Supplies What we bring in Part 3

Now there are things we can do without but why.  
Ketchup
Peanut Butter
Parmesan cheese
Chicken and Ribs Sauce
Mayonnaise
Frank's Red Hot Chile and Lime Hot Sauce
Dill Pickles
Green Olives
Bread and Butter Pickles
Soya Sauce
Vinegar 
Mustard
Horseradish 

DRIED BEANS
White Beans, Kidney Beans, Pinto Beans, Dried Peas, etc etc. what ever you like
SEEDS FOR SPROUTING
Alfalfa, clover, lettuce, fennugreek, mung, broccoli, 

SPICES IN LARGE CONTAINERS
Basil, Oregano, Mustard

 THINGS YOU CAN"T DO WITHOUT Plus
SUNDRIES....   
Coffee, Tea, Green Tea.
Palmolive Dish Soap  Bulk
Hand Soap.  Bryan like Irish Spring  Vikki Goat milk
Bon ami Power Foam Glass Cleaner for windows.  The absolute best. Made in Ontario. 
Vim Cream with Bleach
Tide Cold Water
Hair shampoo
Alcan Slide Tinfoil 
Toilet paper
Paper towels
Paper plates for up in the Line cabins (Bryan hates doing dishes and is too tired)
First aid stuff and Vitamins and anti inflammation drugs

PET FOOD
Dog food (Vikki can's lots of Moose meat that we don't like)
Cat food
Wild bird food ( Good quality)  watch were it comes from.  buy US or Canada
Chicken feed.  Laying mesh, grain. 

Supplies..... Part 2 Baking goods

We try to pick these up at Real Canadian Superstore when they come on sale.
 LARGE 2 KG BAGS OF DRIED
Walnuts, Pecans, Whole Almonds, Sliced Almonds, Raisins, Coconut, dried Dates.
Cranberries, Blueberries.
 CANNED BAKING GOODS
Canned Pumpkin
Canned Evaporated Milk
Canned Orange wedges
Corn Syrup
Honey
Butter and Margarine
 BOXES 
Graham Cracker crumbs
Baking Soda
Baking Powder
Corn starch
Salt
Pickling Salt
Egg Replacer
Yeast
Chocolate Squares  Semi Sweet and Non
Pudding Mixes variety
Cornmeal
Dream Whip
Icing Sugar
Brown Sugar

HUGE BAGS
Powdered Milk
White Flour
White Sugar 
SPICES..... Cinnamon, Nutmeg, Cloves, Ginger 
OILS
Vegetable Oil  huge containers
Olive Oil biggest containers you can find.  Virgin Cold Pressed
Crisco Vegetable shortening

Supplies for the Winter... Where do we get them and what we take in. Part 1

We fly in bulk quantities of Whole Grains, Lentils etc.  This link is to Anitas Organics down near Vancouver, BC.  They mail the boxes right up to the small Post Office in Atlin.  
We get their Red Wheat, Millet, Brown Rice, Steel cut Oats, 8 grain cereal, Flax seed, etc. etc.  The products come in heavy double brown bags.  
www.anitasorganic.com/products/organic-whole-grains/index.php 
We don't have a Costco in Whitehorse so it is Real Canadian Superstore.  We go and buy the case lot boxes of
Canned Mushroom Soup.
Canned Tomato Soup.
Canned Chicken and Noodle soup.
Canned  Heinz Deep-Browned Beans
Canned Whole Tomatoes
Canned Tomato Paste
Canned Cream Corn and also Niblets
Canned Green Beans
Canned Peas
Canned Mushrooms
Canned Black Olives 
Canned Ham
Canned Spam
FOR CHINESE FOOD
Canned Bean sprouts, baby corn, pineapple, waterchestnuts, Natural Sesame seeds, Noodles,
FOR PIZZA
Pineapple, canned ham, Tomato Paste, Canned Mushrooms, Canned Black Olives, Cheese.
FOR JAPANESE FOOD
Dry Wasabi, Pickled Ginger, Rice Paper 
FOR VIKKI's LUNCH BOX  
Brunswick Seafood Snacks  In Lemon and cracked pepper
FOR BRYAN'S LUNCH BOX
Canned Heinz Deep-Browned Beans.
FOR BEE the cat
2 Flats of Cat food for getting her to come back to the carrying cage when up at the Line Cabins.

Canned Butter, Canned Bacon and Canned Cheese

 Our friend Gary found these for us in Alaska and sent them out with the last flight in here.  We haven't tried them yet but will.  
The Butter and cheese would be great in the months when we don't have the freezer running.  
Now the bacon.... when the Bear are awake we don't cook Bacon...  If any thing is a calling card, that is.  Any one out in the bush should not take Bacon with them.  You are just asking for trouble.

Supplies For 6 Months... you try it!!!!

When you know you have to bring in 6 months supplies for 2 people, 2 dogs, a cat and 2 chickens... it takes a bit of planning.  One lady said to Vikki "It's hard enough to go off for a two week camping trip... 10 months... forget it".
A lot of prep work was done before flying out here in Sept.
Next year we will get a electric cook stove for our place in Atlin but we are making do with a old hotplate right now.  At left are meatballs being cooked so that Vikki can add gravy and can. 

 Fresh fresh is put in small bags and froze.

Bacon is cut into manageable pieces and wrapped separate and froze.

 A big package of chicken thighs is precooked and canned.

Large blocks of cheddar and mozzarella cheese are cut into smaller pieces ... put in freezer bags and froze.

 Vikki also has to can meat for the month of Sept. because we had to go Moose hunting.

 Vikki ordered 2 big boxes of pork sausages and canned them up.  You don't fry them.. you boil them.  Scim off the floating fat and discard.  After sausages are poked into the jar you add the hot broth they cooked in and can them.

We've got a 1999 Silverado Truck for getting supplies from Whitehorse, Yukon to Atlin, BC which is 200 km away.  That truck gets filled up three times....  and I mean packed.  
The first year we came out here for the trapping season we were new to all this.  By Jan. Vikki realized the toilet paper was not going to last.  Every time she took some she put 2/3rd of it back on the roll.  Even then our Trapper friend south of here had to drop some off in March on his way by.  One year we ran out of toothpaste and cornstarch.  Everything is used in moderation.
This year Vikki didn't bring in enough Coffeematte.  We still have 4 Large Containers but that will only last until the end of January.   
Anyway..... back to getting supplies.  All the frozen stuff is divided and put into small cardboard boxes and put in the deep freeze in Atlin.  It could not come out with us in Sept. because we were going Moose hunting and the little freezers we have out on the trap line were not plugged in.  Also the Moose goes in there.  So in mid October just before our pilot friend takes off his floats for the season he flies one more load in here with the freezer supplies and rest of the load.  By then the Moose we had shot was wrapped and frozen.  We only have to run the Honda generator til the lake starts to freeze in early November.