Thanks!
I told my wife last night that I was going to start stocking up on various things. She agreed it was a good idea.
Can you tell me how long most folks are provisioning for? In other words 30 days, 90 days, one year, etc.?
Mormons are required to keep enough food for a year. Others are storing enough for 60-90 days. DelaWhere has some great thoughts on how to prepare. You might want to start with 30 days worth, try to assemble meals from your stockpile, and learn what might be missing. Del, do you remember the advice you posted about storing and testing your stored goods?
Hi Mike! What does the ‘W’ stand for in WUSAF?
My son will be going into the AF this summer, after he graduates high school. He STILL hasn’t gotten his school set up - and he went to MEPS last August! They said it should take 2 months. ;) (I told him get used to it, working for the government!)
I guess the amount you want to stock up for depends on 1) your storage space and 2) avaible money the next few months. I got a 2 year’s worth of legumes and grains, prepacked so it was more expensive but much easier, for about $2000, packed and shipped to my door. I got a lot for the money - almost 1200 pounds of food, most of which will last for decades - so they say. I haven’t tested that yet ;) It takes up about...let’s see, I have to go measure - it’s about 5 feet by 5 feet and again, 4 or 5 feet tall. I guess that’s not too bad. It’s less than 1/4 of one of our spare rooms.
Anyway, you can start small and build from there. Or go hog wild, like I did. I think it’s totally a personal preference. Just getting started now is good.
Can you tell me how long most folks are provisioning for? In other words 30 days, 90 days, one year, etc.?<<<
Start with 30 days and then go for longer.
If this turns into a hard depression, we are looking at 5 to 10 years.
I buy food from Walton’s Feed, both the large cans and the sacks of bulk grains and beans, lentils, rice, flour,etc.
They have many pages of information and also pages of the old ways that were common when I was young.
The old style dried foods in the cans lasted 10 to 20 years and the new style should also, they have changed the way they dry the stuff over the years.
20 year old wheat in the cans will still sprout and can be eaten. I cooked it, I did not grind it for flour, as I didn’t have a grinder available.
A Mormon friend had given me her supply of food, to feed the wild animals where I lived, as she was moving out of town and some of it was over 20 years old.
I got sick, couldn’t work and ate her old food, some was bad or so ugly that I did not cook it, other items, milk, grains, etc I still use.
I am finding that the normal cans of stuff bought at Walmart are unsafe to eat in 6 months to a year, every time I look at my cans, I have to toss some that are bulged, and I don’t have a lot of them, just misc foods in cans, for I no longer can drive and can’t get to the stores, so it is easier to buy ahead.
There are storage food recipes and amounts to store, mixed in the #1 thread and Tenth Amendment has captured most of it and made it available as a download.
She just posted the link a couple days ago and I didn’t write it down.
Vickie do you recall the links for your download on thread #1?
Thanks for always being alert and reposting the links.
Mike, I am glad you found us, you are welcome here anytime.