[Ellendra]

It doesn’t necessarily have to be rice. Dehydrated potatoes work too, as does pasta, oatmeal, or other grains.

Personally, I have found that if I eat rice, I stay hungry. Hunger messes with your mind after a while, so my stockpiles tend to go heavy on pasta and potato flakes, with only a little bit of rice. If your hunger is satisfied eating rice, then rice is good.

Potatoes are also easier to grow than rice, at least in my area. My potato patch this year is going to be around 800sqft. If I had a marshy area on my property, I’d probably try to get wild rice established there.

[blam]

Everywhere in the world has a 'beans & rice' recipe. There's a reason. You can get all the nutrients the body needs from beans except niacin. Rice is loaded with niacin...also arsenic.(Gulp).

The FDA tested rice samples from all the rice growing region in China. They all exceeded the USA standards for allowable arsenic levels.

Stay away from food from China is my recommendation.

They also put melamine in their baby formula. Chinese living all over the world routinely ship baby food to China. The UK passed laws to put some limit on this practice a few years ago.

[Prince of Space]

Thanks for the tips about rice. I was a serious prepper for Y2k. For example, we didn’t have to buy toilet paper for a year in a family of 5. I got a lot of teasing about my level of dedication from my family, but I think it’s just in my nature to “stock up,” as I call it now.

I’m woefully unprepared for what’s coming, I’m afraid, even tho I have much more than my adult children as far as extra food, ammo, etc. I’m slowly trying to rectify that, in the hope that it’s all for naught.

[cherry]

re your garden.....it is still way too cold where I'm at to really start planting although I do have red onions, walla walla's, some loose leaf lettuce, radishes, and some potatoes in, but not nearly as many as you and in the past I've had very little luck with them.....also, I have garlic doing well....

I bought a lot of dehydrated potatoes about a year ago when they were a buck a piece...now, they're closer to two bucks...

I could give up pasta and rice, but potatoes are my go to fill up food any day of the week.