Posted on 09/16/2022 11:35:00 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
“Uncle Remus, who said to Uncle Ben, ‘You’re a credit to your rice’. Never got a dinner!” - Red Buttons
Of course the world stage is being set....for food shortages in general. They didn’t kill enough people with covid; or the shots, so now they’re going to starve people to death.
It’s not a surprise. It was predicted by the son of the King of the universe, 2000 years ago.
Let them eat uruchimai!
Food and control of same is the preferred weapon of choice among dictators of large or small scale.
“ Among all rice varieties, wholegrain Basmati rice has the lowest GI (glycaemic index), which indicates that once digested, it releases its energy slowly, helping to maintain more stable blood sugar levels. Maintaining stable blood sugar levels is a critical component of diabetes control.”
Excellent choice FRister
Thanks. I’ll probably check the nearby Asian grocery first (Super H-Mart; great place!).
They’ve typically got the really big bags, though the Asians are pretty on top of prepping, as a group. They cleaned that place out early in Covid, for example.
Six months ago I bought four 25 pound sacks of long grain and basmati. I have enough for five years. Beans too. I emptied them into five gallon buckets with seal lids, purged them with nitrogen flush, and closed tight. The zero oxygen prevents any grain moth eggs from developing and protects freshness. It’s important to pump the nitrogen down into the grains to push out any oxygen or carbon dioxide.
A hungry and impoverished people are much easier to subjugate.
I cook a lot at a time...put in freezer bags and lay flat in the freezer.
I wound up with 20 bags 6 months ago...and they're still not gone. LOL
HAH! Tell that to my 88 lb. Filipina wife.
20 lbs is about 2 weeks worth for my family. We usually have rice breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
The fish are almost irrelevant, given current trends. Pretty soon there won’t be enough water for CA even if you leave the fish with sun-baked river bottoms.
Without massive guaranteed supply and storage, growing water intensive crops in an intermittent desert is insane.
After years of being a prepper, I have decided that rice is the best of it all.
Imagine all of the starvation situations, you will always be scraping together some food of some sort (or die quickly), various canned goods you have around, or hit-and-miss foods that reach the supermarkets, or government centers in case of a true disaster, or foraging in a movie type apocalypse.
Now imagine that no matter what happened, or what the situation, you were guaranteed 1000 calories a day of rice, that would mean you are going to live that day and have some energy that day, suddenly you have a foot up on the struggle to survive, whatever you find, or receive, or forage for, or anything that you can get into your mouth isn’t the only thing you get that day, instead, it is adding to a base of 1,000 calories.
With a base, then a tiny bird, or a can of something, or some berries, or some cactus, or foraged greens, or some dry beans, boiled wheat berries, or apples, or a scraggly little fish, actually mean something, not to mention how wonderful the rice would be at giving you a hot meal and a temporarily filled feeling on days of nothing else.
I know the shortcomings of rice alone, but as a cheap, long shelf life foundation for a time of hunger, it is unbeatable.
In a dire situation, the longer someone can stay alive, the more likely one is to see the end of the crisis.
I agree. I consider rice the best food prep value in the world.
I think you mean Arkansas. Then California, Louisiana, Missouri, Texas, and Mississippi. At least that is what Mr. Internet says.
“”I’ll probably check the nearby Asian grocery first””
Oh yeah, I forgot about them since I left San Diego, where I am now I only think in terms of Walmart and Albertsons.
I live in Arkansas and our state produces half of the US rice production. My guess is our production will be much lower this year because of months of drought.
People are more used to rice for prepping, but overlook oatmeal.
Oatmeal is pretty nutritious and better in the fiber department.
Yes. Oats are great.
Spell checker. Yes, it is Arkansas not Alabama.
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