My "safe" foods list

Anyone seriously concerned about Fukushima, (past, present, future), or another accident elsewhere should have potassium iodide tables close at hand along with instructions for their use. The time window for effective dosing is unlikely to be met by government response, even if they have enough stockpiled for everyone.

I, too, am looking forward to fresh organic milk, once the 10-half-life time span of iodine has been met. Meanwhile I still use powdered milk and other supplies I bought right after hearing about the tsunami. I never stopped eating cheese, but since I have a fondness for *very* sharp Cheddar and Parmigiano Reggiano, the iodine will have long since decayed before I get around to eating it.

I'm not rushing out for produce. I stopped buying most of that after the spinach contamination issue, and the current problem in Germany with bean sprouts just reinforces my decision to grow my own. I ate home-frozen veggies and tossed the first batch of Brassica plants into the recycle bin. They've cleaned my soil somewhat, and I'm eating my current crops now that they're growing in heavily amended soil. That includes berries and citrus. Air contamination is down, and the berries weren't even blooming in February when this all started. I'm sure they'd be impossible to wash clean, but I trust with the amendments, their uptake is less than anything local in the store.

I'll be keeping an eye on fish. I'm really worried about what the continued release of radioactivity is doing to the health of our oceans, as they're already being forced to the breaking point with CO2 absorption, nitrogen runoff, and the huge gulf oil spill/corexit discharge. The fishing never came all the way back from the Alaskan oil spill, and ocean harvests have been dropping off for years.

If this happens again, I swear I'll cover the garden with plastic. Or finally break down and get a greenhouse. Or both.

If I had children, I'd let them play outdoors and eat with their friends unless there's another large airborne release. I'd get a hepa filter for the furnace. I'd make sure their diet had lots of calcium, potassium, iodine, and antioxidants from whole foods rather than supplements. I would know EXACTLY where the food I bought came from and avoid anything from Japan.

Buying fewer clothes and re-making them from used ones sustained our ancestors, and is currently in fashion anyway. It's way beyond adding another tier to the peasant skirt; now they're cutting old clothes into strips and weaving/knitting new garments from a blend of old ones.

Beyond that, I advocate for as much personal, regional, state, and country-wide energy and food sustainability as possible. And, of course, oppose the new and continued operation of nuclear plants everywhere. Given long term storage of waste, and catastrophe costs no one is going to reimburse survivors for, was nuclear power ever cheap? Certainly the insurance companies didn't think it was a safe bet.

We have been buying pre fukishima flour and making our own breads and tortillas, because quite frankly I do not trust the water sources that are used in the bread making

we eat a lot of dave's organic killer breads...when i contacted them, i was told that they harvest wheat from spring to fall, at which point their stores are siloed and withdrawn throught that year. my assumption would be, then, that the next batch of fukushima-era grain will start showing up on shelves sometime in september/early fall.

i would imagine other granaries are following similar procedures.

Hi Traci,
Try Food for Life Ezekiel Bread. It is a sprouted whole grain bread. The product code is on the plastic band that seals the package.

Code will begin with a K or L. K means bread was packaged in 2010 and L means it was packaged in 2011.
If a code reads: K3265, take the last number (5) and add it to the first three numbers (326+5). This will give you 331, which is a julian date code. So, the product with a code of K3265 was packaged on the 331st day of 2010 = November 26, 2010. A lot of markets still carry items packaged in 2010. They freeze them and stock the shelves when needed. The breads, tortillas, and english muffins can all be frozen.

Hope this helps.

Do you know how much radiation is in Brazil nuts?

And you're worried over what came from Japan?

FYI, they average about 3-4 pCi per GRAM of Radium.

Thank you for your butter lettuce post. We've been missing eating lettuce. Can you tell me which store your purchased these? I can't seem to find them in the stores I usually shop. Thank you.

yeah, i won't buy any packaged/frozen foods from Trader Joe's because so much of it is from China

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