I’m thinking of putting together a cheap 10 food supply list for people that are just never going to get around to storing any food, for instance a high paid single female, downtown condo dweller, that has almost no food in her house except for a few expensive health things, and lives mostly on take out.
I’m thinking of something that they can keep in a single box buried away for five years and then give it to someone (like a single man), or pitch it every five years if they are wired that way, and an easy list that they can replace themselves.
For example:
10 cans tuna
5 cans pork and beans
5 cans chili
10 cans corn and/or peas
2 boxes instant rice
2 large jars of peanut butter
2 cases bottled water
After talking to people about this stuff for decades, I know there are some that just never get around to it. With this simple list they don’t invest much money, and they can just replace it with the same listed items every 5 years.
For the kind of people I’m talking about, they don’t eat these foods usually, they don’t care about wasting $45 every five years, and they are not going to shop and rotate, and so on, so talking to them doesn’t help, you pretty much have to just assign them something.
To me, a list similar to this would be something to give them some extended self sufficiency, assuming they have some things in their cupboard, refrigerator and freezer, it should help them deal with a couple of weeks delay in services.
Throw in a couple of boxes of crackers. That’s a good starter list.
Good list except the maybe the rice if they have no water or means to heat it. Sure, there’s lots of ways to heat foods, such as the sun, but it’s those very people who wouldn’t have a clue if their microwave and can opener weren’t operable.