Originally published at Notes from the bunker…. You can comment here or there.

This week shall be the big purchase of chicken from CostCo. I was going through the deepfreeze and although theres still plenty of meat in there, it’s a little light on chicken and, well, me likes my chicken. So, I’ll head up to CostCo and get a case. For my needs, chicken is pretty much the most versatile meat..I make rice and chicken, broiled chicken, fried chicken, chicken parmesan, chicken soup, chicken with ginger, etc, etc. Plus, and this makes no sense, I think Im going to feel much more at ease when I see the freezer stocked up. Go figure.
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Speaking of chicken, I need to cook up a huge pot of the wife’s favorite soup. I could freeze the soup and store it that way but I like the satisfaction (and practice) of using the pressure canner. Its nice to think that I can take food that I prepare, can it, and it can sit quietly on a shelf for a year and still be good to eat. Freezing the soup really does make more sense from a labor standpoint, but it does, naturally, mean in case of power failure we’re going to have problems.

If you haven’t tried home canning, I do recommend it. It’s a useful skill and , assuming you follow directions, pretty safe. I’ve made several posts in the past on this subject, with recommendations on books and equipment. If yore interested you might want to read the older posts.

While we’re on the subject of food, I am still not quite 100% where I want to be on the stuff I’ve picked up from thos fun-lovin’ Mormons at the cannery. See, the boxes hold six cans per box so ideally I want a quantity of item that is divisible by six…that way every box is full of the same item. At the moment, I have some odd numbers that I need to add to in order to make a complete box. So, I need to head out there and see if I can fill out the gaps in those boxes.

The folks at the cannery also have a portable canner that they loan out. You buy a bunch of #10 cans and lids, fill them with whatever you want, and seal them up with the canner. This is nice because the cannery only lets you can items that they have on premises. If you showed up with, say, a 50# bag of dried corn you couldn’t use their facility to can it. Rules are rules. However, you can buy some cans, lids and take the canner home. I need to investigate that since theres some dried corn, pasta, and other dried goodies that I’d like to have in #10 cans. If youre the sneaky Secret Squirrel type you could also drop a baby Glock, a holster, some ammo and a cleaning kit in one, seal it up, pull the label off a can of tomatoes and make a very convincing and unsuspecting hiding place for your boomtoy.
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Although the book was utterly bleak , depressing and (in my opinion) a bit murky in terms of purpose, I am still looking forward to seeing “The Road”. Problem is, nearest theater showing it is around 150 miles from here. It seems like this movie isn’t getting quite the distribution that Ive come to expect from most movies. Sure, I expect it to be bleak and pointless, like the book, but I’d still like to get to see it. Maybe over the next few weeks it’ll turn up here but if not…well, it wont be long before theres a decent copy to be downloaded, Im sure.