What's the Bone-Headest Thing You've Done Lately Towards Prepping?

[mollypup]

I thought I was going to do something quite wonderful for the family yesterday. I bought this humongous pork roast on sale a few day ago with canning it in mind. So I thawed it out and commenced to cutting it up in chunks to put into pint-size jars. I was merrily hacking away and my knife suddenly came to a grinding halt. I DIDN'T REALIZE THIS THING HAD A BIG BONE RUNNING RIGHT THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF IT!

I cut off as much meat as I could but I only ended up with 5 measly pints. I still have the big bone with meat that I couldn't cut off without running the risk of injury (I'm really paranoid of cutting myself) sitting in the fridge. I guess I'll boil it and make some soup. My lesson learned: Check the label and make sure there isn't a bone in it before buy!!!

(I've actually done a lot of stupid prepping mistakes but this was the most recent one lol!)

So......what's been yours? Remember we can learn from each other's mistakes!

[LUNCHBOX]

Molly, I don't know....I would've just grabbed a bag of beans and wanted til later. Canned a little for stock and probably canned some a different way later....haha. Seriously though, you took the time to cut it, can it and stick it, that's more than most.

I did pick up some steak to cut and make jerky to freeze. Yeah, I ate it.

[ladyhk13]

I thought I was going to do something quite wonderful for the family yesterday. I bought this humongous pork roast on sale a few day ago with canning it in mind. So I thawed it out and commenced to cutting it up in chunks to put into pint-size jars. I was merrily hacking away and my knife suddenly came to a grinding halt. I DIDN'T REALIZE THIS THING HAD A BIG BONE RUNNING RIGHT THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF IT!

I cut off as much meat as I could but I only ended up with 5 measly pints. I still have the big bone with meat that I couldn't cut off without running the risk of injury (I'm really paranoid of cutting myself) sitting in the fridge. I guess I'll boil it and make some soup. My lesson learned: Check the label and make sure there isn't a bone in it before buy!!!

(I've actually done a lot of stupid prepping mistakes but this was the most recent one lol!)

So......what's been yours? Remember we can learn from each other's mistakes!

Molly...isn't that dog of yours getting bigger???? I'm sure she would appreciate it!!!!!

[TEOTWAWKI13]

Biggest boneheaded thing? Where do I start?

I did however backdoor my wife into sorta prepping. I caught her watching the extreme couponing show on tv. Her sister is already quite good at it. So I challenged her into getting into it. She's not extreme yet, but we did buy $180 worth of stuff for $101 this week. She's only a SLIGHT bit OCD, so she'll be on it until she's buying $1000 worth of stuff for $30 and then I will have succeeded!!! Buahahahahahahaha! (evil laugh goes on until commercial starts)

[JustAPrepper]

I've got one...the brand new can of Powdered Sour Cream we bought in Salt Lake got dented in our suitcase on the way home so when I used it the other day I transferred it to jars and put them in the pantry but hadn't labeled them yet. A couple days later I pulled out a small package of Powdered Milk that had been vac sealed and Mylared to make something with. I used what I needed then headed straight to the pantry where I promptly grabbed an unmarked jar of some powdered stuff and proceeded to dump the milk in it. Two days later I was looking for the Sour Cream Powder and realized what I had done. I think I've made up about 100 new curse words since.

[Sniper-T]

k... now that^ just reminded me of something I did last year...

I had a bunch of store coupons to use, and bought 50# of white flour, 50# of bread maker flour, 50# of sugar, 25# of powdered milk and 25# of bisquick; when I got home I vacu-sealed everything into quart jars, and arranged them in a purposefull manner on the counter. I printed off a bunch of labels the next day at work, with the dates, contents, etc... only to get home and find that my DW put them all into boxes, and put them 'away'. It took longer than I'd like to remember to get everything sorted out, and I'm still not too sure about some of the flour.

Since then... I label everything as I'm doing it.

[ladyhk13]

I've got one...the brand new can of Powdered Sour Cream we bought in Salt Lake got dented in our suitcase on the way home so when I used it the other day I transferred it to jars and put them in the pantry but hadn't labeled them yet. A couple days later I pulled out a small package of Powdered Milk that had been vac sealed and Mylared to make something with. I used what I needed then headed straight to the pantry where I promptly grabbed an unmarked jar of some powdered stuff and proceeded to dump the milk in it. Two days later I was looking for the Sour Cream Powder and realized what I had done. I think I've made up about 100 new curse words since.

ok, so far you have won the prize!!!!! LOL!!! So, how did what you made come out?????

[JustAPrepper]

ok, so far you have won the prize!!!!! LOL!!! So, how did what you made come out?????

What I made came out fine since they hadn't been mixed yet. It's what I'll be making in the future that will be a surprise, lol!

[mollypup]

One of my other many "bone-head" prepping mistakes was when I drilled a hole in the bottom of a 5 gallon bucket to install a ceramic water filter. I failed to realize that the bucket had a inch-round depression which made it impossible to snuggly tighten the plastic nut to the water filter. It leaked like crazy! I had to start over with another bucket. I did however, go to the hardware store and buy some rubber stoppers to plug into that hole and any future holes I might carelessly make.

[ravensgrove]

I have a horrible one. Grab the kleenex people.

So, this summer I spent a couple thousand hard earned soap making dollars into putting in a new back pasture for the goats. All summer long they grazed happily amongst giant gorgeous mossy maples. The larger goats had eaten amongst these trees for 3 years with solar netting, and have always been plump, sassy and healthy.
This year, with the economy nose diving, we had retained a couple of junior kids which didn't sell to the 4H crowd, eventually we would have eaten them or sold them. After losing two of them to frothy bloat in two weeks time, I went to the vet and paid handsomely for a necropsy...blockage. Culprit: wet giant maple leaf stem. The young kids had eaten maple leaves just like the big goats, and the stems had wedged in their gut between the rumen and the stomach, causing frothy bloat which killed both within hours.
So...the most bone-headed thing I have done to prep lately has been putting in a wonderful pasture, which now will be reserved for summer use only...not realizing the implications of wet maple leaves on young goat kids. And that folks, is real farming...trial and error, happiness and belly laughter at the best of times, sad, sad days and long nights of holding dying critters at the worst of times. its also why I haven't been on here much in two weeks...between flooring and goat tragedy I have been swamped.