Good Housekeeping or Panic Buying ?

With uncertainty over banks and currencies, and with last year's focus on bird flu, there has been a lot of talk about of food stockpiling.

I went internet browsing and found this:

http://www.amazon.com/Pantry-Six-Month-Food-Supply/dp/B0001XGS4I

Would that appeal Evotingmachine0917 or would you view it as cannibalism?

There are quite a few companies that will sell you a 6 month or years supply of dried and canned food. Rather worryingly, they seem to be sold out and have long waiting lists.

Here is a little ready reckoner, for anyone who wants to draw up a shopping list:

http://www.internet-grocer.net/planner.htm

Given the situation of Iceland, that seems to be running out of groceries, should our government not be doing something to secure our food supply?

Made a small but necessary addition to the reckoner output.

Sod the beer. What you need is one of these - air stll

They're making the calculations based on the recommendations of the Church of Latter Day Saints. How odd that they're the go-to guys when it comes to survival techniques.

TheBear wrote:

They're making the calculations based on the recommendations of the Church of Latter Day Saints. How odd that they're the go-to guys when it comes to survival techniques.

The know all about The Time, and the End, I suppose. They seem to me to have quite high calorific intakes.

When the Mormons come around to my door it is always a pair of charming young lads. I might be interested if they brought their charming Mormon lady friends with them too.

johnfás wrote:

When the Mormons come around to my door it is always a pair of charming young lads. I might be interested if they brought their charming Mormon lady friends with them too.

i find them unfailingly polite when out.

when on a metro in madrid, they were all impeccably dressed and offered their seats up to a group of elderly people.

whatever about the wackiness of their beliefs, their moral code is second to none.

This is true - they are always very nice people.