I must be on a different survival planning path-buying bulk dried beans and lentils is a good thing-source of protein if there is no meat available-likewise dried seaweed, other dehydrated veggies and fruit-sugar and flour are certainly not going to keep you healthy or from nutritional starvation-a cup of sugar has no vitamins or other nutrients-just 774 calories and nearly 200g carbs per cup-flour isn’t much better-455 calories, 95g carb, and only 12g protein-a cardboard cereal box has more nutrition...
I get what you’re saying. I use sugar because I’m a sugar junkie basically I use it for blooming yeast to make bread‘s and Tea and things like that. While everybody else here at the house thinks I’m Looney Tunes for trying to stash food they all look at the beans and lentils etc. like I’m crazy and They’re “We’re not gonna eat that stuff” look on their face we’ll see how hungry they get...
Then there’s the water argument from them. Until one day a on a Memorial Weekend the well pump died. I had been stashing water in plastic 1.75L bottles and they had been asking “why” was I doing it ? The second day the 1.75’s were gone and We started to hauling water from the new Dog Park too flush the toilet. Then it started to sink in...
Don’t forgot SALT. Something essential and something you can’t make. I also stock a lot of tea since that is very important to me and coffee (I buy the freeze-dried bricks at Aldi) for hubby.