{"id":61404,"date":"2025-09-10T18:35:37","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T08:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=61404"},"modified":"2025-09-10T18:35:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T08:35:37","slug":"are-you-more-than-9-meals-away-from-starving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=61404","title":{"rendered":"Are You More Than 9 Meals Away From Starving?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read an article from Jeff Thomas (if interested you can read it at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.321gold.com\/editorials\/thomas\/thomas042316.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> http:\/\/www.321gold.com\/editorials\/thomas\/thomas042316.html<\/a>) wherein he writes, \u201cAfter only nine missed meals, it\u2019s not unlikely that we\u2019d panic and be prepared to commit a crime to acquire food.\u201c<\/p>\n<p>Given the current declining levels of ethics, morality, civility and stability in society, there is an increasing chance of disruptions in the supply chain that would cause food shortages, to a greater or lesser degree.<\/p>\n<p>Now, while I like to think that\u00a0 if you knocked on my door in need of a feed, that I would be only too willing to welcome you to my table, obviously I do not have the resources to do that for everyone.<\/p>\n<p>So I am asking you to start laying in some extras each week that might enable you to help your family and friends in a worst case scenario. That will take the load off my ability to help others.<\/p>\n<p>This does not need to stretch your budget past breaking point.<\/p>\n<p>As I write this, Coles have a half-price special on brown rice this week, $9.50 for 5 kilos.<\/p>\n<p>They also have brown lentils for the regular price of $5.50 a kilo or red lentils for $4.20 a kilo. And several varieties of canned beans for $1.10 a 420 gram can.<\/p>\n<p>Even if you only spend $5 or $10 a week to lay in a reserve supply of food you are gradually building a potentially life-saving increase in your survival potential.<\/p>\n<p>Just as a further tip, get a glass or hard plastic container in which to store your 5 kilo plastic bag of rice. Otherwise rice weevils can eat through the plastic bag and you don\u2019t want that sort of competition for your rice! LOL!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read an article from Jeff Thomas (if interested you can read it at http:\/\/www.321gold.com\/editorials\/thomas\/thomas042316.html) wherein he writes, \u201cAfter only nine missed meals, it\u2019s not unlikely that we\u2019d panic and be prepared to commit a crime to acquire food.\u201c Given the current declining levels of ethics, morality, civility and stability in society, there is an &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=61404\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Are You More Than 9 Meals Away From Starving?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61405,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61404\/revisions\/61405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}