Basic “prepping” starts with extending your pantry, as you can, to have ever more food on hand to last you longer times in a crisis. Prepping isn’t just about dehydrated foods and zombie survival gear, it’s about comfortable yet frugal living and having enough on hand that you won’t need resupply for quite some time (be it a week or a year).
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$17 will get you 50 lbs of flour at Costco. That, and some salt & yeast will feed you bread for over a month. $16 nets another 50 lbs of rice. While sure not optimal, $50 can feed the family for a month. Easy cheap backup food.
Shop at Aldi, Super Walmart, and other cheap stores. Always buy a little more than you need, and put it in storage. Put everything you buy in storage, and live off the oldest stuff.
Spring is approaching. Visit the dollar stores often: they’ll have seed packets for $0.10 each; $10 and some effort will grow you more food than you’ll know what to do with.
And getting out of Palm Beach County FL is probably also a good idea.
Exactly correct. I am not able to afford the expensive dehydrated stuff either. But canned foods last a long time too. So every time I shop I spend 10 bucks on canned foods that will make a meal in a pinch. I’ve been doing that for a couple of years and I am at the point where I am not longer worried about food in a meltdown. Also if you have the land to have a garden do that too. The biggest worry is water, I am lucky to have a water well on my property. Spend a little time thinking about how to secure water should the gov supplied water stop flowing for some reason.