Posted on 09/09/2012 8:41:10 PM PDT by Kartographer
There are three big buckets of preparedness. There is stuff you have. There is stuff you know. There are the skills and things you can do. This is also including your mindset.
The most important is the skill set, including the mindset. You take that with you wherever you go.
A lot of people have plenty of money. By all means, gather stuff. Gather supplies. Store food. Have some beans, Band-Aids and bullets -- the three B's. Beans means your food and supplies. Band-Aids means medical skills and medical knowledge, medical supplies. Bullets means the ability to protect yourself. Again, that is not really my bag, but it's a necessary evil.
Get the stuff. Even if you are not really great at using some of these things, you can trade. You can barter and you can share. You can team up with people.
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Big tubs of food. wow.
I hear some Wal-Marts stock this kind of stuff. A few of these and some water flters, kool-aid, tea bags, honey (never ever spoils) etc and someone could survive a disaster for months.
as long as they can defend it.
I guess if I had the cash and a basement I would make the whole thing a Faraday cage (heh) stock it full of years worth of food, generators, short wave radio, satellite radio, water filters/tablets, first aid stuff, extra boots and gear. One of those “make soda at home” things with tons of syrup... heh...
And make it where no one even knew how to get to the basement.
OK... that is probably the Valhalla of Preppers I guess
I need to find some unicorns to run on the giant gerbil wheel generators that 0bama provided to me for free, but cost some sucker $1M each, he, he, he!
Those verses don’t mean stockpile. Enough Christians are hurting enough in this economy that they can’t ever stockpile enough.
I believe in doing the best you can and saving, but ultimately sustenance will come from God.
After reading reviews on the various “tub of food” products offered, I’m sticking with my current plan.
If you have a little room, canned food is just as stable and tastes a lot better. I have been spending a little extra each time I go shopping and after a year it is surprising how much food I have.
IMO, if I were starting right now, I would go at it at a faster pace. Events seem to be progressing at a disturbing rate.
lol.
You could probably buy a years worth of unicorn feed from this website. Or just about any kind of survivalist/prepper food and equipment.
https://www.usaemergencysupply.com/
I think a small closeknit town and a church with a basement could be used very well. Everyone would fend for themselves too, but the church basement full of wheat, beans, seed and stuff could be used if the disaster goes for the long haul.
Fruitcake lasts forever...
I used to sail as a younger man and one of the recommendations of the, “Safety of Life at Sea” (SOLAS) folks was to pack dog food for your abandon ship bag. It has enough nutrition to keep one alive but it's not something you would eat up too quickly.
As a prepper I have stocked roughly three months of foods (breakfast, lunch, snacks and dinner) for my family. Enough for ~3 months, longer if we skip some meals, but I have buckets of rice and beans which my kids call, “dog food” and tuna, you guessed it, “cat food” which though not their 1st, 2nd or 3rd-10th choice would extend our horizons.
As to the authors points of beans, bandaids and bullets...
Just as by beans he means food, bullets are tools. I have collected a good set of other non-power tools; shovels, axes, saws along with hand tools, hammers and nails which I strongly feel will be critical to have. Fuels for running things may be quite scarce. I wonder if fruitcake can be used as fuel?
I’m as prepared as I can be given what little I have. Whatever I lack, I’ll improvise à la McGyver. ;)
Good point. I have a 25 pound bucket of screws, and two same-size buckets of nails (cheap in the large buckets), and a gallon of wood glue. I also have 100 2-by-4s, 8 ft long, that were $1 each. I don't know exactly what they are for, but I can make just about anything with them, and it will be strong.
“...even canned butter?”
Wonder if they can *canned croissants* to go with that? LOL.
One can have all the supplies in the world, but without the knowledge and will to make use of these supplies, they are useless.
We're now concentrating on hand tools. We've stocked food, water, weapons, ammo, cloths, medical supplies, oil, gas, hurricane lamps and oil, barb wire, boots, extra eyeglasses, books on survival (edible plants, medial & dental books).
Still, there are holes and there always will be.
You do the best you have with what you have. Mindset, a positive one, is probably the most important. Skills is next. We know how to plant, harvest, and can.
Get in shape or be sure to stay in shape.
AD
You’re right. We grow enough food to feed everyone - the problems are distribution, loss to disease and animals and waste. A lesser issue is micronutrients like vitamin A; there are enough calories, but getting micro-nutrients to kids is a secondary problem.
If food is still a big problem, supply and demand could solve it by driving up the cost of meat, a major consumer of grain.
Here’s my thoughts on these kits:
I often get asked questions about various 30-60-90 and more food kits, buckets of prepared food that store for years as a quick and easy way to be prepared.
Now Ive not tried the food in very many of these kits and so I cant really say if the food is good or bad, but heres the problem as I see with these prepared meal kits. Say you have a 60 day kit that comes with 10 different dinners six of each dinners A-B-C-D-E-F-G-H-I-J and since you never tasted their food the odds are that say there will be that there will be 2 to 3 of these meals that you really like 4 or 5 that are ok, 1 or 2 you can choke down if you have too and another 1 or 2 you wouldnt feed your dog!
That means two things one you run the good chance that twenty percent or more of your storage you wont eat and two after a while what you have left is mostly stuff you dont like and wont eat unless forced and that will get OLD very fast.
Me I think that you are better off storing 100% things you know you will eat and in as much a variety as possible. Thats my thoughts.
Wasa bread is marketed as having a 10 month shelf-life. I can state from my own experience that even here in humid south Louisiana, it will store safely for at least twice that amount of time.
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I guess you could order a small batch of this stuff and try it for a couple of days. I saw a post on one of their ‘reviews’ from a guy who claims to have lived on it for a month. heh.
I would never expect anyone to depend on these companies without also having other canned, boxed, dry goods and other stuff from the grocery store. Never depend on one source. You might end up like the people who think its mean to hunt you should buy meat at the store so no animal gets hurt. lol
For some reason I’m thinking a certain agency would seize the customer lists of these mail order companies and go visitin’.
Buy multiples of what you already eat now. That way you know it will be eaten whether there’s a TEOTWAWKI or not.
You can make a boatload of fresh homemade bread for the price of that canned stuff.
That canned bread looks very much like some I had when I was a kid. It was edible but that’s as far as it goes. Check out the links for thumbs down reviews.
http://www.avclub.com/articles/taste-test-yoders-canned-bacon-and-oscar-mayer-ful,2481/
http://www.avclub.com/articles/taste-test-canned-bread-canned-cheese-pickled-saus,2495/
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