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originally posted by: snowspirit
a reply to: imjack
Everyone's different, but I've noticed more 'liberal' people tend to shop differently also. Many health nuts, don't eat food that can easily be preserved or specific specialty items. I feel like they also shop for specific meals they are cooking that day and a couple of perishables to get by, while conservatives focus more on generic meals that can be...'stockpiled'.
Dried fruits and veggies, beef jerky (k, not totally healthy), nuts and seeds. Dried beans and lentils, rice, barley, oats......honey as a sweetener lasts forever if you have enough. Herbs, spices......other than the jerky, very healthy eating.
Need massive amounts of water though, and purification tablets.
I think Americans need to lose the political labels. They're really causing a lot of division in your country.
originally posted by: seagull
a reply to: Swills
I'd hazard a guess that most non-liberals don't stock up on food that'll keep for 25 years. Most of that stuff is rather nasty...it may keep you going, but it's not gourmet.
Most of this stuff, if it doesn't, should cross ideological barriers. It's just, to me anyway, good common sense. Canning veggies, fish, meat--or at least knowing how, and how to get it is stuff I learned as a little boy from my parents and grand-parents.
originally posted by: VengefulGhost
Bet the ER's get swamped with liberals with self-inflicted gunshot wounds .
originally posted by: DBCowboy
Why weren't leftists stocking up on firearms when the government wanted to ban them?
Now they want to stock up when it is realized that more Americans might get them?
originally posted by: VengefulGhost
Bet the ER's get swamped with liberals with self-inflicted gunshot wounds .
originally posted by: infolurker
originally posted by: seagull
a reply to: Swills
I'd hazard a guess that most non-liberals don't stock up on food that'll keep for 25 years. Most of that stuff is rather nasty...it may keep you going, but it's not gourmet.
Most of this stuff, if it doesn't, should cross ideological barriers. It's just, to me anyway, good common sense. Canning veggies, fish, meat--or at least knowing how, and how to get it is stuff I learned as a little boy from my parents and grand-parents.
Most canned goods will last 25 years. It might be a little mushy, but it will be edible. Actually, buying dried beans and rice, putting them in mylar with oxy absorber does the trick quite well. You can have buckets upon buckets of rice and beans (used canned goods to put over the rice and beans).
Here is my thread from 2009 on the subject: www.abovetopsecret.com...
originally posted by: JesusXst
a reply to: mikegrouchy
I think the Kid with the Gun in that second photo is about to shoot his Teacher.