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Cooking & Baking

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1. Get two of those LED-bulbed headlamp lights for each person in your house

Wed Jan 30, 2013, 10:23 PM

Jan 2013

For food . . . . your list was pretty good. If you lose power, you also lose refrigeration. Not so bad in winter. A wipeout in summer.

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Basics to have on hand during power outages. [View all] japple Jan 2013 OP

Get two of those LED-bulbed headlamp lights for each person in your house Stinky The Clown Jan 2013 #1

Those things are great! We used them while cleaning dog/cat crates japple Jan 2013 #7

I have city gas, so that's not a huge problem Warpy Jan 2013 #2

When I was a kid, and our power got knocked out by a hurricane, Lisa0825 Jan 2013 #4

B&M baked beans. RILib Feb 2013 #8

Apples and peanut butter Freddie Jan 2013 #5

We have a generator so outages aren't a big problem here. Lugnut Jan 2013 #6

the big problem is lack of heat RILib Feb 2013 #9