If it turns out to be a zombie apocalypse, I'm breaking out the zombie jerky. Otherwise, I'll stick to Soylent Green with a beer chaser!
If it turns out to be a zombie apocalypse, I'm breaking out the zombie jerky. Otherwise, I'll stick to Soylent Green with a beer chaser!
My husband probably could. During Katrina, he ate MREs and he loves them. He still eats one every now and then from the supply he has left from the storm.
Water is the problem. I’m on a well that is deeper than hand powered pumps can manage. Insufficient rain and creeks.
I’m stocking soups and the like that need no water. There’s a weight penalty, but all these things involve tradeoffs.
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Interesting...thanks.
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For some people, getting water is not a problem.
Anybody who lives anywheres near a small body of water could probably supplement their diet quite well on small fish and various crustaceans. The only advantage I can see to freeze-dried is the shelf life, but in fact canned goods can last just as long, if not longer.
I’d rather have it and not need it, then need it and not have it. But thanks for coming by.
“Water can be boiled or stored in advance, while bleach and iodine are useful in killing pathogens like Giardia lamblia in fresh water. But that’s a lot of work to decontaminate your water...”
Why is this a lot of work? Seems pretty easy and cheap too. Why don’t more people store water this way, instead of buying it? Honest question...
SOYLENT GREEN “Now with more GIRLS!”.. Hilarious!
Freeze Dried food for eats? No problem...very tasty.
If weight or storage space was not a problem, canned food would be better in most cases.
Here’s a tip for those of us with a goodly supply of canned goods in the pantry - use colored labels to denote storage date. Bright red for 2012, yellow for 2013, etc. Makes it easy to rotate your stock into the normal eating stream, plus even kids can figure it out.
Another great idea for people low on space is alternate your cabinets - fill one up, put new stock into the next cabinet and only eat out of the one you previously filled. Switch back and forth and you’ll probably have a good solid week’s worth of food always on hand.
As for those who think they’ve got a great water supply nearby (pond or other body of water), you have to assume that water is going to become heavily contaminated in a very short period of time. Bodies of water are on maps, and people think nothing of just pulling up near a water supply and camping it out, without the slightest thought towards hygiene or protecting that water supply from contamination. Only consider underground water sources as being likely to survive roaming people.
Can’t be any worse for you than a heart attack Mac.
I’ve approached the problem in a variety of ways, from dried, freeze dried, canned, with lots of flour and corn meal. We also have several gardens, and live in an area where water is easily accessible through the well or though the river, and elk are always near by. We are planning on building some self cleaning chicken pens (yeah sure) and raising enough chickens to supply fresh eggs. My wife knows a lot of people on the neighboring reservation, and they are always giving her bulk foods from the government give away programs. We have plenty of dried eggs, and milk, pretty much whatever is left over that people don’t want.
If the starving hoards don’t come, and shoot us right away, we might survive.
Well, to be honest, any kind of processed packaged food, unless you have a warehouse, is temporary short to mid range to a year. This gives you time to find more canned goods, but it gives you time to start planting sustainable sources. Also finding sustainable sources (ie an apple tree nearby).
As for water Big Berkey filters will last a long long time. Prefiltering out stuff before putting that water into a filter will make it last longer.
In the end there really isn’t any great options for survival long term unless real constitutional government like we had in the beginning of this country, are put in place again. It unfortunately may not work as well as back then almost everyone was Christian and could be counted on controlling (self-governing) themselves.
Not sure I see the point, actually.
‘exactly the process of freeze drying involves’
‘When freeze drying, a cooked portion of food is flash frozen under a vacuum. At low pressure, all but 2-5% of the water in the food sublimes, moving quickly from a solid to gas form.’————
Yeah, SO?
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‘Freeze dried foods are rather expensive - $1 to $2 per serving of a side dish like macaroni and cheese and $3 for a serving of ground beef. These are bulk prices - individually packed entrees cost $6 to $8 a piece.
One is easily looking at $10 to $15 dollars a day per person to sustain a diet of freeze dried food. Remember, this is food you might end up eating for hundreds of meals if a breakdown of society never comes.’——
Well that may be the price currently, but compared to the price of food since the ‘age of Obama’, I say it’s a great deal to buy food that lasts 25 years and doesn’t need refrigeration, at today’s price, because the raping that’s been done of our treasury and citizenry by Obama, tax cheat Geithner, Barney Frank, Maxine Waters, Chuck Schumer, Ben Bernanke and the black caucus will be felt for generations to come.
I love freeze dried foods. So easy,ready in minutes, tastier than dehydrated, in some instances, such as the banana’s, and has a long shelf life.
Best be buying now, before Obama ends food production all together or turns off the water in more places than California, or deems it necessary for prices to skyrocket or deems it that the citizenry are not allowed to eat meat. Congress is working on doing just that.
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