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  • Rice, lentils, peas, beans, wheat berries, barley, oats, etc. But if you buy in large bulk (which you should do for the cost savings), you should repack the goods into smaller individually sealed containers. Because a 25kg bag of rice, once opened, will take a small family all year to get through, and having an open bag of rice attracts rodents, weevils, moisture, mould and dust. Pack it down into half kilo or 1kg containers, ideally vacuum sealed or with some other preventative treatment. Then only open 1 container at a time.

    This is good advice not just for building resilience against food cost shocks, but just generally good practice for saving money by buying in bulk and repacking yourself. Around here,a 25kg bag of rice costs me about $40, but buying 25kgs of rice in individual kilo bags at the supermarket costs $3.50 per kilogram for the cheap stuff, or $7.50 for the premium stuff ($88 or $188 respectively for 25kg worth)

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  • Which bathrooms are the starvers allowed to use?

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  • You can't fertilize crops with electricity, nor can you eat it

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  • It's easy to go overboard and make silly choices, but it's also easy to plan a good contingency. I keep 1 year of dried food and 3 months of canned / jarred / frozen food. Any more than that and it gets wasteful for me. I have backup grid-independent solar power, and I also keep a small veggie garden going most of the year.

    I like to re-pack my dried foods into emptied, washed, and dried PET bottles, because they store better. I use 1L Waterford's bottles because their shape is perfect for maximizing storage and stack ability. I repack large bags of dried food into these with oxygen absorbers, and packed this way, rice, lentils, wheat berries, and barley will last 20 years. Rolled oats will last a couple years. Sugar and salt will last indefinitely. Scaling them down to 1L individual volumes means you can crack one without introducing contaminants to the others

    Keeping a rigid system of labelling, inspecting and rotating your goods is as important as having them in the firstvplace

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  • You bought land, right? Right!?

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  • Buying dry food is probably better than canned. It's lighter, stores for longer, and is much more compact.

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  • Most chemical fertilizer is synthesised from LNG.

    The two biggest exporters are Russia (sanctioned) and Qatar (all plants shut down)

  • Now you know one 👋

  • Baking chocolate, or cocoa powder.

    This is a common 'secret' ingredient in Cincinnati chilli too.

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  • Attenborough voice

    The struggle is over. The crocodile has locked it's mighty jaws around the defenceless prey. Silently, she slips her ancient body down beneath the inky water once more, dragging the mango to it's doom.

  • Mine doesn't have a way to disable the beep so I opened up the case and de-beeped it by desoldering the piezo.

  • It was a telepathic scorpion

  • But this will hurt Haliburton and Lockheed Matins feelings!

  • The continents are white and gold, Yanny, and Bouba.

  • I don't believe in continents. I'm incontinent.

  • Just when I thought this season of America had jumped the shark, they introduce a brilliant new comic relief character.

  • Through Tequila, all things are possible

  • What's the scratching arm* copper content of these fellas?

  • I can maintain it. But I won't.