[Lurker]

A bag of chips won’t last you too long, but a few canned goods, flour, sugar, & beans could get you through a week.

A fifty pound bag of high protein bread flour is $24.99 at Costco. Those five gallon food grade plastic buckets are free if you know where to ask for them.

If you plan it right you can have 6 months put back in pretty short order.

[elk]

Yes, think about it for a minute:

10 oz. bag of chips: $3.29.

1 lb. (16 oz.) lentils $.79 (if you do a little searching; otherwise you pay $1.69/lb. like the rest of the yuppies do).

To the supposed 47% of the country that still approves of Obambi - nevermind.

[Eska]

Living in rural Alaska, we have had a 3 year supply of food as long as I can remember. Our road closes every Oct and don't open until April; being 600 miles from nearest Costco, food prices quadruple at local pop store.

Flour, cereal, meal will all go wormy come spring when it warms up. We go thru 500 lbs flour /year. I store 50 lb bags outside in shed in ice chests (stays below zero 4-6 months) then around march i put the bags in outside freezer as they are half empty by then anyway. Something about the warm up in spring that sets the eggs in all flour to hatch. I lost 150 lbs of flour several years back when I didn't do this.

WE put in 300 lb yukon golds every May (always get 2500 lbs which we spread around the community)and usually plant 2 lb of carrot seed (pellet seed). Wifey usually freezes 75 gallon bags of carrots; great with moose, caribou stew all winter. Bottomline, nothing like new taters.