"You should befriend some Mormons"

After reading my last post, Patrick IMed me and said "you should befriend some Mormons" - a reference to the fact that Mormons are supposed to stockpile a year's worth of food. By the way, even after somewhat extensive internet research, I haven't been able to find out exactly WHY Mormons do this - in some cases I read it's 2 years, in some I read it was just a "recommendation", etc. So I am unclear - if you happen to know more of the background of Mormon stockpiling, would you mind commenting and sharing some of the story? The first I heard of this was last month during our flooding - an older couple in Vernonia had a year's worth of food in their basement that was all ruined.

BACK TO THE STORY (gosh I get off topic easily)... after Patrick commented that I should befriend some Mormons, I showed him this link - a Mormon grocery gamer with her beautiful stock pile of one year's worth of food. Note the THREE FEEZERS: one for fruit / ice cream, one for meat, and one for veggies. Wow.

Oh and in case you're wondering what Geoff thinks about this - he seems to enjoy it! (not as much as me, but of course he's not as much of a freak as I am). He went with me to all of my stores yesterday, and agreed to go again today and do a seperate transaction so that we can get twice the amount of items allowed in one transaction (the reason we're going again is because I missed a few things when making my initial list yesterday... I am not a star grocery gamer yet). I thought he would NOT be excited about the seperate transactions, but he said it happened all the time when he worked at Schuck's and it's not big deal. YAY!