Yea,
I have kind of a heichary. Storage of rice and noodles makes the most sense. They are very cheap, last a long time, and aren’t bad to eat, even in good times (like now). Next is storage of canned and otherwise sealed items. You buy them in the supermarket in regular sizes (nothing large) and store what you can. For the calorie count, they can start getting expensive, but people need veggies and meat. Finally, if you’re really into it, you can preserve your own stuff - very expensive, and illogical if you can buy already-canned stuff (and probably better sealed). But if we’re talking years and years of bad times, rather than months to a couple of years, canning does make sense.
But the other thing to remember is that the deeper you go into the survival world, the more tempting it will be for the non-survivalists (the other 99% of the population) to gang up on you and ‘request’ that you share your booty.
Yeah, I have the same hierarchy, and if you can scrounge fresh produce to add to that stuff, you are making excellent meals.
Don’t forget beans and bullets!
Excellent reminder.
A wise man keeps his own counsel.
It is best that no one outside your own personal circle have any idea of your prepper supplies of guns, ammo, food, gasoline, precious metals, trading goods - anything at all.
When the time comes we will probably all be called upon to share.
We want it to be our choice, not because we are at the point of some moocher zomby's gun.
And consider this thought:
"Every day we throw away things people will kill for after TSHTF."