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Thanks for the ping. Glad to have you back posting the thread. I have been catching up on canning my meats and restocking my ordinary pantry.

Saw a guy on You tube - 100 bucks a year meal plan. That plan consisted of beans and rice and some salt/spices.

So I sat down and figured out using the cheapest Walmart prices on line, what it would cost to have Oatmeal for breakfast, Rice for lunch, and beans for supper. Came to about 129 bucks a year per person.

Buy some vitamins and using the normal pantry, We’d have a different entrée/recipe every day of the month for a whole year-that plan only has beans 2-4 times a month. However, that’s just for me, hubby, daughter and granddaughter that is here daily.

I have been thinking about our extended family, and I can’t really logistically rotate stock or afford to get all the stuff we need for 8 additional people. But I can probably buy enough beans, rice, oatmeal for them and that can be stored for long term and just used to expand the meal plan.

For example, the Chili recipe can simply have added beans and/or rice to fit the size of the group. So my plan for the extended family is to just buy 25-50 bucks of beans, rice, oatmeal each month, till I get enough. That’s something we could do I think.

I am in the process of taking inventory and reorganizing the storage spaces to get rid of junk like broken chairs and old clothes, and putting in shelves to hold containers of long term food.

We have 3 walls of good protection from nuclear. Since Hubby is not agreeable to putting in the other wall and ceiling, I’m going to make the shelves extra heavy duty and use some pavers to expand the patio.

I’m also using concreate blocks to surround my beds, and make them deeper. Those blocks and pavers can then be used to do a quick makeshift shelter in combination with the heavy duty shelves.

I have fans and a solar generator to operate them to help establish the correct air circulation. Best I can do on my own I think. Unless the Russians or ChiComs nuke us, the chance of extreme radiation here is rather small.

I think that they would rather protect the ability of the Midwest to produce food, and think that that larger population centers such as NY and LA along with the major military stuff would be the more likely targets.

I have had the iodine tablets etc for quite a while as a just in case measure.