Posted on 10/07/2010 7:32:13 AM PDT by FromLori
Either our nation's obesity problem is just as bad as they say, or Costco knows something we don't, because the aircraft carrier-scaled big box store is now offering enough (horrifying) food to last you a year for a cool $800.
The monstrous, 5,011 serving package, courtesy of food outfitter Shelf Reliance (hey, at least we'll have kept our senses of humor during doomsday!) claims their end days buffet contains "only top-of-the-line products," "developed with everyday menu planning in mind." Which makes sense, of course, because the only thing worse than knowing that the entire eastern seaboard has been leveled by nukes or a horde of flesh-feasting space titans is repetitive bunker fare—dehydrated fish skin AGAIN, mom?
Possibly more disconcerting than the notion of a year underground eating food from Costco is the fact that the package isn't just marketed for emergencies, but for "long-term food storage supply." Meaning that someone, somewhere, thinks it's a rational idea to buy an $800 cargo crate including containing 84 gallon-sized cans, to just, y'know, save yourself a trip to the grocery store. Now, I am totally down with Costco's cheese platters, and pasta multi-packs, but. My God.
Either our nation's obesity problem is just as bad as they say, or Costco knows something we don't, because the aircraft carrier-scaled big box store is now offering enough (horrifying) food to last you a year for a cool $800.
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Sorry, cans just don't have they long of a shelf life. Rotate 'em!
Maybe a thread dealing with quick, tasty meals prepared from 'off the shelf' survival methods. Canned tuna, canned mushroom soup, canned peas, and dried noodles would make a meal most kids would eat - and it wouldn't cost much and would store for years...
No.
Prepper-ping-worthy?
I don’t have a link, but the DoD did a couple long term (20 years) study on stored medicine, esp antibiotics.
You might do some web mining to see what is out there.
That's pretty cool. Don't suppose you remember where you got them? I have books but if you have to bug out - books are very heavy and they'll have to stay behind. I might be able to bring a double duty deck of cards.
For most canned goods, easily five years.
During the gold rush in Ca, there was a large ship that left like St. Louis with TONS of canned foods on board. Somewhere along the way, it sank in the river and was lost track of.
Eventually, they were dredging the river and found the ship - and it’s cargo.
Scientists tested the foods and found them almost pristine. Still very edible.
And this was stuff that had been canned 100 years before.
Here is a bit of the history. The ship was called the Bertrand.
I’ve read several slightly differing accounts of it.
http://www.freesteader.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=3192
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I’m seriously getting that! Just what I need.
I was at a wedding shortly after the Florida's "year of hurricanes' and remember all of us from different parts of the state talking about how we did. One woman told of opening a garage door daily without electricity and sitting in her car to charge her sell phone for 10 minutes a day - how important the cell phone was - and the 10 minutes in the car being the only air conditioning she experienced. Another told of falling asleep, waking up drenched to the sounds of silence ... someone had cut the chains on the generator - the fans had stopped - generator gone...
NO? Are you kidding me? How would we get the system up and running without a match?
Wonderful! Costco is taking care of today’s Y2K kooks.
We had a few instances here when we had the major ice storm a few years back. 10 days with no electricity in frigid temps.
There were a few instances of generators being stolen - fortunately not in our neighborhood.
Having a big dog in the backyard always helps.
Good question.
Everything is run by computers these days. It's too difficult to run something like that without computers.
Get prepared for a long time without electricity if the EMP hits.
Sure it’s a joke until you find yourself in that situaton and don’t have the food stored.Newflash no one is going to save you.
make sure it's white rice - not as nutritious, but has a MUCH longer shelf life than brown rice.
Buy a good dehydrator and everytime produce and meat is on sale buy and dry.You will also need glass jars and a sealer that also will do bags and which ever is the better storage use it.I have had an American Harvest dehydrator since the early 90’s it willhad 28 trays at a time.
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