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Carb-heavy comfort food is familiar to Mormons, here in the form of a popular dish called funeral potatoes.

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Mormon Funeral Potatoes: The Carb-Heavy Meal For The End of The World

8:00am May 30, 2018

by Ash Sanders

Call it disaster preparedness cooking: A Utah company began running Facebook ads for an instant version of a staple Mormon comfort food ... because pantries should be stocked for the Second Coming.

A guard stands outside the Survival Condo Project, the site of an underground luxury apartment complex north of Wichita, Kan.

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Why Some Silicon Valley Tech Executives Are Bunkering Down For Doomsday

4:30pm January 25, 2017

Journalist Evan Osnos discusses the Silicon Valley survivalists who are stockpiling food and weapons and investing in luxury underground bunkers. "They feel a sense of fragility in our politics."

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Dishes from Jim Bakker's 50-Day Survival Food bucket, clockwise from top: macaroni and cheese, creamy potato soup, chocolate pudding, chicken noodle soup.

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Apocalypse Chow: We Tried Televangelist Jim Bakker's 'Survival Food'

5:21pm December 03, 2015

by Kylie Mohr

Jim Bakker preaches that a catastrophe is imminent and will bring major food shortages. His "Survival Food" buckets sell for up to $4,500. We tested the contents of one for you.