best sauce

BEST SAUCE
Before I forget, tomorrow will be yet another guest article from our long suffering northern correspondent. Not only does he not get paid, he must put up with your abuse. Kind of like marriage, real trauma in exchange for perceived benefits. Anyone else wish to get such a wonderful deal, write to me at jimd303@netzero.com .
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I put the following quote the other day, but no one rose to my challenge. Okay, you were actively ignoring me, so I decided to make it the subject of today's article.
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Hunger is the best sauce in the world. [Sp., La mejor salsa del mundo es la hambre.] Author: Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)Source: Don Quixote
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Eat what you store, store what you eat, don't introduce unfamiliar food in times of stress, yada, yada. We know all that. However, certain minions have argued with me that a diet of nothing more than grain and beans are a bad idea. Now, let's forget for a moment that they were obviously under the seductive force of the dark side, Yuppie Survivalism. Yes, you are lured into their grasp with visions of semi-automatic weapons and unlimited amounts of ammunition ( for the record, I would like to state that I think Rawles "ammo supply back to normal soon" is wrong. Declining energy supplies. If I'm wrong, other than short term blips, kindly remember this and I will gladly eat crow ) and warehouses full of MRE's and screaming into battle on SUV's and whatnot. But once you sign on the dotted line, there is no escape. You will be doomed to die in one last gasp of middle class consumption. Let's not even talk about how much cheaper and nutritious that is compared to freeze dried slop. Let's just focus on taste fatigue.
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If you are familiar with whole grains and beans in your diet now, the transition to eating them exclusively after the apocalypse will not be impossible. Oh, you'll wish you were eating anything else. You'll crave dead animal flesh. The can of Spam that you wouldn't feed your neighbors rabid noisy dog will start to look good. But, with the protein compliment and sprouting some of the wheat, it will be enough to keep you alive and healthy. And I don't think that you will be tempted to eat less than needed because you are sick of the taste. As the above quote says, if you are hungry enough, you will eat it and like it. Written back in the day when famine and a very monotonous diet were the norm, so I think we can take the quote at face value and dismiss the thoughts of someone whose idea of hunger is to miss one meal ( I'm not picking on anyone specially, this attitude is shared by almost all Americans ).
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I love meat. I love meat so much I won't mind hunting and eating vegetarians after the apocalypse. If I could afford to get half my calories from meat every day I would. I don't store wheat, corn and beans because I love bread. Okay, I love bread. But I don't store them because that is all I want to eat. I store them because they are extremely cheap. Even after the doubling of grain prices because of that limp wristed commie puke Baby Bush sold his pathetic soul to the Mega-Ag Corp Of America to push ( sub par ) fuel from food programs. You simply can't provide a lot of food for that many people if you are on a severe budget otherwise. It will help you survive. Not survive in style, but it will be close enough for government work. You won't die on that diet, and it is far better to have twice as much food to eat than a quarter of that amount even if it tastes better.
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