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I'm also a light prepper and pretty comfortable right now. I can last several months but if it goes beyond a the point where have to go to the seed vaults and re-establish civilization, I'm tapping out.
I just grabbed a 6 month supply ($1497) of food from www.mypatriotsupply.com. Free shipping and $7 more than buying a year supply outright. 8 WEEK LEADTIME, I’ll order another 6 month supply next month after the credit card closes and that will put me at 2 years of ready made and at least a year of off the shelf.
My patriot supply is good - I bought some 2 week totes a while back and we have been testing it.
My reasoning -
1) money printing, it ain’t getting cheaper.
2) people have gone nutz on the kung-flu and a second round will bring even stricter lockdowns,
3) the way things are going - zombies
I just grabbed a 6 month supply ($1497) of food from www.mypatriotsupply.com. Free shipping and $7 more than buying a year supply outright. 8 WEEK LEADTIME, I’ll order another 6 month supply next month after the credit card closes and that will put me at 2 years of ready made and at least a year of off the shelf.
My patriot supply is good - I bought some 2 week totes a while back and we have been testing it.
My reasoning -
1) money printing, it ain’t getting cheaper.
2) people have gone nutz on the kung-flu and a second round will bring even stricter lockdowns,
3) the way things are going - zombies
Remember brown rice does not store as well as white rice. Brown can go rancid
I was going the way of Nips for smaller transactions. My LLS has them for a buck a piece, Have been buying them ten at a time. Whiskey and Vodka should be most popular.Couple cases of cheap vodka and whisky go a long way too......and doesnt end up arming someone you might have second thoughts about
Couple cases of cheap vodka and whisky go a long way too......and doesnt end up arming someone you might have second thoughts about
Actually you cannot live on Vodka. You can however on doppelbock - The monks created this "liquid bread" so they could do their fasts with no solid food.
I tried this out for Lent this year and would do 4 beers a day. Had a couple cheat days in there as well as ate regular on Sunday, but overall went about 34 of the 40 days on beer alone. Side benefit, I was by far more relaxed
f***in racist.Remember brown rice does not store as well as white rice. Brown can go rancid
How was your weight?
I have a reel of barbed wire left over from the days I had cattle. Ready to string across my front yard.Home security is something I need to improve upon. I’m in a very low crime area but am seeing more local reports of vandalism, theft and home break-ins as the scumbags have become more emboldened.
Don't forget the financial prepping. I'm usually a month ahead on the mortgage. When I have an extra paycheck in a month I still keep to my scheduled every other check goes to the mortgage. So I'm good until May 1st!
I have freeze dried food like mountain house for traveling or vacations. If I was storing it for long term specifically, I'd bucket a few hundred pounds of rice and spaghetti, then add one pouch to each prepped group meal. I.e. cook 4 cups of rice, add one MH meal bag to flavor, divide into 4 servings.
If you are just starting to prep, get a BJs membership and go buy a few hundred pounds of rice. Go to home depot and buy a few buckets. Hop on Amazon and order 5gal mylar bags with 02 absorbers. Make your buckets. For a few hundred bucks you can store enough calories for a person for a year.
From there buy stuff to add. Spices, canned tuna, etc.
Millions of people survive on rice. Don't ignore the simple, basic foods because they seem boring. Boring for a year is better than blowing money for 30days of freeze dried food and then starving to death.
I have everything except the wheat berries and mill. Ive looked and always thought about it. Almost bought a Country Living mill a few times. Just never pulled the trigger. Maybe next year I'll buy some and try planting.
Store away some wheat berries ( whole unprocessed wheat ) and buy a grain mill. You can grind the wheat into flour to make bread, boil the wheat to make cereal and plant the wheat berries to harvest more wheat.
Store away some pearled barley. It can be eaten as a cereal or added to a beef soup as added calories. Even flavored with some beef bullion it makes a palatable meal.
Store away some lentils, dried pinto beans, dried great northern beans, dried navy beans, quinoa, oat groates, steel cut oats, rolled oates,
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Store away coarse canning salt, sugar, bullion cubes, pasta ( all types) spices, vinegar, canned chicken ( store bought or home canned ), corn starch, peanut butter, cooking oils, lard, whole bean roasted coffee ( vacuum packed).
Even if we never see a full-on depression or anything like that, who wouldn't want to add some skills to their toolbelt and lower their grocery bills with your own organic produce.Everyone needs a Victory garden
Even if we never see a full-on depression or anything like that, who wouldn't want to add some skills to their toolbelt and lower their grocery bills with your own organic produce.
That is exactly where they want us as a whole. Completely and utterly dependant on the system.I can't convince my brother in law. He wouldn't even water or harvest his dad's abundant garden when dad was on vacation in Maine for a week. Everything died. His reasoning is that it is a waste of time when you can just buy it at the store.