When I was living off-grid and doing the mountain-man thing, I was using about 4000 calories a day. Less during the summer, more during the winter.
/johnny
I was always a massive calorie burner and I know very well the need of calories, I was the guy that would trade his C-ration peaches and fruit cocktail for the calorie dense, but less desirable, fruit cake.
Many of those prisoners were not always getting 1100 calories, and it took them a long time to die, we also learned that young men starve quicker than older men, because the older man’s furnace doesn’t burn so hot, and can better adapt to low calories.
I praised the rice and Spam as a great start, and hoped that I did an adequate job of making clear that I knew it’s limitations and inadequacies.
I want to show people how easy it is to get started, and how for little money and trouble, they can instantly transform themselves from none preppers, or preppers in sentiment only, into having a month or twos worth of long term storage foods, with a single visit to the grocery store.
In recent years my preparedness interest is in getting people to get their feet wet, to get them to break the ice by getting started with some simple storage items rather than waiting to make the single, bulk purchase of freeze dried foods, or to makeover their personal lives into becoming bulk shoppers who rotate everything.
White rice and Spam is a great start, besides, double, triple, quadruple the portions, since we are only talking about it.
I was only making an example of how long term, last ditch, survival preparations, are in reach of everyone.