I just wondered how many of you........
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Maybe 3 weeks worth of meat in the house, slightly less in veg. It's time to build up the hurricane stocks for the season though, and luckily the Commissary is having a case lot sale on Eglin A.F.B. Tuesday and Wednesday of next week, so I'll stock up pretty cheaply.
The Commissaries are restricted to military shoppers only (active duty, National Guard or Reserves while on active duty, and retirees; plus dependents of the previous) I spent 21 years in uniform to get those shopping privileges. The everyday price in them is their cost plus a 5% surcharge to fund store maintenence but they're exempt from all state and local taxes.
A civilian counterpart would be one of the big membership wharehouse type stores (although they do charge a slight profit and are subject to taxation.
For dry goods (rice/pasta/flour) and packaged things, I could do 6 months, easy.
Only 2 x 20lb propane tanks and I know they aren't full but maybe 4-6 weeks of hot meals there.
If the power stays on for the meats in the freezer, I'm sure I could spin it out for a year.
Just replaced stocks of maybe 20 of my herbs & spices with fresh, so variety of tastes is good to go.
Only 2 x 20lb propane tanks and I know they aren't full but maybe 4-6 weeks of hot meals there.
If the power stays on for the meats in the freezer, I'm sure I could spin it out for a year.
Just replaced stocks of maybe 20 of my herbs & spices with fresh, so variety of tastes is good to go.
I have a supply for maybe two months of survival. As I can fish and hunt I can stretch this supply a couple of months longer.
Liquids for about 2 months too. Flavoured bottled water, beer and wine.
Liquids for about 2 months too. Flavoured bottled water, beer and wine.
Of what - agoraphobia? You know Tesco deliver these days!
Good - I like it, wouldn't want it much smaller though.
Maybe the real deal is to look to our collective past, under sail. Citrus and Vitamin C, or lack thereof, will be our undoing as scurvy.
Maybe the right thing to do is to stash a year's vitamin pills which can (potentially) alleviate dietary shortcomings.
Maybe the right thing to do is to stash a year's vitamin pills which can (potentially) alleviate dietary shortcomings.
Vitamin D if you live in bleak UK is more important
Today we know about Vit C and where to source it from. They did not in the past, not in UK anyway.
In Scandinavia we were eating rose hips to prevent scurvy at least before Viking age.
Today we know about Vit C and where to source it from. They did not in the past, not in UK anyway.
In Scandinavia we were eating rose hips to prevent scurvy at least before Viking age.
