Survival
Posted By: gourdpainter on 2008-11-14
In Reply to: depression? - shelly
My first suggestion is if you don't know how to cook from scratch, learn.
My stockpile consists of lots of dried beans and blackeyed peas, rice, dry spaghetti, flour and cornmeal along with ingredients for making bread such as baking powder. You can freeze these things of they will last a very long time if stored in air tight containers.
Lots of people say they don't like pinto beans but if things go the way they are headed, I expect lots of people will think they're quite tasty when they're hungry.
If you have any kind of yard, invest in seeds and grow your own garden. You don't have to have a lot of space. If you don't know how to raise vegetables...learn. Fruit trees take a few years to mature so start planting fruit trees instead of decorative trees. Fruit trees make good decorative trees anyway. Learn how to can like your grandmothers and great grandmothers did. Those who will be hit hardest are those who live in apartments but, again, pinto beans and rice, even if you think you don't ike it, will taste very good if you don't have anything else. If anyone is interested, I'll be happy to share my bean recipe. They can be a delicacy if properly prepared. Everything you need to make plain old beans a delicacy can be stockpiled and will last just about forever.
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