Emergency Grid Down Cooking Prepping Supplies Camping Fire Starting Must Have Prepping
Supplies hi it's AlaskaGranny Alaska Prepper spring is here it's time to start planning out
summer camping going to Granny Camp maybe having some really fun outdoor activities it's also a
great idea to figure out how you're going to cook SHTF power outage grid down if something happens
and your electricity or your stove stops working what are you going to do we keep
hearing all this stuff about maybe they're going to attack the grid maybe we're going to have
an emp and we don't know but we do know that it's important to learn how to prepare to take
care of ourselves how to enjoy our time in the outdoors so don't think of learning to cook
without electricity power outage off grid outdoors preparing for off-grid cooking as an emergency
hardship SHTF think of it as an enjoyable outdoor fun activity a challenge it's all how you look at
it it's the same activity whether you're doing it out of a joy or out of dread but you how you put
your spin on it is how you're going to enjoy and prepare for that time the first thing you want to
do cook power outage even if you're just going to your backyard or if you have a camping stove you
want to make sure that you have the fuel for it propane is in short supply so it's a great idea to
have an extra propane tank on hand you can still find an extra propane tank maybe you can't find a
brand new one you can still go to one of those propane tank cages at the store where you can
buy propane tank that's already filled up it's not the most ideal or economical way
to stock up on propane if it's the only one you can find to me it's worth a few extra dollars
to have some extra propane on hand if you've been using your propane make sure you get
your propane tanks filled up you can take them to a gas station that has those big white propane
tanks I think it's nearly five dollars a gallon now to get your propane tank filled it used to
be about 2.99 or 3.50 price of propane it's really shooting up so propane is one of those
prepping fuel supplies that if you count on using it stock up before it isn't available anymore
i use an inline propane tank gauge so that i can tell how much fuel is left in my tank propane tank
gauge work really well you attach them onto the propane hose between your tank and your grill
and propane gauge can tell you how much propane fuel is left in your tank
not all propane equipment will have a gauge to tell you how much propane is still in your tank
so if you are grilling a great big steak you don't want to run out of fuel halfway through it and
if you use your propane for other appliances or apparatuses it's also a great idea to have extra
and to have some kind of a gauge so that you know how much fuel you have left if you have propane or
butane stoves or lanterns heaters make sure that you have the propane butane canisters to go with
it propane butane canisters been harder to find propane butane canisters becoming very expensive
so keep looking around add propane butane canisters to your prepping supply stockpile
in case you are dependent on doing your cooking on your camp stove heating your home buddy Mr Heater
if you use any Coleman type lanterns or cooking stoves pick up an extra gallon of the fuel so
that you'll have it Coleman fuel can last for a long time you can get many uses out of a
gallon Coleman fuel it's not the kind of prepping supply you want to run out of in really emergency
situations if you're relying on your lanterns cook stove to be able to provide light in your
cabin your tent wherever you are or cook with your portable stove have the fuel to make that possible
Preppers invest in a few hand tools so that you can dig a hole for a campfire or a latrine you can
split up some firewood or dig out some rocks out of the spot where you want to pitch your tent or
build that fire pit there's all kinds of reasons to have hand tools if you're heading into the out
of doors only you know what your circumstances are and if you would require some very heavy duty
big tools take an inventory of the kind of tools that are at the store think about the lifestyle
that you lead or the task that you think you might need to do in an emergency and get a few of those
i made a video about some tools that i have out at my Granny Camp which is my Alaska off-grid cabin
there are nice tools to have and you might want to look at that AlaskaGranny video to see
prepper or marauder tools to stockpile think about some cooking tools that you might want to use over
a campfire over charcoal grill or even over a fire pit you can find grill baskets shish kebab skewers
or even some of Dollar Tree telescopic barbecue forks if you want to cook a hot dog
Dollar Tree telescopic barbecue forks go way out great big long you can put a hot dog and
put a marshmallow some people even take the refrigerated bread dough and spiral it around
Dollar Tree telescopic barbecue forks hold that over the fire and make their own biscuits if
you're going to cook over a fire you always want to make sure that you have aluminum foil
so that you can wrap up your food foil packets and place it right into the coals
be on the lookout for portable grab and go type grills i found this one a while ago at a yard
sale you can see on the box it shows you all the components to set up a little portable grill
it folds up nice and compactly it holds all of the parts right inside and i keep the directions in
the box simply because i haven't used it yet and i want to make sure how to set it up if i need to
another fuel to add to your prepping supplies is charcoal i found this bag and it's a just
like the bag it's a barbecue bag you can put the whole bag into say a fire pit
or a barbecue grill or maybe charcoal grills that comes at a campground that's already installed
you can place this charcoal bag in the grill and light it and then it's ready to go you
can make your fire right with the charcoal bag then you don't need all of the other components
whatever kind of charcoal you want make sure you have plenty because charcoal is a handy
way to cook outdoors in an emergency or just for an enjoyable evening but it does require a lot
of charcoal and it does take longer to cook over charcoal than just lighting up your camping stove
or your kitchen stove i don't like to use lighter fluid i don't like to add chemicals into my flames
that then are producing chemicals into my food so i made a charcoal lighter out of a number 10 can
i'll put a link to that video so that you can see how you can take a simple number 10 can
punch a few holes in it and you can use it to light your charcoal you can buy a charcoal lighter
chimney in the store but they're quite expensive and why go to that expense if you could make one
out of an empty number 10 can charcoal lasts the longest if you store it in an airtight container
what's best is if you get like a garbage can type a metal garbage can and store charcoal in
that but if you don't have one or they're hard to come by or they're just too expensive right now
you can always get a five gallon bucket with a tight fitting lid and store your charcoal
in the bucket then store it with some things like newspapers add in a few ways to light it
so that you have a grab-and-go way to start a fire and cook an actual meal if you needed to
in a real emergency situation it might not be that hard to find a spot that would be appropriate
to light that charcoal and get that fire going anytime you're lighting a fire outside make
sure you have a bucket of water handy have it already filled up don't just have the bucket have
the water in it so that if something gets out of control you can fight that fire put that out get
those flames knocked down if you need to you also want to make sure if you start a campfire outside
that you wet it down and you stir it until it's completely out don't let an emergency turn into
a catastrophe because you started a forest fire even if you're not going camping there are all
kinds of ways to make emergency fire starters i've made all kinds of videos on all types of things
that you can make into fire starters or that you can purchase for example i picked up this quick
survive fire starter at Dollar Tree dryer lint cotton balls rub with petroleum jelly or even
chapstick cotton rounds dipped into candle wax birch bark if you're out in the woods and you see
birch trees they're the ones that the bark is peeling and you can pick up some of the loose
bark don't ever harm a tree picking off the bark that isn't loose but some birch bark is available
it's like nature provided a little bit for you so you can harvest a little bit of
that without harming the tree and then you'll have some really nice emergency fire starters
you can put pine cones or wood shavings into an empty paper muffin cup and pour hot wax over it
and you have a very nice fire starter bundle cotton rounds rubbed with petroleum jelly
alcohol prep pads and don't forget hand sanitizer it works great for starting campfires too you may
not have thought about waxed paper but it's paper and it's waxed so you can crumble it up and use it
to start a fire also when you're done reading the newspaper add it to your fire starter kit
i always include a piece of aluminum foil in my fire starting kit you can put it down at the
bottom of your fire where you're going to start it and then even if the ground is wet you have
a dry place to start your fire plus if you use something like cotton dipped in petroleum jelly
as the petroleum jelly melts it will be caught in the foil rather than sink it to the ground and
will continue to help you get your fire going even in very sad wet cold weather have a selection of
lighters matches and even tools that can help you start fires if you don't have matches or lighters
think about just going in the trash get out something that is a mylar type bag with a zip top
lit add it full of stuff that you want to start a fire zip it closed and you have a waterproof fire
starting kit so whether you're like me and you're heading out to Granny Camp my Alaska off-grid
cabin you're going camping or in SHTF grid down or emp situation some kind of a disaster when you
need to cook for yourself if you think about it ahead of time gather those supplies together and
have them ready then you're prepared not scared and that's what prepping is all about we're ready
to cook stay warm face any challenge the best we can and we're not going to panic because we
have some ideas of what to do and we can use our creativity to make the best of every situation
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