just the way you like what are the prices and the availability of canning supplies where you are put
it in the comments below so we can help learn from each other and if you have any tips and tricks
on how to make sure that you can have the canning prepping supplies you need we'd like to learn
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