Posted on 11/08/2023 4:41:07 AM PST by MtnClimber
We all know about gold and guns. But here are some important provisions that might not occur to most people.
Our national descent into the hellish landscape of climate hysteria, virulent Jew-hatred in the streets, and Marxist-Leninist despotism continues unabated. Due to runaway inflation and the massive federal debt, the dollar’s value has shrunk like a cheap cotton towel washed in hot water. Weekly grocery bills and energy costs have almost doubled since 2021, while real wage growth has declined due to the economic strangulation of progressive bureaucratic regulation and nonexistent congressional oversight.
Combine this bleak economic outlook with our Obama-approved, hate-America-first, failed foreign policy, and you have the likely possibility of a severe economic depression during a time of multiple foreign military engagements. (Stolen elections have predicable consequences!)
How do you prepare for such an awful confluence of events? By accepting and acting upon the real possibility of food, water, energy, and medical supplies shortages in the months ahead. There are plenty of articles, videos, and social media posts that deal with the basics of prepping. Today, I’m suggesting acquiring overlooked items that may greatly aid in the rough times ahead.
1. Real maple syrup. This household staple can be used for barter and for your own food preparation. Sealed in small glass bottles or in those beige plastic jugs, maple syrup requires no refrigeration and can be bartered in small quantities. Most preppers have five-gallon buckets of oatmeal in their pantry, but few include maple syrup (and cinnamon) to flavor their cooked cereal or cookies. Maple syrup will always be in high demand.
2. 4” PVC pipe with assorted end caps, oxygen-absorbers, and desiccant packs. Many Americans will want to protect and hide small high-value items such as pocket pistols, ammo, thumb drives, hard drives, family documents, passports...
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1. Real maple syrup.
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Real (pure) bee honey is the same. They are both 67% sugar and will last for a very long time if kept reasonably well.
These are both nature’s sugar. It’s not refined, bleached sugar or some chemically derived product from a factory.
And if bee honey goes “sugary”, just put the container in hot water for a while and it will return to normal consistency.
“Maple syrup”? LOL…I’ve even a prepper for decades and didn’t even know it!
Thanks for posting.
Most people will starve when the supplies run out . Very, very few have the ability to raise, grow, gather and preserve enough calories to sustain life over an extended period of time.
Stocks of canning lids, salt, seeds, animal feed, vinegar and such won’t last long.
You're gonna live forever, the most important thing is ... Location, location , location..
The book “A Failure of Civility” is excellent. It is out of print, but a web search will turn up sites where a PDF version can be downloaded.
Good list. Ammo will be the most valuable barter item.
“Maple syrup”? LOL…I’ve even a prepper for decades and didn’t even know it!
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If it’s a SHTF situation, and if you are around maple trees and if it’s early spring, you can always make your own. That’s a lot of ‘ifs’ though, but if you are in a survival situation, these are quality calories. Aside from a way to collect the sap, you really just need a pan, a low fire, and some patience.
Honey has antimicrobial properties as well (infection prevention).
ALso (I wish there was an edit button so I don’t double post), if you are in a survival situation in a northern climate (where maple trees are), calories in early spring is a gift. This is probably when you’ve ran out of all your tried stored goods, canned goods, and nuts, and the you’ve probably already been hunting quite a bit, and nothing is growing fruit yet.
Bookmarked for future reference.
Honey has antimicrobial properties as well (infection prevention).
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Yes, from what I’ve read, the bees learned or evolved to do that. I doubt that they favor any particular source, because they would mostly be opportunists, but some flowers offer quite a bit of benefit to the honey. That is all on top of the fact that honey (and maple syrup) are almost all sugar. Sugar in high concentrations is toxic to living cells and organisms. This is half the reason your body makes insulin, which helps you lower your blood sugar, because sugar in any concentration is toxic to your body. (The other half is because insulin tells your cells to turn sugar in to fat, which is a famine survival mechanism)
Groups of people with guns are going to make your maple syrup theirs and they ain’t gonna knock. After an event, prepping supplies are going to be useful for only a couple of weeks until the real shit hits the real fan. Civility will be an early casualty. Likely we will founder like the people of Argentina or Brazil.
Gentle microwave also converts the honey back to liquid
The book “A Failure of Civility” has a lot of focus on organizing neighborhood defenses.
Booze, coffee, sugar, salt, seasonings, these are things people will always need.
Basic food they will be getting somewhere already or they won’t be there at all, but the government won’t be handing out booze, and coffee would probably not be coming into the country, and modern people will be craving sweetness and their sugar fix.
I don’t understand maple syrup. It makes me gag. Must be a regional taste.
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