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After years of being a prepper, I have decided that rice is the best of it all.

Imagine all of the starvation situations, you will always be scraping together some food of some sort (or die quickly), various canned goods you have around, or hit-and-miss foods that reach the supermarkets, or government centers in case of a true disaster, or foraging in a movie type apocalypse.

Now imagine that no matter what happened, or what the situation, you were guaranteed 1000 calories a day of rice, that would mean you are going to live that day and have some energy that day, suddenly you have a foot up on the struggle to survive, whatever you find, or receive, or forage for, or anything that you can get into your mouth isn’t the only thing you get that day, instead, it is adding to a base of 1,000 calories.

With a base, then a tiny bird, or a can of something, or some berries, or some cactus, or foraged greens, or some dry beans, boiled wheat berries, or apples, or a scraggly little fish, actually mean something, not to mention how wonderful the rice would be at giving you a hot meal and a temporarily filled feeling on days of nothing else.

I know the shortcomings of rice alone, but as a cheap, long shelf life foundation for a time of hunger, it is unbeatable.

In a dire situation, the longer someone can stay alive, the more likely one is to see the end of the crisis.