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View Poll Results: How much food storage do you have? | |||
None. That's for paranoid folks. | 7 | 17.07% | |
None. My Mormon freinds/neighbors will feed me. | 2 | 4.88% | |
Less than 3 months worth | 21 | 51.22% | |
3-6 months worth. | 7 | 17.07% | |
1 year of food | 4 | 9.76% | |
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05-22-2008, 11:41 PM | #1 |
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Location: Norcal
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How much food storage do you have?
Just curious. We're trying to build ours up this year.
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05-22-2008, 11:51 PM | #2 |
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We had over 3 months in Colorado before we had to move. We used up about a month's worth before we moved and then gave away almost all of the rest to a couple of needy families in the ward. We haven't done a very good job building it back up. We're probably at 4 to 6 weeks worth now.
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05-23-2008, 12:03 AM | #3 |
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We could probably keep ourselves alive for 1 year (we have close to 1,200 pounds of rice); however, it wouldn't be a varied diet. We need to work on our spices and stuff like oil and salt and such.
Another concern beyond food is potable water. We have 165 gallons of water in barrels but if you don't have access to a long-term potable water supply then you are dead meat. My next biggest concern is fuel. Even if we made it through the summer on our year supply, we would freeze in the Utah winter without some type of fuel/heat mechanism (such as a wood-burning stove and tons of wood -which we don't have). |
05-23-2008, 12:08 AM | #4 | |
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On a related note, a co-worker told me that it was selfish of me to want to "hoard" rice at this time of shortage. Don't think I've ever heard food storage described as selfish before. |
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05-23-2008, 03:03 AM | #5 | |
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I'd then tell him that I would shoot him if he set foot on my property and tried to steal rice from me. May as well play the stereotype.
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05-23-2008, 05:03 AM | #6 |
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We have none.
I am betting that the millennium doesn't happen in my lifetime. Instead of massive bags of wheat and large barrels of water, I am using the space in the garage for something that happens often in my lifetime: longboarding. In the event I am wrong, we will all die quickly, so it wont matter anyway.
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05-23-2008, 05:39 AM | #7 | |
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05-23-2008, 05:43 AM | #8 |
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I have friends who have years and years if you count wine. Wine cellars are a big deal here. Could someone live off of only wine for a year? I bet they could if they had to.
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05-23-2008, 12:40 PM | #9 | |
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05-23-2008, 01:18 PM | #10 |
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My mother in law essentially has a mini grocery store in her basement. Her whole family is the same way. When two of her brothers lost their jobs, both families pooled their resources and lived off of food storage for several months. It's really quite amazing to get to that point.
One of the things my wife and I have discussed recently in regards to food storage is that its purpose might not necessarily be for the millennium, but more for times of economic peril. If gas goes up to $6 a gallon, many families might have to dip into their food storage so that they don't have to go to the grocery store as much...and so they don't have to buy food that will rise with the rising gas prices. We try to build up our food storage when we can get good deals, and unlike Utah for example, there are no case-lot sales. The other week, grocery stores slashed prices on cereal to 10 boxes for $10. I think we walked away with 35-40 boxes of cereal. If you watch the deals, you can really build up a food storage quickly...that and you have to be willing to commit your resources to it. |
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