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First, what not to buy: salty, fatty canned meat. Marcia Magnus, professor of Dietetics & Nutrition at Florida International University and lead author of The Healthy Hurricane/Disaster Cookbook, told CSM, "That's the worst thing you can do." Florida has dealt with plenty of hurricanes, and this Floridian advises going for highly nutritious canned veggies as well as oatmeal and dried fruit. Disaster or no, think rationally, not emotionally. "Under post-disaster conditions, everybody is at maximum anxiety levels. If there isn't physical loss, there often is emotional loss. What we tend to do when we have emotional loss is find comfort in food," Magnus points out.
A pre-Earl checklist isn't that different from any health-minded shopping list -- lots of beans, healthy grains, and nut butters -- but it does have a couple twists:
- Buy bottled water -- a gallon a day per person (just for drinking! More for cooking and other purposes). Put some in the freezer, Magnus advises, so if the power goes out you can drink the icy water as it thaws.
- Go for soy milk, which tends to have a longer shelf life than cow's milk.
- Don't avoid fresh fruit and vegetables. Canned foods are essential, but perishables are still fine -- just go for the least ripe specimens. Magnus suggests washing them now, while water is plentiful, and then storing them in the refrigerator so they don't ripen too quickly.
- Put your bread in the fridge, too. In fact, go ahead and pack the refrigerator to the gills. The fuller the fridge, the colder the food will stay, should the power fail.
As for cooking it all up? The Healthy Hurricane/Disaster Cookbook has lots of recipe ideas, organized by meals. Remember: the paramount kitchen tool will be, of course, a manual can opener.
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9-03-2010 @6:46PM Kassie said... Living in the middle of the country, we generally only have to worry about Armageddon and nuclear attacks, so we don't have a lot of emergency kits. But, I think what I do have makes a lot more sense. Instead of stockpile of water, I have a water purifier. I can purify any non-salty water source with it. I have a backpacking stove, with extra fuel, and backpacking meals. All of these take up much small space than canned goods and will give me interesting and tasty meals for a few days. AND I can go backpacking at a moments notice.
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9-04-2010 @10:35AM susan credeur said... Here on the Texas coast we always have our propane tank full and an extra one filled on the side. When the power goes out we have everyone over for BBQ and grill anything that won't run away. We have plenty of 3 day ice chests from Igloo. In July I generally get a big box of ziplocks and fill them with water and freeze in the big upright freezer and any old bowls or trays are used too. Luckily we live on the same grid as the high school and emergency command center so our power is usually restored first.
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Thank's, Jimmy L Strawn {:
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9-05-2010 @5:45PM Jimmy L. Strawn said... Pass Word / 14d78e6e
To whom it may concern. I am a diabetic & need all the help I can muster up. I am looking for the
Black Rice you are talking about.. I am not good on the computer, so you can help me go to the right location to get my information from you.
Thank's, Jimmy L. Strawn {:
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