72 hours?
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72 hours? No problem. Always have a big bag of rice on hand and you're done.
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72 hours? No problem. Always have a big bag of rice on hand and you're done.
Only if you have lots of water too. And preferably some way to heat it (though you can totally swell rice in cold water)
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Only if you have lots of water too. And preferably some way to heat it (though you can totally swell rice in cold water)
This brings up an important point. You should have something like a camping stove running on propane or similar stored fuel.
If the water supply fails you need to be able to cook water for drinking purposes.
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Only if you have lots of water too. And preferably some way to heat it (though you can totally swell rice in cold water)
Canned food is a good alternative
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Canned food is a good alternative
I just have a stack of canned stuff I rotate through. I put new ones at the bottom, and make sure the stack in always 4 cans tall. Costs nothing, things are always in stock on the shelves, and in case of emergency, there's food.
Of course, I also live about 5 meters below sea level, so if we have real, world war level problems and the pumps shut down and/someone blows up the dikes, I'm not going to shelter in place for months anyway.
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and water to cook it and drink, and power to heat it?
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This brings up an important point. You should have something like a camping stove running on propane or similar stored fuel.
If the water supply fails you need to be able to cook water for drinking purposes.
A coal bbq could work too and most people have one already, you can use it with wood as well.
Even better, you can use a barbecue chimney starter as a kind of rocket stove.
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