Post by shinester on Nov 29, 2016 8:17:43 GMT 10
Pete - thanks
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Paranoia - ha, yeah well that's an idea. The costs and fuel use do increase for 'comfort' food and the main plan here is survive for as cheap-as(s) possible, it's why I chose a DIY alcohol stove over a ready made one [They're only $10], it's all compromises. I wish I could get around the need for fat as the ghee blows out the cost and it's harder to find (I just ordered some with free home delivery ) making it harder to put together and I want it easy for the newer people or those who make a cursory visit and want to store something for emergencies. Having said that moral is an important element of survival so I wrote one up for you, lets call it the Paranoia-special. It will be a good comparison also of how small changes effect the dollar price, see the cost/day going to $1.97 from $1.64[with toothbrush]. In a year that's $121. All depends of course.
On a similar note, perhaps add-on comfort pack with extra sugar, flavors, spices, dried veggies, canned flavors [coconut cream and rice!] would be a good plan. You could add boiled lollies [lasts forever], playing cards, extra fuel and so on. I'll get these main food groups done first. The idea here is not to tell people what to put in their packs as they are the minimum, rather it's to show how cheaply and nutritiously you can feed people. For myself this is meant for additional people feeding, important as there's safety in numbers as can be demonstrated through history such as Selco who wrote about living through the Sarajevo Siege and how important numbers were. My own food stores are fairly normal food for the first couple of months, why touch the boring food and I do have a good amount of food over all.
I'm spoiling where I'm going with this in saying that the last pack I'm putting up is a combined pack of the best types of foods giving a more rounded diet and variety leaving out the packs with wheat and corn that show it not to be 'as good'. I've avoided beans for instance because they require a LOT of fuel to cook, the older they are the longer they are to cook, I boiled some older beans for bout 8hrs to soften them and then canned them for another 2hrs of temperature [they taste amazing though] to give you an idea why I avoid them If I were storing beans, I'd have a grinder for sure, to cut down on cooking times, if I also planned on storing fuel with the kit.
Paranoia - Rice Pudding Special.
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Paranoia - ha, yeah well that's an idea. The costs and fuel use do increase for 'comfort' food and the main plan here is survive for as cheap-as(s) possible, it's why I chose a DIY alcohol stove over a ready made one [They're only $10], it's all compromises. I wish I could get around the need for fat as the ghee blows out the cost and it's harder to find (I just ordered some with free home delivery ) making it harder to put together and I want it easy for the newer people or those who make a cursory visit and want to store something for emergencies. Having said that moral is an important element of survival so I wrote one up for you, lets call it the Paranoia-special. It will be a good comparison also of how small changes effect the dollar price, see the cost/day going to $1.97 from $1.64[with toothbrush]. In a year that's $121. All depends of course.
On a similar note, perhaps add-on comfort pack with extra sugar, flavors, spices, dried veggies, canned flavors [coconut cream and rice!] would be a good plan. You could add boiled lollies [lasts forever], playing cards, extra fuel and so on. I'll get these main food groups done first. The idea here is not to tell people what to put in their packs as they are the minimum, rather it's to show how cheaply and nutritiously you can feed people. For myself this is meant for additional people feeding, important as there's safety in numbers as can be demonstrated through history such as Selco who wrote about living through the Sarajevo Siege and how important numbers were. My own food stores are fairly normal food for the first couple of months, why touch the boring food and I do have a good amount of food over all.
I'm spoiling where I'm going with this in saying that the last pack I'm putting up is a combined pack of the best types of foods giving a more rounded diet and variety leaving out the packs with wheat and corn that show it not to be 'as good'. I've avoided beans for instance because they require a LOT of fuel to cook, the older they are the longer they are to cook, I boiled some older beans for bout 8hrs to soften them and then canned them for another 2hrs of temperature [they taste amazing though] to give you an idea why I avoid them If I were storing beans, I'd have a grinder for sure, to cut down on cooking times, if I also planned on storing fuel with the kit.
Paranoia - Rice Pudding Special.