What To Pack For A Global Pandemic ???

Mark Thorson wrote on 7/10/2005:

Quoted message said:

Assuming that KILLER BIRD FLU takes off as predicted,
what food should I store in advance in the event
I can't leave the house for 2-4 weeks?

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Gin. In a pinch, vod.

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Mark Thorson said:

Assuming that KILLER BIRD FLU takes off as predicted,
what food should I store in advance in the event
I can't leave the house for 2-4 weeks?

Here's the start of my list:

28 12-packs of non-alcoholic beer
56 cans of chicken soup
56 boxes of Kleenex

I suppose I can go off my low-carb diet,
because getting enough calories may be a
problem. So maybe add a big bag of rice.
Of course, I'll still be sensitive to bean protein,
so forget the beans.

What else keeps well enough that I can store it
long-term for emergency rations during a
prolonged illness?

More canned veggies for a start,
Canned tuna, canned juices, bottled water,
toilet paper, I can think of _lots_ of things.
--
K.

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Mark Thorson said:

Assuming that KILLER BIRD FLU takes off as predicted,
what food should I store in advance in the event
I can't leave the house for 2-4 weeks?

Here's the start of my list:

28 12-packs of non-alcoholic beer
56 cans of chicken soup
56 boxes of Kleenex

I suppose I can go off my low-carb diet,
because getting enough calories may be a
problem. So maybe add a big bag of rice.
Of course, I'll still be sensitive to bean protein,
so forget the beans.

What else keeps well enough that I can store it
long-term for emergency rations during a
prolonged illness?

According to HHGTTG, a towel would be good.
Cathy

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I don't suffer from insanity - I enjoy every minute of it

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Quoted message said:

Mark Thorson said:

Assuming that KILLER BIRD FLU takes off as predicted,
what food should I store in advance in the event
I can't leave the house for 2-4 weeks?

Here's the start of my list:

28 12-packs of non-alcoholic beer
56 cans of chicken soup
56 boxes of Kleenex

I suppose I can go off my low-carb diet,
because getting enough calories may be a
problem. So maybe add a big bag of rice.
Of course, I'll still be sensitive to bean protein,
so forget the beans.

What else keeps well enough that I can store it
long-term for emergency rations during a
prolonged illness?

According to HHGTTG, a towel would be good.
Cathy

Gee, that's strange, HHGTTU recommends that, too.

🙂

On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 17:32:49 GMT, Mark Thorson <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

Assuming that KILLER BIRD FLU takes off as predicted,
what food should I store in advance in the event
I can't leave the house for 2-4 weeks?

Here's the start of my list:

28 12-packs of non-alcoholic beer
56 cans of chicken soup
56 boxes of Kleenex

I suppose I can go off my low-carb diet,
because getting enough calories may be a
problem. So maybe add a big bag of rice.
Of course, I'll still be sensitive to bean protein,
so forget the beans.

What else keeps well enough that I can store it
long-term for emergency rations during a
prolonged illness?

If you have a freezer, you can store lots of squid 🙂

Sue(tm)
Lead me not into temptation... I can find it myself!

Vienna sausage and Spam.

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gjgee said:

Vienna sausage and Spam.

<barf>
--
K.

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"I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell‹you
see, I have friends in both places." --Mark Twain

Mark Thorson said:

Assuming that KILLER BIRD FLU takes off as predicted,
what food should I store in advance in the event
I can't leave the house for 2-4 weeks?

Here's the start of my list:

28 12-packs of non-alcoholic beer
56 cans of chicken soup
56 boxes of Kleenex

I suppose I can go off my low-carb diet,
because getting enough calories may be a
problem. So maybe add a big bag of rice.
Of course, I'll still be sensitive to bean protein,
so forget the beans.

What else keeps well enough that I can store it
long-term for emergency rations during a
prolonged illness?

Given how serious the disease could become should it spread, your first
thing to store would be someone to take care of you! You will probably
be too ill to get anything to eat.

Think water and crackers by the bedside. If you got bird flu, your low
carb diet would be the very very least of your worries.

On Sun 10 Jul 2005 02:07:17p, Curly Sue wrote in rec.food.cooking:

Quoted message said:

On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 17:32:49 GMT, Mark Thorson <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

Assuming that KILLER BIRD FLU takes off as predicted, what food should
I store in advance in the event I can't leave the house for 2-4 weeks?

Here's the start of my list:

28 12-packs of non-alcoholic beer
56 cans of chicken soup
56 boxes of Kleenex

I suppose I can go off my low-carb diet, because getting enough
calories may be a problem. So maybe add a big bag of rice.
Of course, I'll still be sensitive to bean protein, so forget the
beans.

What else keeps well enough that I can store it
long-term for emergency rations during a prolonged illness?

If you have a freezer, you can store lots of squid 🙂

If you have an aquarium, you can grow your own. :-)

--
Wayne Boatwright *¿*
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On Sun 10 Jul 2005 02:57:41p, gjgee wrote in rec.food.cooking:

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Vienna sausage and Spam.

There's an endless supply of Spam served on Usenet. Who know? In Vienna it
may be sausage.

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On Sun 10 Jul 2005 02:44:39p, rexmo wrote in rec.food.cooking:

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Four Thieves Vinegar might be worth having on hand.

Now there's a diet! Vinegar!

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Curly Sue said:

On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 17:32:49 GMT, Mark Thorson <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

Assuming that KILLER BIRD FLU takes off as predicted,
what food should I store in advance in the event
I can't leave the house for 2-4 weeks?

Quoted message said:

If you have a freezer, you can store lots of squid 🙂

Nah. That's for a hockey game.

I will admit that for a few minutes I thought
Global Pandemic was a rock concert.

gloria p

Arri London said:

Mark Thorson said:

Assuming that KILLER BIRD FLU takes off as predicted,
what food should I store in advance in the event
I can't leave the house for 2-4 weeks?

Here's the start of my list:

28 12-packs of non-alcoholic beer
56 cans of chicken soup
56 boxes of Kleenex

I suppose I can go off my low-carb diet,
because getting enough calories may be a
problem. So maybe add a big bag of rice.
Of course, I'll still be sensitive to bean protein,
so forget the beans.

What else keeps well enough that I can store it
long-term for emergency rations during a
prolonged illness?

Given how serious the disease could become should it spread, your first
thing to store would be someone to take care of you! You will probably
be too ill to get anything to eat.

Think water and crackers by the bedside. If you got bird flu, your low
carb diet would be the very very least of your worries.

Actually think juices and electrolyte replacement things like gatorade
by the bedside as well as crackers and other easy to eat things. I
sufferend though Dengue fever last November and was in bed with 104 deg
F temperature for almost 5 days. I was sleeping 18 hours a day. All I
wanted was fluids - water, juices, gatorade, etc.

Sandi

Got a recipe for that Four Thieves Vinegar?

I had the Sydney flu in 98 (old timers do you remember?). Went from
healthy as a horse, never been in a hospital, to sick as a dog in a
week. I just got worse and worse, and had plenty of gatorade. It was
respiratory & high fever as well as severe gastro-intestinal distress.
Ended up in the hospital with pneumonia, on iv fluids. 2 days there.
Wiped out in bed for another month. Lost 18 pounds.

After that I understood how the flu can kill you. And this past month
my 5 year old got salmonella from playing around live chickens - he was
hospitalized for *three* days. (He got a secondary infection as well as
the salmonella.) So I'm pretty respectful of these bugs - and not all
that certain there's much to do to prevent getting them. Those flu
shots are a guessing game.

Leila

cathyxyz said:

According to HHGTTG, a towel would be good.
Cathy

Maybe this is a money-making opportunity.
I could have some T-shirts made up:
"I survived the Global Pandemic and
all I got was this lousy T-shirt.".

Mark Thorson said:

cathyxyz said:

According to HHGTTG, a towel would be good.
Cathy

Maybe this is a money-making opportunity.
I could have some T-shirts made up:
"I survived the Global Pandemic and
all I got was this lousy T-shirt.".

Or - you could have towels made up that say - "Thanks Doug, I made it"
and sell those....

Cathy

Puester said:

Curly Sue said:

On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 17:32:49 GMT, Mark Thorson <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

Assuming that KILLER BIRD FLU takes off as predicted,
what food should I store in advance in the event
I can't leave the house for 2-4 weeks?

Quoted message said:

If you have a freezer, you can store lots of squid 🙂

Nah. That's for a hockey game.

I will admit that for a few minutes I thought
Global Pandemic was a rock concert.

gloria p

There is such a t-shirt.... Not that one should make light of
this.

--
Jean B.

"Mark Thorson" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Assuming that KILLER BIRD FLU takes off as predicted,
what food should I store in advance in the event
I can't leave the house for 2-4 weeks?

Here's the start of my list:

28 12-packs of non-alcoholic beer
56 cans of chicken soup
56 boxes of Kleenex

I suppose I can go off my low-carb diet,
because getting enough calories may be a
problem. So maybe add a big bag of rice.
Of course, I'll still be sensitive to bean protein,
so forget the beans.

What else keeps well enough that I can store it
long-term for emergency rations during a
prolonged illness?

An account at "Stupid market dot com" and plenty of enveloped so one can pit the
drivers tip on the porch.

Dimitri

"Mark Thorson" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Assuming that KILLER BIRD FLU takes off as predicted,
what food should I store in advance in the event
I can't leave the house for 2-4 weeks?

Here's the start of my list:

28 12-packs of non-alcoholic beer
56 cans of chicken soup
56 boxes of Kleenex

I suppose I can go off my low-carb diet,
because getting enough calories may be a
problem. So maybe add a big bag of rice.
Of course, I'll still be sensitive to bean protein,
so forget the beans.

What else keeps well enough that I can store it
long-term for emergency rations during a
prolonged illness?

Extra batteries for the remote.

;-)

Dimitri