The Place of Junk Food in Long- term Food Storage. This is a guest post By Bam Bam. I imagine that most of you are like my dh and I: we tend to stay away from junk food. But I have been reconsidering the role of junk food in our food storage. ![]() The primary reason we stay away from junk food is the empty calories—junk food tends to go to our waists (and other non- disclose- able locations). And in the interests of health, we have eliminated most junk foods from our diet. But in a post collapse environment, we will be doing a lot more physical labor: gardening, gathering and splitting wood, hauling water, hunting wild game. Walking and biking will likely be our primary mode of transportation. So I think it is safe to say that post collapse, we will be burning extra calories. So a little junk food won’t hurt. Junk food may actually serve an important role post collapse. We have all heard about food fatigue. During food shortages in the past, many have simply refused to eat. Especially at risk of food fatigue are children and the elderly. According to an old South American proverb, "good broth will resurrect the dead." While that's undoubtedly an exaggeration, it speaks to the value. This is a diet I was handed and told that it was designed to help people crash lose a stone for operations. I tried it and lost 14 lbs, so I’ll pass it along since. Learn how to eat right to fight harder, gain lean muscle weight, burn fat, or just look sexy! This isn’t just a boxing diet plan, it’s a common sense diet plan. The Paleo diet demands that you only eat what cavemen did, which means that you need to chew raw woolly mammoth meat for hours with a mouth full of rotting teeth, and. When people get sick of the “same old, same old,” they simply stop eating. When people are expected to eat foods to which they are not accustomed, they may choose not to eat at all. This has been borne out time and time again throughout history. An important role of junk food in one’s food storage, therefore, is to prevent food fatigue. It is no coincidence that junk foods are also called “comfort” foods. Junk food can help to calm frazzled nerves during a time of great stress. For children, as well as for adults, junk food can provide a sense of normalcy. In America we celebrate events with junk food—Valentines Day, Easter, Christmas. And what would weddings and birthdays be without cake? A couple of instant cake mixes and brownie mixes will go a long way in helping your family adjust to the new normal—whatever that may be. The aim of this article, therefore, is to think up various kinds of junk/comfort foods that are shelf stable and have a reasonable shelf life. Please have a look at the following list and add your thoughts below.(Note: I do recommend that folks take care of the basics before investing in junk food—a three month supply of food your family eats regularly and a solid long- term food storage including rice, beans, wheat, oatmeal, sugar, honey, salt and powdered milk.)Without further ado, the question of the day: what junk foods do you have stored for your family? Junk Food/Comfort Food Items. Jam/Jelly. Maple Syrup. Chocolate Chips. Hard Candy. Jello/Pudding. Drink Mix. Beef Jerky. Pop Corn. Graham Crackers. Goldfish Crackers. Peanut M & MRegular M & MPretzel M & MPeanuts. ![]() ![]() Raisins. Cashews. Pretzels. Sunflower Seeds. Granola Bars. Cereal Bars. Chocolate. Pop Tarts. Cereal (Captain Crunch, Sugar Pops, etc.)Knowing my dh’s sweet tooth, I asked for his input. DH ponders the following question, “If I were stranded on a deserted island, what junk foods would I want to have in my mouth at death?” . Goodbar. Hershey’s Krackle Bar. Malted Milk Balls. Ju. Jubes. Twizzlers (Strawberry)Gummy Bears. Gummy Worms. Banana Bike Taffy. Banana Bubble Gum Cigars. Candy Cigarettes. Cactus Candy. Heath Bar. Peanut Brittle. Chocolate Covered Macadamia Nuts. Chocolate Covered Cherries. ![]() Chocolate Covered Peanuts. Yoo- Hoo! Triple XXX Root Beer. Orange Crush. Squirt. Dr. Pepper. Cherry Coke. Nu. Grape Soda. Okay. So now you have my list and my dh’s list. What do you plan on stocking as a treat for your family? Please share your ideas below. ![]()
![]() Additional Reading. This Is How Miserable IBM Voice Recognition Probably Was in the '8. In the age of Siri, we take for granted how far speech recognition technology has come. But a quick glance back at 1. IBM introduced its voice recognition software, shows that we’ve travelled light years since the earliest version of this game- changing software. And it’s even more fun in satire form. The goofballs at Flying Squid Studios recently edited a 3. IBM promotional video about speech recognition software to show a more realistic outcome of the early technology. Without spoiling any of the best parts, let’s just agree that we’ve all been there. Maybe you didn’t test out the early IBM prototype, but there’s a chance you bought the first edition of Dragon Naturally. Speaking, when it was released in 1. If you thought you could dictate letters with that shit, you were gravely mistaken. The satirical video above is even funnier when you see IBM’s original video. ![]() There’s no doubt the company could have cleverly edited the video so that it would (barely) seem like the woman’s speech was being turned into text by IBM’s gross beige computer. More realistically, some IBM engineer was probably typing the text for the camera, so that the technology seemed perfect. It was hardly perfect at the time. The technology showcased in the video would eventually become IBM’s Speech Server Series in 1. Even eight years later, the software didn’t exactly turn heads. According to Wired, it “never really caught on—at least not in a big way.”But now we live in the future, and Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa and Google’s Assistant are perfect. Just kidding. Our lives are a never- ending exercise in wondering what’s real and what’s really a sick joke.
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