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As to the elements of this supply, the best suggestions are your own preferences (for example, honey, jam, syrup, or all three).

Howard Ruff devotes a section of his book, How to Prosper During the Coming Bad Years (Times Books, Three Park Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10016, $8.95) to the food you should store. Look into it. It will probably be worth your while to buy the book. It won't be a duplicate of this one. Ruff's ideas and mine differ substantially, but we converge on the conclusion that we face somewhere down the line a national emergency and a resulting temporary paralysis. 1 tend to think it is nearer than Ruff does, and he believes that it will be longer than I do. No matter. His work on food, nutritional value, vitamin needs is very good.

The point I make is that you can get 6y simply and cheaply. The more affluent, of course, can probably do better.

Make sure the canned goods are fresh when you buy them. For that reason it's probably wise to stay with the big supermarkets where turnover is very fast. Be watchful though of tempting sales. It might be old stock.

DRIED GOODS

No doubt these are-if less tasty- more reliable, and I certainly recommend that part of your supply be in this form.

Apart from all the foregoing be certain that storage is dry and in as cool and constant a temperature as possible. Don't talk about it.

If you are well off, it would be nice to have something else extra to help out friends or relatives in an emergency, but don't let it be known that you have a supply. Word gets around, and you might find yourself-much to your dismay-at the wrong end of the gun in the hands of a hungry stranger.

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