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Asante
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A question about the food you have in your house
#7591021 - 11/03/07 01:03 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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What if there was a disruption in the food distribution network, and your local stores weren't supplied.
I'll tell you what: people would start hoarding and on the day of the shortage the stores that are normally bulging with foods are at once emptied to the very last crumb.
It just so happens that you had a keg'n'bong party last night, and when you finally wake up the looting has already happened and there ain't sh*t to buy anymore.
All that stands between you and hunger will be the foods you have in your house right now. How long will you last on the food and drink you have in your house, if you eat normal amounts of food (2500kcal) and drink half a gallon (1.8ltr) a day? The amount of food and drink present in your house must ofcourse be shared among its inhabitants, but it's perfectly acceptable to take Fluffy the bunny and dub him Dinner.
Water substitutes are soda pop and beer, but not booze. The big water question for most is whether they have a boiler. Lets assume you cannot drink tap water.
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Re: A question about the food you have in your house [Re: Asante]
#7591025 - 11/03/07 01:05 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Would we still be able to drink tap water? Didn't read the last sentence or did you edit that in after?
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Re: A question about the food you have in your house [Re: robbyberto]
#7591029 - 11/03/07 01:08 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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No sir, tap water won't work. It could be a power failure so that there's no pressure or something like a flood a la New Orleans where the tap water is contaminated.
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Re: A question about the food you have in your house [Re: Asante]
#7591069 - 11/03/07 01:19 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Well despite what food and water reserves I have in my home, I do have a small caliber rifle and a whole hell of a lot of squirrels.
I think we would be fine. Mmm, squirrel stew. My mouth is watering just thinking about it.
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Re: A question about the food you have in your house [Re: Asante]
#7591071 - 11/03/07 01:19 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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I have plenty to drink 3 cases of pepsi and a case of bottled water plus milk and juice
I try to keep a weeks worth of food in the house
a little over a week in food for the pets (I have no intention of eating the pets)
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Re: A question about the food you have in your house [Re: Asante]
#7591125 - 11/03/07 01:31 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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I use a brita jug, could I use that + the bleach I have at home to decontam the water?
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Re: A question about the food you have in your house [Re: Asante]
#7591140 - 11/03/07 01:36 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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I have a well, I can see cattle from here, I have canned good that would take care of scurvy.....
Oh, yes, I know all the wild edibles in my area, short of nuclear warfare, I'm safe.
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Re: A question about the food you have in your house [Re: CosmicFool]
#7591156 - 11/03/07 01:39 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Quote:
I try to keep a weeks worth of food in the house a little over a week in food for the pets (I have no intention of eating the pets)
Do you try this for a preparedness purpose or just for convenience?
Throughout the ages, all over the world, people kept supplies, be it a couple sacks of grain or a well-stuffed pantry. The people had a buffer against times where food wasn't readily available.
In this day and age, in the city, many people don't keep a reserve of food and drink.
If there comes a supply interruption, or a sudden outrageous increase in prices, you may find yourself at the mercy of food handouts and the conditions under which you get these.
It's my personal recommendation to keep in your house a month's supply of foods and water. You can simply take some food regularly from the reserve and add new ones to the back of the stacks, so that you have your private little supermarket to choose from 
It's not tinfoil hattery, it's just practical to have a variety of foods at your immediate disaposal and should something happen, hey, you're prepared too 
Rice, macaroni, spaghetti.. Thats $0.75 a dry kilo, keeps for years. Canned tuna, salmon.. Thats $2 a pound at most, keeps for years also. Storable staple foods need not be expensive.
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Re: A question about the food you have in your house [Re: Asante]
#7591167 - 11/03/07 01:43 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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There's 70 gallons of water in the hot water heater, how long would that last a person?
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Re: A question about the food you have in your house [Re: Asante]
#7591177 - 11/03/07 01:45 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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I regularly live off only canned peasoup and noodles when I'm broke. They're really cheap so I have lots. Also rice and random pasta + different soy products, and some pasta sauces, porridge.... at least a month would be realistic...
What would kill me is lack of drinkables, tap water here is very good quality so I rarely buy anything to drink (except energy drinks and alcohol)
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Re: A question about the food you have in your house [Re: TODAY]
#7591185 - 11/03/07 01:46 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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70 gallons.. I'd say 70 days provided you don't bathe or do other silly stuff with drinkable water, but rather use a local pond etc for that.
For cooking and drinking you'd need about a gallon per adult. You would want to have a fresh bottle of bleach handy to sterilize the water after a while of no circulation.
70 gallons is excellent 
If there's a week of supply interruption, some Shroomerites would be in trouble, but fortunately less than I thought.
Still, after little over a week half of us are chillin' at the FEMA camp
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