Ä [80] Survnet: SURV_FOOD (9:91/0) ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ SURV_FOOD Ä Msg : 10 of 11 + 11 From : Guy Putnam 9:92/0 Sat 24 Dec 94 00:54 To : All Subj : Home Made MRE'S ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ * Originally By: GARY LIVERMORE * Originally To: ALL * Originally Re: Home Made MRE'S * Original Area: AEN Chat * Forwarded by : Blue Wave v2.12 Each Home-Made MRE could contain the following: 1: one small can of main course food 50 cents to 1 dollar beef stew, spaghetti,ravioli (store brand on sale) tuna, etc... 2: a couple of pieces of gum 5 cents 3: 2 multi vitamins 10 cents (High Potency) 4: 4 pack of cigarettes 25 cents 5: dried nuts/fruits, etc... 10 cents (home dried) 6: 10 sheets of toilet paper 1 cent 7: 2 band aids 5 cents (for those little boo-boo's) 8: plastic fork/knife/spoon 3 cents 9: 1 heat tablet 25 cents 10: 2 asprin or ibuprophin 5 cents All totaled, you can make this for around $1.39 to $1.89 each!! even at $2.00 a meal, it is a deal!! Shop around, buy in bulk, generic brand, or on sale. You could also ad anything else you felt was impotent, like a little package of instant coffee, or a packet of sugar or salt. Cigs can be bought by the carton, opened up, and divided into packs of 4 or 5 cigs each, and seal in small package with a seal-a-meal, or get some shrink-wrap, and wrap up the loose stuff into neat little air tight packages. Buy a bundle of little gift boxes to pack each meal in, once boxed, seal box in plastic or shrink-wrap. If you don't smoke, add cigs to your MRE's anyhow, you can always trade them for something you want later with someone dying for a smoke! You could also add those little airport bottles of booze for those cold nights on the ridge... :-) You may even want to add 2 nasal decongestant/antihistamine tabs. If you spent just $50 bucks a week, you could package up at least 300 meals in 3 months! If you used 2 meals per day per person, a family of 3 could eat for 50 days, 2 for 75 days, or one person for 5 months. If push comes to shove, you could ration it off even longer... Just remember, the longer you wait, the more you will have to spend each week to prepare, and the less time to do it in. There would not be much time for any readiness when you have only one or two days to get ready, and you will know when that time comes. You may not get much more of a warning. And the good news is, if things DO turn around, well, you have a lot of food and supplies on hand, and won't have to buy anything for a long time! -!- * QMPro 1.51 * Be vewy vewy quiet, I'm hunting blue beenie Waskels... -!- GOMail v2.0s Beta [94-0145] ! Origin: The Desert Reef >(;} * Tucson Az * V.34 * 602 624 6386 (1:300/507) --- Blue Wave/Max v2.12 [NR] * Origin: FLOTOM * Austin, Tx * (512)282-3941 * H16/V34 (9:92/0)