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FAT

Most processed foods have fat in them. As I am discovering much to my dismay as one food item after another is added to my Prohibited Items list. No more Dorito's. Not that the slop is as good as it used to be, MSG probably replacing actual spices, but I loved the little bastards nonetheless. Peanut butter? No great lose, but it was always a nice option. I could go on and on ( no more Twinkies, dammit. Not that those were as good now, BUT! “Chocodiles” were the absolute bestest ), but my main point is that the one common denominator is oil.

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You might recall that a few years ago ( was it ten years? Time flies ) the folks that made margarine, never a taste treat, changed the formula where the slop didn't even melt so good anymore. They were facing food inflation costs ( thanks, $140 oil and banker financing issues ) and we got an inferior product of an already inferior Junk Food. Well, I think these same greedy bastards are at it again, and they all jumped on the bandwagon the same time as soon as the first reports of soy crop failures showed up.

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They are doing something with the oil they put in products. Something different than what they were. I don't know if they are buying old rancid oil from McDonald's and mixing it with new soy oil that is now much more expensive ( because a nickel a difference in cost is the difference between the CEO getting a golden parachute retirement or not, and you know which one they'll pick ), or if they are putting “fillers” in there, perhaps fracking oil waste, but the crap is toxic. My body refuses it. By which I mean extremely painful heartburn or what I call “Gremlins” ( painful hard knot under my sternum ), not vomiting or diarrhea.

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I've had heartburn for at least seven years or so. This oil issue is more recent. I'm convinced the oil in processed foods is responsible. You see, even old age symptoms are a sign from Baby Jesus. In this case, eat healthier. Much healthier, even if taste must be sacrificed. Live longer, to hear the sweat music of the lamentations of their bitches. Not that I'm bitter! Now, here is my point. And it only took me 25% of the article to arrive at it. Dirt cheap cooking oil is becoming a thing of the past. You won't have much time to stockpile.

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Just like wheat will soon no longer be Oil Age cheap, just as ammunition is on its last desperate reduced price, NOW, not waiting for you to get off your ass to act in a timely manner, now we are also seeing the end of Cheap Cooking Oil ( and, word to the wise, Peak Cheap Coffee is probably already behind us-world reserve currency is failing, remember? ). I suffered physically to bring you this message. Do NOT make my sacrifice be in vain. Stock up on your oil. Now. For under the price of one case of steel ammo for your poodle shooter, you'll have five years of oil.

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The original chapter here, I recommended lard. I no longer do. After that book was published, I ended up having to throw away all of the lard. I don't remember how many jugs, but the empties stacked as high as I am tall. If not taller. It was a very traumatic experience, I might have blacked some of it out. I'm thinking it was probably close to $200 worth. To be fair, of course, that was what three Lee-Enfield no1's cost me back in the 90's, which I sucked up the loss to buy the superior no4's ( oh, but the collectors price today! ).

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The best learned lessons cost money, so that their impact is still with you a third of your lifetime later. The lard, even though it is hydrogenated, all went rancid at about the five year mark ( about four after expiration. I think ). The one can of shortening I had with it? Still good to go. To this day. Is it putrid, nasty, unhealthy crap? Of COURSE it is. Do you know what is even less healthy? Not having fat in your storage pantry. You will need fat. You have zero idea today, because almost none of you has lived in the cold, working outside, not having central heat, not having a car heater.

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Your body will suddenly be lacking all that fat you got in ALL processed foods. Hell, salad dressing. Whole wheat Triscuits. Pretty much ALL processed foods. Stupid ass dumb ass retard ass vegetarians and “Michael” Obammy be damned, your body needs fats. The reason you pick shortening is because the crap doesn't seem to go bad ( yes, Francis, your super ninja olive oil is still good after ten years. Will it be in another ten? Twenty? Rawles reported a can from WWII still being as “edible” as it was back when it was packed. And, Francis, can you afford to stock five years worth of that expensive oil? ).

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Look. I'm not getting into the whole low price argument. That is for tomorrow or the next day, its own article. Simply, however, if you can't time the collapse you CANNOT ONLY PICK THE VERY BEST!!! Oh My Mother Humping GOD!!! How hard is this stuff? Start out more affordably. Stock cheap and stock deep. Then, if you didn't run out of time, upgrade. Use the old slop as back-up's or barter ( within your own tribe, duh ).

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What? I'm hosting a class on rocket science here? I don't know science. Or math. I do know what you need. I do know most of our budgets are for beer, not champagne. Even if you make butt tons, most is already accounted for. The affordable cooking oil that you can afford, for now, is shortening. I stock six cans a year, as I figure I'll eat very little in the summer and more in the winter ( I also have pressure canned butter, estimated at two years worth if I and the NOL eat very sparingly. I spent the serious coin on that AFTER I already had my shortening ).

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My thirty cans minimum should last five years. That being the minimum I set for myself. Which varies of course. I have only six months of canned meat, but seven or eight years of wheat. I just shoot for five as a standard. It amuses me to have Five Year Plans as the Soviets did. And where do you think Stalin got that idea from? Most likely those little Ormanental rice eaters just off the coast of the terminus of the Trans-Siberian Railroad, who kicked Russia's ass just a few decades after starting their industrialization. The Soviets knew they had to do the same, even quicker, to survive her enemies.

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Just keep in mind that shortages alone drove up the price of shortening fifty percent, several years ago. What do you think it is going to do now, after all that soy spoilage and farmer bankruptcy? Get the crap now, while you can. Try to get the plastic cans, not the wax paper cans, for longevity. They still sold metal coffee cans when I stored the bulk of mine, and I used the empty to shield them from rodents. Upside down, over the shortening, with the lid now on the shelf under the oil can. You could use the plastic coffee can, I guess it MIGHT work, but I'd recommend metal trash cans now. $150 in cooking oil deserves a $25 storage can.

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