re: #700 Decatur Deb
From the days of the trek west, they have strongly encouraged the practice of maintaining a large food reserve, up to a year or more.
Yeah, as a kid my parents would occasionally go to these survivalist food companies for boxes and boxes of powdered, etc., food. I remember being about 12 and one of the sales people saying their biggest customer base: Fundamentalist/Evangelicals and LDS.
Interesting.