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Bread and milk are terrible blizzard rations - here's what you should actually buy
Business Insider ^ | 22 Jan, 2016 | Julia Calderone

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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TOPICS: Food; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: emergency; food; preppers; stormprepping
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To: stylecouncilor

ping


61 posted on 01/22/2016 7:04:44 PM PST by windcliff
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To: Paladin2

Now thet thar would be tellin’ and how’d ah know youse ain’t one o’ dem rev a noo ers?


62 posted on 01/22/2016 7:06:25 PM PST by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: Norm Lenhart

My first thought, too. When I was a kid, the back porch was our overflow freezer and the garage was our overflow refrigerator all winter.


63 posted on 01/22/2016 7:07:05 PM PST by generally
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To: generally

Same here. Seems obvious but today people can’t even see something that obvious.


64 posted on 01/22/2016 7:08:35 PM PST by Norm Lenhart (Existential Cage Theory - An idea whose time has come)
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To: PROCON
Well now that you mention it, I would add a few but dried do not keep well, except for a few varieties. Porcini, Boletus edulis, can be found in sliced strips and powdered. The strips, unless packaged properly, will become bug infested, and the powder will keep well and has problems of it own. Morels, Morchella species, have the same problems with bugs and the powdered is not a good choice, Chanterelles, Cantharellus cibarius and its allies are not good dried, hard as a rock and do not reconstitute well. Dried oyster mushrooms, Pleurotus ostreatus, are ok, but lack sufficient flavor for anything other than soups. Matsutake, Tricholoma magnavelare, dries well but loses flavor quickly and is almost worthless for anything. The one that dries well, reconstitutes well and does not have a bug problem is the horn of plenty, Craterellus cornucopioides, a nice touch for veal and good as a thickener. I could go on but I guess I have already bored you.....
65 posted on 01/22/2016 7:09:23 PM PST by Fungi
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To: BobL

I have a camping stove that runs on Coleman fuel. The wood burning will keep at least the living room warm even if it is -30F outside. I usually start the winter with 4-5 cords of wood so I could last until the next spring.


66 posted on 01/22/2016 7:10:16 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: Mollypitcher1
Right on pemmican and jerky too.

I read somewhere that the Himalayan Sherpas carry something similar to pemmican, but made with yak butter and bone marrow.

67 posted on 01/22/2016 7:10:20 PM PST by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: laplata

I always cook a country ham if a hurricane is bearing down. Will keep for many days without refrigeration and there are always panicked yankees needing a little help. Ham and eggs seems to calm them down.


68 posted on 01/22/2016 7:11:37 PM PST by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: All

Had 29 inches of snow on March 13, 1992 in East Tennessee...A great many people lost power for up to two weeks...

A guy I worked with lost power for 4 days and said at work that he lost about 100 lbs of meat that was in his freezer...
I asked him why he didn’t just stick it out in the snow...

He got the strangest look on his face and just turned and walked off....*ROFL*


69 posted on 01/22/2016 7:13:23 PM PST by Boonie ("Nuke 'em all...Let Allah sort 'em out...)
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To: MtnClimber

If you have kids, you need bread and milk. And this is a blizzard, not a nuclear attack; a few days is all you need it to last. And if power goes out, leave it in the snow.


70 posted on 01/22/2016 7:14:11 PM PST by dangus
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To: MtnClimber

I got caught in a snowstorm in Colorado, just north of Denver one year. Snow just got too deep to move.
There must have been 8 or 10 of us truck drivers and a couple of cars stuck on the side of the road.

On the second day some locals on snowmobiles came by offering sandwiches and water.
I told’em not to bother, I was cooking a steak for my lunch.
My truck was equipped with a generator and I had a refrigerator full of food and a microwave, hotplate and crock pot, all the beverages I needed and plenty of movies to watch.
Most of the other trucks were company trucks and didn’t have a generator.

I really felt sorry for the poor people in the cars.


71 posted on 01/22/2016 7:14:19 PM PST by oldvirginian (American by birth, Southern by the grace of God and Virginian because Jesus loves me. CRUZ 2016!)
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To: BenLurkin

I never had anything go bad. The cream would freeze at the top of the milk. Ummmmm ummmmm good!


72 posted on 01/22/2016 7:14:38 PM PST by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: Norm Lenhart

LOL. Last time we lost power in a snow storm I put our food outside until power was restored.


73 posted on 01/22/2016 7:15:45 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s, you weren't really there....)
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To: MtnClimber

BEER

And yes, what a typical left wing twit moron that is using the “crises” to peddle liberal crap.

Bread and milk, with egg, make french toast. Yummie.

And even the idea of attacking a CATCH PHRASE that is more a traditional joke than reality shows how truly sick these f-wads are.

Things that don’t need refrigeration! LOL


74 posted on 01/22/2016 7:19:02 PM PST by Fledermaus (To hell with the Republican Party. I'm done with them. If I want a Lib Dem I'd vote for one.)
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To: COBOL2Java

Don’t forget the Viena Sausages.


75 posted on 01/22/2016 7:19:37 PM PST by AFreeBird
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To: MtnClimber

So many posts about refrigeration and it being cold outside.

Because no one, especially in the highly populated areas of the East Coast, lives in apartments/condos/etc without a garage or secure space outside to put food.


76 posted on 01/22/2016 7:20:38 PM PST by Darth Reardon (During the Great Depression, World War I was referred to as the Great War)
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To: Darth Reardon

Buy lots of canned chili. It will give some incentive to go out and shovel snow.


77 posted on 01/22/2016 7:22:46 PM PST by oldasrocks (They should lock all of you up and only let out us properly medicated people.)
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To: Darth Reardon

Do high-rise apartment windows even open nowadays so they could hang food out in a bag?


78 posted on 01/22/2016 7:23:11 PM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: Norm Lenhart

I’m afraid you’re right.


79 posted on 01/22/2016 7:23:31 PM PST by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

In TX, I read that (according to Walmart, IIRC) Pop Tarts were the most popular item to have on hand amongst people readying for a hurricane.


80 posted on 01/22/2016 7:24:30 PM PST by sockmonkey (Donald Trump will ban auto-correct with an Executive Order. Go Trump!)
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