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Actually, rice is the mainstay of billions of people across Asia especially, and has been for a long time. It must be good for something.
And central and south america.
Off the top of my head - it does have a decent amount of calories. I'm not saying you should do rice vs. other dry goods, but its worth having if you have the room. My view is that its good to add to a meal to add volume or as a base (i.e. w/ meat).
Off the top of my head - it does have a decent amount of calories. I'm not saying you should do rice vs. other dry goods, but its worth having if you have the room. My view is that its good to add to a meal to add volume or as a base (i.e. w/ meat).
I carry rice in my packs because it's simple to add a handful of rice to a soup or stew to give it some bulk.
If you have nothing else, some rice and a bullion cube give you a simple meal.
I will sometimes carry pearl barley or instant potatoes for the same purpose. Oatmeal does a good job too, but doesn't go as well with soups and stews, but if you're hungry and it's all you got.....
Beans are good, but take longer to cook, although I have found putting some beans in a wide mouth plastic bottle you can seal and letting them soak while you travel helps cut down cooking time when you get to your campsite.
Actually, rice is the mainstay of billions of people across Asia especially, and has been for a long time. It must be good for something.
Non diabetics, that is. For me, white rice and spaghetti are certainly off the menu and I can only have 50 cc's of brown rice a day.
Dad turned me on to beans in the 90s when I didn't have much money, he said it was how the Army ate during the Great Depression. Robyn Davidson, "Tracks", got me started on lentils (that's what she ate on her trek across the Outback) and split peas got in between the two somewhere along the way.
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......Beans are good, but take longer to cook, although I have found putting some beans in a wide mouth plastic bottle you can seal and letting them soak while you travel helps cut down cooking time when you get to your campsite.
I find my version of Moors & Christians, of black beans, black eyed peas, brown rice cooks up pretty fast. Further, it makes its own stew so extra spices aren't needed.
When I make my stew for the week, beef or chicken, it involves various kinds of beans. I toss a handful of pinto beans in to add to it and like that, they cook decently fast.
I grew up eating beans and peas that we grew in our garden. My dad gave it up when he lost the free labor (we grew up and moved). Even after I got married my wife and I had a garden one year that we ate off of for three years from the canned beans and peas. I can't find fresh beans and peas much anywhere I live now. So I have to get dry beans and peas instead and can them. I bought more of these yesterday along with flour, sugar, rice, noodles and cornbread mix.
Yesterday Russia invaded and started bombing. On the news, they were showing people crowded into the markets stocking up on supplies.
Sigh. I guess that is just human nature, to wait until too late to make plans.
You'd think with Russia parked on the border and just a few miles away, everyone would already have at least their staples piled up under the bed and ready for the day when there are no supplies in the market. But no. Don't stock up until the bombs have been falling for a couple of hours already.
I forgot the psychological term for this condition, mine is; a dangerous state of denial leading to dependence on others.
All of the warning signs are there, as the entire planet is now in a situation it has not seen in almost a century. Only now it is more perilous due to technology, and economic inter-dependence.
When I tell people to stock food, I get a blank what for stare in return.
Apparently they haven't noticed China doing this.
One very important thing I forgot to mention is coffee. We like Community Coffee so we bought 4 huge bags from Sam's Club. What I could order from Sam's I ordered from Costco which included several cases of canned soup along with some more coffee.
I think a conventional war is far fetched, however additional cyber attacks is a real possibility. Our water system is at risk and clean water could be hard to come by.
As we have chlorinated city water.
But I buy gallons of filtered drinking water and gallons of distilled water for my CPAP.
When they are empty, I fill with the city water, mark them as "chlorinated water" and the date.
I take them downstairs to the basement.
Every 6 months I use those to water the plants and refresh and redate.
Been doing it for a while.
Have many gallons down there.
Live near a creek, and the river it feeds into.
Have purification system and life straw products.
And methods to boil it.
I currently have 4 gallons of distilled water backup for my CPAP.
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I am stocked up for the disasters we normally face where I live. I am curious, what extra things are being stocked by my City-Data friends that are not usually stocked?
I am anticipating an increase in food prices since we import fertilizer from Russia. Russia is a major exporter of urea, NKS and ammonium nitrate. It is also the third largest exporter of potash. We can get these from others countries, but at what cost?
My mother talked about the rationing during World War II. She would get ham and bacon from relatives in the country in exchange for sugar and coffee. She would then go to the black market and exchange the bacon for eggs, butter, soap and nylon hose.
As an aside, I was told that whole sweet potatoes would freeze nicely. Tried it. Put an uncooked, unwrapped sweet potato in the freezer and left it there for several months. Thawed it out last week and baked it. Not bad. A little sweeter than fresh, but quite edible.
I've often wondered but always forget to ask, so here goes: What exactly was the obsession with nylon hose around WW2 all about? Every single time I hear about that era, nylons are mentioned as a hard to get, hoarding item. What possible use did they have other then to look professional during a job interview for ladies? Robbing a bank maybe?
Back then (way back then), women were required to wear dresses to work. Hose was mandatory. It had a seam running up the back of the leg and was easy to damage. Silk hose was the best, but our supply of silk came from Japan. Silk and nylon were confiscated by the government to be used for parachutes and other war materials. Hose became a highly sought after commodity. Even used hose was sellable! My mother told me about putting makeup on her legs, and using a eyebrow pencil to draw a fake seam up the back of her leg.
When I first began working, we were required to wear dresses. I wore nylon hose. Hose was so delicate that I would go thru several pairs a week. I wore panty hose and always bought the same color. When I got a run in one leg, I would cut off that leg and match it with another one-legged pair. By layering them, I had an acceptable pair of hose. If the half-hose didn't match, I would boil them in tea to even out the color.
When the women at the company I worked at demanded the right to wear pants, we were required to wear pantsuits and the jacket had to completely cover our butts! And . . . we still had to wear hose!
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