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Prepper Ping – Essential Inexpensive Prepper Foods - Two Reference Postings today

Rice , Pinto beans, Lentils, Chickpeas/ Garbonzos, Oats
Flours, , Cornmeal, Pasta , Grinder/Mill
Powdered Milk
Oil/ Shortening/ Lard/Fats
Meats
Dried Fruit/Vegetables/ Nuts
Condiments/ Sauces / Spices – provide essential flavor versatility

Dried foodstuffs are lighter in weight, but require water to re-hydrate.
Dehydrated foods require re-hydration containers
Canned goods come with their own juices and moisture, thus require less water, be aware of sodium content (dietary restrictions)
Canned goods assure consistent tenderness during the retort/canning process.

Life sustaining "Prepper Rule of Three :"
You need 3 minutes of air,
3 days with water (See https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3971224/posts ; -for various water purification methods )
3 weeks without food.

Given the recent rise of inflation, I wish someone would do a cost/benefit nutritional analysis of necessary foodstuffs, given their size.
Where prices remain the same, the size of containers keeps getting smaller (ie. : tuna, boxed cereals, etc.)

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You are encouraged to Print Out/ Hard Copy any meaningful Prepper list, since the grid and the Internet may not be reliable during a crisis.

[Lurker]

Learn to can.

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Prepper Ping – Purifying water (Referenced in Earlier Posting)
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3971224/posts

How to purify water in an emergency :
Boiling
Liquid chlorine bleach
Dry Chlorine crystals
Iodine drops

[DuncanWaring]

As a general rule-of-thumb, grains (flour/pasta/rice/oatmeal) have 1500 calories per pound, beans the same.

Walnuts and peanuts about 3000 calories per pound.

Spam about 1000 calories per can.

More general info:
https://modernsurvivalblog.com/survival-kitchen/calories-per-pound-of-rice-beans-wheat/

[Pollard]

Canned goods come with their own juices and moisture, thus require less water, be aware of sodium content (dietary restrictions)

Yup; Don't drain those canned green beans when the shtf. That's where half or more of the nutrients end up, plus water which might be scarce. Alternatively, you could drain the water/juice but use it for another purpose. Same with any other canned item veggies or meats. Low sodium versions of many things are available these days and might be best for canned goods for storage for sthf.

Given the recent rise of inflation, I wish someone would do a cost/benefit nutritional analysis of necessary foodstuffs, given their size.

I've actually thought of doing that just for our regular food budget. Anything you can grow yourself as seeds are cheap. Then if you get heritage seeds, you can save seeds and they become free then. If you can grow kale, there's nothing that beats it in nutrition as far as veggies go.

A green that's real easy to grow is Komatsuna aka Mustard Spinach. In fact I've let some self seed for several years now so it could be considered a perennial as long as you let some of it go to seed. It's also easier to chew than kale.

Along side Kale for a comparison

Komatsuna actually does better on calcium and vitamin A but lacks some things kale has, especially vitamin K. I ran across an article a couple of days ago about getting enough Vitamin C when the shtf and they showed patio sized citrus and other fruit sources. No mention of greens but some greens are all you need. Build a small high tunnel(unheated green house -- hoop house) and you could grow greens year round in some places.

Doing a cost/benefit nutritional analysis would be tricky since some things have plenty of this or that nutrient. I'd say the above greens would win hands down for vitamin C. Eggs might win overall. Beef beats greens and eggs for iron.

The bean & rice combo plus some home grown greens is cheap and something you could just about live on and the former two store well. There is such a thing as appetite fatigue. Eat the same thing every day for every meal and pretty soon, you'll get burnt out on it. Store what you eat, eat what you store and fifo aka first in first out aka rotate stock.