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Anyone getting stocked up on food etc just in case?
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Is the immune system like a muscle, ie it needs to be exercised or it will atrophy? If so, then eating out of date food = exercising your immunity system = "a good thing to do in moderation".
Not challenging you immune system at all can lead to allergies, I think?...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
WOW The Americans think of everything....it's true what Guy Montag (was it him?) said...only the Americans in Montana will survive to continue the human race.funkyfunkymonkey wrote: »Great thread - must look into this issue a bit more.
I haven't found a UK equivalent, but this looks really yummy and for $620 will feed one person for a year.
http://survivalacres.com/cgi-bin/quikstore.cgi?search=yes&product=SA17&template=database_product_page&exact_match=yes
FFM
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There are reasonable grounds to assume that food isn't about to go up in price in the short term and may even fall a bit. Many of the things that pushed the price up so dramatically (expensive oil and shipping) have got much much cheaper of late.
Hmmn, where do you live - can I come and shop where you shop? Flour, bread, eggs, fruit, green vegetables like spinach and watercress, tinned sardines and sweet corn, rice, chocolate, have gone up hugely in price. At my local Sainsburys, the sardines went up from 35p to 42p. Things like rice didn't go up only because of the oil price rise but because the governments of the producing countries set a cap on exports, to help ensure that their own people could buy rice but it didn't always work, and there were food riots in some countries. Also, this has coincided with the problems caused by too much land being turned over to growing bio-fuels instead of food crops.
Anything imported is going to become horribly expensive or unobtainable.YouGov: £50 and £50 and £5 Amazon voucher received;
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All the small holding fans on this board will save us. In a decade it will be turnips, cabbage and beetroot...easy to grow, quite resilient to pests.beaujolais-nouveau wrote: »Hmmn, where do you live - can I come and shop where you shop? Flour, bread, eggs, fruit, green vegetables like spinach and watercress, tinned sardines and sweet corn, rice, chocolate, have gone up hugely in price. At my local Sainsburys, the sardines went up from 35p to 42p. Things like rice didn't go up only because of the oil price rise but because the governments of the producing countries set a cap on exports, to help ensure that their own people could buy rice but it didn't always work, and there were food riots in some countries. Also, this has coincided with the problems caused by too much land being turned over to growing bio-fuels instead of food crops.
Anything imported is going to become horribly expensive or unobtainable.
Our diet is going to go retro. Oh no just like the 1970's diet I grew up on.0 -
Slips into Eric Morecambe mode... "there's no answer to that Ern"... and twiddles glasses in a funny way.
This thread is sooo much better than the vulture thread. We're not vultures - we're bonkers.
Aye. Vulting isn't half as much fun. :run:Time flies like an arrow.
Fruit flies like a banana.
Money talks, but chocolate SINGS
"I used to be snow white but I drifted" (A seasonal quote from the incomparable Miss West)0 -
wow, this all seems rather far fetched - interesting though!! Something I've always wondered, since the last petrol shortgage - if you get a jerry can and fill it with fuel, how long does it last? - does it go off???
It can evapourate like mad. But I doubt it would go off in any way, as it is oil separated into different elements, I think?
But OH says that you need to be very careful with aircraft fuel. Left sitting on its own for a bit, water forms on top, and that can be quite bad for the engine....much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
neverdespairgirl wrote: »Not challenging you immune system at all can lead to allergies, I think?
Your immune system to fight infection is different to the one that produces the stuff for allergies.
*trust me on this one
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neverdespairgirl wrote: »It can evapourate like mad. But I doubt it would go off in any way, as it is oil separated into different elements, I think?
But OH says that you need to be very careful with aircraft fuel. Left sitting on its own for a bit, water forms on top, and that can be quite bad for the engine.
Yes the light ends of petrol (necessary for cold starting) evaporate. If one could get a volatile mix (pentane, butane rich) one could mix it in or perhaps blending with some fresh gasoline would do the trick. I've got a diesel, no problem with that as it has no volatile components.0 -
But where do you store everything????
I've got a 4 bed house, with 4 people living in it (plus various pets) and wouldn't know where to store 6 months food stuff!!!
that American year's supply of grub takes up 22 cubic feet, so you'd need quite a bit of space for a year's supply for all four of you!...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
Storage is my problem too. Plus with tinned stuff if the worst didn't happen one would need to consume in time and restock, with some exceptions I prefer fresh food.0
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