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Costco Will Sell You an Apocalyptic Year's Worth of Disgusting Food for $800
Gizmodo ^ | 10/7/2010

Posted on 10/07/2010 7:32:13 AM PDT by FromLori

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To: ozarkgirl
I keep a couple decks of cards. Can you imagine how boring life will be without tv or computer, etc.

Some balls, bats, board games, books, and "how to" projects work too ... Like 'how to' spot edible food in the natural environment, 'how to' purify water... etc...

81 posted on 10/07/2010 8:45:21 AM PDT by GOPJ (Liberal violence against Tea Party: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFeUhSlHiUQ)
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To: FromLori

Forgot to mention that you should consider buying dried beans (pinto, black & white), rice, pasta, sugar honey, oatmeal & other heavy items at your local Sam’s Club in bulk. Shipping on these items is expensive and you can re-package these items into mason jars or Food Saver bags and draw a vacuum on them for a lot less than you can buy them in a freeze dried state. I prepared some in 1998 for Y2k using oxygen absorbers and using this method and am still preparing and eating these. A little chicken broth and some Rotel tomatoes and green chilies along with some cornbread and it is as good as the same thing you purchase and prepare that day.


82 posted on 10/07/2010 8:47:37 AM PDT by texgal (end no-fault divorce laws return DUE PROCESS & EQUAL PROTECTION to ALL citizens))
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To: TheWriterTX

Good ideas!


83 posted on 10/07/2010 8:49:11 AM PDT by philled (Lay on, Macduff! And damned be him that first cries “Hold, enough!”)
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To: ASOC

Thanks.

I definitely stock a variety with lots of canned meats, low sodium soups, and other fairly low sodium options since one of my clan has hypertension. Still trying to figure out how to stockpile medications....


84 posted on 10/07/2010 8:50:59 AM PDT by FourPeas (Pester not the geek, for the electrons are his friends.)
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To: Lurker
Tulip Mania

I heard a story years back about a man who stole a single bulb for food, and was executed for the theft.

Read what a single Viceroy-variety bulb would have been worth.

85 posted on 10/07/2010 8:51:01 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (Liberalism can be summed up thusly: someone craps their pants and we all have to wear diapers)
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To: pennboricua

Hunger is the best sauce.

Besides, food storage such as this is more supplemental than all encompassing, add meat (fish, deer, rabbit) and herbs (taragon, basil, oregano).

Real trick is having recipes ready that will cook the food in the opened cans without wasting any of it.


86 posted on 10/07/2010 8:51:27 AM PDT by padre35 (You shall not ignore the laws of God, the Market, the Jungle, and Reciprocity Rm10.10)
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To: BigMacGOP

Heck yeah!
It’s got “smoke flavor added”!!!


87 posted on 10/07/2010 8:51:48 AM PDT by moehoward
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To: FromLori

Bump!


88 posted on 10/07/2010 8:52:29 AM PDT by Mr. Silverback (Anyone who says we need illegals to do the jobs Americans won't do has never watched "Dirty Jobs.")
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To: GOPJ; ozarkgirl

I have a deck of playing cards that sport pictures of edible plants, so it does double duty. ;)


89 posted on 10/07/2010 8:52:47 AM PDT by FourPeas (Pester not the geek, for the electrons are his friends.)
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To: TheWriterTX

A couple things I learned from a tv show that I thought were interesting.

If you don’t have water, don’t eat. You will get dehydrated faster by eating - you can live much longer without food than water.

If homes around you are being looted, take clothes and stuff and throw it in your front yard, looters will think your house has already been raided and all the valuables taken.


90 posted on 10/07/2010 8:54:03 AM PDT by ozarkgirl
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To: texgal

Thank you so much for all the tips I have bookmarked this thread and plan to use them.


91 posted on 10/07/2010 8:56:28 AM PDT by FromLori (FromLori)
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To: I still care

Preparation is never a bad idea.


92 posted on 10/07/2010 8:56:39 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: FourPeas

Cool - do you remember where you got them? Would love to see a State by State version of that... In Florida we could also have the ‘spades’ section be toxic plants ( what NOT to eat) - we have a lot of those...


93 posted on 10/07/2010 8:56:43 AM PDT by GOPJ (Liberal violence against Tea Party: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFeUhSlHiUQ)
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To: FromLori

Most soups have a “best if used by” date that is more for the sake of the company’s bottom line, rather than for the sake of food quality or safety. Those dates have been slowly changing as the economy worsens, because they know most people will throw out perfectly good food if it’s past that date.

As long as the seal is intact, that soup will still be edible 20 years from now.


94 posted on 10/07/2010 8:59:50 AM PDT by Ellendra (I'll believe it's a crisis when the people who say it's a crisis, ACT like it's a crisis!)
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To: FromLori

I have been thinking I need to go to Costco now that I have a membership and look at their dehydrated food items. When you’re hungry, if something’s edible you’ll eat it and be grateful. We’ve been stocking up on canned items that are good till 2013. I just bought my WaterBob. I have oil lamps. I can only do so much, but I figure a bit is better than nothing.


95 posted on 10/07/2010 9:00:47 AM PDT by mancini
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To: I still care

I visit a site called Homesteading Today www.homesteadingtoday.com. They have a great survival and emergency preparedness forum with great tips on stocking up.


96 posted on 10/07/2010 9:03:05 AM PDT by passionfruit (When illegals become legal, even they won't do the work Americans won't do)
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To: All

There is a show on Outdoor Channel called Best Defense: Survival. They have a lot of good advice, I recommend it for people that are concerned about the SHTF scenarios.
They broke it down into a few situations but they recommended that you store enough food/water for a 90 day situation, because somewhere between 7 to 90 days is the most likely scenario.


97 posted on 10/07/2010 9:03:40 AM PDT by newnhdad (The longest of journeys begins with one step.)
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To: Vigilanteman

I buy a few cans of soup or stew every time I grocery shop (I don’t normally eat them), and I have what I estimate to be several months worth in an emergency situation. I believe that cans kept in a climate controlled area (my house) will last pretty much forever. Does anybody disagree with this?


98 posted on 10/07/2010 9:05:35 AM PDT by suthener
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To: FromLori
"Soup doesn’t have that long of a shelf life though."

It will if you eat a lot of it (or whatever) anyway and rotate it.

99 posted on 10/07/2010 9:05:50 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
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To: bigbob
My concern about an EMP attack is how would we get the power grid back up without electricity. Do we have a coal burning power plant NOT run by computers that could be the 'match' to get the system back up and running?
100 posted on 10/07/2010 9:09:39 AM PDT by GOPJ (Liberal violence against Tea Party: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFeUhSlHiUQ)
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