“Survival” Food Kits
I was looking at survival food kits packed into a 5-gallon bucket for a quick bug-out for sale at Sam’s for @ $20.00. It’s a 30-day supply of food that provides @ 1,600 calories a day.
I was skeptically wondering about the lack of fresh fruits and veggies and then had to laugh at myself. When I was a youngster, our diets were almost completely devoid of fresh fruits and veggies. Oh, sure, we had the garden in the summer, but the veggies were eaten after being cooked for hours with a strip of back fat. The bread was white. The beverage was Kool-Aid or unpasteurized milk from either goats or a cow, depending on where we lived and what we could afford to keep. The cereal was that well-known nutritional powerhouse, Puffed Wheat alternating with Puffed Rice or my personal favorite, Shredded Wheat. During times of unemployment, the food was beans and cornbread supplemented with squirrels, rabbits, raccoons, or whatever else could be hunted for days to weeks at a time.
Somehow I managed to grow 5 inches taller than my mother on that diet.
Robert D said,
March 17, 2008 @ 10:00 pm
Yep, I don’t know how we survived. Real sugar, real butter, real junk food and all that unsupervised fun we had with our buddies. No helmets, hitchhiking, shooting guns and just being kids.
swampie said,
March 18, 2008 @ 6:27 pm
You got that right! Riding bicycles without so much as a helmet. Riding in the back of pickup trucks and in cars without seatbelts.
I read an interesting article that I meant to post but forgot about regarding the increased incidence of type I diabetes in states with limited sunlight with speculation that a vitamin D shortage may be a causitive factor, but unknown why it should suddenly be increasing. Hello…..sunscreen? We never worried about something like sunscreen when we were little.
Robert D said,
March 18, 2008 @ 9:57 pm
Yep, burned and peeled every summer. If the melanoma doesn’t kill me, I’m sure the sugar, butter, bacon, (did I mention I LOVE bacon) eggs or some as yet unknown thing I did as a child will get me. Of course it could lightening…
swampie said,
March 19, 2008 @ 9:23 pm
Hey, I saw chicken fried bacon on a show on television tonight.
Robert D said,
March 20, 2008 @ 12:07 pm
Chicken Fried Bacon!!! Put that on a stick and we have the next big carnival food!