{"id":1926,"date":"2014-08-16T12:21:57","date_gmt":"2014-08-16T16:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=1926"},"modified":"2014-08-16T12:21:57","modified_gmt":"2014-08-16T16:21:57","slug":"saturday-16-august-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2014\/08\/16\/saturday-16-august-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday, 16 August 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000099; font-family: Arial;\">12:16 &#8211;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"> Barbara is helping Frances and Al finish cleaning out their rented storage site this morning. I&#8217;m doing kit stuff, of course. This afternoon and tomorrow&#8211;between yard work and house cleaning&#8211;Barbara will help put more kit subassemblies together.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">The main reason we joined Sam&#8217;s Club is that they carry stuff that Costco doesn&#8217;t. For example, our Costco doesn&#8217;t stock much in the way of canned soups. Periodically the supermarket has a sale on canned soups, 10 for $10, and Barbara picks up 10 cans of Campbell&#8217;s cream of mushroom or whatever. But Sam&#8217;s carries shrink-wrapped 10-packs of Campbell&#8217;s COM soup for $8.28, so we pick up a case or two or three each time we go there.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Both the Costco and Sam&#8217;s web sites carry a lot of long-term storable food, which apparently is a big seller nowadays even among non-Mormons. It seems that more and more people fear that we face a dystopian future, and are stocking up food and other essentials against emergencies.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Sam&#8217;s carries a much wider selection of long-term storable food than Costco does. A lot of it is outrageously expensive freeze-dried stuff, which is also very space-inefficient to store. But some is reasonably priced and useful. FedEx just showed up with my first order from Sam&#8217;s on-line, including four #10 cans of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.samsclub.com\/sams\/augason-farms-dried-whole-eggs-10-cans-2-pk\/prod1620368.ip?navAction=\">dried whole eggs<\/a> (after rehydration the equivalent of 24 dozen whole eggs). They cost $16\/can, the equivalent of about $2.67\/dozen. I also ordered a case of six bags of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.samsclub.com\/sams\/cc-cheesy-broc\/prod8460019.ip?navAction=\">dried cheese\/broccoli soup mix<\/a> for $16. Each bag makes a gallon of soup. We&#8217;ll use this mix for making casseroles.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 65%; height: 3px; font-family: Arial;\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>12:16 &#8211; Barbara is helping Frances and Al finish cleaning out their rented storage site this morning. I&#8217;m doing kit stuff, of course. This afternoon and tomorrow&#8211;between yard work and house cleaning&#8211;Barbara will help put more kit subassemblies together.\n<\/p>\n<p>The main reason we joined Sam&#8217;s Club is that they carry stuff that Costco doesn&#8217;t. For example, our Costco doesn&#8217;t stock much in the way of canned soups. Periodically the supermarket has a sale on canned soups,<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2014\/08\/16\/saturday-16-august-2014\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Saturday, 16 August 2014 &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-science-kits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}