Why I'm Eating Great Value Carrots, Potatoes, Beans, and Corn for Lunch Today

[gunDriller]

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Well, one of the reason is "You Guys" - helped me be comfortable buying this brand.

Plus, the price is right.

Plus, I live near Walmart now.

But mainly it's because - I'm scared.


I think there is a good chance that our respective Doom-o-Meters are going to hit "Max" in the near future, not because of imagined reasons, but because of real incidents.

Well, you know what happened in Japan. A disaster still unfolding and still in the early stages, with major knock-on effects - for example, Japan was one of the primary buyers of US debt. How will they keep that up now ?

And, in the last week, Pimco, one of the biggest investment funds in the world, announced that they would stop buying US debt. Notice a trend ?


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We can thank Newton for thinking about things like this. The moon will be 7% closer than its medium distance, halfway between "apogee" and "perigee". On March 19th.

The way gravitational attraction works, that means it will exert a 14.5% greater force on the tectonic plates that comprise the San Andreas fault.

If you knew that someone was using some NASA-size hydraulic jacks all along the edges of the Pacific and North American plates and lift them up with a combined force of millions of tons, how would you feel about that ? Would you ask them to not use those hydraulic jacks ?

http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/tectonics.html

Combine that with -
* Numerous credible reports of the US gov. preparing for an un-identified emergency - too numerous to list.
* The fact that the US government can not be trusted to alert the citizens about serious emergencies, such as the attack on Pearl Harbor and 9-11.
* Other reports of recent volcanic activity on the Pacific Rim.
* Outstanding warnings from respective geologists about imminent large earthquakes in California, British Columbia, and even Oregon (these are general warnings, not specific to the Supermoon).
* The fact that there is No Slack in the System.

etc.
etc.
etc.

As much as I detest James Kunstler, I think his use of the term "Clusterfuck" is apt.

So, what's the worst that can happen if we prepare and nothing happens ? In my case, I will just have a bigger pile of canned food. Thank God Walmart takes American Express.

I'm not saying that California, Oregon, Washington, or BC will have an earthquake - just that it's Earthquake Season.


I even stopped by the local race-track, who has been very generous in letting me haul away racehorse manure the last few months. I talked to the lead horse care-giver, and gave him my phone #, and asked him to please let me know if the racehorses start acting so skittish that it scares even him.

No one wants to be right about predicting a natural disaster, and it's not fun to be treated as a Cassandra - but Here We Are.


Stay out of Brick Buildings !!!

Oh, yes. I'm eating Great Value today because I want to see how it tastes before I Load Up. ;D

[Horn]

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[Antonio]

We are chasing iodine pills with iodine tincture and you are munching on some carrots???

[solid]

We are chasing iodine pills with iodine tincture and you are munching on some carrots???


I'm thinking a shot of vodka to go with those iodine pills, and carrots.

This is some major doom, gunDriller. Hope you are wrong.

[Antonio]

We are chasing iodine pills with iodine tincture and you are munching on some carrots???


I'm thinking a shot of vodka to go with those iodine pills, and carrots.

This is some major doom, gunDriller. Hope you are wrong.


Here is how Chernobyl started for me. I was 14 and came to my HS in Leningrad as usual. I was met by my drinking buddies who said that today we are drinking red wine. I was in the mood for beer and asked why. They said a nuke plant blew up and the red wine helps to piss out radiation. I agreed and we got wasted on some Georgian Cabernet. 2 days after that I was in Moscow visiting relatives, walked the street in the rain for a few minutes. That rain was so contaminated that I lost a significant amount of hair after that, kept seeing a sink full of hair after brushing for years after that. My hair became thinner but I still have a full head of hair 26yrs later.

[gunDriller]

GV Carrots - taste good.

GV Green Beans - Yuk.

GB Potatoes - they're edible.

GV Corn - OK, they need salt.

But hey, they're 67 cents a can.

next up - GV Pork & Beans.

[solid]

But hey, they're 67 cents a can.


That is a great value. I recently spent $10 per can of bacon. Is there great value canned bacon? I haven't set foot in a walmart for years, but I would for great value bacon.

[steel_ag]

I like buying the frozen vegetables better... better nutrition and no potential contamination from the cans

:dunno

[lapis]

I like buying the frozen vegetables better... better nutrition and no potential contamination from the cans

Me too, but it's nice to have some canned food in case the electricity goes out or something happens to your fridge/freezer.

I recently discovered a great Mexican brand refried beans with bits of pork in it. It has lard too, and is quite tasty and filling. It fits the bill for DOOM eating.

[Gaillo]

Well, one of the reason is "You Guys" - helped me be comfortable buying this brand.

You do realize, don't you, that the whole "Great Value" meme started over at GIM2 - we're basically making fun of a guy there who "prepped up" by going to 8 or 9 WalMart locations in search of Great Value Carrots... and the sheeple who urged him on with (unintentionally funny) support for his endeavor!

I, and most people in the nutritional KNOW around here would NOT recommend that people actually EAT that crap... full of GMO, Corn syrup, and other nasty, non-nutritious, and (in the long-term) possibly lethal health consequences.

Go to a grocery store... buy some organic produce... cook it yourself or eat it raw. Better yet... grow it yourself. THERE is your actual "great value"! ;)

[woodman]

Go to a grocery store... buy some organic produce... cook it yourself or eat it raw. Better yet... grow it yourself. THERE is your actual "great value"! ;)


It is easy and fun to grow and can your own high quality vegetables and meats. I just ate a jar of garden corn that we canned this fall from our harvest. It was so tasty and pretty too. It looks like canned nuggets of sunshine in the jars. The longer you process it and/or the more sugar in it, the darker it gets because the sugar carmalizes (I think).

[gunDriller]

I like buying the frozen vegetables better... better nutrition and no potential contamination from the cans

Me too, but it's nice to have some canned food in case the electricity goes out or something happens to your fridge/freezer.

I recently discovered a great Mexican brand refried beans with bits of pork in it. It has lard too, and is quite tasty and filling. It fits the bill for DOOM eating.


exactly. i want food in case a few bridges go down, the trucks can't bring food to the stores, and the supermarkets get cleaned out.

i think it is best to plan for a no-electricity situation. understanding that the canned carrots may not be perfect.

but those green beans, they pick up a taste from the can, bitter. i put some outside for the critters but i wouldn't be surprised if they just go for the birdseed.

[Bullion_Bob]

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[Cobalt]

Go to a grocery store... buy some organic produce... cook it yourself or eat it raw. Better yet... grow it yourself. THERE is your actual "great value"! ;)


It is easy and fun to grow and can your own high quality vegetables and meats. I just ate a jar of garden corn that we canned this fall from our harvest. It was so tasty and pretty too. It looks like canned nuggets of sunshine in the jars. The longer you process it and/or the more sugar in it, the darker it gets because the sugar carmalizes (I think).


As soon as corn is picked the sugars start converting into starch, if you have ever eaten corn on the cob that has been picked several days ago the first thing you will notice is it sticks to your teeth, that is the high level of starch that was once sugar.
My Grandma always would start the water boiling and then go pick the corn.

Many of today's hybrid corn have much higher sugar content then the corn of years past so it tolerates a longer time between garden and kettle, but I still prefer Grandmas way of doing it and nothing taste better then fresh from the garden corn

[gunDriller]

We are chasing iodine pills with iodine tincture and you are munching on some carrots???


I'm thinking a shot of vodka to go with those iodine pills, and carrots.

This is some major doom, gunDriller. Hope you are wrong.


I hope I'm wrong too. When I say "it's earthquake season", I don't mean it's for sure, just that the chance has increased. For the most part, California has vastly improved their building codes - it's now routine to add some steel strapping to bolt a home to the foundation, in addition to the original construction.

Having been there for a simple 7.1 earthquake in 1989 (the "World Series Quake"), it became real obvious what kinds of construction tend to produce immediate fatalities in that size quake -
buildings built on landfill (SF Marina)
horizontal concrete slabs, a la the Nimitz freeway
residents who don't know how to turn off the natural gas lines = fire.

The thing is, all of the things that would be predicted by simple physics - geologic events such as extreme tides, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions - have come to pass in the last week.

Meanwhile, the moon is moving towards its extreme perigee on March 19, before it slowly backs off.

[Horn]

Its all the fallen stars, you have to watch out for in California.

[solid]

The thing is, all of the things that would be predicted by simple physics - geologic events such as extreme tides, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions - have come to pass in the last week.

Meanwhile, the moon is moving towards its extreme perigee on March 19, before it slowly backs off.


This is what throws me off. According to the tide forcast, there's nothing unusual about March 19. On March 22-23, we have a 7 foot tide forcasted, which is a big tide, but this happens several times a year regardless.

I would think if the gravitational pull of the moon was expected to be great, there would be a noticeable increase in the tides.

[SLV^GLD]

Go to a grocery store... buy some organic produce... cook it yourself or eat it raw. Better yet... grow it yourself. THERE is your actual "great value"! ;)


It is easy and fun to grow and can your own high quality vegetables and meats. I just ate a jar of garden corn that we canned this fall from our harvest. It was so tasty and pretty too. It looks like canned nuggets of sunshine in the jars. The longer you process it and/or the more sugar in it, the darker it gets because the sugar carmalizes (I think).

While this is very true some amount of preservation can be obtained by blanching which deactivates the majority of enzymes responsible for the starch conversion.
As soon as corn is picked the sugars start converting into starch, if you have ever eaten corn on the cob that has been picked several days ago the first thing you will notice is it sticks to your teeth, that is the high level of starch that was once sugar.
My Grandma always would start the water boiling and then go pick the corn.

Many of today's hybrid corn have much higher sugar content then the corn of years past so it tolerates a longer time between garden and kettle, but I still prefer Grandmas way of doing it and nothing taste better then fresh from the garden corn