Folks, SURVIVING FOOLISHNESS IS THE PRIME DIRECTIVE of LIBERTY.
After reflection today, I would also advise each of us when SHTF to write our names and next of kin info in black Sharpie should our deaths go reported.
In times of plenty, we must plan ahead so that one may NEVER NEED BE A BURDEN ON OTHERS, but a safe harbour to others. One year of good canned goods per person is about 400 tins = 400# = $400, plus ~1/2 cup each of dried beans and rice/day/person on average which roughly works out to 100# of each. Dried beans keep up to 2 years while white rice keeps upto 5 years; use quality ice chests to minimize temp and humidity variations. Canning with SS drums in a 95% nitrogen atmosphere is for high dollar long-term storage.
It can be a bad idea to gain weight during a famine. Keep low profiles if eating well, and never throw out the cans as trash. Cut off both ends of food tin cans and crush then burn and bury. If the cans' goo is not burned up, it shall always attract unwanted bugs, rats, and dogs & cats which may attract unwanted people. Starving people will kill for far less than your food stores, Folks.
Please, Folks, consider 6 qt. pressure cookers (SS or Al)to positively and economically sterilize water (just begin rocking the topper as opposed to boiling for 15 minutes AT SEA LEVEL) and cook a meal in ~<5 minutes. They are amazingly efrficient.
Plan on one large roll of TP and one roll of paper towels every week - KEEP THEM DRY at all costs.
Jeff, please keep up your good contributions.
Summed it up very well with this...
Folks, SURVIVING FOOLISHNESS IS THE PRIME DIRECTIVE of LIBERTY.
A double amen to that.
A roll of TP in disaster circumstances, is like gold in the bank, or cigarettes to those who do but don't have them. Who bothers to think about cleaning yourself with tree leaves, if it happens to be summer. What you gonna do in winter?