Posted on 09/01/2021 12:50:14 PM PDT by 4everontheRight
Folks - I want to buy some "prep" food for my son & his soon-to-be-bride. I want to make sure they have some stored food & the easiest way (unlike how I've done it) is to just buy some stored food from Patriot Food Supply or such. I'm curious if any Freepers have purchased & what they consider the best options, where you have purchased from or what advice you might have. Appreciate the advice!
Plenty of Birch (crazy wood) and streams in the northeast. You can cut the bark into strips for excellent tinder, and you can make a make a pretty water tight bucket out of sheets of the bark. As long as there is water in your birch bucket it won't burn over a fire, even as it boils the water.
I don't know if the Boy Scouts teaches kids anything anymore however.
Also rice, beans, salt, sugar, oats, evporated or powdered milk, coffee, tea, anything canned.
Vitamins, camping stoves and fuel.
Water purifier.
First aid supplies.
> Hot water means going outside to the rain barrel, then sticking it on a wood fire <
True. And it’s easy enough to do if you have the water and the wood to spare. So if you live in a sparsely populated rural area, I guess you’d be okay.
But if you live in the suburbs or (gasp!) in a city, I still think plain old canned food is your better bet.
I will concede that my way would require more storage space. So there’s that.
I would give 2 cases of MREs, a good water purifier, and a basic camping stove.
I put together such a package for a friend a bit of time ago:
2 cases MRE
small propane stove
water purifier
“When All Hell Breaks Loose” by Cody Lundin
and vacuum sealed 5 pounds each of pinto, black, and navy beans and 10 pounds of rice.
I purchased (100) 6 gallon buckets wire metal handles (the plastic handles break), (100) 20x30” heavy duty mylar bags with 3,000 gram Oxygen absorbers.
Bucket cost $3
New lid cost $2
Mylar Bag + O2 Absorber cost $1
$6 total cost for packaging plus food.
I use a 2 ft metal level across the top of the bucket with an iron to seal the bag on the very top. (This way they can be reused and resealed...)
Rice- (2) 50 lb bags does 3 buckets.
Black beans, Pinto Beans, Salt, Sugar, Flour, Rolled Oats, whole grain .......
Easy to fill the bag, place O2 Absorber and seal.
I do in batches of 10 buckets as when you open the O2 absorbers you want to reseal the unused in the bag ASAP or they will all activate.
Thus my cost per filled bucket is relatively low. Less than $15 total.. for most including packaging.
Live in the country, in a Conservative area and bug in.
Get 4-5 gallon frosting buckets from the bakery section of the grocery store. The round ones even have gaskets. Most grocery stores sell them for $2 or you can go dumpster diving because they don’t sell enough to get rid of all of them. Clean the buckets, open the bags and dump the sugar in the bucket(s).
I have 6-9 months of their freeze dried food in the larder.
https://mountainhouse.com/
I will recommend this company to anyone. Not cheap, but lasts decades.
“Rice will last forever if sealed”
White rice only as brown rice gets rancid pretty fast.
Companies selling “prepper packages” are 90% ripoff. Quality tends to be poor. Most people say Mountain House has far too much salt. MREs are only for taking food with you on the road. Otherwise much too expensive.
I eat what I store, and store what I eat.
Large quantities of dried beans and rice will keep for ages and provide a basis for all kinds of dishes. Pearl barley ia also very good for giving soups some body. I like to keep a lot of canned corned beef hash, because it can be eaten cold if you have to. Smuckers real peanut butter stores well, I buy more when the supply gets below a dozen jars. (BTW the empty jars seal extremely well, don’t throw them away.) Pacific Foods sells good quality boxed soups that store well. Honey never spoils. Tomato anything in JARS, not cans. Canned sauerkraut - high in Vitamin C. Just some ideas I have followed for two decades.
Having a pressure cooker is a must. My big electric CrockPot rarely stays cool for more than a couple of days. It is NOT, however a canning cooker. In case I’m forced to go without electricity for an extended period, I still have my old stainless steel Presto.
I have a pasta machine so I did many buckets of Semolina flour.
Costs about $25 per 50# bag.
Yup, we bugged out 10 years ago from the East Coast to rural Missouri Ozarks. As of a few years ago, I was wondering if we did the right thing but then covid, summer of riots, stolen election and biden came along. I think we’ll stay right here.
thank you!
I grew up as a dirt poor hillbilly.
Give me a dozen traps and I can keep a family in fresh meat year round.
In a real SHTF situation, those who bug in will die.
You’re gonna need to move daily. Probably by night.
Start getting used to the idea of eating grubs, leaves, and tree bark.
Yes. A nine tray Excalibur. I have the grocery store cut bottom round roasts in 1/4” slices, marinate it overnight in the fridge and dry for 7 hours at 155 degrees.
Pinging the Prepper Ping List
Might as well turn this into an official Prepping Thread. I was thinking about making one anyway. Hope you don’t mind the extra input 4everontheRight.
The OP, 4everontheRight, wants to know the Best Prep Food.
953mb of prepping info; https://permasteader.com/cloud/index.php/s/H8iLwmfLHiGFyjG
@4everontheRight, feel free to give the above link to your son and future bride.
Soon. Seven more months then retirement.
They have came a long way since the days of the dehydrated beef and pork patty. I retired in 2013 and some of the mre’s were pretty good.
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