'Time for Americans to start stockpiling food' Wall Street Journal

- Case A/Menu 1-12 MRE's (via Camp Pendleton surplus)

- Amazon RP book duo: "Manifesto.." & "FP of Freedom.."

and lastly:

- a Cuisinart Griddler Gourmet GR-4 (via Costco.com)

...I'm all set (sans a power blackout)!!!

;-)

my Chinese gf who happens to run a resto brought me to her one of many wholesalers and..Viola! bought some 50 pounders at a discount.

She suggested the Kokuhu Yellow Extra Fancy Variety...Harvested in the good 'ol US of A (though a registered Democrat as she is, she's also a good patriot).

I'd bet the rice shortage definitely has to do with the current exchange rates..the Jasmine variety imported from Thailand mainly...

Buy American folks!! Buy USA rice!!

I decided to buy lots of cooking oil and see what happened. I was not disappointed although the results were not conclusive.

I loaded two gallons of olive oil and three gallons of the store brand vegetable oil into my cart along with my normal groceries. I put two gallons of vegetable oil on the conveyor belt first, then the rest of my normal groceries, and finally the two olive oils and third gallon of vegetable oil. Everything went without a hitch till the checkout clerk spotted the third gallon of vegetable oil. He looked at it, then at the two gallons that he had already tabulated. Then he reached below the counter and (apparently) activated a button. He proceeded to check the third gallon but then placed it aside, as if waiting for a supervisor to come and rule on the purchase. I had begun bagging my groceries before a bagger showed up. The checkout guy kept glancing around, apparently to see if a supervisor was coming. None came. I grabbed the gallon he had set aside and stuck it in my shopping cart, at which point he reached below the counter again to (I'm guessing) deactivate the button. No words were exchanged.

As I say, it wasn't conclusive, but surely supermarket chain officials would have taken note of the shortages and rationing at Sam's Club and Walmart stores and might naturally have briefed the lower ranks about what to do if a similar shortage or stockpiling were witnessed at member stores. So was the button business simply a request for a bagger that happened to coincide with the third gallon being noticed? Was the third gallon set aside just to make room for something else? I think the greater likelihood is that I had violated a brand-new, unpublicized anti-hoarding policy and was let go because no supervisor arrived in a timely fashion.

ran a short segment that included a reference to this WSJ article. The "expert" condemns stocking up as a bad idea. WHY?
Well, if America allows an inflation mentality to sink in, it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy. That is to say that our current inflation woes, by her opinion entirely caused by supply/demand issues, would be exacerbated by the decreased supply stocking up on staples would cause.

COSTCO.......here I come!

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it is becoming increasingly obvios to me that TPTB (The powers tha be) want a globalfood panic. Why? I'm not exactly sure. But the Journal is Murdoch's paper, and i've seen similar reports from his global new syndicate. Maybe Murdoch has invested in alot of commodities and trying to recoup his losses from Foxnews going down the toilet. Who knows?

I'm stocking up on freeze dried food. #10 can = 25 years shelf life

we all seem to zoom in on the same articles together. I read this and tried to post the link but it just would not come up, so thanks for doing it. You know when MSM is talking about this now, we are in for a wild ride.

Storage is everything. I opened up a stored jar of peanut butter today. Oops, stored too long.

I am keeping it simple as much of the "food" available is just GMO anyway. Grains and beans, pasta and sauce, jerky, chocolate, coffee cocoa, dry staples = no problem. Its meat, dairy and fresh food that worry me until I do get set up out of town. I did get by with powdered milk for a long time and the odd can. I can do that again. Still, there is only so much you can grow. I do not have a good drying set up (the oven is not so good) and that will have to be my next purchase. I'm looking.

Tobacco - who ever said that, Brilliant!! I am already on top of the whiskey situation, but I'll sure miss my beer, oh will I miss beer...sniff sniff, sob....

I've already been stocking up, but this may help convince some of the people who think I'm nuts to stock up a little.