Posted on 09/09/2012 8:41:10 PM PDT by Kartographer
had a major breakthrough with my family this weekend, my sister and i live in the Twin Cities and the rest of our family is in the middle of ND, through a conference call we had a long talk about SHTF scenarios and what each of our obligations were.
bump
That canned stuff is for when there is literally no other choice. lol.
I like SPAM.
We called the K-rats crackers "John Wayne crackers".
Do you know if the pilot crackers have any sort of oil, butter or shortening as an ingredient?
I have been trying different kinds of crackers, biscotti, etc. to see how long they remain palatible under normal storage conditions. Sooner or later anything with oil or shortening in them has gone rancid. The time element varies but I would say storage life is usually a year or less.
I know a vegetarian who buys pepperoni pizza but picks off the pepperoni. Let's see, I'm a big meanie because I eat pepperoni but she's all goodness and light because she throws it in the garbage. The animal is still dead but her throwing it away is beyond disgusting. Then there's the question of the meat grease that leaked into her pizza. It's amazing these wackadoodles manage to get out of bed in the mornings. She'd be on the first waves of victims who will curl up on the side of the road crying why me.
I would take this reviews with a grain of salt. The review on the bacon alone makes me wonder, because I have of yet never heard one prepper have a bad word for Yoder’s bacon and yet this review makes it sound so horrid. I have to consider the idea that the reviewer had some agenda.
Maybe some of this is personal choice. I read many people telling of their revulsion of Spam, yet I always liked it. Now if you was to offer me a can of sardines and I rather choke down dog food and yet there are a lot of preppers that LOVE sardines.
Yep. When the crap hits the fan these kind of people are toast (meaty toast)
No sardines. blech.
yummy
I wonder how long they keep vacuum packed with and oxygen absorber in mylar?
There's probably a computer in the basement of that agency cranking out the list already. It's the same with online ammo and survival supply lists. Adding a few extra cans of regular every day sweet potatoes and chicken of the sea doesn't set the tin foil hat tingling. FYI, sweet potatoes last at least 5 years past their stamped date. We're still eating on an "after the holidays 19 cents clearance sale" case that is that old and they're just fine.
God Will Save Me
A terrible storm came into a town and local officials sent out an emergency warning that the riverbanks would soon overflow and flood the nearby homes. They ordered everyone in the town to evacuate immediately.
A faithful Christian man heard the warning and decided to stay, saying to himself, “I will trust God and if I am in danger, then God will send a divine miracle to save me.”
The neighbors came by his house and said to him, “We’re leaving and there is room for you in our car, please come with us!” But the man declined. “I have faith that God will save me.”
As the man stood on his porch watching the water rise up the steps, a man in a canoe paddled by and called to him, “Hurry and come into my canoe, the waters are rising quickly!” But the man again said, “No thanks, God will save me.”
The floodwaters rose higher pouring water into his living room and the man had to retreat to the second floor. A police motorboat came by and saw him at the window. “We will come up and rescue you!” they shouted. But the man refused, waving them off saying, “Use your time to save someone else! I have faith that God will save me!”
The flood waters rose higher and higher and the man had to climb up to his rooftop.
A helicopter spotted him and dropped a rope ladder. A rescue officer came down the ladder and pleaded with the man, “Grab my hand and I will pull you up!” But the man STILL refused, folding his arms tightly to his body. “No thank you! God will save me!”
Shortly after, the house broke up and the floodwaters swept the man away and he drowned.
When in Heaven, the man stood before God and asked, “I put all of my faith in You. Why didn’t You come and save me?”
And God said, “Son, I sent you a warning. I sent you a car. I sent you a canoe. I sent you a motorboat. I sent you a helicopter. What more were you looking for?”
I read the whole article today. I found this strange - Matt Stein said, “I will admit, I am really prepared for the short term. I am working toward the long term.
What? He has written two prep books and he still isn’t prepared for the long term? It seems many of us are better prepared than he is.
He also says there are too many people on earth and we need to get rid of a lot of people. I wonder if he would volunteer to be the first to be killed? I expect he wants the rest to be killed but not him.
Then, yes, he thinks climate change will kill us and it’s our fault the climate is getting hotter and we won’t be able to grow food. Again, one solution is killing people so there won’t be as many to feed.
I wouldn’t buy a book of his because he hasn’t prepared himself to live more than 72 hrs. He has a 72 hr. kit he’s proud of, but that’s pretty much it. When he says he isn’t prepared for the long term, he says he can make it a couple of months, then maybe he could hook up with some other people.
Based on his theory of getting rid of people, I wouldn’t want to be in a group with him. He wouldn’t have supplies since he’s only prepared for a short time emergency, and he might decide I am one of the people who needs to be eliminated so he can live off my supplies.
I don’t like this guy very much.
I don’t have crackers or bacon in a can. I hadn’t thought of crackers being in a can and don’t have any in regular boxes stored because I didn’t think they would last long. I’m glad to see these suggestions for crackers and bacon. I have Spam but none of it says bacon flavor or whatever on it.
I need to look at this stuff on Amazon and maybe other places to get crackers and bacon and check my grocery store for Spam bacon flavor.
Have any of you eaten that canned bacon? If so, how is it?
As for polenta, I ground my pop corn and cooked it (like cornmeal mush) and chilled it to use later. Cornmeal mush is poor mans food but polenta is haute cuisine. It will keep you going and poor folks in the depression ate it two meals a day.
Why? Yoder's is upwards of $20 for 9 oz whereas regular bacon is $3 lb.
There is a prof, a Mr. Pianka, at UT Austin (Texas) who preaches to his students that ebola should be released so 90% of mankind will be killed off. Nowhere have I seen that he will be at the front of the line.
Each can of Yoders Canned Bacon has 40 to 50 slices of fully cooked and drained bacon. Between 2-3/4 and 3-1/4 pounds of raw bacon go into each can.
MRE Depot Price: $159.95 for 12 cans which works out to $13.33 a can about $4.45 a pound.
Pilot Bread Crackers are the perfect choice for daytime snacking or a crunchy companion to soups or casseroles. These lightweight snacks are used as survival rations in pilot emergency kits since there is no cooking, preparation, or rehydration needed—just pop the lid and enjoy! These freeze-dried crackers are known for their 30 year shelf life.
NGREDIENTS: Enriched Flour (Wheat Flour, Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamine Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Vegetable Shortening (Contains one or more of the following partially hydrogenated oils: soybean, canola, cottonseed), Sugar, Corn Syrup, Whey, Leavening (Sodium Bicarbonate, Monocalcium Phosphate, Ammonium Bicarbonate), Salt.
Maybe he's a friend of this Stein (so called prepper). We could put both of them on a field and using whatever weapon each one wants, see which one dies first to rid the world of one person.
Those two men are willing for people to die “to save the planet”. Anyone who is willing for people to die just to get rid of them, has no respect for life. The Stein guy said he is an agnostic so I suppose he doesn't see people as God's creation, so just get rid of them. The Texas professor must think the same or he wouldn't be willing to kill them off with Ebola. Sick, sick, sick.
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