“If you have been waiting to stock up on food and supplies, now is the time.”
Lets take your good thoughts a little further.
For over a year on FR, with relatives and friends, I have advocated buying good deals on any food, otc health products and other supplies, when they are really on sale, (if you can use them before they spoil or go out of date).
We get basically no interest on our savings accts, and when we can save 12 to 30% on a staple that we will use, that is an investment.
My pumpkins weren’t ripening very fast this year. I cut off the leaves which is supposed to accelerate ripening and piled them on the mulch pile. That was about 6 loads for my little John Deere lawn trailer. Just about the time they rotted I found out that all parts of the pumpkin are eddible. That was a lot of food tossed out.
I’ve done that for years
Whenever I go to the store and see something I use that is 50% off (buy one-get one) I get a case (or two)
By now I have so much stocked up I rarely pay full price for anything anymore. I only shop the sales. I could easily go 6 months right now without shopping if I could live without fresh mils and vegetables and meet
And when I need to I will grow my own veggies and hunt for meat