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[quote=Anonymous]I think based on this thread we're semi-preppers - between both DH and I being really good cooks and my growing up quite poor, we like to have an extremely stocked pantry, and we have a chest freezer stuffed to the gills with meat (some game).  The portion of this stockpile that is shelf-stable is more to do with my parsimony than fear of societal collapse - canned beans are stupid expensive compared to dried!  We also have a pretty serious garden (5 raised beds and 8 fruit trees) more because I think of myself as an urban hippie than because fruit might not be for sale at Safeway.

That said, in January 2020 I veered more Serious Prepper (TM) and stocked up on "sh*t might be heading toward the fan" stuff: SPAM, canned veggies (not our vibe), shelf-stable milk for our then-one year old.  I ended up donating most of it because it never got to that point and we're not going to eat SPAM unless the alternative is German Shepherd.  So my prepping days have taught me that there's no harm in stocking up on shelf-stable food we'll actually eat during a sale, but it's a waste of money to buy apocalypse food.  If society collapsed we'd head out of town and not be able to load up a pantry full of SPAM anyway.[/quote]

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