In article <g895qi$ieh$3@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Stormin Mormon <cayoung61**spamblock##@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>So, you've got your buckets of wheat, cans of beans, and MRE. You're all
>set, ready to hunker in the bunker. The crisis hits, and your invited
family
>starts to arrive.
>
>Since it's fairly new after the crisis, breakfast is milk and Cheerios.
With
Depends on the assumptions of "crisis" and "bunker."
>sugar, or honey. Couple of the kids hate cereal, and want bacon and eggs.
>Sigh. Some of them still in the fridge. make bacon and eggs. Lunch comes
>around, and you're busy fixing peanut butter sandwiches. Uncle Albert
>mentions that he's allergic to peanuts. Well, lucky, there are still a
>couple cans of tuna in the shelves, and so you fix some of them with
mayo.
>
>Trying to get the survival food started, tonight is whole wheat bread,
wheat
>berries, and some puffed wheat to go with it. And then Aunt Lucinda
mentions
>that she's deadly allergic to wheat. And little Scooter just wants
Snickers
>bars all the time.
>
>How do you handle a variety of diets?
You handle
a variety of diets
with
a variety of diets.
This is an m.s. question more than an r.b. question.
>You can't be killing off your people,
>forcing them to eat allergic foods.
Yes, you can. You can do it by accident unintentionally like any other
activity. It's part of evolution.
>And what about people who hate onions, versus love onions?
What about them?
Aren't onions more a source of flavor than Calories?
Survival is likely a reduction in choice.
You can do a lot to prepare, and you'd better learn about that stuff
before you stock a pantry. You'd be no better off than McCandless or
how ever his name is spelled except no one is going to write a book or
make a movie about you, and there are 100s of people if not 1000s who
homesteaded up in Alaska.
People hate lots of foods. That's not the answer.
All the processed foods which you have cited as staples are going to run
out after a while. It shows that you are thinking you are going to ride
something out, some duration, which leaves you thinking that you are
prepared when you are in fact not.
Varying tastes (morale more than survival) is largely empirical, and in
some cases ignored on large expeditions at peril. The issue would not
be onions say so much as say eating fish (The Raft which was about
survival). You should examine your assumptions first.
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