I've been thinking and trying to figure out what I would do immediately with the meat in the freezer if the grid were to go down. I do have a generator it is new and has never been cranked.
I'm an old lady and some of the things I could do a few years ago I cannot do too well these days. For example, lifting a five-gallon gas can to fill said generator, and I think I'm not the only one here who may be in the same boat. So, I have a siphon thing a ma jig for filling kerosene heaters that I will use for the generator.
Back to Water and Ice. A block of ice will last longer in an ice chest than a bag of ice or ice cubes. In the old days, they had refrigerators that used blocks of ice and they worked.
I would try to stretch my limited resources, mainly the generator by packing the meat in ice chests and filling the freezer with manageable containers to make blocks of ice, in suitable sizes to fit the ice chests, which is also good drinking water.
All of the vegetables and some of the meat could be canned, I'm prepared for that.
Your opinions and suggestions are wanted, please.
P.S. I have been freezing Berkey water in meatloaf-sized pans. Two fills fit in a bread bag and all will fit into the ice chests or stay in the freezer as needed. I just feel the need to have ice on hand and as long as I have freezer space I'll do it.
I'm an old lady and some of the things I could do a few years ago I cannot do too well these days. For example, lifting a five-gallon gas can to fill said generator, and I think I'm not the only one here who may be in the same boat. So, I have a siphon thing a ma jig for filling kerosene heaters that I will use for the generator.
Back to Water and Ice. A block of ice will last longer in an ice chest than a bag of ice or ice cubes. In the old days, they had refrigerators that used blocks of ice and they worked.
I would try to stretch my limited resources, mainly the generator by packing the meat in ice chests and filling the freezer with manageable containers to make blocks of ice, in suitable sizes to fit the ice chests, which is also good drinking water.
All of the vegetables and some of the meat could be canned, I'm prepared for that.
Your opinions and suggestions are wanted, please.
P.S. I have been freezing Berkey water in meatloaf-sized pans. Two fills fit in a bread bag and all will fit into the ice chests or stay in the freezer as needed. I just feel the need to have ice on hand and as long as I have freezer space I'll do it.
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