[dynachrome]

Here’s one I ran across awhile ago. Don’t know how long they stay fresh and edible:

Survival Logs Recipe
1 cup peanut, almond, cashew or other “nut butter”
1/2 to 3/4 cup honey, corn syrup, maple syrup, or homemade sugar syrup
2-3 cups crushed corn flakes, granola, crispy rice cereal, cookie, dry bread, pretzel, cracker or cake crumbs
Optional flavorings—dried milk powder, chopped dried fruits, sunflower seeds, chocolate chips, gumdrops, m&ms, candy sprinkles, chopped nuts, coconut

1 .In a saucepan, heat syrup to boiling, remove from heat.
2. Add nut butter, stir until melted and blend well.
3. Stir in enough cereal or crumbs to form a stiff dry dough
4. Knead in optional flavorings; form into candy bar size logs.
5. Roll in additional crumbs, coconut or sprinkles as desired. Wrap individually in wax paper or foil for travel or hiking food. Makes 10 logs.

[frank ballenger]

Stacey Abrams: “Oh, no. I knew I picked the wrong week to diet. And to quit drinking. And to....”

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

If you ever want to know what too few calories will do to you watch "Alone". Any season.

You get weaker and weaker and more and more mentally foggy.

Your heart begins to beat oddly, your circulation slows, your muscles cramp and shake.

No one has taken it beyond 100 days.

[cpt_dave]

It’s not calories that count, but which foods you eat. A vegetarian diet of 2000 calories will lead to starvation while a 2000 calorie diet of meat and fat is plentiful and healthy.

[Taxman]

Ping

[Nailbiter]

flr

[sauropod]

bkmk

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Dried meat (deer, elk or beef) made into a powder, beef or elk tallow not deer, dried berries made into powder, salt to taste.

Mix 50% meat powder, 45% tallow, 5% berry powder by weight.

Make into five ounce logs.

Each log is about 1000 calories.

Lasts pretty much forever if you use a food saver.

[Born to Conserve]

If you have fat reserves, you’re good to go for energy. You don’t need to eat large quantities of fat, protein, or carbs. You do need vitamins, minerals, and essential amino and fatty acids — five hundred calories a day of the right stuff would easily supply those.

If you don’t have fat reserves, you’ll need to add a thousand calories or so, of anything. Your body will turn it into energy. If you’re big or active, you’ll need more than a thousand calories. Skinny is not a good survival tactic.

[Myrddin]

I'm 5 ft 11 in. 154 lbs today. My normal target is 1250 calories F/Sa/Su and Tu/Wed. 600 calories on Monday/Thursday. Calories are 30% protein, 30% fat, 40% carb. I track intake using MyFitnessPal. I started at 191 in Jan 2016. My "low" in 2018 was 143. The altered schedules from COVID and my wife's development of Type 1 diabetes in August 2019 has made it more difficult to totally control my food intake and cater to my wife's desire for some variability of food types. I've keep my body fat around 15%. It was 13.7% at 143.

As an ongoing "check" to ensure things aren't breaking, I study Welsh, German and Scots Gaelic. Friday nights include 90 minutes at the roller rink. A good way to burn some calories and maintain good balance and coordination. My day job is computer science converting legacy Windows/Linux applications to run in Docker with Kubernetes/Helm and internal refactoring to microservices that are "composable" with a mix of Docker containerized apps. Nothing too strenuous :-)

My biggest concern if things get really bad is sufficient insulin for my wife and sufficient dog chow for the pups.

[metmom]

Prepper ping

[VRWCer]

Bookmarking for later!

[HartleyMBaldwin]

bfl

[bobbo666]

People go missing out here in CaCaLand alla time. Walking calories.

No problem.

[Pollster1]

I count my food storage in 2,000-calories days. I try to make those healthy days, including a variety of foods and appropriate supplements, but the basic counting unit I use is man-days of food.
That makes the bookkeeping a whole lot easier. I know how long my family can go on just stored food.