Back over 10 years ago I bought an earthquake emergency pack at a local
hardware store. As it expired I tried the "energy bars" and found they
were highly sweetened. Instead of giving me energy those would have
laid me on my back. I took to buying stuff to keep around that I would
actually eat and would eat before expiration just replacing them. I
tried an eFoods sample pack and found though it tasted good two of the
items were soy protein and I seem to have a little allergy to that. I
am thinking of keeping some MREs on hand but so many of the sample packs
included beef meals which I don't eat. They are missing out selling to
the semi-veg group who might be interested in chicken and seafood MREs.
I mainly though know how to make stuff and keep some canned meats on hand.
On 09/08/2013 10:09 AM, [email protected] wrote:
Re "There's a US series by National Geographic called Doomsday
Preppers": I caught a bit of that. It intrigued me the different
approaches taken. Some people had containers hidden away stocked with
tinned food and all the usual stuff whereas others took the view that
in a real breakdown of law and order you'd never be able to keep other
desperate individuals away from your stash so the better approach was
to learn how to live off the land and have a tent and backpack ready.
There's an old money-saving adage to never buy stuff until you
actually need it so it's astonishing to see how much wealth people
have sunk into stores and equipment they'll likely never use.
