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I knew it would happen, however I have some questions. When we began to prepare we simply bought more groceries to rotate. This easily brought us to 6 months with the additional deep freeze. We also began to add raised gardens. As we got further along we began preparing dry bulk with food buckets, mylar bags and oxygen absorbers. Finally, we chose the expensive preparations of freeze dried for our very long term preps.

Freeze dried food is very expensive, but is good for very long term preps. We will be elderly before we must use them up. Why are people choosing freeze dried over store bought? It is much more economical and a good inflation hedge to purchase warehouse accordingly.

Secondly, many Americans are living paycheck to paycheck. These purchases would have to be from the wealthier. Is the freeze dried infrastructure limited as the shortages would indicate or is the prepper community much larger than one would think?

Finally, is it possible many have take the same route that we have and chosen freeze dried to finish up their preps?

Just some thoughts and questions.

Why are people choosing freeze dried over store bought?

I don't see that 'people' are. Last I heard govt was buying the bulk of it.

Dessicated soup, they called it during the Civil War.

Same, same.

Preppers have tools, land, friends, skills, and hopefully, the Grace of God with them.

All the other handwaving is the media trying to paint conservatives as dangerous (and we are, to crooks).

/johnny

Every earth quake and natural disaster ups the interest level in freeze dried food - doesn't go bad like fresh or frozen if the power is out, doesn't take the same work to rotate as canned, good for 20 years in case it just sits for a long time.

However, the shortages are more likely from that order FEMA put in for a million freeze dried food units, ostensibly for a midwest earthquake disaster.

We did a three month supply of Mountain House last April....being as SPACE is our critical problem, this was the way to go - two cartons stacked on an upper closet shelf.

We're in the desert, and garage storage for anything is out of the question; those constant 105 - 110 degree temps hurt everything from food to battery storage; we can't store a thing outside of the indoor environment.

"Is the freeze dried infrastructure limited as the shortages would indicate or is the prepper community much larger than one would think? "

This old interview piece from Forbes might lend a hint. Remember that it's Steve Forbes talking in a discussion with others in economics/investments. It appears that many "upscale" folks were ahead of most of us on what could happen.

From Going Great Guns, (Forbes, David Serchuk, 04.23.09, 04:00 PM EDT)

"Forbes: I was in Colorado, and I knew people who had 200, 300 guns. And they'd stash them in various hidden places around their compound. This wasn't all that uncommon out west."

You hit on a very shocking fact right there, that many are living paycheck to paycheck.

I’ve heard estimates as high as 70% of folks.
That’s downright scary.

It means we are only maybe ten days away from total societal Night of the Living Dead replay if the right (WRONG!!!!) things happen.