Bread and milk are terrible blizzard rations - here's what you should actually buy

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.

I had a long argument with my best friend the other day. She insisted I should think about moving into a condominium where it would be “much easier living and safer for me-—at my age.” I told her it would be a cold day in hell I ever lived in a stack and pack chicken coop where the neighbors could set the norms for the way I lived with their often ridiculous rules and regulations and I preferred to walk around in my yard barefoot, pulling weeds, than spend my leisure hours sitting on concrete patios and sunning on the pool deck, playing cards, or worrying about what I was going to wear to so-and-so’s luncheon. I can pick up my rod and in a few minutes be on the beach surf fishing and not worry if I track sand into the house. So she took off on a rant about it just wasn’t “safe” anymore for an old widder-woman to live alone. I love her dearly as she has always been a wonderful friend for over 50 years, but sometimes enough is enough. She is a city girl and I have always thought of myself as a country girl. Enormous difference in philosophy of life! Whatever FREEDOM is left in life is not going to be found in a city or in a stack and pack! I’d rather be FREE than “SAFE.”

I made a pot of bean soup yesterday with the bones and broth from cooking a country ham. Had it for dinner and froze the rest in individual servings. I do the same with beef vegetable soup and real French Onion Soup. I love soups and nothing on the market can match the real thing, tastewise or nourishment wise. I also make my own biscuits. Can’t stand the prepared food ...processed food...or whatever it’s called. AnD when it’s cold or rainy, nothing like smelling the soup cooking. I’ll always remember coming in from a hunt with dad and smelling mother’s vegetable soup as we came up the stairs half frozen from a day of duck hunting on the bay. Even mention it in one of my books.

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