I’m steering at a palette of 50lb bags of flour at Costco for $18.49, regular price. Don’t know what those were a year ago but that seems cheap.
“I’m steering at a palette of 50lb bags of flour at Costco for $18.49, regular price. Don’t know what those were a year ago but that seems cheap.”
The US is not dependent on imports for any foodstuffs or fertilizers. Other countries like Egypt and the Middle East will starve without them. Egypt moved away from grains to oranges which sell for a lot more, but can’t be a staple. The last time Russia, the world’s number one grain exporter clamped down because of drought, locusts and fires, it caused the price in the Middle East to triple and resulted in “the Arab Spring.” (Food riots, not anything to do with liberalization.) Ukraine, where the Russians are bombing grain silos, was the number five exporter. As for fertilizer Russia was number one and I think Ukraine was around tenth. Their cheap fertilizer caused the poor soils in Africa and Sri Lanka to increase by five fold. They will now decrease by five fold. None of this will recover for probably a decade. We’re looking at five hundred million people starving. Globalization caused the world’s population to expand more in seventy years than it has in hundreds of years. Now it will contract. The problem is, the one lifeboat everybody knows about is the US, which has a completely open southern border. We could look like a Star Wars city in just a year or two.
It’s been a couple years since I bought any but it was about $14 maybe $15.
If you use bulk goods like that it’s a good deal. I’ll get the 25 pound bags of sugar split those up and compare the price on a 5 pound bag that’s way better than the big one.
Under primitive, emergency, or even just unfavorable conditions it is a lot easier to turn rice into something edible than it is for flour.
Boil water, add rice. It doesn't even have to be safe drinking water -- just boil it for a while longer. No electricity, only fire.