Ambergris

Canned squirt cheese Ramen

Me too.

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I just realize I have been saying a fifteen-ounce can when I meant two fifteen-ounce cans. Fifteen ounces is close to a pint, not close to a quart. Weird how my brain will sometimes settle on a fact and not examine it until someone makes me think. And now--duh!--I remember I always used to count pairs of jars/cans this size. Anyway, the 14-oz can of coconut milk I grabbed has 480 calories, so two cans would be close to a quart and yield 960 calories. The 15-oz jar of sauce for tikka masala has 460 calories, so two jars would be 920 calories. The 32 oz almond butter has, if I calculate correctly, 3960 calories. I asked my son how many calories were in the jar of peanut butter he was opening, He crossed his eyes and said a little over three thousand. The quart of coconut oil looks like 7550. 30 oz green beans is 300 calories and 32 oz of salsa (not the cheese kind) has 320 calories. Looks like 750 in this roughly-quart-sized jar of grated Parmesan. 17,760 calories for eight semi-quarts is a little over 2200 calories per day. A larger sampling would probably bring down the average because as I look over the shelves, I think rather more than three quarters of the jars/cans are either fruits or vegetables at less than a thousand calories per quart.

Thanks for asking, Amber. I didn't react! I haven't checked this thread in awhile. Today, we're having salmon. I have filets thawing in the fridge. It is Alaskan wild-caught sockeye salmon. I've never had salmon before; I hope I like it. DH is going to put the salmon in foil with butter and grill it. That's the way we eat other fish. I like when he grills--no pans for me to wash.

Someone half a block from me has started a huge garden and set hives in it.

I might need to clarify. A quart of stew or whatever per day will not sustain the health, body weight, or good temper of a hard-working 200-lb laborer. But two quarts a day, split between the worker and the eight-year-old with a few strenuous chores, will keep them going long enough for the garden to produce, will keep them going when there's no game or fish to add to the pot, and will keep them from daring extreme danger to go out and buy food.

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For me, there's no cap. No amount will be where I say, "This is enough." So I come at the topic from the opposite direction and keep tabs on how long what I have would last us, assuming decent conditions. A very quick and dirty estimate of how long your canned supplies could sustain your group could be done by counting one quart jar or one 15-oz can as a day's supply for one person. Yes, that person is going to spend half the day feeling less than full, but will not starve. Some people count double, some half. You can do the math or let the differences cancel one another out--this is the power of averaging. This method lets you know where you stand right now, and lets you update with very little effort anytime you want. I'm looking at a shelf with thirty cans of wet food, 15.5 to 19 oz apiece; for the three of us, that's ten days in which we would not go hungry. Boxes and bags attract bugs. Sugar sucks humidity out of the air and becomes a brick. I have become a fan of airtight containerizing. Two-liter bottles are working very well for me right now. Being able to see food, in variety and in quantity, comforts me; at the same time, being able to see what's there encourages rotation. (Yes, I know some items do last longer if light as well as air is blocked.) I see a two-liter bottle of barley or soup beans as five person-days of food, or more accurately I see three bottles as fifteen major meals. I rotate the newer bottles through my home office first. When I'm feeling fidgety and anxious, I count them and do the math, and sometimes can then turn back to focus on my work. Someone at the office is now using Poland Water in the three-liter bottles, which stack vertically. I am looking forward to testing how stable and sturdy these bottles are.

Sounds great! I'm so happy for you.

Congratulations!

My younger son hopes he has landed his first real job. He'd be lifting and lugging at a warehouse.

I harvested some honey this weekend.

Future essentials has smaller cans of freeze dried meat. This obviously costs more per serving, but I could get a small can each of three kinds of meat for the price of one #10 can of Honeyville sausage.

I have lemongrass...

I picked up some FD vegetables, instant beans, and all to make some recipes, but haven't picked up enough money to buy the meat (chicken, sausage, ham, beef cubes) to go with them. One problem is that a quart jar is a family meal, and I'm the only one who likes okra, or coconut, or any one of a bunch of other ingredients. Regardless, I'm hoping to get my act together and make up some Chef Tess and CT-style recipes before the heat sets in this summer.

I miss Art Linkletter.

(((Miki)))

Beautiful. I aspire to gardens laid out so neatly, so full of promise.

(((Drumrunner)))

You could plant peppers.

Perlite and vermiculite are made from different substances. Perlite drains much faster. Vermiculite holds water like a sponge