u/anonymous2278

I understand if you have to take lunch late so you snack on something to hold you over. I understand if you overslept and now need to eat a breakfast sandwich at your desk. Shit happens, right?

But some people either don’t realize or don’t care that people can hear them eating. At my office we have problems with mice and are not allowed to keep food in our desk or eat while working. Some of us will have a quick snack if needed but we have lunch breaks for a reason. This dude who sits in the cubicle next to me is fucking relentless about it. Every morning, within an hour he’ll start snacking on almonds. I listen to the constant crunching until my lunch time. I’ll come back from lunch, and within an hour he’ll get out an apple and take bites every 5-10 minutes until it’s gone. His lunch break rolls around - he sleeps in his truck or reads a book. Like, I don’t care what you do with your lunch time, enjoy it how you see fit. But why do you insist on doing everything except eating while on your break, and spend the entire time you’re working, eating snacks? I am on the phone too much to wear headphones.

This bothers me because:

1. We are not allowed to eat our desks
2. I have ears and the sound of eating annoys tf out of me
3. His manager works in a different office so there’s nobody here to stop him
4. I am not allowed to say anything to him directly
5. It’s not like he doesn’t have the opportunity to eat. He doesn’t come in until 10am, and he gets an hour for lunch. Why is he torturing me?

Good lord I need my own office or to work from home. People suck so bad.

My husband and I live alone in eastern Texas with our pack of animals (4 dogs and a cat). We started prepping after the last election, my worst fears (among other things) include slowly starving to death and being unable to do anything about it. I remember covid, with empty shelves and a feeling of pure panic and desperation to find something, anything, to put on the table. I would prefer to avoid that again.

So I think now we have the basics covered. We have a generator, masks, bug out bags, extra pet food, gas masks, plastic and duct tape to cover windows and doors, and a decent stock of food. We have plastic bins in a dark closet filled with canned food and Mylar bags of rice, pasta, and beans of all sorts. We don’t really have the space to store a shitload of water so we have a bathtub bag with a hand pump, and a couple of mini sawyer filters in our bug out bags. I’m not really sure where to go from here.

Should I start building a stash of freeze dried foods? Should I buy the emergency water pouches for extra clean water, or are those a scam/gimmicky bullshit?

I was thinking maybe to get some of the freeze dried meals, and store them in big ziplocks with a few water pouches each so that we always have the water to cook them… is that a dumb idea? I dont want to waste the limited funds I have to do this but I honestly do not have the space to store gallons of extra water. I figured I could store the freeze dried meals and water pouches in the plastic bins on top of the canned goods and Mylar bags.