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Make that a triple espresso
-- Puddintame (achillesg@hotmail.com), August 07, 1999
Jeez, yea, she could start her own forum at this rate.I like that - Old Gits Forum!
You go girl! <:)=
-- Sysman (y2kboard@yahoo.com), August 07, 1999.
Aw, quit it y'all. At my age it's not a coffee addiction, it's Metamucil. {Did somebody blab about the 50lbs of bean coffee I stashed for Sweetie and me?)
-- Old Git (anon@spamproblems.com), August 07, 1999.
"about the 50lbs of bean coffee I stashed for Sweetie and me?)"Coffee at OGs during the rollover!!!! Whats for breakfast!
-- Brian (imager@home.com), August 08, 1999.
Don't worry, OG, I'm old enough to have forgotten your address.
-- Mara Wayne (MaraWAyne@aol.com), August 08, 1999.
Old Git has always been one of my favorites, she is the best!
-- bardou (bardou@baloney.com), August 08, 1999.
Oh dear,addicts all !!!By the way,Old Git,just how many cups of coffee do you drink a day?I'm a 20 cup a day girl myself.
-- Chris (griffen@globalnet.co.uk), August 08, 1999.
Cups of coffee? Erm. . . about two leaded, the rest unleaded. We have more servings of coffee than we do cat litter, reasoning that if TSHTF, we could use coffee for litter but not the other way 'round.Mara, mail on the way, make a note of the address!
Breakfast? Well, we have a bucket of that Lumen breakfast stuff (200-and some odd servings), soy sausage and gravy. Could make some hash browns from the canned potatoes, or some grits (those are Sweetie's, NOT mine!). Then we could fix some biscuits, some of those good scrambled eggs from Adventure Foods powdered variety (or an omelette with their excellent dehydrated cheese and just about any kind of omelette veggie), and some canned fruit to follow. If it's spring or early summer, you can have fresh strawberries from the patch that' sbeen out there a couple of years. Yu can also have cereal and reconstituted milk. Sorry, not into oatmeal and other hot cereals. But you can have a dollop of rum or Kahlua in your coffee. NOT the single malt, get your hands OFF it.
Bardou, mutual admiration society here. Miss your past frequent postings! What's new?
I'm STILL trying to shoehorn the stuff from storage into the house. The space it left when it was stored has since been taken up by new stuff. . . But I've found another stash of ancient Organic Gardening and Farming magazines from the storage stuff, so look out!
I'm very proud of myself--took three boxes of stuff to the Salvation Army yesterday; I am now only a Grade II packrat and there is no longer a fire hazard in the attic. I have my fingers tightly crossed for a BITR so that we can gradually eat our way through the stocks next year and I'll have almost a whole spare room to fill up with more STUFF! Of course, I'll keep a regular stash for the usual emergencies we get here (power outages in the winter, hurricanes in the summer, the odd tornado or two). And I might add drought to the list. We could be running into water rationing in the not-too-distant.
Did y'all see the little article from the China Daily about the Arab Gulf States? Hope so--get those solar panels! (BTW, it's a wild assumption, I know, but--shhhhhh!--I don't think they're making any more oil. Haven't seen them putting any into the ground lately.)
One last thought--must remember to get a SECOND hand grinder for the coffee. Sweetie's homebrew grain grinder will do in a pinch, though. Hmmm. Coffee-flavored pale ale. . . Pale-ale flavored coffee?
-- Old Git (anon@spamproblems.com), August 08, 1999.
Old Git, re hand-cranking grinders, we were looking for some without success, when voila! at Ross Dress For Less there on Clearance shelf were 2 brand-new grinders, complete with shredding/slicing attachments, for just a couple dollars :-) Amazing where these no-electricity-needed tools are to be found.We haven't had time to hit yard/estate sales lately. Have read one can find very useful stuff there, still. And the posts on salvaging goodies from the dump are really interesting. We see all too often the son/daughter coming in and dumping the entire contents of a household into a rent-a-dumpster, with zero thought of the worth of the accumulation of a lifetime, or the less fortunate.
We're going to order the TVP jerky from Lumen, since it was recommended on TB2K somewhere. We vegetarians haven't had jerky for over 25 years!
About coffee, we read that 80% of Americans drink one or more cups per day. Obviously a barter item!
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-- Ashton & Leska in Cascadia (allaha@earthlink.net), August 08, 1999.
A&L - order twice as much of that jerky as you think you'll want! That stuff IS addictive--no cooking, of course! I put small amounts in snack baggies to keep myself in line. I've been ordering from Lumen (soybean.com) for many years and find their products and service very good. Last Y2K delivery took 3 weeks, regular stuff a few days. BTW, their regular (not special Y2K) soybean meat alternative keeps a long time. I've been using some I've had for about a year and a half--still good. (Packed in ziplocks with as much aair as possible squeezed out by hand), then in plastic containers, stored room temp. and dark. Look for what Lumen calls "fines"--the misshapen pieces not up to standard (quality is, of course, as usual). They sell for about half the price of their perfectly-shaped relatives. Ask for recipe leaflet too. Note: the "wild" jerky is HOT!
-- Old Git (anon@spamproblems.com), August 08, 1999.
Yard sales, thrift shops, etc.--sorry, forgot to mention, Hungarian and I are still making the rounds. Have noticed no difference in types of goods offered. Still great bargains to be had at silly prices. Both of us still collecting books like crazy. Whether or not BITR next year, Hungarian and I are going to go sell books at the flea market!
-- Old Git (anon@spamproblems.com), August 08, 1999.
Old Git, isn't it an odd feeling seeing all these people wanting to get rid of imperative stuff super-cheap? We almost feel guilty buying these bargains from the unclued, but their quick sneers chase away the pangs of conscience. The Spin has spun an extended time of peace and easy pickings for the DoomClued :-) TPTB wanted to get prepped first, and that window remains open for us tiny % of GIs. Seize the day! Thanks for all your tips, advice, pointers, and help.
-- Ashton & Leska in Cascadia (allaha@earthlink.net), August 08, 1999.
I bought canned eel in Chinatown yesterday. Delicious? No, but it's okay and not the same as everything else. I also have turkey jerkey-- a little pricey but a nice treat from free range turkeys. Some oatmeal comes in cans and I'm into that.
-- Mara Wayne (MaraWayne@aol.com), August 08, 1999.
Old Git, are whole beans the best route to go compared to preground and instant?Instant coffees seem to be the easiest by adding boiling water. But don't whole beans have the longest storage life?
Preground coffee in cans supposedly lasts two years, but the flavor would be weaker than whole beans freshly ground, yes?
I admit coffee is one thing I've not been stockpiling.
-- Randolph (dinosaur@williams-net.com), August 08, 1999.
Randolph, I understand that green coffee beans are the best route, but of course that means you have to roast them. We like whole bean coffee so that's what we're storing--except for some small vacuum packs of ground Cafe du Monde (New Orleans chicory coffee). When we got our stuff out of storage (in a climate-controlled storage facility) a few weeks ago, we got our dried stash too (didn't think it would be there that long!) and started drinking coffee from June 1998. I'm pretty sure one or the other of us would have noticed any difference in taste from recent consumption (same brand, Millstone) just prior--there was no discernible difference. The coffee had been in its original vacuum pack, in a ziplock bag with as much air squeezed out as possible, then sealed inside a white bucket with duct tape--no dessicants or oxy absorbers.I strongly recommend stocking up on coffee since a great deal of it comes from Colombia. If there is any interruption in shipping from this and other coffee-growing areas, then I expect the price will go up--think supply and demand. Fingers crossed there is no early frost in the southern hemisphere this season or next.
Similarly, there is only one very small tea plantation in the US (S. Carolina), the vast majority comes from India and China--maybe Sri Lanka is a major player too. Anyway, it all comes from developing countries and there might be shipping ptoblems there too. I'm storing Sweetie's Twining's the same way as the coffee. Heaven forfend he has no English or Irish Breakfast to perk him up.
The doctor and I have already had our "caffeine is not one of the major food groups" conversation. As noted elsewhere, I've had to give up every major vice except three; one of them's coffee and one of them's cussing. If I have to give up one more thing, it's NOT going to be the coffee and it bloody well isn't going to be the cussing!
-- Old Git (anon@spamproblems.com), August 08, 1999.