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

Took a little trip to the LDS cannery Friday. Man, I love being there. I think the reason it appeals to me is that everyone there is ‘on the same wavelength’ as far as preparedness goes. (Although admittedly we’re not on the same page about much else.) These are people who think the only strange thing about stockpiling food and gear is not doing it. If it weren’t for the religious aspect, I’d sign up in a heartbeat….although when I said that to the fella I was there with he said that there were plenty of people who probably were members who felt the same way.

I’m always tempted to take pictures of the place and post them but I think that would be an extraordinarily uncool thing to do. They’re nice enough to let me use the place, I should be nice enough to respect their privacy.

Regardless, I need to reciprocate at some point. Maybe talk to the guy up there and see if theres a fund or something I can donate to. Or maybe I’ll buy a couple missionaries lunch or something. Or take them to a strip club.

Didn’t pick up anything terribly interesting. I was going to ‘round out’ the odd-numbers of stuff I have. Six #10 cans fit in a box so my goal was to round up things I had that were in quantities that weren’t divisible by six. Picked up some sugar, dried apples, and quick oats but they were out of some of the other stuff I wanted like onions, drink mix and carrots. But that’s okay, it gives me a reason to head up there again some time.

I do believe that if we had to we could live off our stored food (inc. whats in the deep freeze) for probably a very comfortable six or nine months. Longer if you don’t mind fairly boring menus. I suppose that when youre hungry enough you don’t mind eating the same food over and over when the other choice is no food at all. I don’t really forsee much likelihood of a situation where there is simply no food available but rather something where we don’t have access to it for various reasons (financial hardship, etc.) However, I do feel pretty mellow when I think that if we had absolutely no money for food we could still feed ourselves for quite a while. Peace of mind is on of those things that makes the effort and expense worthwhile.