Monday, December 3, 2007

The emergency rations box

What is there was a sudden food panic and you didn't want to be rushing down to the shops to find them empty?  What will be put in our crates?

- tinned soup
- pasta 
- rice
- oats
- barley 
- chocolate - 70%
- soup base
- tea
- sugar
- dried milk
- dried beans
- chick peas
- seeds
- raisins
- other dried fruit - bananas etc.
- salt/pepper
- honey
- jams
- sun dried tomatoes
- tinned tomatoes
- brandy/whisky/poiten
- flour (if you can get it sealed up)
- cigarettes?!
- olive oil
- sunflower oil
- treats eg. pears pickled in brandy!
- bread soda
- yeast
- tinned fish, especially sardines
- salami
- vinegar
- soy sauce
- wine
- spices, especially cinnamon
- baking soda
- lentils
- dried peas

Every year we have a big feast and eat everything in the crate and start again!

If we think we can run a freezer:
- bacon
- butter (a bit)


If it wasn't here:
- mixed herbs
- dried eggs (we will be rushing out and getting chickens)


And also
- basic medicines including tetracycline
- multi-vitamins

And
- soap (of all kinds)



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