Bob Ward wrote:


If you've got a fereezer to keep fresh bread on hand, you might as
well allow for keeping mayo in the fridge next to it - but when it
comes to down-and-dirty survival, anyone who insists on fresh bread
and mayo (and having the crusts cut off the sandwich) isn't hungry
enough. Let him skip a meal or two, living off the fat of the land.

The freezer will stay for several days before it goes bad.
The refrigerator will go bad in one day.
And a generator ran once a day will keep the freezer up, but will do
nothing for the refrigerator.

Also, there will likely be no loss of electricity during a bird flue
pandemic, but you still will not want to run to the store and get bread
baked by sick cooks.

Also, there is no need for the fridge at all if electricity is lost due
to an ice storm.

And this is all for use before you get so low as down and dirty
survival.
No reason to drop back to the stone age before it is forced on us.

And one solution will not work for every problem, thus the reason for
stocking for both loss of electricity as well as just a loss of ability
to go to town.