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FYI: You can get get a 50 lbs bag of pinto beans at Sams for $33 and a 50 lbs bag of rice for $17. They will keep as is at least a year and provide, respective
by reddog 7y ago
FYI: You can get get a 50 lbs bag of pinto beans at Sams for $33 and a 50 lbs bag of rice for $17. They will keep as is at least a year and provide, respectively, 76,000 calories and 82,400 calories. Maybe 80 days worth of food for a single individual.
It would be a pretty monotonous diet but better than the alternative.
- sneak 7y agoDrinking water is frequently the bottleneck, as stable food stores are cheap and straightforward.
- Tepix 7y agoIf you have drinkable tap water you should be ok.
- sneak 7y agoIn this instance, a pandemic. There are many other scenarios where even if you have drinkable tap water under normal circumstances, disaster might render that useless. I drink bottled/filtered only due to negative side effects (for me personally, most don’t have any) of drinking chlorinated water, so simply increasing my input buffer is really straightforward.