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> But if they see a basement full of walnuts? They'd just close the door and move on

I mean, I think that'd at least lead to a casual question or two.



Likely dodge-able. One can, for example, play a nut "the world food supply chain is breaking up, GMOs are everywhere, etc. This makes me keep a few years' worth of calories in all natural foods close by."


Which leads me to my second favorite thing about nuts: calorie density! That shipment of nuts would have 327 million calories. Assuming you're 30, will live to 100, and eat 2,200 calories per day, you'll only consume 56 million calories in the rest of your life.

That shipment of nuts could be passed down in your survivalist family. First, it would be all the food you ate for the rest of your life. Then, your first child would be born and would start eating the nuts, continuously, until they died at 100 years old. They would have a child - your grandchild, and your grandchild would eat only nuts until THEY turned 100 and died (having a kid along the way.) Your grandchild's first kid would be born (your great-grandchild), start eating nuts the day they were born, have a kid, and die at 100. This final kid, your great-great-grandchild, would eat only nuts for their entire life, slowly whittling down the stockpile that lasted five generations. Eventually your great-great-grandchild would die in this basement, at the age of exactly one hundred years old like their ancestors, surrounded by the remnants of the one single truck of walnuts that their great-great-grandfather stole hundreds of years ago.

Nuts are insanely calorie dense. If you disaster-plan with a more conservative 80 year lifespan, are 30, and eat 2200 calories per day, you'll only consume about 6 metric tons of walnuts for the rest of your life. If you put that in peanut butter, which is (like walnuts) very calorie dense, you'd fit enough calories for the rest of your life into 5.5 cubic meters, roughly the size of a small bathroom.

(Not that the police officer would be likely to know the calorie density of walnuts, of course. Also, I love the pun.)


Nuts go rancid. Bad idea for a survivalist story. http://ucanr.edu/datastoreFiles/234-2753.pdf


The almonds there last 10 months, long enough to grow and harvest some fruits/vegetables in a suitable climate.

Typical emergency preparedness guidelines suggest stocking food for maybe a week. What kind of scenarios are you preparing for?


I was following the parents fictional account that mentioned subsequent generations eating this shelles walnut stockpile.


Just tell them you are transspecies and identify as a woodland squirrel.




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