[JimRed]

Hint.........Dry beans, rice, root crops in a root cellar, dried fruit, dry fish and meat, dry milk, lard, coffee beans bought in 25lb bulk, sugar and flour in 50lb bags will keep you fed all year.

But...but...but...those things require actual COOKING!!!

[blackdog]

Busy life paying taxes to take care of everyone else introduced me to the Crock Pot. It's really not cooking. It's like culinary abandonment with an acceptable, yet unsatisfying outcome.

Best oatmeal ever.............Steel cut oats, water, crockpot. Pour it all in when you go to bed, set on low, and you wake up with the best real oatmeal you'll ever taste. Cost is around five cents a serving.