Stocking the cupboards in the event of a pandemic in the USA

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Anonymous wrote:I'm curious why people are buying bottled water.... will there be some kind of issue with our water supply? Genuinely curious.

Asked and answered. If there was an unrelated disruption to water supply it would take a lot long for disaster relief to get to us. Plus bottled water is crazy cheap.

What other unrelated disruptions are you preparing for? Could really go down a rabbit hole here.....

Here is a good list that will cover a lot of possibilities:
https://www.fema.gov/media-library-data/1e04d512b273e2133cb865833cc0e32d/FEMA_checklist_parent_508_071513.pdf

I'd add also that having cash on hand is very important - we were caught with limited food during an emergency and didn't have much cash on hand. Credit card machines were down so we had very few options to feed our kids.

Which doesn't happen if you've prepped, but okay.

Right. We didn't prep food/water or cash. I recommend having both on hand to cover lots of possibilities.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm curious why people are buying bottled water.... will there be some kind of issue with our water supply? Genuinely curious.

This has been asked and answered a few times,but...
In the event of an outbreak, all response services are likely to be delayed. So if you have some mundane water break, or massive storm that results in a sewage spill, or whatever other random thing that happens that results in a boil water notice or other water issue, then you can assume that the response time to fix the issue will be longer than usual.
And sure, you have some backup water in your hot water tank (unless you have an in-line heater) or you might live on a well, or have lots of toilets, or live near the river, or whatever... it seems easier to buy an extra case of water and not have to deal with desalinating water from the Chesapeake bay or whatever.

Yeah this makes sense on some level. We actually have over half a case leftover from a recent birthday party so should be good.

Honestly the only thing I have gone out and bought is infant and children's ibuprophen. I had heard some pharmacies were getting cleared out. But we always have a pretty healthy supply of things like beans, rice, and oatmeal anyway.

A half a case (so 20 bottles?) wouldn't last very long. If a family of four each uses 2 bottles a day, 20 bottles would last 2.5. days.

+1. You need enough for two weeks minimum,, A month would be better.

That is crazy wasteful. I hope you are at least buying large jugs rather than hundreds of little individual bottles.

+1

Nope. Its all cases of bottles. And it won't be wasteful if I need them, which is the whole point. You do you.

This isn't Ebola people. I'll take my chances that we don't lose water for a month, thanks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm curious why people are buying bottled water.... will there be some kind of issue with our water supply? Genuinely curious.

You can speculate.. with good results..

Start here:
Per NIH...
Viruses in drinking water can cause infectious diseases. In the past, hepatitis A and E were the most frequently observed drinking- water-borne viral infections, but in recent years several small- and large-scale norovirus epidemics have been described, even in Europe.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17334891

Then proceed..

Water-transmitted viral pathogens that are classified as having a moderate to high health significance by the World Health Organization (WHO) include adenovirus, astrovirus, hepatitis A and E viruses, rotavirus, norovirus and other caliciviruses, and enteroviruses, including coxsackieviruses and polioviruses [
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4482390/

Then ask yourself how in heaven the virus got into my water source and why is it here..
How? because water is in contact with the underground water which runs through all kinds of dead animal matter for one..
and the why is it there part would be.. because the municipal water purification system can only do that much...

So then move to solution..
Ask yourself what if the Corona virus will find its way into the water supply

and immediately check what kills it..
this is not perfect but will do:..
Thorough cooking is expected to kill the virus because we know that a heat treatment of at least 30min at 60ºC is effective with SARS.

close enough..

So time for conclusion:

Yes, it can find it's way to the water source. How, in million ways. Is it the end of the world? No. Why? Because while
the corona virus is pretty damaging in a raw from to the human body it can not survive heat treatment much. If you ever studied what can kill mad cow disease you would know that pretty much no heat processing would do. Here we are just lucky, clearly you can not be everything at once as a virus, you need to choose your job just like us humans ..

COVID19 has a narrow specialization and is not an expert in resisting the heat. It is very weak dude, comes to heat and humid resistance.

Just boil your water long enough and he stand no chance.. as you see 30min at 60ºC kills SARS which is a member of the same family. So just boil your water and you are good. For your reference the boiling point for C is 100C.. so you probably don't need the 30 minutes prescribed for 60C.. however as you see boiling rocks.

Boiling is as old as humanity way to keep your water pathogen free. So once water is boiled you need not to worry if there once was a COVID 19. because he is history...

So why bottled water for drinking? Beats me, because you truly can to boil the heck out of it.

Now, the only thing I am still trying to crack is the cold water in the faucet. Provided our water can get really hot in the boiler, the virus can and will get killed there, so using hot water is covered. But what's the deal with the cold water? That is not boiled at any point so if it is contaminated, what happens if you take a shower or wash your face without soap or
even if you just rinse your body after using soap.. are you actually decontaminating yourself right there and then?

Imagine you just washed your hands with soap, fine you removed the virus.. and now if you rinse the soap with mix of cold and hot water.. barely warm.. are you reapplying virus provided it found it's way to the water source? Hm...
Thoughts? I can' not do all the work right?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Epicurious posted a 2-week meal plan of dinners for 4 using shelf-stable ingredients. Includes recipes and a shopping list.
https://www.epicurious.com/recipes-menus/all-pantry-meal-plan-for-coronavirus-and-other-emergencies-article?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=epi&utm_mailing=EPI_PREPARE_030320&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_medium=email&bxid=5df56ed6a7773918530c3ab2&cndid=59404732&esrc=&utm_term=EPI_CTN_AND_TOPTEN

Yum, thanks for sharing!

Looks good and comes to it, lots of people will learn to cook having time on their hand. Those dishes might be made of shelf stable aka.. dead ingredients but still looks like a lot of work to get where they are..

This is an awesome list! I like the shelf-stable flavorful things they recommend that I hadn't thought of but will give a lot of flavor and variety:
Marinated artichoke hearts
Jarred pesto
Coconut milk
Capers
Kalamata olives
Sun-dried tomatoes
Roasted red peppers
Peroncini

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm curious why people are buying bottled water.... will there be some kind of issue with our water supply? Genuinely curious.

You can speculate.. with good results..

Start here:
Per NIH...
Viruses in drinking water can cause infectious diseases. In the past, hepatitis A and E were the most frequently observed drinking- water-borne viral infections, but in recent years several small- and large-scale norovirus epidemics have been described, even in Europe.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17334891

Then proceed..

Water-transmitted viral pathogens that are classified as having a moderate to high health significance by the World Health Organization (WHO) include adenovirus, astrovirus, hepatitis A and E viruses, rotavirus, norovirus and other caliciviruses, and enteroviruses, including coxsackieviruses and polioviruses [
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4482390/

Then ask yourself how in heaven the virus got into my water source and why is it here..
How? because water is in contact with the underground water which runs through all kinds of dead animal matter for one..
and the why is it there part would be.. because the municipal water purification system can only do that much...

So then move to solution..
Ask yourself what if the Corona virus will find its way into the water supply

and immediately check what kills it..
this is not perfect but will do:..
Thorough cooking is expected to kill the virus because we know that a heat treatment of at least 30min at 60ºC is effective with SARS.

close enough..

So time for conclusion:

Yes, it can find it's way to the water source. How, in million ways. Is it the end of the world? No. Why? Because while
the corona virus is pretty damaging in a raw from to the human body it can not survive heat treatment much. If you ever studied what can kill mad cow disease you would know that pretty much no heat processing would do. Here we are just lucky, clearly you can not be everything at once as a virus, you need to choose your job just like us humans ..

COVID19 has a narrow specialization and is not an expert in resisting the heat. It is very weak dude, comes to heat and humid resistance.

Just boil your water long enough and he stand no chance.. as you see 30min at 60ºC kills SARS which is a member of the same family. So just boil your water and you are good. For your reference the boiling point for C is 100C.. so you probably don't need the 30 minutes prescribed for 60C.. however as you see boiling rocks.

Boiling is as old as humanity way to keep your water pathogen free. So once water is boiled you need not to worry if there once was a COVID 19. because he is history...

So why bottled water for drinking? Beats me, because you truly can to boil the heck out of it.

Now, the only thing I am still trying to crack is the cold water in the faucet. Provided our water can get really hot in the boiler, the virus can and will get killed there, so using hot water is covered. But what's the deal with the cold water? That is not boiled at any point so if it is contaminated, what happens if you take a shower or wash your face without soap or
even if you just rinse your body after using soap.. are you actually decontaminating yourself right there and then?

Imagine you just washed your hands with soap, fine you removed the virus.. and now if you rinse the soap with mix of cold and hot water.. barely warm.. are you reapplying virus provided it found it's way to the water source? Hm...
Thoughts? I can' not do all the work right?

But what if there is a water main break and all the workers are sick? It could take a while to be fixed.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm curious why people are buying bottled water.... will there be some kind of issue with our water supply? Genuinely curious.

Asked and answered. If there was an unrelated disruption to water supply it would take a lot long for disaster relief to get to us. Plus bottled water is crazy cheap.

What other unrelated disruptions are you preparing for? Could really go down a rabbit hole here.....

Here is a good list that will cover a lot of possibilities:
https://www.fema.gov/media-library-data/1e04d512b273e2133cb865833cc0e32d/FEMA_checklist_parent_508_071513.pdf

I'd add also that having cash on hand is very important - we were caught with limited food during an emergency and didn't have much cash on hand. Credit card machines were down so we had very few options to feed our kids.

Which doesn't happen if you've prepped, but okay.

Right. We didn't prep food/water or cash. I recommend having both on hand to cover lots of possibilities.

Ugh.. touching money does not sound like much fun during an epidemics.. not that it is ever fun.. but..
can you launder the money to be clean? Oh wait.. I have heard about money laundering on TV.. yes you can!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm curious why people are buying bottled water.... will there be some kind of issue with our water supply? Genuinely curious.

Asked and answered. If there was an unrelated disruption to water supply it would take a lot long for disaster relief to get to us. Plus bottled water is crazy cheap.

What other unrelated disruptions are you preparing for? Could really go down a rabbit hole here.....

Here is a good list that will cover a lot of possibilities:
https://www.fema.gov/media-library-data/1e04d512b273e2133cb865833cc0e32d/FEMA_checklist_parent_508_071513.pdf

I'd add also that having cash on hand is very important - we were caught with limited food during an emergency and didn't have much cash on hand. Credit card machines were down so we had very few options to feed our kids.

Which doesn't happen if you've prepped, but okay.

Right. We didn't prep food/water or cash. I recommend having both on hand to cover lots of possibilities.

Ugh.. touching money does not sound like much fun during an epidemics.. not that it is ever fun.. but..
can you launder the money to be clean? Oh wait.. I have heard about money laundering on TV.. yes you can!

Wait! NO.. money laundering .. bad idea, apparently it is bad for ya and the bill..

Most bills will remain intact in the washer and dryer. But while a wash cycle may make your money look untainted, it nonetheless ruins the bills; hot water can damage security features, and detergents change the way cash reflects light, which currency-sorting machines detect. Banks shred washed money

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/20/magazine/how-to-clean-paper-currency.html

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Epicurious posted a 2-week meal plan of dinners for 4 using shelf-stable ingredients. Includes recipes and a shopping list.
https://www.epicurious.com/recipes-menus/all-pantry-meal-plan-for-coronavirus-and-other-emergencies-article?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=epi&utm_mailing=EPI_PREPARE_030320&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_medium=email&bxid=5df56ed6a7773918530c3ab2&cndid=59404732&esrc=&utm_term=EPI_CTN_AND_TOPTEN

Yum, thanks for sharing!

Looks good and comes to it, lots of people will learn to cook having time on their hand. Those dishes might be made of shelf stable aka.. dead ingredients but still looks like a lot of work to get where they are..

This is an awesome list! I like the shelf-stable flavorful things they recommend that I hadn't thought of but will give a lot of flavor and variety:
Marinated artichoke hearts
Jarred pesto
Coconut milk
Capers
Kalamata olives
Sun-dried tomatoes
Roasted red peppers
Peroncini

Geez. one thing of caution.. you might end up speaking Greek or Italian or German after eating too much of this..

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm curious why people are buying bottled water.... will there be some kind of issue with our water supply? Genuinely curious.

Asked and answered. If there was an unrelated disruption to water supply it would take a lot long for disaster relief to get to us. Plus bottled water is crazy cheap.

What other unrelated disruptions are you preparing for? Could really go down a rabbit hole here.....

Here is a good list that will cover a lot of possibilities:
https://www.fema.gov/media-library-data/1e04d512b273e2133cb865833cc0e32d/FEMA_checklist_parent_508_071513.pdf

I'd add also that having cash on hand is very important - we were caught with limited food during an emergency and didn't have much cash on hand. Credit card machines were down so we had very few options to feed our kids.

Which doesn't happen if you've prepped, but okay.

Right. We didn't prep food/water or cash. I recommend having both on hand to cover lots of possibilities.

Ugh.. touching money does not sound like much fun during an epidemics.. not that it is ever fun.. but..
can you launder the money to be clean? Oh wait.. I have heard about money laundering on TV.. yes you can!

You can just put it in an envelope and wash your hands. No need to pull it out unless you need it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Epicurious posted a 2-week meal plan of dinners for 4 using shelf-stable ingredients. Includes recipes and a shopping list.
https://www.epicurious.com/recipes-menus/all-pantry-meal-plan-for-coronavirus-and-other-emergencies-article?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=epi&utm_mailing=EPI_PREPARE_030320&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_medium=email&bxid=5df56ed6a7773918530c3ab2&cndid=59404732&esrc=&utm_term=EPI_CTN_AND_TOPTEN

Yum, thanks for sharing!

Looks good and comes to it, lots of people will learn to cook having time on their hand. Those dishes might be made of shelf stable aka.. dead ingredients but still looks like a lot of work to get where they are..

This is an awesome list! I like the shelf-stable flavorful things they recommend that I hadn't thought of but will give a lot of flavor and variety:
Marinated artichoke hearts
Jarred pesto
Coconut milk
Capers
Kalamata olives
Sun-dried tomatoes
Roasted red peppers
Peroncini

Geez. one thing of caution.. you might end up speaking Greek or Italian or German after eating too much of this..

La vita è bella!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm curious why people are buying bottled water.... will there be some kind of issue with our water supply? Genuinely curious.

This has been asked and answered a few times,but...
In the event of an outbreak, all response services are likely to be delayed. So if you have some mundane water break, or massive storm that results in a sewage spill, or whatever other random thing that happens that results in a boil water notice or other water issue, then you can assume that the response time to fix the issue will be longer than usual.
And sure, you have some backup water in your hot water tank (unless you have an in-line heater) or you might live on a well, or have lots of toilets, or live near the river, or whatever... it seems easier to buy an extra case of water and not have to deal with desalinating water from the Chesapeake bay or whatever.

Yeah this makes sense on some level. We actually have over half a case leftover from a recent birthday party so should be good.

Honestly the only thing I have gone out and bought is infant and children's ibuprophen. I had heard some pharmacies were getting cleared out. But we always have a pretty healthy supply of things like beans, rice, and oatmeal anyway.

A half a case (so 20 bottles?) wouldn't last very long. If a family of four each uses 2 bottles a day, 20 bottles would last 2.5. days.

+1. You need enough for two weeks minimum,, A month would be better.

That is crazy wasteful. I hope you are at least buying large jugs rather than hundreds of little individual bottles.

+1

Nope. Its all cases of bottles. And it won't be wasteful if I need them, which is the whole point. You do you.

This isn't Ebola people. I'll take my chances that we don't lose water for a month, thanks.

IMO enough to last a few days is reasonable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm curious why people are buying bottled water.... will there be some kind of issue with our water supply? Genuinely curious.

You can speculate.. with good results..

Start here:
Per NIH...
Viruses in drinking water can cause infectious diseases. In the past, hepatitis A and E were the most frequently observed drinking- water-borne viral infections, but in recent years several small- and large-scale norovirus epidemics have been described, even in Europe.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17334891

Then proceed..

Water-transmitted viral pathogens that are classified as having a moderate to high health significance by the World Health Organization (WHO) include adenovirus, astrovirus, hepatitis A and E viruses, rotavirus, norovirus and other caliciviruses, and enteroviruses, including coxsackieviruses and polioviruses [
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4482390/

Then ask yourself how in heaven the virus got into my water source and why is it here..
How? because water is in contact with the underground water which runs through all kinds of dead animal matter for one..
and the why is it there part would be.. because the municipal water purification system can only do that much...

So then move to solution..
Ask yourself what if the Corona virus will find its way into the water supply

and immediately check what kills it..
this is not perfect but will do:..
Thorough cooking is expected to kill the virus because we know that a heat treatment of at least 30min at 60ºC is effective with SARS.

close enough..

So time for conclusion:

Yes, it can find it's way to the water source. How, in million ways. Is it the end of the world? No. Why? Because while
the corona virus is pretty damaging in a raw from to the human body it can not survive heat treatment much. If you ever studied what can kill mad cow disease you would know that pretty much no heat processing would do. Here we are just lucky, clearly you can not be everything at once as a virus, you need to choose your job just like us humans ..

COVID19 has a narrow specialization and is not an expert in resisting the heat. It is very weak dude, comes to heat and humid resistance.

Just boil your water long enough and he stand no chance.. as you see 30min at 60ºC kills SARS which is a member of the same family. So just boil your water and you are good. For your reference the boiling point for C is 100C.. so you probably don't need the 30 minutes prescribed for 60C.. however as you see boiling rocks.

Boiling is as old as humanity way to keep your water pathogen free. So once water is boiled you need not to worry if there once was a COVID 19. because he is history...

So why bottled water for drinking? Beats me, because you truly can to boil the heck out of it.

Now, the only thing I am still trying to crack is the cold water in the faucet. Provided our water can get really hot in the boiler, the virus can and will get killed there, so using hot water is covered. But what's the deal with the cold water? That is not boiled at any point so if it is contaminated, what happens if you take a shower or wash your face without soap or
even if you just rinse your body after using soap.. are you actually decontaminating yourself right there and then?

Imagine you just washed your hands with soap, fine you removed the virus.. and now if you rinse the soap with mix of cold and hot water.. barely warm.. are you reapplying virus provided it found it's way to the water source? Hm...
Thoughts? I can' not do all the work right?

But what if there is a water main break and all the workers are sick? It could take a while to be fixed.

Yes, I'm not worried about the virus in the water supply. I'm worried if the water main breaks or if we get a boil water notice. Both happened here in the last 12 months so it's not unthinkable.

A $3 case of water from Costco is a no-brainer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm curious why people are buying bottled water.... will there be some kind of issue with our water supply? Genuinely curious.

You can speculate.. with good results..

Start here:
Per NIH...
Viruses in drinking water can cause infectious diseases. In the past, hepatitis A and E were the most frequently observed drinking- water-borne viral infections, but in recent years several small- and large-scale norovirus epidemics have been described, even in Europe.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17334891

Then proceed..

Water-transmitted viral pathogens that are classified as having a moderate to high health significance by the World Health Organization (WHO) include adenovirus, astrovirus, hepatitis A and E viruses, rotavirus, norovirus and other caliciviruses, and enteroviruses, including coxsackieviruses and polioviruses [
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4482390/

Then ask yourself how in heaven the virus got into my water source and why is it here..
How? because water is in contact with the underground water which runs through all kinds of dead animal matter for one..
and the why is it there part would be.. because the municipal water purification system can only do that much...

So then move to solution..
Ask yourself what if the Corona virus will find its way into the water supply

and immediately check what kills it..
this is not perfect but will do:..
Thorough cooking is expected to kill the virus because we know that a heat treatment of at least 30min at 60ºC is effective with SARS.

close enough..

So time for conclusion:

Yes, it can find it's way to the water source. How, in million ways. Is it the end of the world? No. Why? Because while
the corona virus is pretty damaging in a raw from to the human body it can not survive heat treatment much. If you ever studied what can kill mad cow disease you would know that pretty much no heat processing would do. Here we are just lucky, clearly you can not be everything at once as a virus, you need to choose your job just like us humans ..

COVID19 has a narrow specialization and is not an expert in resisting the heat. It is very weak dude, comes to heat and humid resistance.

Just boil your water long enough and he stand no chance.. as you see 30min at 60ºC kills SARS which is a member of the same family. So just boil your water and you are good. For your reference the boiling point for C is 100C.. so you probably don't need the 30 minutes prescribed for 60C.. however as you see boiling rocks.

Boiling is as old as humanity way to keep your water pathogen free. So once water is boiled you need not to worry if there once was a COVID 19. because he is history...

So why bottled water for drinking? Beats me, because you truly can to boil the heck out of it.

Now, the only thing I am still trying to crack is the cold water in the faucet. Provided our water can get really hot in the boiler, the virus can and will get killed there, so using hot water is covered. But what's the deal with the cold water? That is not boiled at any point so if it is contaminated, what happens if you take a shower or wash your face without soap or
even if you just rinse your body after using soap.. are you actually decontaminating yourself right there and then?

Imagine you just washed your hands with soap, fine you removed the virus.. and now if you rinse the soap with mix of cold and hot water.. barely warm.. are you reapplying virus provided it found it's way to the water source? Hm...
Thoughts? I can' not do all the work right?

But what if there is a water main break and all the workers are sick? It could take a while to be fixed.

Yes, then it would be much smarter to buy a rain water filter and go from there. Rain gods do not get sick during epidemics. They operate on regular schedule.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm curious why people are buying bottled water.... will there be some kind of issue with our water supply? Genuinely curious.

This has been asked and answered a few times,but...
In the event of an outbreak, all response services are likely to be delayed. So if you have some mundane water break, or massive storm that results in a sewage spill, or whatever other random thing that happens that results in a boil water notice or other water issue, then you can assume that the response time to fix the issue will be longer than usual.
And sure, you have some backup water in your hot water tank (unless you have an in-line heater) or you might live on a well, or have lots of toilets, or live near the river, or whatever... it seems easier to buy an extra case of water and not have to deal with desalinating water from the Chesapeake bay or whatever.

Yeah this makes sense on some level. We actually have over half a case leftover from a recent birthday party so should be good.

Honestly the only thing I have gone out and bought is infant and children's ibuprophen. I had heard some pharmacies were getting cleared out. But we always have a pretty healthy supply of things like beans, rice, and oatmeal anyway.

Half a case or half of a pallet? LOL.. half of the case is probably what .. 12 waters? For the family of three, two three waters per day.. you are good for a day ..

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Epicurious posted a 2-week meal plan of dinners for 4 using shelf-stable ingredients. Includes recipes and a shopping list.
https://www.epicurious.com/recipes-menus/all-pantry-meal-plan-for-coronavirus-and-other-emergencies-article?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=epi&utm_mailing=EPI_PREPARE_030320&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_medium=email&bxid=5df56ed6a7773918530c3ab2&cndid=59404732&esrc=&utm_term=EPI_CTN_AND_TOPTEN

Yum, thanks for sharing!

Looks good and comes to it, lots of people will learn to cook having time on their hand. Those dishes might be made of shelf stable aka.. dead ingredients but still looks like a lot of work to get where they are..

This is an awesome list! I like the shelf-stable flavorful things they recommend that I hadn't thought of but will give a lot of flavor and variety:
Marinated artichoke hearts
Jarred pesto
Coconut milk
Capers
Kalamata olives
Sun-dried tomatoes
Roasted red peppers
Peroncini

I also didn't know there was shelf-stable tofu. I'm not a big tofu fan but I like it scrambled with a lot of spices.