How much food storage do you have?

[scottie]

Originally Posted by MikeWaters

I remember my dad running around in the backyard with my louisville slugger wood baseball bat, sort of like a Mario videogame.

Mike, I've noticed you've stopped quoting the post that you're responding to. Curious to know why because it's sometimes difficult to know who/what you're responding to.

[MikeWaters]

Because most of the time, the other person's words aren't worthy to be included in a post of mine.

[SteelBlue]

Originally Posted by Spaz

Short of putting your bed on blocks and stacking it under the beds, there's not much else you can do. If you have an attic, you can install flooring there and stack it there (my sister did this in the attic of her townhouse, but didn't put food supply there. I don't know what sort of temperatures you'd be looking at).

The church website recommended keeping your food at 75F or cooler....

We actually do have some stuff under the bed. Attic temps in Redding are in the 120's so no go there.

[hyrum]

Originally Posted by SeattleUte

I have friends who have years and years if you count wine. Wine cellars are a big deal here. Could someone live off of only wine for a year? I bet they could if they had to.

Wine, not sure, but drinking mead (a sort of mild wine made with fermented honey, water and yeast) was how people got by for thousands of years.

[MikeWaters]

Originally Posted by hyrum

Wine, not sure, but drinking mead (a sort of mild wine made with fermented honey, water and yeast) was how people got by for thousands of years.

you are saying that people lived on only mead and nothing else?

I just want to go this straight.

[hyrum]

Originally Posted by MikeWaters

you are saying that people lived on only mead and nothing else?

I just want to go this straight.

No, not exactly, but when they had virtually nothing - like in the dead of winter in Scandavia - they got by with mead. I'm no historian but my understanding is beer and mead were quite common ways to have sustenance reserves going back to 2000 BC or earlier.

[UtahDan]

Thats the dumbest thing I've ever heard.

[creekster]

Originally Posted by hyrum

No, not exactly, but when they had virtually nothing - like in the dead of winter in Scandavia - they got by with mead. I'm no historian but my understanding is beer and mead were quite common ways to have sustenance reserves going back to 2000 BC or earlier.

Hyrum, this is just what your old uncle scotty used to say to justify quaffing a few all alone in the basement on a cold night. I assure you the good people of Scandanvia had barrels of dried and salted herring to munch on all winter long. Now I have no doubt that their mead was stout, and was a welcome respite from dried and salt4ed herring for dinner once again, but they did not rely on it alone for any length of time.

Btw, in the middle ages the worst time of year ironically enough was not the dead of winter, but the spring, before any crops came in. Early spring wa sknown in many places as the starving time.

Beer and mead were surely used as a source of calories but were, perhaps, more important to allow people to consume fluid but avoid unsanitary water.

[hyrum]

Originally Posted by creekster

Hyrum, this is just what your old uncle scotty used to say to justify quaffing a few all alone in the basement on a cold night. I assure you the good people of Scandanvia had barrels of dried and salted herring to munch on all winter long..

I'd take mead over Lutefisk.

[MikeWaters]

btw, there are people and children starving right now in the world. Hundreds of thousands.