A years supply of food

[_Fence Sitter]

Other issues to consider.

How you are going to fend off all the other starving people for that year, better lay in a year's supply of ammunition.

For many people a greater challenge would be water. It won't do you any good to have food if you are dying of thirst.

[_Quasimodo]

Other issues to consider.

How you are going to fend off all the other starving people for that year, better lay in a year's supply of ammunition.

For many people a greater challenge would be water. It won't do you any good to have food if you are dying of thirst.

Yep, gotta keep those non-believers from stealing your grub. I think I mentioned water (2,000 gallons).

It also just occurred to me that you would have to have fuel to cook all those beans and flour. Would you use a camp stove? That's a whole lot of kerosene. Maybe 200 gallons (toxic fumes in an enclosed space?).

And then there is the waste. I'm assuming the pipes aren't working. What do you do with a years worth of feces and urine from five people? Especially if you can't go outside (assuming some sort of nuclear disaster).

[_Drifting]

Other issues to consider.

How you are going to fend off all the other starving people for that year, better lay in a year's supply of ammunition.

For many people a greater challenge would be water. It won't do you any good to have food if you are dying of thirst.

Yep, gotta keep those non-believers from stealing your grub. I think I mentioned water (2,000 gallons).

It also just occurred to me that you would have to have fuel to cook all those beans and flour. Would you use a camp stove? That's a whole lot of kerosene. Maybe 200 gallons (toxic fumes in an enclosed space?).

And then there is the waste. I'm assuming the pipes aren't working. What do you do with a years worth of feces and urine from five people? Especially if you can't go outside (assuming some sort of nuclear disaster).

Mormons can do it, just look at what the Jaredites managed to cram into a tree sized sealed boat before living in it at sea for a full year...

[_Fence Sitter]

I have faithful friends who try and keep large supplies of food. I tease them by saying that I don't have as much food a they do but I have bigger guns.

Seriously who believes they will be able to live off their food for a year while other people around them are dying of starvation?

The notion is another money sink for faithful and a money maker for those who know how to take advantage of the fear instilled by misguided leadership in the Church.

[_Quasimodo]

Mormons can do it, just look at what the Jaredites managed to cram into a tree sized sealed boat before living in it at sea for a full year...

Of course (smacking my forehead with my palm), I hadn't thought of that. It must have been a very smelly boat, though.

[_Ceeboo]

Hi Lucretia,

Stockpiling food now seems to be the specialty of Extreme Couponers.

No kidding! :)

Because my bride was watching "Extreme Couponing" (TLC network), I saw an episode with her.

It was nothing short of AMAZING. (Seriously)

In the one I watched, the lady went to the checkout with like 5 shopping carts full of crap (Cases of paper towel, boxes of gum, Bags and bags of sugar, countless packets of razors, several boxes of tampons, a shopping cart full of soup, and several other items)

The bill before her coupons was around $872.00 and after she entered all her coupons, her total bill was $4.34.

Flipping insane.

Peace,
Ceeboo

[_Drifting]

Mormons can do it, just look at what the Jaredites managed to cram into a tree sized sealed boat before living in it at sea for a full year...

Of course (smacking my forehead with my palm), I hadn't thought of that. It must have been a very smelly boat, though.

No, and this is the clever bit.
To get over the fact that these boats couldn't fit enough food for the passengers and animals for a full year and the fact that they had no way of dealing with all the pooh, they came up with the bright idea of eating the pooh.
See it makes it fit.
Don't need to take food because you can eat the pooh.
Don't need to deal with pooh because you use it as food.
(Mopologia For Dummies, Page 69)

[_Quasimodo]

Seriously who believes they will be able to live off their food for a year while other people around them are dying of starvation?

I agree, but I don't believe in the Hollywood version of people in a disaster. My family lived through the Blitz in England during the Second World War. It seems that people pull together in those sort of emergencies rather than turn against one another. It's kind of comforting.

[_Drifting]

Seriously who believes they will be able to live off their food for a year while other people around them are dying of starvation?

I agree, but I don't believe in the Hollywood version of people in a disaster. My family lived through the Blitz in England during the Second World War. It seems that people pull together in those sort of emergencies rather than turn against one another. It's kind of comforting.

This type of humanity pulling together was also exhibited in London during the July 7 bombings and I believe in New York in the aftermath of that horrific event. I'm led to believe that wasn't quite the case in New Orleans or have I got that wrong?

[_Ceeboo]

No, and this is the clever bit.
To get over the fact that these boats couldn't fit enough food for the passengers and animals for a full year and the fact that they had no way of dealing with all the pooh, they came up with the bright idea of eating the pooh.
See it makes it fit.
Don't need to take food because you can eat the pooh.
Don't need to deal with pooh because you use it as food.
(Mopologia For Dummies, Page 69)

Thanks for painting that special picture! LOL :)