Posted on 01/12/2013 5:04:17 PM PST by Kartographer
It goes without saying that food is a top priority for survival from any perspective. No matter what happens, food will be needed. If you get hit by a tsunami, you’ll need food (and potable water!!!) and it may be ruined and scattered all over the area with the rest of your belongings except for what you managed to keep in a Bug out Bag or other Survival/Emergency Kit. If you’re snowed in during a storm, you better have supplies. If inflation sends food prices up 25% each passing year (or each passing WEEK! yes, can happen) trust me on this one, you will wish you had put aside that food stash you never got around to prepare. And if nothing ever happens… yes, you still need to eat, don’t you?
Preppers’ PING!!
There is a related article over on our own ChocChipCookie blog the Survival Mom:
Ask The Survival Mom: Re-using glass jars, food storage brands, budget camping gear, and dehydrating dairy and eggs
Yeah, well, I'll feed catz and visitors things I won't eat myself. ;)
One advantage here is that meat wanders across the yard on a regular basis.
On a serious note. I've got a minor medical procedure that I really, really want to get taken care of, but it's going to take a trip to the MD where all the people sick with the flu are.
No thanks. I'm not going out in public until the flu thing is over. Minus a spleen, I'm likely to catch anything going around.
Good thing is I'm eating just like I always do. 2 weeks since the last grocery store visit, and at least a month before I start to want to.
It's good to have a savings account in a currency that you can eat, and doesn't depreciate like the dollar does.
/johnny
Many people say that increasing Vit D intake can protect against flu.
/johnny
Related, riot over housing vouchers in Detroit:
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Not suggesting you should go out. How much D do you take. I havent taken any although I am supposed to according to medico.
I can stay put for a while too. Water is my only problem.
Water isn't a problem here. I've got more than me and the garden can handle.
/johnny
People living in the progressive cities might want to start attending these type of events to sharpen and hone their survival skills in a real life interactive environment. After about 3-4 days after the Food Stamp President’s initiated financial crash, you will have the same environment once the lemmings realize the party is over and survival and escape skills will be absolutely necessary.
I am not sure it would take 3 days any more.
I’m slowly squirreling away foodstuffs. If there’s a sale on something, I’ll just get some extra and stuff it in the basement. Not that I’ll let anyone know precisely how much extra I have. );-)
If society falls apart unless you have a tank and a LOT of fuel you can’t go anywhere. You have to figure on defending your home fortress. You probably can’t do it by yourself. You have to organize now for family and neighbors to come together to keep unauthorized people out of the neighborhood. You have to have big firepower to make the moochers that want your stuff decide it is easier to take it from somebody else who won’t kill them.
Realize that your windows will be shot out and that anything not nailed down will walk away if there is not a 24 hour guard.
I hope this is all nonsense but it could happen.
If society falls apart unless you have a tank and a LOT of fuel you can’t go anywhere. You have to figure on defending your home fortress. You probably can’t do it by yourself. You have to organize now for family and neighbors to come together to keep unauthorized people out of the neighborhood. You have to have big firepower to make the moochers that want your stuff decide it is easier to take it from somebody else who won’t kill them.
Realize that your windows will be shot out and that anything not nailed down will walk away if there is not a 24 hour guard.
I hope this is all nonsense but it could happen.
I noticed one story during the Sandy Not So Super Storm reporting. A couple of neighbors were cooking up soup on a propane burner. They were feeding a couple of streets from that one little setup, so somebody was prepared and was thinking. The bad part, the NYC health department came in and closed them down for not having the proper permits and licenses. The good part, they moved the operation into their back yard and made it an invitation only block party the next day. On a side note, I have spent the better part of the last year actually testing out our preparations. I have a stock of propane, gasoline and tested generator, sun oven that was used to cook a wide variety of foods and actual preparation and eating of stored foods. Especially interesting and creative was the preparation of various rice, beans, re-hydrated meats and vegetables, canned meats and vegetable meals (it could get real boring with only rice or beans for meals day after day). In addition, we experimented with various types of vegetables grown in our garden with water captured from the gutters into holding tanks. Since we are in Texas, we also experimented with getting two crops during the long growing season and canning. Will be doing more experimentation this year.
I’ve been pouncing on my local grocery store’s buy one, get one free sales. We’ve got enough peanut butter to last a year. It will be a boring year in food, but we’ll survive.
Probably true. In most cases, escape from the city even with a full tank and extra fuel will be frustrated by all the wrecks and roving gangs. I was talking to a former resident of Denver who moved down here and his plan before was to get on his motorcycle with his wife and escape Denver. I asked him one question which really highlighted the silliness of his previous idea .... what if it happens after a normal 2 foot snow fall? At least he had the sense to move out last year.
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