From http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3819141/posts
Reasonable Prepping for the Coronavirus
“My own advice and how my family has already prepared is simple: Buy what you need for up to eight weeks of isolation but only buy those non-perishable foods, toiletries, and etc, that you were going to use anyway.”
Thanks to metmom and VK Lee for the posts!
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Purchase what we use, what we need. Most Prescriptions purchased in three month supplies. As a rule, we normally attempt to keep a ‘back up’ for items we use on regular basis. As we deplete one item, there is another in the pantry, bath, laundry which would be used. An attempt to replenish before we are completely without. Laughing, we call this our ‘overstock’.
A question on oils, like olive oil.
I know they can go rancid.
What’s their shelf life in an unopened container?
I’m thinking especially of something like Berio Olive Oil that comes in those big cans instead of plastic bottles.