Big Brother outdid himself…
Look at all this canned meat! BB forewarned me that he was updating his own stash and sending me the stuff that was creeping up on its best-by dates, so this stuff has to go to the front of my own rotation but none of it is near going bad or anything. Riches! Plus snackies, and Laddie is well-set for his favorite evening treat.
Not completely sure if CH is having a joke here – 🙂 I don’t actually eat all that many MREs but here is some new stock from a survival supply store rather grimly named The Epicenter Supply. Actually since they’re here and include some easy-to-eat sandwiches, I’ve gone ahead and put those in the Jeep kit. I don’t really need emergency food there – but I don’t really need a blanket either but a blanket is in there. You don’t need anything until you do.
Some kind soul hit my wishlist! This may seem prosaic, but I live in a weird place. I have to order coffee filters online because the local store doesn’t stock cone filters. Sometimes that store has dry milk but it’s only in small overpriced envelopes. So this is a big help – I don’t use a lot of it, but sometimes for baking and such.
Landlady brought me a can of coffee. I’m still working on finalizing a new favorite since those dirty capitalist bastards at Trader Joe’s cancelled House Blend – but the Columbian Supremo is pretty good. I don’t usually like CS very much because it’s usually kind of acidy, but this is a good dark blend that’s not quite that harsh.
Thanks very much, guys!
I look forward to your review of the BBQ beef sandwich MRE; had one (or a clone- I disremember the brand for sure) from Cabela’s and it was friggin’ inedible.
Dry milk: Joel, do you add any kind of fat to the recipe to make up for the missing milkfat?
What kind of a grocery(?) store doesn’t stock coffee filters fergawdsake?
“Epicenter Supply”: way to project a Debbie Downer image, guys. What’s next? “Patient Zero” Medical Supply, today only 50% off our Self-Interment Kit
Food-like trivia: “Hormel” rhymes with “normal”. And their chili is abhorrent, IMHO.
Have you tried salt in the coffee grounds? It only takes a very small amount to hide the acidity. Less than a pinch. If you taste it you have used way too much.
I see you’re out of brewski. Can you handle Coors:
https://tinyurl.com/Amazon-Coors
or would you rather hold out for Pearl:
https://tinyurl.com/Pearl-IPA
???
A package with that much canned meat has got to be heavy. What method does BB use for shipping that much weight at a reasonable cost?
I dunno about reasonable cost, but he always uses USPS.
Mark, Coors always tastes like the can it was shipped in. I’m not familiar with Pearl. And I didn’t know before today that Amazon sells beer. If that’s beer.
Care package reports are such fun. Before long you may need a new addition to expand the pantry. 🙂
Oh, they sell a fairly large variety of suds. And much of it is Prime:
https://tinyurl.com/Amazon-Beers-to-You
Joel, I noticed a can or so if “Great Value Roast Beef” from the Arkansas people in your care package delivery; have you eaten that before, and if so, what’s your take on it? I’ve thought of getting a bunch of it for the emergency stash.
And, Robert (above), I dunno what Joel’s secret recipe is for improving powdered dry milk (assuming he has one), but I’ve found a small can (5 oz) of condensed milk per 2 qts works pretty well, and sometimes used the big can (12 oz) but not seen enough additional improvement to warrant the extra weight in the backpack. Growing up, a friend’s mother mixed 1:1 a qt of supermarket whole milk to a qt of dry milk, which tasted just fine (no idea why she did it that way, seemed like buying 2 qts of skim would have done about the same thing nutritionally). Not having refrigerated store-bought milk readily available, however, kinda makes the idea fall short.
Norman, I have to say honestly that I don’t remember if I have or not. I’ve eaten the Kirkland brand and it’s very consistently good but I can’t recall for sure if I’ve eaten this brand yet.
Real trick of frugality , is to pull the bonnet of the valve then retrieve the gate piece. Take the parts into the shop and torch. Silver solder the broken stem back together, file to perfection…the reassemble said parts into valve body.
Once had a job , where it was easier to perform this operation. Than to remove the whole valve for replacement. Large apple orchard with literally thousands of one inch gate valves. Put in combination with frosty weather and fresh from the border crossing irrigation workers, equals tons of broken stems
Norman: thanks for the milk idea.
I second Joel’s opinion of Kirkland canned roast beast; I used to buy it by the case at a reasonable price but, alas, it is now only offered in a 3-pack, each individually rolled up in bubble wrap- takes up much more shipping volume. It’s available on-line only hereabouts but is stocked in some wharehouses. Can’t have it shipped to the store for later pickup.
Haven’t tried Great Value Roast Meat. Also haven’t seen Costco shoppers letting their spawn go marauding through the store, unlike WallyWorld Child Minding Service.