Posted on 12/20/2011 2:25:49 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
I think id pick some better food than that.
Wise words, so one doesn't get caught up in getting it "perfect".
Something is always better than nothing, and even if one is relatively poor (like me) one should always work at "improving your position", even if it's just baby steps.
A little ammo here, a few canned-goods there, and steady, slow progress gets you in a better position than you were last month.
Bump
bump. readiness.
One quart of peanut butter?
When my three boys were home that amount might last a week.
The list of suggested food items & amounts is way below what a family of four would need to sustain life for a year.
How you feeling these days? Good, we hope.
Merry Christmas, my friend.
I have at least five quarts of pb in our stock. It’s both filling and very nutritious, makes a quick meal, and keeps well. I get the Smuckers natural because most others have partially hydrogenated oils added.
I think I'd pick some food that isn't dry or dehydrated. Water is first and foremost. While it's wise to not put all your eggs in one basket, I'd go with canned goods first.
I love brussel sprouts, wax beans, liembeurger cheese, and every other food except one-peanut butter.
I’m screwed !
PB will go rancid so keep up with the best by date.
Me too! Live chickens, goat, soup, seeds, and fattening boxed meals. Beans are great, but damn, that would get old. I need meat, veggies, ammo, and plenty of stored firewood..
It has to do with growing up in a poor family. Often there was only peanut butter if supper wasn’t enough for a growing boy.
Anything that smells like PB (pecan,almond,etc) makes me ill.
BTDT, back in the day, most everyone I knew got government pb. The school even put it on our lunch trays every day. Pecan butter smells nothing like pb.
It does to me.
I hate it,hate it, hate it.
Leave me and my phobia alone.
Prepper’s Ping!
LOL!
Black clouds cover the horizon, the lightening is flashing and there is the distant sound of thunder! The storm flags are going up, who you heed them?
I am very aware that if it’s the great end that there is nothing I can do to stop or change it, but history is full of instances and times when man or nature have caused such a calamity that people have cried out and begged God to end it all.
The bible has many verse such as this:
A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it.
NIV Proverbs 22:3
This verse and others are there for a reason and I urge all to take heed of them, because we are clearly on the edge. Everyday there is a new story about the ‘Yutes’ who grow more restless everyday and when you add the fact that because of the economy people are already on edge it won’t take much to set things off.
Reminds me of one of my favorite quotes:
“Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Siege of AR-558 (#7.8)” (1998)
Quark: Let me tell you something about Hew-mons, Nephew. They’re a wonderful, friendly people, as long as their bellies are full and their holosuites are working. But take away their creature comforts, deprive them of food, sleep, sonic showers, put their lives in jeopardy over an extended period of time and those same friendly, intelligent, wonderful people... will become as nasty and as violent as the most bloodthirsty Klingon. You don’t believe me? Look at those faces. Look in their eyes.
Today we have ‘yutes’ who roam our streets who are with out morals, without respect for law or life itself. They will look are you with the same ‘doll eyes’ a shark does before he eats you and they will feel no more compassion than the shark does.
That will be the test of many. Most preppers I know are Christian people and they will hesitate to do what they might have to do to stop the ‘yutes’. On the other hand the ‘yutes’ won’t think twice nor lose a minute of sleep, in fact they will smile and laugh about it.
For those who are just starting or are old hands at prepping you may find my Preparedness Manual helpfull. You can download it at:
http://www.tomeaker.com/kart/preparedness1i.pdf
(NOTE THIS DOWNLOAD IS FREE AND I DO NOT MAKE A DIME OFF OF IT. ALSO NOTE THAT THE MANUAL IS CLEARLY MARKED AS NOT BEING FOR SALE. I PUT TOGETHER THIS MANUAL FOR ONLY ONE PURPOSE AND THAT IS TO HELP FELLOW PATRIOTS TO PREPARE THEMSELVES FOR WHAT I BELIEVE IS COMING.)
For those of you who haven’t started already it’s time to prepare almost past time maybe. You needed to be stocking up on food guns, ammo, basic household supplies like soap, papergoods, cleaning supplies, good sturdy clothes including extra socks, underwear and extra shoes and boots, a extra couple changes of oil and filters for your car, tools, things you buy everyday start buying two and put one up.
For a somber, yet realistic look at what SHFT is like read some of Selco’s post:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2798007/posts
If you like to read more about what SHTF in Bosnia was like take a look at this post on Bosnia War Survivor Selco’s Blog at:
“There is no greater disaster than to underestimate danger. Underestimation can be fatal.”
As the LDS say “When the emergency is upon us the time for preparedness has past.”
IIRC, you can buy it in cans.
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