The heck with gold--buy wheat!

[Just_A_Guy]

Graph here.

[talisyn]

yup

[Dravin]

Can I have a Scrooge McDuck style vault filled to the brim with wheat and complete with diving board?

[Wingnut]

Don't you think that might get a little itchy?

[Dravin]

Don't you think that might get a little itchy?

Depends on the state of wheat (hulled or not). I just need to be really, really, really sure the roof doesn't leak.

[Wingnut]

Better bring a big spoon if it does.

[captmoroniRM]

Its interesting that the nephite monetary system was based on Grain and not Gold. Wheat particularly can last forever. They've taken stores of wheat preserved in Egyptian tombs and it has still sprouted. Should some great calamity strike, like a massive famine or food shortage, which will be more valuable? Gold, or grain? Those who had the largest grain stores, would indeed be the wealthiest. Plus, if push came to shove, you wouldn't have to buy food.

Could society one day return to a grain-based monetary system? Perhaps that is one more reason why food storage is important? Who knows.

[Just_A_Guy]

True story:

My EQ President's food storage consists of sixty pounds of chocolate. He figures he can use it to barter for whatever other foodstuffs he may need.

Maybe he's onto something. Maybe a true Zion economy is based, not on money, but on chocolate.

[Gwen]

i know a lady that says to store as many spices and honey as you can. she said even among those that are "prepared" they only have the basics. at some point that wheat will need something more to make it palatable. she believes spices will become the monetary system.

[pam]

i know a lady that says to store as many spices and honey as you can. she said even among those that are "prepared" they only have the basics. at some point that wheat will need something more to make it palatable. she believes spices will become the monetary system.

I guess kind of like it was in days of old. Spices were considered luxury items.

[HoosierGuy]

Could society one day return to a grain-based monetary system? Perhaps that is one more reason why food storage is important? Who knows.

Grain, maybe. I listed to a BBC wildlife podcast recently. They had an expert insects guy on talking about insects. He was really informative and fun to listen to. They talked about insects for food and said some are highly healthy to eat. He also said they were easy to mass produce. A cow takes something like eight times the food in that it gives out where many insects are one to one. Insects are more commonly eating in the east than the west, mostly because it's simply not our custom to eat them. He said there's really no reason not to eat them and since we evolved from monkeys that ate insects, it's natural for us to eat insects.

Also, he said with over population it's going to be hard to feed everybody with meat and insects are going to be the food of the future.

So there you go - invest in insects!

[Gwen]

so i should stop wasting money on an exterminator? i'll just tell the kids we are saving money and increasing our food storage...... win - win

[pam]

He said there's really no reason not to eat them and since we evolved from monkeys that ate insects, it's natural for us to eat insects.

If I believed we evolved from monkeys....

[HoosierGuy]

So I looked up insect eating. Wow, I guess it really is popular in other parts of the world.

Now I want to open up an insect restaurant in Indianapolis!

[Gwen]

Now I want to open up an insect restaurant in Indianapolis!

good luck with that. lol

[cathyyg]

My husband saw some economic expert on TV a few months ago talking about buying gold. He said that you'd be better off storing food against a time of economic or social collapse than gold. It made my husband a lot less resistant to the concept of long-term food storage! And thanks to a broken water main, he now gets the idea of storing water, too.