It’s not possible to store “6 months of food”. You’ll have friends and family looking to take shelter, thefts, and wealth when improperly managed (How are you going to turn down friends and family at your door?) will expire quickly.
Don’t focus on it. Focus on news ways to get food daily. This includes hunting, scavenging and “other” (Such as my willingness to steal food from raiders and other “bad people”) That way you’ll know your capabilities at just all times.
I have easily six months of food stored, about 25 of the 18 gal Rubbermaid thingies full of all sorts of stuff, and probably 500 lbs of canned goods.
And no, your are not invited...
Sorry.
Well looks as if I have done the impossible plus.
Look you there could come a time no doubt in which hard choise will have to be made, but you any plan in which you you attempt to support a unknow number of ‘grasshoppers’ is bound to fail. As for me I had set asside one tenth of my stores as tithe to help those that did not plan. To me by setting aside that which God ask in tribute and then distribute it to those in need I have meet God‘s covenants and yet have not place my family in need or want.
I will add a warning to this solution and that is for you to be careful as to how you distribute this aid. In these days in which so many seem to deem that it is their ‘right‘ to have their needs provided to them by others, the knowledge that you have prepared and have stores of food and goods could quickly cause others to ‘demand‘ that you share.
“Let me tell you something about humans, nephew: They’re a wonderful, friendly people - as long as their bellies are full and their holosuites are working.”
“But take away their creature comforts, deprive them of food, sleep, sonic showers, put their lives in jeopardy over an extended period of time and those friendly, intelligent, wonderful people...will become as nasty and as violent as the most blood-thirsty Klingon.”
Quark from:Star Trek Deep Space Nine, Episode: The Siege of AR-558 (#7.8)” (1998)