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Emergency food
On Tuesday, November 10, 2015 at 8:47:16 AM UTC-10, Moe DeLoughan wrote:
> On 11/10/2015 10:56 AM, sf wrote:
> > On Tue, 10 Nov 2015 06:45:52 -0600, Moe DeLoughan >
> > wrote:
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> >> On 11/9/2015 2:07 PM, sf wrote:
> >>> On Mon, 09 Nov 2015 10:26:27 -0600, Moe DeLoughan >
> >>> wrote:
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> >>>> (Link below for those who want to view the video)
> >>>> http://sploid.gizmodo.com/what-its-l...ocalyp-1740597
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> >>> That page doesn't exist.
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> >> Fixed:
> >> http://sploid.gizmodo.com/what-its-l...lyp-1740597077
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> > Thanks. I guess it's called "survival" food.
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> It's also nothing that a person couldn't trick up themselves with
> stockpiled dried vegetables, pasta, potatoes, rice, tomato powder,
> powdered milk and cheese products, and so forth. You could mix up your
> own seasoning or dried sauce mix ahead of time and store that, too, or
> make it on an as-needed basis. Honestly, pasta in tomato sauce or
> potatoes in a cheese or sour cream sauce is no brain surgery. There's
> no reason to pay hundreds of dollars for a bucket of macaroni and some
> powdered tomato/herb packets, or a bucket of dried potato slices and
> some powdered milk/cheese sauce packets.
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> Then again, the same can be said for the so-called 'survival' seeds.
> Just plain old open-pollinated seeds that can be purchased in bulk for
> about one one-hundredth of the price from actual seed companies.
What we need is home irradiation units - one that uses no radioactive materials. We could can our own foods in seconds without pressure cookers. That would be cool.
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