MRE Meals (medium-long life)
Canned Foods (short-medium life)
Coffee (short-medium life)
Dried Beans and Corn (medium-long life)
Dry Fruit and Raisins (short-medium life)
Dry Milk (medium life)
Flour - Preferably Whole Wheat (short life)
Honey (long life, will keep indefinitely if kept sealed and cool)
Hot Chocolate Mix (short-medium life)
Instant Mash Potatoes (short-medium life)
Oatmeal (medium life)
Olive Oil in bottles or jugs (medium-long life)
Oven Dried Meat Jerky (short life)
Pasta (medium-long life)
Rice (medium-long life)
Salt & Spices (medium-long life)
Sugar (long life)
Tea (medium-long life)
Vegetable Shortening in cans (long life)
Vinegar (long life)
Whole Kernel Wheat (long life)
Whole Nuts (medium-long life)
Wine (stored with corks down), Hard Liquor/Spirits (long life)
All shelfe life estimates assume a cool dry and sealed environment short life=1-2 years, medium life=2-5 years, long life=10 or more years
Most of these foods can either be grown or bought in large containers, the bulk foods section can often order 50lb sacks or 5gal buckets of these foods. Get some clean buckets made from food-grade plastic with good undamaged seals. Drop a block of dry ice into the bucket and then fill with your food, loosely place the lid, after 30 minutes seal the bucket. This eliminates almost all of the nutrient damaging oxygen and safely kills any bugs without poisoning the food.
If a can is bulging at the top and/or bottom, there is a very good chance the food inside is not safe to eat.
Only use long life foods for buried storage. Rotate through storage foods using oldest first in your normal diet, try not to store foods you would not normally eat. (Helpful mnemonic: "Eat what you store, and store what you eat.") Try to store some treats like chocolate or hard candy in your stash; If times are rough, unpalatable foods might not be eaten by picky eaters and people have been known to starve this way.
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I am glad you mentioned sugar, seeing as it can and has been used to help heal wounds. Now all you would need is a turkey baster, hot water bag, and some tubing to make an I V. (Anybody else see the movie Shooter?)
"They drew first blood not me..." (Stallone in Rambo: First Blood)
Looks like someone is going to be a lot less hungry than me.Nice work on the preparation.
Cause wearing a tux during Z-Day will make me look good and die trying.
I'm sorry, all I could think of when you mentioned Flour was a solitary mumbling Mexican sitting in the dark basement while Undead banged on the windows outside while eating handful after handful of sugar.
I don't have nearly enough for a long term invasion, but truthfully I don't plan to stay at home that long. I have 4 boxes of IMP's (MRE) with 60 packets to a box, about maybe 8 gallons of water, and very little of anything else.
However, I'm currently in a University so yeah either I'm dead or in the wild so heh.
"It doesn't matter if you're smart, dumb, ugly, pretty... it's all the same once yer dead... and a corpse can't laugh." - silent Hill 2
Eliot - Site Admin agrees;
"Yendor makes an interesting point."
Getting my education = Screwed on Z-Day.
Will just have to hope for an outbreak over winter break.
Melee weapons: Because there's nothing more satisfying than bashing in a zed cranium with your new best friend, Mr Crowbar™. (Product demonstration brought to you by nick47)
That is so racist I can't stop laughing. (Laughs) I can't breathe.....
Forgot Twinkies. LAST FOREVER!
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Awesome. Now we can all die of diabetes before Zed ever gets close!
Ahhh but what a way to go. Twinky overdose mmmmmmmmmmm....
Cell phone use in hospitals=BAD!!!!
Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil, for I am the badest motherfucker in the valley!
Someone needs to write Fox. Tell that guy who does the show Thirty Days to eat nothing but twinkies for a month and MREs for another month.
Like I said before can't go wrong with beans and rice. Whole lot cheaper than other stuff.
Like I said before can't go wrong with beans and rice. Whole lot cheaper than other stuff.
Gotta agree. I've got loads of tins from the local canning factory stocked up as well, cause you're going to want variety in your diet if you're staying in the one place for a while.
If we hole up, I wanna be somewhere familiar, I wanna know where the exits are, and I wanna be allowed to smoke