[Kartographer]

Tami Huffman is larding her Tom Brooks, Va., basement with freeze-dried, dehydrated and canned foods. She’s preparing not for a natural disaster, but an economic one as food prices rise and recession fears endure.

I have to wonder what these people are going to do now that they have throw OPSEC aside and let every 'grasshopper' for miles around know that they have stores?

[Mr. Silverback]

Bump.

[Atlas Sneezed]

Pretty dumb to let the world know whose house to loot when food runs short.

[JAKraig]

I’m sure if they were smart enough to store some food they are also smart enough to stockpile some precious metals, like brass and lead.

[Kartographer]

PING!!!!

[Kartographer]

PING!!!!

[rpierce]

Not unlike the generation that survived the Great Depression and spent the rest of their lives pinching pennies, some middle-class Americans have developed a sense of thrift that is lasting even as the economic crisis loosens its grip. The so-called Great Recession was declared officially over last fall, yet consumer confidence – or lack of it – remains consistent with an economy in deep trouble.

I guess I missed the memo about all being hunky dory again. Sounds like whistling past the graveyard to me. A little hunger will change the subtly snarky attitude of the 'journalist.'

[bgill]

Today’s To-Do List already had:

check transplants - done
prune tomatoes
water garden
re-arrange pantry

[JDoutrider]

Not much of a stash from what it shows in that jpg... She better get hoppin on her dooms day shoppin!

[Buckeye McFrog]

more Mormon-bashing from the LA Times?

[mbynack]

I've been thinking of canning dried rice and beans. My idea is to put it in canning jars and put it in the oven for a half hour at about 170 degrees to kill any bugs and eggs and then put the lids on it before it cools. That would create a vacuum inside to keep it from getting contaminated.

We tried keeping rice in the original plastic bags, but it had weevils in it within a couple of months.

Anyone ever tried this or have any advice?

[lurk]

Even if you store a 2 year supply, there are two problems.

One, you’re 5 years short.
Two, as soon as your starving neighbors find out you’ve got a stash of food, they’ll kill you and take your food.

[Vendome]

I am stocked up but still adding more.

I have two storage 10x20 where I store stuff I don’t room for and a section in both that is strictly for prep. They are 50 miles apart, so I should be able to reach at least one if have to.

I am stocked for 3 months to support 4 people at my office.

At home I have somewhere between 9 months and a year worth of everything except TP, though we have plenty of that and cut shop towels into wipe sizes. Just need to setup a system for disposal and cleaning of them if that time comes but, I grew in the diaper age and know what to do.

Part of anyone’s prep should be bathroom gloves. Not those cheap yellow ones, though I admit I have about 30 pair, but the strudy blue ones that don’t rip and tear so easily.

I have 15 pair of those and about 100 green scrub pads, which I get Home Depot.

For sponges I buy the 10 pack at Home Depot and have 5 packs of those. Comes in handy when guests are coming and I don’t want them to see an overused sponge.

I just toss the used one and pull out a nice clean one before they come over.

[Taffini]

prepare bump

[Nailbiter]

later read

[Nailbiter]

later read

[crosshairs]

Not smart to advertise that information. The vultures who didn’t prepare will know where to land now.

[Obadiah]

Hope she has a lot of ammo too!

[Free Vulcan]

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[Dr.Zoidberg]

Anyone who shouts from the rooftops that they have food while others go hungry is an idiot.

Civilized human behavior is a veneer that exists only hand in hand with full stomachs, let him go hungry for an extended period and man will quickly go feral.