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Episode-70- Stored Food Gives you a High Return on Investment

Posted on October 9, 2008 by Modern Survival| 6 Comments
Episode-70- Stored Food Gives you a High Return on Investment [ 36:07 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Today we announced our winner of the first round of the Listener Appreciation Contest.  Then we go in to the actual return of investment on stored food items from information provided in a recent LA Times Article showing an 11% return on 16 common food items between Q3 2007 and Q3 2008.

Tune in today to hear….

  • How Flour has appreciated by 37%
  • How Potatoes have appreciated by 32%
  • How Cheddar Cheese has appreciated by 21%
  • How Apples have also gone up by 21%
  • Vegetable oil have gone up 17%
  • How the items that are the worst for storage have gone up the least
  • Corn futures right now are 70% above current pricing
  • The five items a week challenge
  • Now is the time for a “winter garden” and winter friendly crops
  • The portable mini greenhouse and how to extend your growing season
  • Let’s have fun during the recession and be prepared to prosper on the rebound

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Episode-67- Choosing between MRE’s or Rice and Beans

Posted on October 2, 2008 by Modern Survival| 10 Comments
Episode-67- Choosing between MRE's or Rice and Beans [ 44:24 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

There is another great thread in our forum going on about the choice between “MRE’s or Rice and Beans” and it has gone well enough I decided to do a show on the topic.  I also however, open today’s show with some thoughts on the Senates approval of the “improved bail out bill”.  Meaning they loaded it up with pork.

Tune in today to hear…

On the Bail out

  • Call your Senators and tell them they are fired, if yours voted no, tell me who they are so I can let people know who those with a spine are.
  • How we are being forced to buy a 1 trillion dollar ticket to an event we don’t want to see
  • More on stock market voodoo
  • Is that pork I smell, why does it stink so bad?
  • A shell game with the profits, you bet
  • Who really is going to get rich on this, it isn’t the “damn CEOs” from the screwed companies
  • One quadrillion in derivatives is the real problem

On the main topic today

  • MREs are useful but expensive, bulky and get “old” fast
  • How to create variety even with boring “rice and beans”
  • How rice and beans doesn’t always mean just rice and beans
  • How to make boring dry beans into an awesome soup
  • The simplistic beauty of quick beer bread
  • How you can “test” survival food before you stock it
  • Adding potatoes and pasta to the rice and beans regiment
  • Teaching yourself to cook like our grand parents did
  • The way to truly store what you eat and eat what you store
  • Not everything you store needs to be canned, dried, etc. use your freezer
  • Using affordable food to cut your budget and live the live”
  • Simple Potatoes that people will prefer to steak
  • The humble Shepperd’s Pie

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