Do you have enough food in your house?

I'd heard about some odd stuff, but not wallpaper til it was mentioned here and I looked it up.
During WWII, parent-teachers associations and various school clubs held meetings where all they did for hours was scrape dry paste off of pieces of old wallpaper so young students could carry on doing fun art projects.
 

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There is a whole world of survivalist gear, techniques, and websites with advice to potentially endure catastrophic events. Just having food is only a start. One may have a 25 pound sack of rice, but without water, a stove on which to cook it on, or fire starters for a stove or fire, rather useless. And without a supply of flavorings or salt, maybe rather boring to eat.

Here in the SFBA urban region, I'm not worried about war but rather chaos if a really large earthquake like in 1906 strikes again that severely damages infrastructure. IMO a more likely scenario few think about, is resulting global pandemic chaos due to some third world terrorist military grade bioweapons lab, that is far more virulent and mortal virus than COVID-19, that leads to disruption of global commerce, food shortages, runs on banks, loss of employment, hording, and generally anarchist dystopian, gun crazed survival of the fittest.
 
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We definitely have enough food for 72 or more hours. I look kind of funny at those folks hoarding food and keeping it in a cave. I would be more concerned about not having enough money to meet an emergency.
I heard that in WW2 they sold a bread for 250 then guilders, half a euro, but for that time insane expensive. So if you have a few thousand in cash that may indeed help. I rather just buy cheap food now though, although it's irritating how heavy it is.
 


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