Food storage
 

I think we are at a year's supply, or very close to it. hard to know, but that's what the church calculator told us.

So now we need to fine-tune it.

Anyone going to pursue getting food storage soon? Would like to keep up with your progress.

Mine is close to 6 months right now. I need to do a better job increasing the food storage.

i have a standing plane ticket to Texas. So i am only a few hours from a years supply of food storage, awesome thanks Mike.

My wife and I got the Costco 90 day supply as our food storage. I figure if we need more than that, most likely, all of our neighbors will be dead after 3 months and we can go and eat them. I guess they become our food supply to round out the year. I also need to increase my food storage of Diet Coke to truly get us thru the year.

I loved the scene in The Road when the they found the underground cache of food storage and hadn't eaten for seven days. I didn't think anything could make canned pears with syrup, corned beef hash, and string beans sound so good.

Waters, do you have a secret underground cavern where you keep it (don't tell us where, if so)?

I keep it in my house that is heavily protected with iron bars, two big dogs, and Smith & Wesson.

this is what you see when you mess with Mikes food storage:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/20/71...404bbdafb9.jpg

Go ahead and laugh, but with the inevitable premise for a year supply of food storage being what it is, clearly the endeavor would be superfluous if there were not stored close by a cache of deadly weapons and a year supply of ammo. Perhaps the components of a machine gun nest with many rounds of ammo to be installed on the roof would be in order. By the way, I don't necessarily disagree with the premise.

I don't have a machine gun, but trust me, security won't be the issue.

A few years back I was speaking with a friend about protecting my food storage. I had purchased a gun and a ton of ammo. I asked him what he planned. He replied, "I'm going to share it. That's why I have it". I felt dumb afterward. Sharing it would seem more in line with it's intended purpose.

really, how could you let your friends starve? Share and have faith. That's what the gospel teaches us.

But I keep a gun too. :)

How do you reconcile the "share and have faith" philosophy with the parable of the 10 virgins?

Just curious...

Because I am a human being who hates to see my friends die.

Understood.

I find it interesting that the gospel could theoretically be construed as to espouse two polar opposite philosphies, viz., the "share" philsophy and the "prepare yourself, warn others, but let them suffer if they fail to heed the warnings" philosophy. Note that I'm not stating which philosophy I espouse, just saying that I see how teachings in the gospel could be construed both ways.

My real plan would be to try and make it to my parents house, taking all my storage with me.

That would be my family's best chance for survival.

My dad is a gardener and that is invaluable in times of famine.

How big a vehicle do you need to transport a year's supply of food? A tractor trailer? Do you have one of those. I'm sorry but this is starting to not hold water.

When / where have we been taught this? The parable of the virgins refers to spiritual preparedness IMO.

I have a truck, and in the not to distant future I will have a trailer for windsurfing gear (and camping).

The virgins were with the savior when those unprepared were left. I always imagined it to be talking about when the savior comes to gather the prepared and the elect. Before then, we should show charity.