Posted on 01/22/2016 6:26:13 PM PST by MtnClimber
Winter storm Jonas is brewing on the East Coast and is projected to start dumping snow and freezing rain on Friday night. So you should run to the store and buy bread and milk, right? Wrong. Bread and milk expire pretty quickly and require refrigeration. They're also pretty light on the nutrients and won't keep you satiated and supplemented as you ride out the weather. The trick is to buy foods that don't won't expire quickly or need to be refrigerated. They should be easy to prepare, easy to eat, high in protein, and provide enough variety to keep you full and happy for days. Here are 13 better items for your grocery-store run.
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So in a blizzard, this guy is worried about refrigeration.
Must be a city boy.
We have been stuck due to 5 ft of wet snow and normal snow plows could not get through. Like the article says, canned food is great. Soup, vegetables, tuna, salmon.
Oops...This Woman.
Um it is winter time. Why are we worrying about refrigeration?
SPAM!
I was thinking the same. Just open the door and stick it outside.
That is if you can get your door open.
Even Tiny Tim survived snow growing up
Whiskey is good.
LOL!
Here is a completely different set of storm prep tips from Sgt. Tom Cotton of the Bangor, Maine Police Dept. (Some of you Facebook peeps may have already seen these.) I especially liked #4. Enjoy!
~~~~ Dear Mid-Atlantic of these United States of America,
I think we all knew it could happen. Every year when you pack up your well tanned family and head back home from our tiny piece of paradise, you look back and see us raking up our leaves and putting our snow shovels by the door. You always sigh, knowing that we will be dealing with winter in a far different way than you will.
With lobster traps on your roof and pine cones in your carry ons, you think of us with with warm memories of fantastic sunsets, thick accents and great clam chowder. You talk to the family about coming back next year and enjoying all that Maine has to offer. Down deep, you feel sorry for us. You know that we will be moving snowbanks, raking our roof, smashing ice dams off the shingles and stoking the wood stove with the dollar bills that you left behind.
Listen, this storm is going to miss us. This is not typical and we want to share a little advice of how to make it through an epic "snow event" unscathed. We want you to come back next year. Here are a few tips.
1. Don't panic. It's just frozen rain. It does go away so don't try to move too much at one time.
2. Don't shovel too early and don't wait too long. Pace yourself. Go out every few hours and move a little at a time. It can hurt your back, arms and legs. You always wonder why we all walk funny. It is not because of the clam chowder.
3. Heart attacks in big snow storms are rather common. Help out your neighbor who is older, out of shape or that has known health problems. Helping them move some snow (better yet, let your offspring do it) is better than calling EMS while you are doing CPR. Seriously.
4. DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT buy all the bread on the shelves. As a lifelong Mainer, I recommend cereal. No better reason has ever been invented to eat Golden Crisp, Honeycomb or Captain Crunch (don't get the peanut butter flavored. That stuff sucks). You will need milk and of course a bowl and spoon. You probably already have that in the house. I have lived for several weeks on only Rice Crispies and Snickers.
5. Get some batteries and flashlights that work. Nothing is worse than going through the junk drawer and finding only 1 D battery when you need two. LED flashlights are awesome, cheap and last and last. You might need one to find the cereal.
6. Charge your Cellphone. If you have a generator, you need gas. You look stupid trying to start a generator with no gas in it. Don't ask me how I know. Do not run the generator inside a basement or garage. Yes, people do that. Usually only one time.
7. Toilets flush without electricity. If you fill your tub with water, you can use it for all kinds of things, including flushing the toilet. Also, to wash cereal bowls.
8. Fill your car up with gas. If you get stuck somewhere and have to run the car, make sure you clean out around the tail pipe and do not fall asleep with the car running. We need you to come back next summer to buy more lobster and lobster traps. Pine cones are free.
Most of all, take care of each other. Be nice and invite neighbors to hole up at one location. Hide expensive things, but help them. (that's the cop talking).
You will be fine. We drink lots of coffee and complain when we get hit like this storm. It works ok. It makes us grouchy but that's why you come here in the summer. To hear stories from grumpy Mainers who sell lobster traps. Now, you will have some of your own to share with us when you get back.
Be safe and well and if you have any Cap'n Crunch left after the storm (it keeps very well), bring it up this summer.
The men and women of the Bangor Police Department are rooting for you. You got this. We will be here!
Pop Tarts.
So in a blizzard, this guy is worried about refrigeration.
Must be a city boy.
He is telling the city boys what to be worried about. That is the purpose of the article....to inform the idiots.
What, no pemmican?
Indeed. The garage floors keeps the beer cold, and the back deck keeps the pizza frozen.
No electricity? The gas grill can fire the pizza.
My choices, Peanut butter, sardines, salmon, fava beans, kidney beans, black beans, pinto beans, dried jerky, honey, and pickles.
Why is everyone panicing? In all likelihood you’d be “snowed in” for, what, two days...?
Liquor and tobacco first.
Actually longevity isn’t that important for foods. Splurge on something good that can be prepared without power.
So: liquor, cigarettes and ice cream, candy, cake...
Sometimes city people amaze me. I can’t wait to see the sheer joy of a collapse with ‘educated’ people like this making up the population.
We’ll be extinct in a week when they can’t text for pizza.
Pop Tarts.
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