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Letter Re: A Year’s Supply of Food on a Budget by J. H.

HJL

I’d throw in that the rice and beans need to be stored in a ratio of 10 lbs. of rice to 6 lbs. of beans. Together, in that proportion, they provide the essential proteins according to smart people with credentials to whom I am related. Fats and oils are important as PW asserts [1]. Check out Piteba Nut and Seed Oil Expeller Oil press [2]. It is important that you not just buy it and put it on the shelf. There are expendable parts, and the instructions include direction to a video to figure it out. Also, I understand it takes a good acre of sunflowers to provide a year’s worth of oil. I would be pleased to hear about another easily grown seed that provides good cooking oil that does not stand out like a flag and ruin OPSEC.

To PW’s point about variety, I include spices that would potentially help preserve (cloves) food or mask (cayenne pepper) food that has met the “get it hot enough and it is still good rule” from college. – RV