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hi it's AlaskaGranny are you wondering how much flour to store for long-term

food storage stockpile for in emergency situations food storage prepping survival I read somewhere each person should have

200 pounds of flour stored per person for a year's supply I don't know for sure how they

came up with that average amount of flour to store stockpile but it made me stop and wonder how do you know how much flour

you actually need you can't necessarily take someone's advice on food storage that doesn't know

anything about you or what you eat the best process is to decide how much

baking do you actually do how much flour do you actually use keep track of the foods

things that you make and use flour and then figure out how much that would

actually be for a week for a month for three months and that's how you would

figure out how much flour you would use in a year one of the things to think about

when you're using flour is the products that you actually already buy purchase

and use that have flour in them things like cereal granola bars pancake mixes

muffin mixes stuffing mixes pastas canned meals and soups lots of the

products that we buy already have flour products in them so if those are part of

the foods that you eat within your year's supply you don't need to have

another huge barrel of flour if the foods you're stockpiling besides flour

contain foods that have flour in them I like to store a variety of foods I don't

necessarily want to one day realize there's an emergency and I need to start

baking everything from scratch I can open my pantry and many of the foods

that I normally eat are still in there and so I can continue to have the luxury

of maintain my lifestyle because I planned ahead and

stored the foods that I actually eat and use other grains that maybe you use that

could be included in your flour and grain stockpile that would make up your total

would include things like oatmeal rice couscous things like that there's a

variety of grains besides just storing 200 pounds of flour the flour that you buy at the

grocery store can easily be stored for a year or more what you need to recognize

is that flour needs to be stored cool and dry flour has a slight fat content

in it which will go rancid over time so it's very important that you store it

where it's cool the warmer it is the sooner it will spoil

are you wondering if your flour is still fresh smell it if it smells off it's

probably no good anymore you also need to make sure that you store it so that

it's dry if moisture gets into your flour it can clump it all up it can cause big

problems you want to make sure that you take it flour out of the original packaging

and store it in something to keep it dry store it in a plastic container store it

in a glass jar put it in a food storage bucket an easy way to utilize this is

with a gamma lid Gamma lids screw off and on you can open the 5 gallon food storage bucket take out the amount of flour or food

what you want screw the gamma lid back on and it stays airtight this allows you to store

a lot of flour in one container I like to keep a big bucket of it not in my

kitchen because it takes up too much room so I store a smaller amount in my

pantry you can also store it in extra canning jars it keeps it airtight make

sure that you also store it where it's dark food lasts longer if you store it

out of the light don't store food on open shelving in the kitchen store it in your pantry or your

cabinets with the doors closed another option is to buy flour in long

term food storage containers where it's already packed to last ten or more years

these number 10 cans of flour and food are a small enough size and a cheap enough price it's an easy way to

stockpile flour and food it up you can move it around and then it's easy to rotate just take

one can and use it additional cans can remain in your food

storage prepper pantry long term food storage and you don't need to be as concerned about the time limit of your food spoiling you know

that you have many years left on your stored food in the cans other flour

containing products are also available in this kind of a format you can buy

things like granola all you need to do is open it and eat it it's ready to go

you can buy pancake and muffin mixes some of them are just add water and

they're packed to store and last for ten years lots of the foods that are

packaged this way in the number 10 cans are airtight they have oxygen absorbers in

them and they're going to be fresh far beyond the 10 years flour that's just in

the container in your pantry is not going to last nearly as long as flour

that's packaged to last for a long time long term food storage emergency food one of the concerns with storing flour

is that you can get pantry bugs and weevils in it and the warmer the climate

where you live the more likely you are to encounter bugs in your flour and

crackers and pasta products and cereals take your flour stick it away in the

freezer for a day or two maybe longer if you live in a very warm climate freezing

kills any of the eggs or larvae that are naturally occurring in your flour or

your flour products if there's things like cereal pasta muffin mixes that

you're also storing for long term put those in the freezer for a few days when

you buy them to make sure that those things weevils pantry bugs are killed right inside the food inside the

package and then store the food airtight to keep other pantry bugs or things from

getting into them another way to think about flour is if you want to store

wheat and then you need to have a grinder then in an emergency you can

start grinding the wheat into flour make your own and start cooking from that

that's not something I'm interested in doing in an emergency

I want easier not harder ways to prepare foods so I'm stockpiling things that are

easy to have easy to open and include the variety of foods that I normally

would want figure out how much flour and flour containing products your family

uses build your stockpile while foods are readily available build it a little

at a time make sure you have a few days supply of food then get a week supply a

month supply a few months supply and as large an amount as you feel comfortable

that you have enough so that no matter what happens you'll be okay learn more

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The Russia Investigations: How Many More Maria Butinas Are There? - Duration: 12:29.

The Russia Investigations: How Many More Maria Butinas Are There?

This week in the Russia investigations: Two big questions about the second-most famous Russian in the world and Rod Rosenstein fires a warning shot.

Finnish fallout.

No Hollywood screenwriter could get away with turning in a treatment for this week.

The studio bosses would roll their eyes and ask for the story to be more plausible.

And yet Americans — and the rest of the world — really did just live through five days in which the president of the United States publicly sided with the president of Russia against his own intelligence community, then denied that foreign interference threats continue, meanwhile holding open the possibility of making a former American diplomat available to Russian investigators who have traveled to the U.S.

to pursue questionable criminal allegations leveled by Vladimir Putin.

The White House now says that what the president meant to say was the opposite of all that: He accepts the intelligence community's verdicts and does not accept the idea of swapping persons of interest to both American and Russian inquisitors.

All that was playing out in the background as another big story in the Russia imbroglio unfurled over the week: the case of Maria Butina.

The alleged infiltrator.

A federal magistrate judge this week ordered that Butina must be jailed ahead of her trial on charges that she is a Russian agent, one tied to its FSB spy agency and one controlled from her first arrival as part of a deliberate influence campaign against the United States.

Longtime readers will remember the many questions about how "infiltration" might have fit in to the broader campaign of active measures waged by Moscow for several years against the U.S.

and the West.

Now some of the answers are coming into focus, based on allegations in court documents filed in Butina's case.

Butina has been traveling to the United States since 2015 and has been living in Washington, D.

, more or less full time on a student visa while enrolled at American University.

She has been making contacts all along with conservative political leaders and via the National Rifle Association and at least one religious organization.

With the assistance of a few Americans, she has been making clear all along to people she met that she provides a channel back to Moscow, according to court documents.

Butina's attorney argues that the government's case is overblown.

He also denies the charges against her and says the worst crime she has committed is convening a few dinners.

And for as much as the government has said about her in court documents, there are still wider questions about her case and the broader infiltration strategy.

How many more Butinas are there?.

Court documents and other evidence unveiled by the government suggest how closely Butina was being controlled.

In one FBI surveillance photograph, she is pictured with her fork and knife poised over dinner in a bistro across from a man whose face has been obscured.

The FBI says Butina was meeting with a diplomat from the Russian Embassy.

In another exhibit, handwritten notes describe a "Russian Patriots in Waiting organization": What's the green card process? How many Russian expatriates are in the U.

? How to respond to the "offer of employment" from the spy agency FSB, successor to the old KGB?.

Butina's work on building a network appears to have been interrupted at an early stage.

In fact, the government's attorneys said she appeared to be preparing to leave Washington — and potentially the country — when she was arrested July 15.

How many other operatives like her are in the U.S.? There has been a suggestion all along about "infiltration" of a number of American political organizations.

Butina has had a relatively high profile and been the subject of press reports for months, including by NPR's Tim Mak.

Are there other operatives like her who are still flying under the radar, and if so what are their assignments now?.

Did Butina do any spying?.

Technically, the Justice Department has charged Butina with conspiring to act as an agent of a foreign government and acting as the agent of a foreign government without prior notification to the U.S.

attorney general.

There don't appear to be any suggestions that she got access to any U.S.

government or other secrets in the way that past suspects have in espionage cases.

Her trial will likely be covered as a sensational spy case but, so far, it doesn't appear to involve any spying — though we don't know everything about what she was allegedly doing before her recent arrest.

The most famous antecedent of Butina's case didn't involve the theft of secrets either.

A Russian official is quoted in court documents comparing her to Anna Chapman, who belonged to the group of so-called illegals rolled up by the FBI in 2010.

But Chapman and the other operatives in that case, run by Russia's foreign intelligence service SVR, never actually got any secret information either, the FBI said.

Instead, they engaged in what the FBI called "spotting and assessing," looking for targets of opportunity or people who might have been sympathetic.

One goal was to "co-opt" them so they'd be useful if one day they took positions of power and influence.

Where might Butina have been engaged in this kind of reconnaissance work? Gun rights conventions, for one.

The National Prayer Breakfast, for another.

And among other venues, at South Carolina Republican Rep.

Mark Sanford's 2017 post-Thanksgiving barbecue, as CNN reported.

Counterintelligence investigators will be looking at all the contacts made in Butina's case to assess how much influence already has been wrought — if any — and how much of this was the planting of seed corn that Moscow expected to reap later on.

Rosenstein's warning.

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is usually one of the more measured, if not taciturn, actors in the Russia saga, but he blasted into the Aspen Security Forum this week like a helicopter gunship.

Rosenstein warned about the ongoing danger of malign foreign influence — significant after the week's back-and-forth involving Trump and Putin — and gave his audience a thumbnail history of active measures targeting the United States.

The Justice Department will do a better job of communicating about foreign interference, Rosenstein said, and he outlined the government's strategy behind using indictments like the one against the 12 Russian intelligence officers as its tool of choice in combating cyberattacks.

Sometimes, there actually are times when the U.S.

really can try defendants like those 12 Russians, Rosenstein said — people travel to cooperative countries and wind up in American custody after all.

If the knowledge they might be arrested restricts someone who has been indicted from traveling, that also at least imposes a cost on cyber-miscreants.

Indictments also reveal to the public and their targets how much the United States knows about what has taken place, give "vindication" to victims and support other punitive measures, Rosenstein said.

The Treasury Department can use the information included in an indictment to impose sanctions, he said.

Earlier this year, the U.S.

sanctioned the Russians associated with the 2016 social media agitation campaign after they had been charged by Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller.

Rosenstein may have had another audience in mind when he explained his strategy: his nemeses in the House Republican conference who have targeted him for possible contempt or even impeachment over their complaints that the Justice Department isn't giving them the information they want.