Re: It's Early, But Will You Have for Dinner Tonight, Thursday, 11/14/2024?

On Wed, 27 Nov 2024, Carol wrote:

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On Tue, 26 Nov 2024, Carol wrote:

What about grains? Do you store big buckets of grain? I knew a
prepper once who insisted on having huge barrels of grains in his
cellar in the country side.

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Here you've gotten off the line of what I'm doing.  I'm not a
'prepper' from my take on what you mean.  I bake so have flour.
Don and I like the effect of cooking dry beans with broths and
seasonings.  For that, we have dried beans in 16oz bags of 3-4
types.  Navy, blackeyes, large lima (aka 'butter beans'), and
usually something else with aduki being most common (but may be
canned aduki) or pink beans.  Sometimes Canary yellows from the
hispanic store nearest me.  They are just pretty mixed with aduki.
16oz is not a prepper.
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I stock storm supplies for hurricanes (common to my area) so at this
time, I look though for expired things and cook them up.  Normal
behavior to prevent waste of canned goods to long in the tooth for
eating.

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This is very exotic! Having lived most of my life in europe,
hurricans are completely foreign to me! We have the odd winter storm,
but never anything to write home about.

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Weather tends to be a lot more watched and scarey here.  Most folks are
either Hurricane (tornados are part of hurricanes), earthquakes,
tornados, or forrest fires.  (grin, pick your poison).

Wow... this is not so good! Would I be safe in Idaho? I know legendary hard rocker Yngwie Malmsteen moved from California to Florida because he could not get used to the earth quakes.
The height of "drama" around here is probably -20 C and half a meter of snow. But that's nothing to worry about, except that you just need to keep in mind that all busses and trains stop working for a day or two.

It's rare in my own experience to be a real 'prepper' unless I think
it's Mormon's who seem to aim to have a lot of drygoods?  I'm not
saying that the mormons all do that but it's not terribly uncommon to
have 3-6 months in a pinch.  Jim Yeller who lives in Yellowknife Canada
says common there but it's more of a unique 'store for summer' as the
trucks can't get through when the ice bridges melt.  Winter, they just
truck up on the frozen rivers.

Mormons are very funny! I met one a few months ago and he tried to convert me. His philosophy skills and training were lacking though, so I got the feeling that I was the one who made him raise more and new questions, instead of him raising any new points for me.

Google and you'll see the ice trucks.  Even a TV show about them.  Dave
Smith might know more?

I think I've seen it.