earthquake food

EARTHQUAKE FOOD


Before we start today, thank you everyone for the links and book suggestions. I read the thread over at the zombie site about yours truly and how everyone but one was afraid of crapping in a bucket ( the $8 bag of two cubic feet of sawdust from Wal-Mart lasted me a year and a half, with two people using it for a year- that’s fifty cents a month for sewage ). Actually, they were afraid a potential mate would be scared off, so I guess that is a great litmus test for an Apocalypse Wife. I put “The Human Zoo” in my Amazon wish list. And read the article on the current Russian slow collapse. I’m sure there were a few more, I’m just saying thank you, and please keep it up. My e-mail response is worse than ever. I apologize if I didn’t get back with you. Again, I would like to thank everyone who helped with the three year collection of Bison ( or offered to help ). The end product didn’t go as I originally planned, but it was needed and appreciated. Enough sucking up, let’s get back to insulting somebody.

*

Personally, I think it is sick and wrong that the media and corporations and government benefit off the suffering of those folks in a natural disaster. I feel left out. I too wish to trivialize the tragedy by exploiting it. So, today’s article is Earthquake Food. Two days after the quake and people are looting for food? Crap on a cracker, does no one have an emergency food stash anymore? I don’t care if you are poor, if you can buy groceries everyday you can put some to the side. Remember the best line in the book “One Second After”? If we had just put aside a bag of rice. Think about how idiotic you are going to feel when disaster hits and you don’t even have a $15 bag of rice. Even an unwashed, toothless, lice ridden crack whore can afford $15. Hell, a bag of flour is under ten bucks. You can’t find a ten spot every few paydays and stockpile an emergency food stash? Of course, this is assuming you don’t have your grain, bean and grinder stash. Which, granted, may seem extreme and only worthy of a “collapse is immanent” strategy. I would argue that in the long run this is actually cheaper since the life span is much longer, but then again does white flour or rice really ever go bad? The years of grain might be above your stress level, but everyone should have a month or three of food stashed even if they don’t think anything other than disasters will occur. And it doesn’t have to be anything other than a few bags of flour or rice because there will almost always be something else to supplement that. You don’t have to worry about being able to afford MRE’s or freeze dried food.

*

But putting that aside, you should also have a shorter term food stash that is simpler to cook. Again, I’m trying to avoid expensive food and stay with the cheaper types. But it should be more nourishing than simple rice or flour because you are going to be busy digging in rubble, fighting off zombie bikers and escaping from Blackwater gun confiscation teams. So, long term, a month or three, you want cheap and filling. Short term, a week or two, you want filling and more protein for harder work. I would recommend Minute Rice and pre-cooked canned beans. I know you can make your own minute rice. My eastern correspondent, part of the Ladies Auxiliary Loyal Minions ( or, as they affectionately refer to themselves, LAMBS ), had told me how to make your own minute rice. I believe it is just cooked rice put in your food dryer. I might be forgetting something. I hate buying the stuff as it is over twice the price as regular rice, but it sure is nice to bring half the water to a boil and needing no more heat. In an emergency when you only have a limited amount of propane or dry wood, this is going to make a huge difference. The beans, heated, with the rice give a complete protein and plenty of calories. It is more expensive to store buy the prepared items but it translates to almost no fuel required. Right now, prepping, you can afford to pay twice as much for two weeks of food. Instead of $21 you spend $42. Which is more expensive than the propane needed to cook it longer. But since you only store so much fuel, it will last three times longer, if not more, so that you have more flexibility. Plus, when all the added stress is there, it will be a pleasant surprise to have dinner so quick and easy. Minute Rice is also easier to clean up and I think it tastes better. All big pluses as you camp around your flattened McMansion and twisted SUV.

*

If Baby Jesus is trying to give us a little hint after Haiti and Chile ( I call it “chili”, like the food. I hate it when bleach white newscasters try to roll the word as if they were natives. Chillllaaaa. I might be pronouncing it wrong, but I don’t feel like a huge dweeb doing it ) that perhaps the New Madrid fault line is next, I would feel compelled to stock up on a few big boxes of Minute Rice and a case of black beans. It surely can’t hurt at all. Don’t forget a bottle or two of propane. Water. And a bag of sawdust.

END

The Official Bison Web Site http://www.bisonpress.com/


*

Please support Bison by buying through the Amazon links in each article. You can purchase anything, not just the linked item. Enter Amazon through my item link and then go to whatever other item you desire. As long as you don’t leave Amazon until after the order is placed, I get credit for your purchase. Thank you.