The Zombie Apocalypse & Friends Who Really Know Me
My friends and family mock my pantry. It’s actually a room – and the shelves share space with the washer and dryer, so it’s not all food shelves. But, there’s an awful lot of food in that pantry. Some was canned by me – not as much as will be in the future. The rest was stockpiled – not for the event of an emergency, but because we live about two hours from the closest military commissary so we bulk shop our food. We purchase beef by the steer and have a huge chest freezer just for the beef, and bulk purchase the other meats we eat.
We also purchase dried goods in bulk. We order our wheat by the 6-gallon bucket, so we just throw in an order for other foods as well into the order for the wheat. We figure we’re already paying for the shipping – might as well get some good organic dried goods at the same time. I think this is really the basis for the mocking. See these?
These are 6-gallon buckets full of every kind of bean you can imagine, dried peas, oats, popcorn (used in making cornmeal), three kinds of wheat berries, and sugar. I have a friend who has several more buckets of grain berries to make into flour for me. I just need to get to her house to pick them up.
My husband once joked that when the zombie apocalypse happened, everyone should come to our house because we could feed them for a while. I honestly thought that he’d made the phrase up, because he’s clever like that. But come to find out, it’s a running joke about people who stockpile food, by people who stockpile food.
A friend of mine recently sent me this picture, thinking that I would appreciate it.
I cannot tell you how hard I laughed or how much I appreciated her thinking of me when she saw it.
It’s nice to have friends who understand me, and who love me anyway.
Hallee
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That is so funny because my husband and I joke about the same thing! That is our whole “basis” for trying to build our food pantry up.. for when the zombie apocalypse happens! LOL! Our pantry isn’t anything like yours, but we’re getting there! It is slowly building as money and sales allow. I would love to oneday afford a grain mill (keep my eyes out all the time for one that I can get for a song) and start using fresh milled wheat but it’s still one of those “I wish I had” items! :)
Then you will LOVE my 2-year-anniversary-giveaway coming up the first week of August. :-)
Oooh! :) Can’t wait!!
Love it! And, sigh, we’re that house, too. Sadly, even if my friends did start stockpiling food, they still wouldn’t know what to do with it when the lights went out, and they’d still be over here looking for cooking outside in an emergency lessons.
It seems strage to me that there are people that DON’T have a pantry filled with canned goods. My grandfather worked in an oil refinery and there were often strikes. My grandmother canned everything so that when things got hard they wouldn’t starve. My mom never canned anything when we were kids, but she did stock up when there was a good sale. Now that I have my own family, my husband and I make it a priority to keep at least a month of food on hand. Our goal is to have a 6 month supply on hand by the end of the year. With the way the world is now, you just never know. Between job loss and natural disasters, there’s just no telling when you may need to dip into that food storage. We’re about to put in an order to our church’s distribution center for more long term storage (#10 cans of wheat, sugar, beans, etc.).
If you comment means what I think it means, I’m REALLY looking forward to August. :)