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Suggestions for Prepper Supplies
5/27/2023 | Me

Posted on 05/27/2023 8:27:10 AM PDT by ducttape45

Good morning fellow Freepers.

I wanted to take this opportunity to pick your brains.

I am looking for suggestions on where to shop for prepper supplies. Most websites want to sell you a huge bucket of stuff, most of which I'd probably never use. What I am looking for instead is a website (besides Amazon of course) where I could go to in order to purchase what I want to acquire. For instance, I can't find any place that will sell individual packets of dried milk, or crackers, stuff like that.

The reason I am asking for help is because I am stocking up while trying not to go overboard. I know what I want, I just can't find a place to go to shop for stuff that I want.

Any suggestions would be most welcome. Thank you.


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To: ducttape45

Prepping by its nature implies stockpiling large quantities of food. If you want individual packets of dried milk go to Kroger. You can buy a box with 3-4 individual packets inside.


61 posted on 05/27/2023 1:43:54 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: ducttape45

This white rice link is just an example and I mention it as step one in storing food, a baby step, but what a step it is.

To get by cheap for something that you will never need, 2 buckets of this will give you a good base for short-term eating and will last most of your lifetime (30 years), and is easy to take with you during moving.

Forty-eight pounds of white rice is a heck of a foundation for a 60 day emergency, anything you can find in your cupboards can go with it, canned foods, canned vegetables, ketchup and other condiments, eggs, a can of pork and beans, anything and everything can be eaten with it, starting a survival day with a guaranteed 1 pound of rice, is quite a step up from nothing, or from just a can of tuna or some apples.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00LBGNHE8/?coliid=I3DWC6T6S26F2S&colid=2Q211D3Y9KKMN&psc=1&ref_=list_c_wl_lv_ov_lig_dp_it


62 posted on 05/27/2023 1:51:09 PM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: ansel12

I know a gal from Vietnam that after the fall lived on two small balls of rice every day. Her younger sister died though of starvation.

I have a bunch of rice AND a bunch of beans.


63 posted on 05/27/2023 2:00:47 PM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful.)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Unfortunately, those packets don’t have a long shelf life.


64 posted on 05/27/2023 2:13:51 PM PDT by ducttape45 (Proverbs 14:34, "Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.")
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To: ducttape45

Plain yoghurt. I’ve found some in the back of the fridge that had a sell-by date 3 years back and it was still good to eat. Amazing stuff.

:⁠^⁠)


65 posted on 05/27/2023 2:19:17 PM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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To: 21twelve

Nice basics.

Some people don’t want to adopt a diet of canned foods and have to rotate them and eat them, they don’t want to invest in expensive freeze-dried stuff, they aren’t going to move out of their condo and start raising chickens and canning, but they want a 30-day cushion ‘just in case’ for something that is never going to happen, but...............

Walmart sells a 20-pound bag of rice for $10.97, stick the bag inside a cardboard box to keep from tearing it, and that rice will last for decades, throw in a few cans of tuna and spam, and check it every few years, that isn’t the end of the world survivalist stuff but it will cover a person for a few weeks, giving a person time to think and to see what is going on, and for the system to catch-up.


66 posted on 05/27/2023 2:20:00 PM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: ducttape45

Yep. You have to go big or go home on prepping.


67 posted on 05/27/2023 2:22:33 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: 21twelve
I know a gal from Vietnam that after the fall lived on two small balls of rice every day. Her younger sister died though of starvation.

Hence the two balls of rice a day?

68 posted on 05/27/2023 2:28:16 PM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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To: Moltke

But if you have no electricity, that’s not a good food source.


69 posted on 05/27/2023 2:33:47 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: sweetiepiezer; 21twelve

Reply 63 may interest


70 posted on 05/27/2023 2:45:30 PM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: linMcHlp

The Vietnamese traveled on rice balls, it was their pemmican or eat-on-the-run dried corn.


71 posted on 05/27/2023 2:51:09 PM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: ansel12

Bump to preserve info....


72 posted on 05/27/2023 3:03:10 PM PDT by duckbutt (I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery - T. Jefferson)
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To: Leaning Right

If you don’t have plenty of water available, you are going to die very soon.


73 posted on 05/27/2023 3:16:04 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: ducttape45

Nobody mentioned books. The “Foxfire” series contains a lot of information relating to survival. There are many more like them. You’ll need them because no matter how much you stock, it won’t be enough for a really long haul.


74 posted on 05/27/2023 3:20:47 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: GingisK
There's a Youtuber called "DIY Prepper TV" and he has some good videos, and he mentions various books and I think that was one of them. He's the one who's gotten me on the path to preparing.

DIY Prepper TV

75 posted on 05/27/2023 4:01:19 PM PDT by ducttape45 (Proverbs 14:34, "Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.")
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To: Right Brother; ducttape45

Right Brother wrote:


We like Patriot Supply.

Problem with that supplier is, if someone can’t tolerate gluten and dairy, then all they can have is oatmeal and rice.

Why don’t they have individual items without the flour and milk in it?


76 posted on 05/27/2023 4:06:17 PM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((the more you tighten your grip, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.) )
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To: ducttape45
Here are two more priceless references:

Camping and Woodcraft

Camping and Wilderness Survival

These are essential for long term post-society living.

77 posted on 05/27/2023 4:08:03 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: GingisK

Good sources, thank you!


78 posted on 05/27/2023 4:44:07 PM PDT by ducttape45 (Proverbs 14:34, "Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.")
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To: Moltke

Her mom and her had a ball of rice at breakfast and dinner. I believe her sister was a baby and nursing (trying to).

She said she was SO jealous of her two older brothers that got TWO balls of rice for breakfast. “But they had to work the neighbors’ fields to earn money - my mom and baby and I just had to beg.”

Her dad had been in the S. Vietnamese military. One day he was called into the police station. The family didn’t hear from him or about him for three years. They thought he was executed as the government wouldn’t tell them anything. He survived prison (6 years??) and they moved to the USA later on.


79 posted on 05/27/2023 5:12:57 PM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful.)
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To: gitmo

Yaaa... I was making a joke about the longevity of foodstuffs and the some-time silliness of sell-by dates.

Still, it is amazing how long a cup of plain joghurt will last under refrigeration. Most people might dump it after a week or two. Months or years after it is still consumable though.

Trust your nose, not the government.


80 posted on 05/27/2023 5:16:34 PM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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