To avert famine across Europe in the near future

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3. I've been slowly...

Collecting large bulk bags of a few things. Last week it was sugar, next it will be flours - a variety of kinds, already bought rice a week ago. I'm storing them in sealed containers in their bags. I like to use small galvanized trash cans with lids or large, glass, 1 gal pickles jars. Nonfood items go into pickle buckets with lids and handles.

I have an old cookbook that was published during WWII. In the very back, after the index, is an appendix of ten pages titled, "Wartime Cookery". In those pages is the method for substituting honey for sugar, rendering fat, which cuts of meat to buy so the more transportable cuts can be shipped to the war zone and what's in the tin cans by size and shape.

The book had several editions, I had a few of them at one time, and in the back of each different edition was a different appendix. One year had plans/blueprints for a few styles of root cellars, in another were butchering charts for farm and game animals. I held on to the one with the wartime cookery.

I talked to my friends about this recently and we came to the conclusion that stocking up is a good idea, just don't go crazy. Storing things properly is key. I've lived much of my home life in rural places so I have always had to consider storage and buying more than just a week's worth when venturing out to shop.