[Kartographer]

A good article to remind you it's the little things that often make the biggest difference in most situations.

[Kartographer]

Preppers’ PING!!

[Redcitizen]

“Don’t ever forget the old adage, variety is the spice of life. You have an unlimited supply of spirulina, meal worms, rabbits or even wheat. I don’t care what it is. You better have a lot of something to go with it because you’re going to get sick of it really fast. “

It’s a true saying. It’s Human Nature to complain of the same food day after day. An example would be the Israelites in the desert eating manna for forty years.
A more modern example: Those same 12 MRE menu choices in the Middle East got old fast after a few weeks. It was food but no fun.

Food needs variety. Stock up on Mrs. Dash,spices, bouillon cubes, gravy, salt, black peppers, tabasco, etc. Just my two cents.

[gattaca]

I’ve actually been stocking up on protein powder and dehydrated foods.

[3D-JOY]

Interesting read...the one thing I have worried about is staying alone in place. I seem to have no other choice. The only local group I knew about had an age limit and I am way over it.

I would make out OK for a long time, but the comment about holding off a gang of 10 hit me right between the eyes!

[greeneyes]

There’s some really interesting links from the list on the left. Good site for more reading perhaps. I haven’t had a hobo meal for a long time.

We used to take a hamburger patty seasonings, and potatoes and veggies wrapped in aluminum foil. I think I’ll have to do this with my grand daughter. Don’t think that she has ever seen it.

We have cooked out on an open fire. We have a fire pit in the middle of some huge rocks in the back yard that we can sit on. We call it the tribal fire pit.LOL Thanks for the ping.

[Pollster1]

I hear stories that I really hope aren’t true. Like the guy who has 365 cans of soup and thinks he has a years worth of food. Good luck with that. He may survive but I can almost guarantee he will be crazy by the end of the year.

If it's just 365 cans of soup, he is right. If it's 365 cans of 30 different soups, and you add one a day to a pound of rice, a pound of pasta, as a sauce on top of a pound of flour turned into pancakes, etc, it's not a bad source of variety and small amounts of veggies. That's not my only meal plan, but it's part of my plan, and I think its a good one.

Note: I also have a year's supply of multivitamins and a significant supply of dietary fiber (Metamucil equivalent). Variety? I plan to supplement with squirrel and rabbit. More variety? I have proportional amounts of the 30 year storage cans of LDS food, including grains, and I use at least one can a month, so we know how to cook with them. More? I have Spam, canned tuna, sardines, and canned chicken, plus canned beef stew, canned chili con carne, and a month's supply of MREs with the little heater packs.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.

Rules to live by.

[bgill]

“Little” should have been considered more in the length of it. Gave up after too much blathering. Get to the point.

[Texas resident]

Little things matter.
And always think things through.

Contingency planning eliminates a lot of problems later.

also thanks for the ping.

[cyn]

What a good article. Thanks for posting.