Open Call For Food Cache & Larder Photos
Please send your food cache and larder photos to me at romanwilderness2005@hotmail.com and I will post.
As I have said, mine is rather lame right now, but I am working on it. I threw everything out after 9-11 and now I am starting again from scratch. I have decided that the food I store will include more food that can be eaten without water or heating. Spam is a MUST for all food caches. It's a good luck charm, like a plastic Madonna on your dashboard. My dad recommends Budweiser in cans as the beer storage choice. He says the cans are thicker and therefore will last longer. I once drank a can of bud that had been in a fridge for 15 years. It was insanely alcoholic, but it tasted fine so maybe my dad is right. He usually is when it comes to this kind of thing. Remember, have fun with it, you don't need to buy food that you will suffer eating. Survival is required, suffering is optional. I don't know about the bird flu, but in these post 9-11, post Katrina times, we are reminded that even us Americans can suffer terrible calamities. No matter where you live there is always a need for it. My grandparents on both sides of my family lived through the depression and if there is one thing they instilled in me and my parents, it was the need to realize that something could happen like that again. But have fun with it & don't forget the Spam. If worst comes to worst and you get bored with the whole idea you can drink the beer, eat the food and use the dust masks as coffee filters. Ahh, things you learn on a jobsite.
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As I have said, mine is rather lame right now, but I am working on it. I threw everything out after 9-11 and now I am starting again from scratch. I have decided that the food I store will include more food that can be eaten without water or heating. Spam is a MUST for all food caches. It's a good luck charm, like a plastic Madonna on your dashboard. My dad recommends Budweiser in cans as the beer storage choice. He says the cans are thicker and therefore will last longer. I once drank a can of bud that had been in a fridge for 15 years. It was insanely alcoholic, but it tasted fine so maybe my dad is right. He usually is when it comes to this kind of thing. Remember, have fun with it, you don't need to buy food that you will suffer eating. Survival is required, suffering is optional. I don't know about the bird flu, but in these post 9-11, post Katrina times, we are reminded that even us Americans can suffer terrible calamities. No matter where you live there is always a need for it. My grandparents on both sides of my family lived through the depression and if there is one thing they instilled in me and my parents, it was the need to realize that something could happen like that again. But have fun with it & don't forget the Spam. If worst comes to worst and you get bored with the whole idea you can drink the beer, eat the food and use the dust masks as coffee filters. Ahh, things you learn on a jobsite.
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posted by The Forecast at 11/03/2005
1 Comments:
we had a great larder all nice and ready after 9/11--and to be fair, living in earthquake country and NOT having fresh water and canned food available is pretty fucking stupid--but it got very depleted.
we were always good on water because we used to get the big bottles of arrowhead delivered, that plus the toilet plus the hot water heater was a fair amount of water.
now all i have left is anchovies stuffed with capers, which tastes good but is not entirely practical. we had a boatload of spam. i love spam anyhow.
the only other thing that's left in there is prescription med backups and stff like playing cards and little board games.
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