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Technology Stocks : Y2K (Year 2000) Personal Contingency Planning -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: RH who wrote (382)	6/22/1998 4:13:00 PM
From: John Mansfield	Respond to of 888

Compare this post to the posts of 1 year ago from Cory Hamasaki... at that time he was rather optimistic; and pounding on remediation work getting started and getting done. His topics and tone certainly changed over time. I have read most of his posts for almost 1 year now.... John _____________ On Sun, 21 Jun 1998 01:05:51, inigo@montoya.net (D. P. Roberts) wrote: > >400 cans of corn (18 cases) I buy corn when the supermarket is > >selling at 25cents a can > >200 cans of beans (9 cases)> >100 cans of macronni and meatballs > >100 cans of clam chowder> >100 cans of hash corn beef> >200 cans of tuna > >100 cans of envapored milk (for trade)> > Hey, I see a casserole in your future! 600 servings of clam and tuna flavored bean casserole? Urp! I'm losing my breakfast. Frank and some of the others have been looking into MREs... which I don't understand as Frank lives on a working farm. ...unless he plans to use the MRE's as emergency food while the farm comes up to speed. The advantage of MRE's is they're handy, easy, varied, balanced. The disadvantage is they're expensive. I've been experimenting with low cost basics, rice and grains. For the last couple weeks I've been boiling a handful of hard red winter wheat (I got it at a local health/natural food coop) and having that for breakfast. The first day I had it plain... it wasn't bad, kinda like a hot cereal. Then I tried it with a little sugar, better. Sugar w/ cinnimon. Cinnimon and a pat of butter. Sugar and a drop of vanilla extract. All pretty interesting and if you slapped a fancy name on it, like "Roman Legion Brand Day Starter - No preservatives." and put it in little wax paper bags w/ instructions to add a couple spoons of half 'n half after cooking, you'd sell millions. Even paying full retail at the coop for the wheat, it's running about five cents a bowl. It was sixty five cents a pound. I haven't noticed any effects, positive or negative, from this change in my diet. I guessing that for the long haul and to cut costs, there are advantages to going back to the basics. > Is this stuff you normally eat? From what I've read, keep your diet as close > to normal as you possibly can. "The Indicent" (which is what I'm calling > whatever is going to happen) is going to be traumatic enough. You don't want > to go to your pantry and tell your family, "See? I've got a 10-year supply > of kraut juice!" Unless, that's what they like. With the wheat and maybe some sugar, powered milk, honey, cinnimon, and other flavorings, I think I can cover breakfast for very little money and not too much of a life change. Sure, it's not a pop-tart, a brown 'n serve, but maybe it's not that big an adaptation.cory hamasaki 557 days now, the countdown continues... ____ 'Subject: Re: Time table for disaster? From: kiyoinc@ibm.XOUT.net (cory hamasaki)Date: 1998/06/22 Message-ID: <7kepWhCNP4qd-pn2-43QyD2VGwrQn@localhost> Newsgroups: comp.software.year-2000,misc.survivalism,alt.survival