Posted on 01/12/2013 5:04:17 PM PST by Kartographer
It goes without saying that food is a top priority for survival from any perspective. No matter what happens, food will be needed. If you get hit by a tsunami, you’ll need food (and potable water!!!) and it may be ruined and scattered all over the area with the rest of your belongings except for what you managed to keep in a Bug out Bag or other Survival/Emergency Kit. If you’re snowed in during a storm, you better have supplies. If inflation sends food prices up 25% each passing year (or each passing WEEK! yes, can happen) trust me on this one, you will wish you had put aside that food stash you never got around to prepare. And if nothing ever happens… yes, you still need to eat, don’t you?
Absolutely true - a great list. Add some shortening and oil, some popcorn and some baking soda. You can have cornbread or biscuits to go with the beans and rice.
I’ve read that the pioneers used pop corn as a ready breakfast cereal, and that grinding the popcorn makes a good cornmeal. Add some seeds for veggies, and potato eyes and you can make my favorite meal.
My favorite meal is beans, fried taters, maters, a slice of onion and a big slice of cornbread with butter.
I took it as a starting list of just the basics. You got to have fats, baking soda, popcorn or corn meal, seeds for veggies and TATERS and MATERS.
Every day has to have taters and maters, unless you have macaroni and cheese. Then and only then can you skip the taters and just for 1 day.LOL.
I like the book written by someone about "simple living".....you try to use less, use every bit of what you have, never waste, and make do with what you have.....
No matter how much I have, it won’t be enough. We have to put away for ourselves, kids, grandkids, and great grand kids. They just don’t understand, and even if they did their jobs have lousy pay.
I also have to figure out a way to secure it. We have tornadoes and live in the New Madrid fault zone.
anybody catch the price of walnuts this past holiday season?....almost twice the price as last year...
if you can find a small can of tuna for under $0.70 it might be the best thing to buy it then and there...
you could buy 7blade chuck roast....my absolute favorite for pot roast for under $2 but now it looks like the average price is closer to $3 or over....
I used to live in Binghamton, went to school in Utica, and now live in the state of Washington....one of my coworkers used to live in Marathon or Tully....small world...
Yes, and peanut butter- used to get a 16 oz jar for a buck or less on sale. Now costs $2.25 and I haven’t seen a sale for over a year.
That’s 125% in about 4 years. I’m going to have to try to grow some peanuts and make my own. It’s about the only protein my grand daughter ever wants to eat.
I already have a plan in place where each 'squad' member has sufficient armament and ordnance and communications to stand a 4 hour watch on a rotating basis. And I don't live anywhere near a big city.
The only challenge will be assembling the squad at this rally point when the SHTF. We are geographically dispersed. Each has a BOB and a route planned off the highways. But it will be a challenge if the stuff gets more than ankle deep.
My parents grew up during the depression. I learned a lot from them on getting by with little, being frugal, and how to cook from scratch, can, garden, etc. Everything but hunting. We have an upstairs and downstairs pantry. The downstairs one is bigger but it has been overflowing for a couple of years. We have 3 metal shelf units that were full of books but the top 3 shelves of these are also food, been selling the books off on amazon. I use large containers, like the huge plactic laundry soap ones for storing bags of pasta and beans. I do a lot of canning each year. We are kind of out in the boonies so we have always prepped to a certain extent especially prior to winter. Now it’s just expanded.
We used to outfit our fishing boat with Darigold canned butter. They have since stopped making it, I believe. Miss that stuff...
Food Storage: How much do you have right now?
One month in storage, and two weeks in bug out bag. Total 6 weeks.
Not worried though, we live in FL and can literally live off the vegetation and game.
Please add me to your ping list. Thanks.
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They also say that diet pills work and that Extenze will make your tallywhacker bigger. Unless you have a deficiency in some area, an overabundance of input only seems to work until it doesn't work. JRFreeper has it right - reduce exposure to reduce risk - the best the others can do is possibly bolster your system for a more successful fight. If all the rmedies that are touted worked, we'd have a disease-free, perfectly-weighted, well hung male population and our women would be absolute images of health and happiness...
I ordered seed for peanuts this year. My soil will grow peanuts very well.
/johnny
“food is MUCH higher nowadays”
Of course it is, but it is STILL cheap and plentiful. Yes, it was cheaper, much cheaper, even a decade ago (in fact, it was practically free then) - but relative to income levels in this country, food remains cheap. For about $3.00 per day, one can get a good selection of food and the required 2,000 calories. Considering that the average income in this country is close to $30,000 per year (total income divided divided by number of Americans), food remains cheap (about 4%-5% of income is all that is required). It starts getting expensive when incomes drop by 2/3’s (in purchasing power), but prices remain the same - as will happen in the near future.
So, as I see it, like with gold, we’re in a transition. A decade ago, it could be bought for $300 per ounce, now it’s $1600 per ounce, by the end of this decade it will likely be $10,000 per ounce. So is gold cheap? It depends whether you look at the past or the future - but one thing for sure, we’re not getting the past back, not with our debt and deficits.
JDoutrider and Free Vulcan posted some links to some early threads on survival/prepping on this week’s garden thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2977143/posts
To: greeneyes
Thread #1:
Home gardening offers ways to trim grocery costs [Survival Today, an on going thread]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1990507/posts?page=9901
Thread #2:
Is Recession Preparing a New Breed of Survivalist? [Survival Today - an On going Thread #2]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2181392/posts?q=1&;page=1
Thread#3:
Weekly Roundup - Living On Nothing Edition [Survival Today - an On going Thread #3]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2299939/posts?q=1&;page=1001
24 posted on Friday, January 11, 2013 3:25:38 PM by JDoutrider
I know. Too many people are survivalists, too few homesteaders.
I love lard, almost as much as butter. Course lard will store for a good amount of time, and as you said you can make your own if need be.
Also found a hand operated oil press and grow various oilseeds. Worse comes to worse I can grow my oil.
I spent a lot of time and effort learning some very fundamental skills that most folks don't even think about.
And then I lived it for over a year in the mountains, off grid, remote from everything.
/johnny
I take 8,000 IU of vitamin D daily. I haven't been sink in over five years:
Yep the primitive living, Mountain Man/Indian/Appalachian skills are a whole other subset to the survival angle. I was into that kind of stuff as a kid and wish I remember more.
They are really skills people need to learn to have a well rounded ability to survive. Fact is one may have to bug out at some point from home base and had better be ready to make it out in the wilderness.
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