Actually, you are not far off from a REAL survival tip.

Agreed, some of those people went a bit far, but the nutrition is there. For
long distance voyagers, especially the 'around-the-world-single-handed'
sailors, having small, sealed, packages of dry dog food aboard is a
recommendation.

The idea is that BECAUSE the idea and lack of taste is un-appealing, the
sailor WON'T snack on it. It often happens that the compact 'emergency
rations' are used up because it is easier, and handier, then actually
cooking or preparing a meal from the stores. THEN, when they are ACTUALLY
NEEDED . . .

Regards,
Ron Magen
Backyard Boatshop
{'Milkbone' medium size are tasty, the bulk 'Mother Hubbard' brand large
size are 'O.K.'}

"sweetsawdust" wrote in message
.. .
What makes this even worse, back in the early 80's a survivalist group was
touting food storage. They had such ideas as putting corn in containers
and
adding dry ice to create CO2 to preserve it and other such long term
ideas.
One of their methods for long term food storage was Purina dog chow
complete
with a recipe book which included burgers and "meat" loaf. They even
suggested dropping Purina dog chow to people in areas hit with famine
instead of sending them corn etc.. Needless to say I cracked up over this
post.