Originally Posted By: philip
in the air when things go wrong, and people are told to "shelter in place," and we all expect to be stranded after the big earthquake.

The Vermont "Stock Up and Stay Home" planner at
http://healthvermont.gov/panflu/documents/TTL-StockUpPlanner.pdf
(downloads a .pdf file) suggests for a family of four for two weeks that we start with 5 lbs of white flour, 5 lbs of wheat flour, 5 lbs of white rice, 4.4 lbs (?) of corn flour, 5 lbs of corn meal, and 5 lbs of pasta. What th' heck are they thinking of cooking? The entire list is over a page long and includes canned meat and fish, soy sauce, tabasco, dried beans, nuts and seeds, and other stuff. But I'd love to see whoever made that list live off it for two weeks after having the supplies sit in the attic or basement for a year.

It's good to suggest planning on bugging in, but I'm sorry it wasn't taken more seriously by the reporter. C'est la vie.


Vermonters clearly plan to do some baking. 4.4 pounds of corn meal would be 2 kilograms therof-and the assortment would provide maybe 20 batches of cornbread, which is my idea of a great survival food. The whole wheat would lose nutrients in the attic,but the rest of the stuff would be fine, I suspect. Beans, flour, and sugar were staples in the old forest service chuckboxes.
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