Bam Bam breeds confidence, eh?
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I heard that Mountain House is no longer selling to retail customers...
They are selling to the government, now.
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My free Preparedness Manual can be downloaded from:
http://www.tomeaker.com/kart/preparedness1h.pdf
It contains information showing how you can dehydrate and store your own dehydrated food which you can often do cheaper than some of the products avaiable from vendors.
I just bought a box of 20 meals of Mountain House from a display at Costco in Phoenix. The display was quite large.
A few weeks ago, Mountain House was saying they would ship in 120 days, what happened?
Shelf life of how many years? Maybe before the invasion of ‘food moths’. . .
I can see people fretting about MH and other vendors not being able to supply freeze-dried meals, etc. But there are alternatives.
Right now, I’m eating a Knorr pasta side dish I cooked up and added a tomato and some chopped red peppers.
It’s delicious! Really!
And the Knorr sides in the aluminum foil pouches would last basically forever.
So like I say, there are alternatives. I actually have about 20 of the MH pouches stored away, but also alot of other stuff.
Some stores (maybe Costco) sell the dried items in bulk. Dried powdered milk. Various dried gravy mixes, brown gravy, country gravy, that stuff. Also dried cheese sauce powder that all you do is add water to and Voila!! cheese sauce.
So no use panicking... not yet. But get yur rear in gear and start stocking!
I’ve been stocking up on Spam lately.....and amazingly many stores here are out of that too.
So much for the recovery which is supposedly happening.
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Most grocery stores stock No. 10 cans in the institution section.
I wait for sales on smaller cans and buy what I need. A No. 10 can of beans is a whole lot of whoopie cushion.
One can also buy small freeze-dried packages of spuds, dried soups and cake mixes. I find them more sensible than No. 10 cans. I just can’t see myself baking a cake that’s 10-feet long.
There’s a potential opening for smaller businesses to get in on the freeze-dried market. Wonder how much the machinery costs?
The reason Mountain House is on such a backorder is due to the “rush” 1$ billion order from the govt which Mountain is filling first. The govt says they are worried about increased chances of a terror attack on the US and they need to stock up. I feel sure all that food will be kept to feed us in a crisis and not the govt elite and their families. Yes I’m just sure of it.
Garden list ping possibility?
FWIW: as cheap extreme backup, note that Costco et al have 50 lb bags of rice for ~$20. That’s enough basic filler and calories for an adult male for a month in a compact shelf-stable form. Not saying it will be pleasant or healthy, but it is easy to obtain now and will do in worst cases.
I just buy food that’s dated 2014 or 2015, like tuna, and canned salmon.
Most of us don’t have ten years of space anyway.
To leave this out of the story is disingenuous - or perhaps it's because the suppliers are not now mentioning that their shortage is due to the Gov't buying up their entire stock and ordering tons more. (And they are NOT ordering to stock public supplies. The companies are no longer mentioning the gov't and it seems the net has been scrubbed of the information. I'm now angry at myself as, when clearing of excess icons on my desktop - JUST LAST NIGHT - I deemed the story of this as not necc., thinking I could search it up anytime. I should have looked first! the net is clear and I suspicion the suppliers have been told to shut up.). It's not that supplies are in such demand that there is a lengthily delay that bothers me - it's WHY is the gov’t suddenly beefing up it's emergency food supply to such a rate?
Getting ready for a national emergency - that will be brought on by them (but not appear so) requiring Martial Law? Maybe within 6 months of the election - thereby stopping the election?
I suspect our next national emergency will be horrific - remember, the people who have been plotting to bury our freedoms and capitalist Republic for totalitarian rule, also have an actual number of citizens they deem ‘expendable’ in order to bring about their take over.
In the meantime, There are many foods/supplies you can plan for without mail order - and cheaper.
First off, get a garden going. Learn how to preserve foods.
Fill glass jars with sprouting seeds: alfalfa, lentils, mung. Ditto those little packs of dried soup vegs in the grocery store. Dried beans, including pintos, dried peas, jars of broth - paste or cube. Corn meal (breakfast cereal, fritters and corn bread), cooking oil (coconut, grape seed, lard - learn to make ghee (from butter - it will store for months) - Learn to forage plants native to your area.
Learn to do things our grandparents did as a matter of course: make maple syrup, keep honey bees, raise chickens for eggs and meat and rabbits for meat and fur.
Etc etc - Do not put your trust in the gov’t and with the current thugs in control - believe nothing.
Become as independent as possible as to your daily needs. And remember: your local super market has enough food for your area for ONE DAY. If the trucks don't roll - no food. It can stop overnight. Think on this: the motto of despots through the ages is "He who controls the food, controls the people." Our current 'rulers' have no qualms about nationalizing businesses, as we have seen. What you have NOT seen is that gov't has been, through rules, regs, gas prices, etc., been systematically putting the independent owner/operators OFF THE ROAD. And in the last 2 years, thousands of smaller trucking companies have gone belly up. Climbing up to a half million truckers have lost their jobs. The trucking companies are being whittled down to a the "Big Ten." - Play ball with the gov't or go under. NOW, when they get them all in line - very easy to take over. And then they control the food. Think it can't happen? Have you had your eyes open in the last 2 years?
Plant your gardens NOW.
Are any of you actually opening up some of this food once in a while?
I find less and less pieces of actual food in cans of soup for instance, and what is in there probably came from China.