arbilad
03-12-2010, 03:48 PM
I hijacked another thread with this discussion, so I thought that we should continue it here.
Do we have any prophetic guidance for what we put in our food storage? There is this Harold B Lee quote:
President Harold B. Lee has wisely counseled that ?perhaps if we think not in terms of a year?s supply of what we ordinarily would use, and think more in terms of what it would take to keep us alive in case we didn?t have anything else to eat, that last would be very easy to put in storage for a year ? just enough to keep us alive if we didn?t have anything else to eat. We wouldn?t get fat on it, but we would live; and if you think in terms of that kind of annual storage rather than a whole year?s supply of everything that you are accustomed to eat which, in most cases, is utterly impossible for the average family, I think we will come nearer to what President Clark advised us way back in 1937.? (Welfare conference address, October 1, 1966.)
Obviously this advice has been modified since to add 3 months of food that you would normally eat. But for the longer term storage items the advice has never been rescinded. I do not think that times were so much worse in 1966 (and 1974 when Pres. Benson repeated this in conference) that what was utterly impossible in most cases is now easily achievable. In fact, I think that economic times now are worse than they were then.
As further evidence for my "rice and beans" theory of longer term storage foods, here is a quote from the providentliving.org website:
The following suggested amounts are for an adult.
U.S. Standard
Quantity
for One Month Recommended
Products Long-Term
Storage Life
25 lbs. Wheat, white rice, corn, and other grains 30+ years
5 lbs. Dry beans 30+ years
You may also want to add other items to your longer-term storage such as sugar, nonfat dry milk, salt, baking soda, and cooking oil. To meet nutritional needs, also store foods containing Vitamin C and other essential nutrients.
I guess what I'm saying is, for the vast majority of people, rice and beans is much better advice than freeze dried or MREs. It comes down to not so much a matter of taste. I would love a year's worth of freeze dried foods. But I know that I would not have my year's supply if I had focused on obtaining freeze dried. If you have to learn to cook with food like that, you won't really be sorry. Your health will be better, for one thing. And you will save a lot of money over buying TV dinners and lunchables.
That's my position. Not denigrating anyone who has a year's worth of freeze dried. I'm just saying that, as Pres. Lee said, it is utterly impossible for most people to get anything other than the bare minimum necessary to sustain life. Any advice that keeps someone from obedience to the commandment is bad advice.
Do we have any prophetic guidance for what we put in our food storage? There is this Harold B Lee quote:
President Harold B. Lee has wisely counseled that ?perhaps if we think not in terms of a year?s supply of what we ordinarily would use, and think more in terms of what it would take to keep us alive in case we didn?t have anything else to eat, that last would be very easy to put in storage for a year ? just enough to keep us alive if we didn?t have anything else to eat. We wouldn?t get fat on it, but we would live; and if you think in terms of that kind of annual storage rather than a whole year?s supply of everything that you are accustomed to eat which, in most cases, is utterly impossible for the average family, I think we will come nearer to what President Clark advised us way back in 1937.? (Welfare conference address, October 1, 1966.)
Obviously this advice has been modified since to add 3 months of food that you would normally eat. But for the longer term storage items the advice has never been rescinded. I do not think that times were so much worse in 1966 (and 1974 when Pres. Benson repeated this in conference) that what was utterly impossible in most cases is now easily achievable. In fact, I think that economic times now are worse than they were then.
As further evidence for my "rice and beans" theory of longer term storage foods, here is a quote from the providentliving.org website:
The following suggested amounts are for an adult.
U.S. Standard
Quantity
for One Month Recommended
Products Long-Term
Storage Life
25 lbs. Wheat, white rice, corn, and other grains 30+ years
5 lbs. Dry beans 30+ years
You may also want to add other items to your longer-term storage such as sugar, nonfat dry milk, salt, baking soda, and cooking oil. To meet nutritional needs, also store foods containing Vitamin C and other essential nutrients.
I guess what I'm saying is, for the vast majority of people, rice and beans is much better advice than freeze dried or MREs. It comes down to not so much a matter of taste. I would love a year's worth of freeze dried foods. But I know that I would not have my year's supply if I had focused on obtaining freeze dried. If you have to learn to cook with food like that, you won't really be sorry. Your health will be better, for one thing. And you will save a lot of money over buying TV dinners and lunchables.
That's my position. Not denigrating anyone who has a year's worth of freeze dried. I'm just saying that, as Pres. Lee said, it is utterly impossible for most people to get anything other than the bare minimum necessary to sustain life. Any advice that keeps someone from obedience to the commandment is bad advice.