Re: living without fridge or food preparation

Hank Rogers wrote:

dsi1 wrote:

On Thu, 27 Mar 2025 13:16:06 +0000, Paul Edwards wrote:
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Hi.
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Some time (read: 25 years) ago, I asked about a minimal diet for
survival:
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https://groups.google.com/g/rec.food.cooking/c/yNDNcy8v5B0/m/VpIYtj1S9W4J
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I now have a new objective. I live in Sydney and have access
to a supermarket. But I want to see if I can survive without grid
electricity. Just portable solar. Basically emulating conditions
that might exist if I was backpacking in some jungle. I have 40W
solar panels that fit in a backpack. So does my laptop and
smartphone and powerbanks. Satellite communication is
portable and lightweight too. I only need to connect once/day
via UUCP to participate in newsgroups. I have actually been
sorting out the software side for decades (see https://pdos.org).
Solar electricity I have only taken an interest in in the last
couple of years when I was temporarily in the Philippines (and
experienced daily blackouts and once it was about 3 days).
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Anyway, before, price was something I was interested in. Now
I'm not too worried about price. I'm interested in not having to
store food in a fridge, and not having to cook. I don't want to
spend time cooking (lazy), but also, I will (simulating) have no
electricity or gas to cook with anyway.
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I would want food that I could stockpile for say a 3 month
supply. And I'm looking for something that could theoretically
be sustainable and healthy forever.
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When I was in the Philippines they survived without electricity
after a blackout that lasted about 3 days, but people had
chickens and stuff. I didn't look too closely at the food supply.
My focus was on electricity - specifically to be able to continue
my programming work without electricity other than that I
could get from the Sun. And portable.
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I don't want to maintain chickens either. Nor grow vegetables.
I live in a 2-bedroom unit.
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What are my options within this new constraint?
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I remember there was some "astronaut food". I don't know
if that was a real thing, but it could be as simple as buying
that.
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Thanks. Paul.

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Just stock up on a lot of canned goods. Mostly canned meats and beans.
You can get some cheap instant ramen or even expensive Korean noodles.
You might want to have a hot meal every once in a while - even if you're
lazy. You can pick up a butane stove and cans of butane for not much
money. I've used one daily for years. Make sure that you have plenty of
potable water on hand. You could probably live on that kind of diet for
quite a while. Years, but maybe not forever. A month would be a cake
walk, I reckon.
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You could also try out some MREs - I suppose some folks might enjoy that
kind of thing.
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Tojo, if he's a dink, he could live on a 100 lb bag of rice, with an old
hubcap to boil it in.  Maybe for the rest of his life.

OTOH Our Dear Unca eats "high on the hog" 'cuz he's charging poor
peeples for BOGUS hearing aide repairs...
The last he spoke about was the little kid...
Thus all them snazzy restaurant meals he is always crowing about in the
pix he posts here...
He also has that luxe condo at the beach at Waikiki....
"...Swimmin' POOLS... movie STARS..."
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GM
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