Foods for the apocalypse

**Phteven** · February 18th, 2013, 06:59 AM

You're stockpiling a cache of food in the bunker in your backyard.
What is in it?

**nothing2lose** · February 18th, 2013, 07:00 AM

Do other humans count?

**Phteven** · February 18th, 2013, 07:02 AM

No. You can hunt them in the days of darkness using the weapons you buried near your bunker.

**LionsandBears** · February 18th, 2013, 07:09 AM

Big containers of water would be a good start.
Large crocks of sauerkraut - a great form of Vitamin C - the old way of preventing scurvy on long boat trips.
Beef jerky and other dehydrated foods
Nuts

**Calluna** · February 18th, 2013, 07:13 AM

Chocolate...

Also tins of tomatoes, corn, 4 bean mix and corn chips (for nachos)
Dehydrated fruit
Nuts
Oats
Water

**Artechim** · February 18th, 2013, 07:26 AM

In all my apocalypse planning, I never considered that we would be living in a world with no chocolate. Lucky that meteor missed.

Would be helpful to know what sort of apocalypse it is though. Zombie would be a lot different to nuclear winter. With zombies or superbug you could still grow crops, but meteor strike/nuclear events would mean that you wouldn't have the cropping option.

We should stock pile some ammo. Apparently it is going to be in short supply and going up in price 200% in the next few months because Obamas slight change in the gun laws in America has caused a knee jerk reaction and they have bought up large. There was a useless bit of info for you. Entirely hearsay too, I haven't even verified the info.

**Nai** · February 18th, 2013, 07:34 AM

Baked beans
Water
Dates
Couscous
Dehydrated peas
Noodles
Protein shake powder

- actually pretty much all the foods I lived on as a uni student!

**jellybean88** · February 18th, 2013, 07:47 AM

Cat food - to keep the cat plump till we become desperate enough to eat him
Lamps for growing food
Couple chooks to breed ....
Rice
Spices
Generator/ solar panels
Assorted knives
Bicycle

**lilima** · February 18th, 2013, 08:00 AM

Condensed milk
Long life milk
I would NEED coffee.
Wine

I would also add an extensive medical kit

**Nai** · February 18th, 2013, 09:39 AM

Oh of course wine - how could I forget wine?!!!

**Astrid** · February 18th, 2013, 10:42 AM

Kegs of cider

**Cassius2** · February 18th, 2013, 01:04 PM

We should stock pile some ammo. Apparently it is going to be in short supply and going up in price 200% in the next few months because Obamas slight change in the gun laws in America has caused a knee jerk reaction and they have bought up large. There was a useless bit of info for you. Entirely hearsay too, I haven't even verified the info.

hmmm shoulda picked up a few while i was over there then...ah bum.

other than that: whisky.

also we already have 30ish bottles of preserved tomato salsa...a little bit of summer in each one! good for the long long nights of nuclear winters OR zombie apocalypse.

mi goren noodles. love that stuff. i remember after the tsunami they were part of the emergency food kits too. i told DH that it was proof that they were good for you. he rolled his eyes so much i feared they might never roll back.

definitely some chickens and a rooster. they eat the scraps and you get eggs! and an alarm clock.

**Amity** · February 18th, 2013, 01:59 PM

Rice.
Tinned tuna and (Blergh) chicken
Tinned fruit and vegetables.
Water
Pasta
Anything in a tin.

More water

Chocolate
Wine

More chocolate

**Rouge** · February 18th, 2013, 02:10 PM

Doomsday Preppers. Watch it. Hilarious. And a little bit creepy.

Anything dried. Especially herbs. A good dry rub can make even a 3 day old piece of road kill palatable. Apparently. And salt. To preserve road kill. Nothing like a bit of possum jerky. Right?