Sun, Apr-26-15, 16:43
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Plan: My own
Stats: 186/155/150
BF:
Progress: 86%
Location: SW PNW
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Originally Posted by kirkor
The options listed are about the best you can do. I think the LC prepper just needs to acknowledge that they will be storing less volume of items, will spend more money on those items, and will have to rotate their stock more frequently.
It also depends on the person's need/reason for eating LC pre-disaster. If it's for weight-management, well, at that point I think it's "too bad so sad" and one would just have to eat higher carb or whatever is available. Calories will be more important than macros. You might be eating nothing but bread for a week, and then the next week eating nothing but nuts. Post-disaster scrounge & scavenge-type eating will definitely wreak havoc on people's digestive system. Stocking digestive aids (Pepto & Tums? ) may be as important as stocking food.
Luckily rice is pretty mild as far as the grains go, so for LC'ers maybe it should be the storage grain of choice (as opposed to the "hard red winter wheat" (I forget the exact name) that is the main prepper storage grain IIRC).
For people who are LC for acute medical reasons, like getting torn up by gluten, they may need to add corn-based stuff back in their diet.
For people who LC for future benefit like staving off Alzheimer's, reducing blood glucose to prevent cancer, etc., I think these long-term concerns would have to go by the wayside. Short term survival, surviving famine, etc. will be more important than optimal nutrition.
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It should be noted, by those who might choose to store rice for an uncertain future, that brown rice, unlike wheat, will not store successfully for very long (and even then should be kept refrigerated or frozen to keep it from fairly quickly going rancid). White rice, as nutritionally lacking as it is, is the one to choose for longer term storage. I have a small supply of spelt and rye grains in my pantry, from my "before LC" time. I gave the modern wheat berries to the chickens. I don't use the grains, but they are there "just in case" - whether that is a hunger period for my family, or for my chickens . In my opinion, the best "prepper" item we can have is knowledge - the knowledge of gardening (learn NOW before it is necessary to live on what you grow), knowledge of animal husbandry, knowledge of self sufficiency. You might consider the knowledge of herbal medicine.
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