Originally published at Notes from the bunker…. You can comment here or there.

I don’t have much use for health/organic food stores. They’re usually full of Volvo-driving lefties who think that because something is ‘organic’ its worth a 150% price difference over the non-organic.

However….those ‘useful idiots’ can in fact be..well..useful. The local organic place sells bulk foods of various types. Now when I say bulk I mean literally bulk…you go up to a hopper, grab a scoop and start shoveling whatever it is you want into a bag. Thirty different kinds of rice, twenty different kinds of wheat and grain and I cant even begin to guess how many varieties of beans.

But…$0.89/# for ‘organic’ dried corn is just too rich and too stupid for me. So..lets wander up to the customer counter and see what we can make happen. I ask the liberal behind the counter if the dried corn is available in 25# bags. He replies that it is, they’re out, but they’ll have some more in a week. Fair enough. I give him my number and tell him to call me when its in. In the meantime…into the bunker to get a few things ready.

Mylar bags? Yup. Got a stack of ‘em right here. Might need to order up some more from those fine folks at the LDS website.

Buckets? Mmmm…need a couple more buckets. We can haz buckit. A quick trip to Home Depot will fix that. Plenty of bucket lids though.

And then yesterday the phone rings. Stuff is in. I head up there this morning. Four 25# bags of ‘organic dried corn’. Price? $13.11/25#. That’s about fiftytwo cents per pound. A difference of …uhm…well, a big difference from the earlier price of $0.89/#.

That’s 100# of dried corn to stuff down in the bunker along with the 100# of rice. Which, if you know your survivalist nutrition, comes out to 200# of a ‘complete protein’. Complete, sure, but probably nowhere near as tasty as a chicken breast cooked in butter. But…beats being hungry.

So…whats a body to do with 100# of dried corn? The obvious thing that springs to mind is cornmeal and polenta. And, if Im willing to spend the money, I can pick up a grain flaker for a couple hundred bucks. Check it out, man – my own corn flakes! How utterly hardcore would that be? But the majority will be earmarked (get it? ‘ear’marked? Ears of corn…ya see, corn comes on ears and…never mind.) for cornmeal/polenta. And, of course, corn meal opens up a world of delicious possibilities. Corn bread, breakfast cereal, corn batter for frying, various southern redneck entrees and I suppose if I simply rehydrate it I could also do corn chowder and that sort of thing. (Although I have a goodly supply of freezedried corn for that.)

But, the important thing is I’ve got more food to tuck away for that rainy day.