Survival Food

[Patti]

I work with some Mormons and we started talking about the impending economical collapse in America. They told me that their church encourages them to stockpile food.

This is an on-line company that they order from:

http://waltonfeed.com/

They also have a Bishop's Storehouse that they buy from.

They've got a lot of really good ideas. Their wives all stay home and take care of the kids (they have huge families). The wives grind wheat and bake bread (no store bought bread).

I don't have time to grind wheat and bake bread, but the rest of the stuff makes a lot of good sense. They said you basically have to change your whole way of thinking about food and how to prepare it. For example, they don't buy milk. They buy powdered milk in bulk.

It's A LOT cheaper and healthier the way they do things.

It's something to think about.

[PointnClick]

The Mormon faith says that a family should store a year's worth of food... I have several article on how to store things for years and even decades... I'll dig 'em up for ya, Patti...

I've been building up some canned food in my hurricane supplies. I used to worry about the "use by" date on the cans, but canned food in undamaged cans lasts well past that date. I was reading about a ship that sank in the late 1800's that was discovered with canned food in it's galley. They opened it up and tested it, and while it had lost significant flavor, it still had 90 or 95 percent of it's nutritional value... good to know.

[Bumper]

Yup, half of my neighbors (on this block) are Mormons. And, the house we have now is a Mormon built house with a "Mormon pantry" that is as large as many guest bedrooms. We're not Mormons but my wife has so much room she has, over the years, been filling the shelves as tight as we can get them......

[Paco]

Lots of kids and the Wife stays home!! I just can't understand....


Oh, wait. Nevermind, I forgot we homeschool and have 5 kids. We also store food, not so much for the impending doom of the future but to be prepared in the event of a natural disaster and I can't get out to the store (at least that is why we started storing food).