Posted on 11/09/2012 6:37:04 AM PST by Kartographer
There’s a book called “The Human-Powered Home” that has ideas for things like that, or you can find lots of plans for pedal-powered things with a quich google search.
From the description: John 'Lofty' Wiseman served in the British Special Air Service (SAS) for twenty-six years. The SAS Survival Handbook is based on the training techniques of this world-famous elite fighting force.
It was recommended by Vince Flynn in his July newsletter.
Thank you.
Not really over $20.00 per pound. Each can contains approximately 3 lbs of bacon which has been cooked(removing the weight of fat/liquid.
That works out to be around $4.44 per pound. And you don’t have to cook it, and it lasts for 10 years.
If it tastes good, I’d say that it’s a handy can of food to have in case of TEOTWAWKI, or an earthquake/natural disaster.
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9oz x 12cans of edible product = 108oz of edible product @ $140
it wouldn’t matter if it came from a 500# pig, would it?
Big difference between the third year of a zombie attack and the third year after a zombie attack.
My best guess is that week #2 after SHTF will look ugly, and a lot of slow-moving zombies will be spotted - and eliminated. Surviving slow zombies will be like a video game in which you rack up points on easy targets with a 99% chance of survival per encounter if you are prepared. The second wave will be larger numbers, better organized, and experienced zombies, and that will be like a much higher level in the games, where even an 80% chance of survival per encounter depends on working together with neighbors and doing everything right on your home territory.
After a month, I don't expect zombie sightings on our home territory to be any more frequent than they are today, and much less frequent after three months. By that point, those who raid homes will have disappeared through natural attrition or switched careers after too many close calls. Then the issues will be the classic ones of grifters, highwaymen, piracy, and perhaps slavery (even if technology takes a step backward, which is not a guarantee, we will still have boats and wagons, with trade along roads and waterways). We still need several years worth of ammunition or reloading capability - venison provides a whole lot of meat for one shot - but I don't expect daily zombie attacks to last very long at all.
To see how much it costs over raw bacon you have to either adjust the costs of the raw bacon to that of the cooked can or vice versa.
A 3 lb package of thick sliced bacon costs between 4-6 dollars, so the price on the canned bacon is competitive with fresh bacon.
That's the only point I was making.
Now as to whether that is the least costly item to buy - decidedly not. A can of beans and rice would give you a whole protein plus fiber and is a lot cheaper, but it would surely be a taste treat to add a slice of crumbled bacon in the mix- totally up to individual taste.
Now, I do love bacon, but don't usually eat it. Between the nitrates and the fat content and family history we don't eat much of it. A nice BLT in the summer with homegrown tomatoes occasionally is about it.
My self I'd really rather have steak. LOL. But in an SHTF situation I'd slurp up the beans and rice with or with out the bacon and count myself lucky.
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it wouldn’t matter if it came from a 500# pig, would it?
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Well, that depends on whether the 500 lb pig rendered out at 9 oz cooked per 3 lb raw slices. After all, some bacon has more fat and shrivels up more than others.
Do you always go out of your way to be snarky?
No matter what 108oz of available bacon for $140 is expensive.
No matter what 108oz of available bacon for $140 is expensive.
No matter what 108oz of available bacon for $140 is expensive.
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Never said it wasn’t expensive. In fact I pointed out than beans and rice are cheaper didn’t I? Yes I did.
I just pointed out that A 3 lb pack of bacon is also expensive. My point was that the cost of either of these choices if you happen to be a bacon lover is not much different.
The can is not really more expensive than a lot of the BACON sold in grocery stores.
Clearly, bacon in any form is not a cheap food or cheap source of protein.
So I already agreed it wasn’t cheap - so what’s your point to keep posting something I already agreed to?
What’s the point in continuing to answer? I thought you wanted to talk to a snarky person, so I replied.
Well, you were mistaken.
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If you can’t/won’t tip your server, stay home and make your own food and serve yourself.
Our pastor at my Church gave an entire sermon on tipping. He had a server speak who talked about how busy restaurants were on Sunday afternoons which presumably were the after Church crowds, and how they tipped so poorly, setting a poor example.
Like I said, if you can’t/won’t tip, stay home and eat.
Hey, great idea. How can this be successfully accomplished so that we don’t give up our anonymity on the site yet can still contact all the freepers in our area? Any suggestions?
You’re welcome.
It’s a good shelf sitter and looks neat even if one doesnt find a whole lot useful out of the information contained within the pages.
I think we purchased ours from a living history trade fair ~
That was a nice read Johnny. My parents grew up in the depression and my dad especially told me lots of survival type food stories. Like when they would trap sparrows by where the trains spilled some grain (in Chicago) and ate sparrow stew. He was in the navy in WWII fought in both theaters. He was on a destroyer escort and being a good cook himself could not stand the food on the ship. He was a gunners mate but started asking the cook if he could have some leftover bones, scraps of this and that and he started cooking some soups and stews. Pretty soon he had a line going for what he was cooking. Your story about cooking for the GIs made me think of that - thanks!
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