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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My choices, Peanut butter, sardines, salmon, fava beans, kidney beans, black beans, pinto beans, dried jerky, honey, and pickles.
you have covered that will go on Toast ,LOL
” The trick is to buy foods that don’t won’t expire quickly or need to be refrigerated. “
Inform the idiots that winter is a refrigerator.
I don’t live where it snows but I keep about 20 2 liter bottles of water in the bottom of my freezer. If the power goes out it will stay cold for days, and I have emergency water on hand. I can also move a few into the fridge to keep that stuff cold.
Bought a couple cans of Spam today. Underwood Deviled Ham, too. Yum!
Honey will last for years. If it turns sugary, just heat in hot water and it will go back to normal. I can cook on top of my wood burning stove so a water filter and dried beans, pasta, rice also work well. I can melt snow for water or hike down to a stream with a water bladder and backpack.
Yeah but he forgot cheddar cheese and apples. It takes ten pounds of milk to make one pound of cheese. Cheese lasts a long time without refrigeration and apples are nourishing as well as thirst quenchers. A chunk of Cheese and an apple or two my standard casse-croute when hunting. Always make sure to have them in the house during hurricane season.
Uh, refigeration is not a problem in a snowstorm.
Get yourselves a couple dozen eggs. Some sliced cheese.
Some real organic butter. Preserves, local honey, jelly.
Gotta have a loaf of whole grain bread for toast to go
with the eggs. Canned soups. Canned chili with no beans;
add a can of your own pinto beans. Whole wheat crackers.
Lunch meats & mayonnaise. Milk. Box of oats. Pre-washed
salad greens. Green onions and green peppers. Favorite
salad dressings. Breyer’s ice cream. Windmill cookies to
eat with it. Whole pecans and crack ‘em. A chicken to
roast whole. Canned English peas. Bag of Irish potatoes.
Bacon. Sausage. Big steak to share. :o)
Used a window sill as my refrigerator when I was a Cornell.
As a mini-prepper, I came out on top with this list.
Uh, refrigeration is not a problem in a snowstorm.
Water
Something to drink--AKA liquid patience/pacifier...
Ahhhh. Much better.
Well, hey, it worked for the Blizzard of 1978!
What did you use for a still?
Did that one winter.
Without refrigeration? In a blizzard? Ugh. She’s going to be really pissed when she can’t figure out how to get her ‘Bux while snowed in.
†The trick is to buy foods that don’t won’t expire quickly or need to be refrigerated. “
Inform the idiots that winter is a refrigerator.
And summer is an oven. What he said applies to all seasons.
I sometimes buy non-refrigerated milk at the dollar store. They pasteurize it for a few seconds then “can” it in quart size juice boxes. It tastes just like regular refrigerated milk and lasts a year or more. Nice stuff to have on hand.
At least he knew that bread and milk wasn’t what you need in that situation.
If there was a collapse and the ebt cards don’t get loaded, a gun would be all that stands between you and those trying to take your food.
Awful thought.
We have been snowed in for 7 days. With 5 feet of snow I gad to use snow shoes to go out to the wood shed and had to dig out with a snow shovel to get down to the wood shed doors.
LOL We almost never get snow & I knew that. When snow is forecast, potato soup & lots of it. You can heat it with Sterno or in a fireplace without fear of any resins going up the chimney. Put perishables in the snow, but keep an eye on them so they don’t freeze or get too warm.
Hot stuff- picante, bean dip, peppers.
peanut butter crackers- all kinds, should worse come to worse. And crackers. And cheese. (watch the cookies & crackers, Nabisco is now made in Mexico)
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