Posted on 05/27/2023 8:27:10 AM PDT by 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.
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.
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.
Unfortunately, those packets don’t have a long shelf life.
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.
:^)
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.
Yep. You have to go big or go home on prepping.
Hence the two balls of rice a day?
But if you have no electricity, that’s not a good food source.
Reply 63 may interest
The Vietnamese traveled on rice balls, it was their pemmican or eat-on-the-run dried corn.
Bump to preserve info....
If you don’t have plenty of water available, you are going to die very soon.
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.
Right Brother wrote:
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We like Patriot Supply.
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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?
Camping and Wilderness Survival
These are essential for long term post-society living.
Good sources, thank you!
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.
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.
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