Socal and BP, we use chicken stock when cooking several things. Songbird buys Swansons in the boxes usually 5 to 10 at the time when she finds it on sale and it will last a year or more. She puts fresh spinach in a pan and then pours the chicken stock in and cooks it down and man it is so tasty! She also use it in her homemade mashed potatoes instead of the milk and it too is the best!! We use it in rice, greens beans, squash, dry beans, broccoli and the list goes on.

BP, I built a cheap system for filtering water (actually two systems). Now we do have a Big Berkey that we use everyday, but for backup I bought the ceramic filters from Cheaper Than Dirt (I think, it's been awhile ago) and made two systems that are identical so it took four 5 gal buckets. We also have tablets, and other smaller systems in our GHBs and BOBs.