Posted on 12/10/2010 11:51:24 AM PST by Doctor Prepper
Anyway, I can hear all Y’all saying, “What in Tarnation is Old Doctor Prepper rambling about?”
Well, here it is: We all need to provide for our families on a budget and provide food they will eat and; as a little side note, not get certain parties (Ahem) noticing what we are all doing.
This is a system developed to do just that. Survival experts will tell you to “Store what you eat, and eat what you store”, But what does that really mean?
This saying means buying food and supplies and storing them for the approximate time of their “Use by” dates and then consuming them, replenishing them as you do so.
You are “Sequentially” buying and storing foods you would normally eat so that IF the SHTF you will have at least several month accumulation of food and supplies for your family.
The only real downside to do this is that you will need to spend a little more to stock up and storage space for it all – but you were going to do that anyway, weren’t you? WEREN’T You?
Now, I’ve broken down these ideas into a series of postings so your eyes don’t all glaze over with a real long diatribe on my part.
To begin, I’ve divided the task up into the ABC’s – as in:
A – Assessment – I can’t tell you what your families needs are or what they will eat, you need to do that on your own. This part of the system simply means you take an assessment of your daily needs and what you normally stock in your pantry.
B – Buy – This is just the ins and out of an ongoing effort to stock up on food and supplies.
C – Cycle as in going through these supplies as a matter of normal routine. This is so that you always have relatively fresh inventory of food and supplies. An inventory of foods you family will already eat so that IF and when the SHTF, you will be ready.
Next week (Hopefully), I will post the second part of the series, stay tuned.
"Good Heavens!"
Find places to store your food stocks. Under the bed and couch. There’s empty space under the bottom drawer of dressers and furniture that goes to the floor but that might be better used for other items that need to be out of sight. Sometimes there’s also areas in the back of furniture pieces.
A square milk crate will hold 32 cans of food and is easily carried. An idea is to turn the crate upside down and slip cover it. Makes a handy foot rest or seat for a little kid. Place several together and make a window seat or coffee table. Use your imagination.
Pedigree has sustained many senior citizens and alkies.
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For the assessment part, I used the Mormon Food Calculator. It guided all but the meat portion of my stocks.
http://lds.about.com/library/bl/faq/blcalculator.htm
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Sorry, I was just being a wise-a$$, and that was actually a movie reference.
Have you not seen “The Patriot”?
And rabbits are relatively quiet whereas roosters are noisy so people know you have them.
And what was the following reply/line?
[ I hear rabbits helped keep a lot of people in meat in the Great Depression. ]
[ And rabbits are relatively quiet whereas roosters are noisy so people know you have them. ]
Yeah, rabbits are a good idea as a stealth backup beacuse the zombies fromt he cities won’t be drawn to their noise.
I have some “funny” friends why tell me that if it all hits the fan they will just head out to my farm to live off the land with me - “Haw haw haw!”
I tell them they will be more than welcome because they have more edible meat on their bones than my alpacas do - “Haw haw haw!”
There was none. Just silence.
John Billings: I say we drink the wine, eat the dogs, and use the paper for musket wading.
Reverend Oliver: [alarmed] Eat the dogs?
Benjamin Martin: [going along with Billings’ joke] A dog is a fine meal.
Reverend Oliver: [still alarmed] G-G-Good Heavens!
[Billings and Martin laugh]
You are 100% correct.... and you definitely caught me sleeping...
My grandfather in Ohio fed alot of people in his congregation on meat he is and pals hunted and butchered during the depression. He had grape vines and made his own wine. They all had lots of wine during the depression. They used his wine in the Mass. He also had a root cellar, huge garden and canned a lot of food so they had that for the poor at church, too. Did you ever have pickled eggs? He had chickens, too. Plus he did not lose his job working for the utility company so he had cash to help with medical problems for others.
He was a popular guy during the Depression. Back then America was Christian and people belonged to churches and people in churches took care of their own congregations plus ran soup kitchens in the cities. If our generation has a great depression, given the materialistic, foreign tribal culture we have permitted the elite to create, we are all going to suffer badly and the police state is going to kick in.
Thank you, I will do so.
In these times it’s extremely important that people start thinking about how they can prepare themselves and their families – the more dependent we are on ourselves and those around us, the less we will be dependent on the government.
Walking Dead fan? I watched all 5 episodes.
Glen Beck recently made the comment about the importance of donating to your local church just for your stated reasons.
An “uncle” (close family friend) had a Model A or a Model T. The batteries apparently worked by a crank or some such. He’d throw the connections into a pond, crank away, electrocute the fish, and feed everybody he knew.
My great grandfather raised rabbits to feed his family during the Great depression. They had so many they started giving them away to others in the neighborhood and pretty soon a pretty large area around them were all eating rabbit stew every night for dinner. Those who had maintained vegetable gardens shared their crops and seeds and garden plots as well in their neighborhood and they all made it through just fine.
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