[Kartographer]

Fellow Preppers you are not alone!

[Kartographer]

PING!

[Kartographer]

PING!

[eyedigress]

I have a store of Alpine Aire...

[KoRn]

Can’t have enough food, guns, and ammo for these days. Also wouldn’t hurt to have about $20,000,000,000 stashed, because you might want to buy a loaf of bread sometime.

[Smokin' Joe]

In the industry, the emergency-preparedness crowds are called "preppers," and they literally are taking food out of the mouths of hikers nationwide.

What? Taking the food out of their mouths?

No mention of the huge government orders for long term storage food?

I'll go read the article and see...

[PA Engineer]

I knew it would happen, however I have some questions. When we began to prepare we simply bought more groceries to rotate. This easily brought us to 6 months with the additional deep freeze. We also began to add raised gardens. As we got further along we began preparing dry bulk with food buckets, mylar bags and oxygen absorbers. Finally, we chose the expensive preparations of freeze dried for our very long term preps.

Freeze dried food is very expensive, but is good for very long term preps. We will be elderly before we must use them up. Why are people choosing freeze dried over store bought? It is much more economical and a good inflation hedge to purchase warehouse accordingly.

Secondly, many Americans are living paycheck to paycheck. These purchases would have to be from the wealthier. Is the freeze dried infrastructure limited as the shortages would indicate or is the prepper community much larger than one would think?

Finally, is it possible many have take the same route that we have and chosen freeze dried to finish up their preps?

Just some thoughts and questions.

[ProfoundMan]

bump

[samtheman]

What’s the shelf-life of canned food?

[samtheman]

Here’s a question I just thought of (don’t laugh, it’s just a question):

In an emergency, is it possible to soak rice in water to make it edible (if there is no heat source for cooking)? If so, how long must it soak?

Bags of rice have a 2-year shelf life and you can buy a 20lb bag for $15.

[FunkyZero]

I've stocked a few cases of these myself, but these are for travel only.

THere are more cost effective ways to stock on food... maybe not the greatest choices, but they are calories if ever needed to be called on.
Cans of stuff like ravioli, dried noodles, spam, etc.. find it on sale, but a few more cans. I'll last practically forever and doesn't cost 60 dollars for 12 freekin meals. Years from now when I have to throw it away, I won't be out all that much really so who cares.

[Caipirabob]

God bless all of you FReepers for encouraging us to prepare gradually over the past 10 years.

[Red in Blue PA]

In the industry, the emergency-preparedness crowds are called "preppers," and they literally are taking food out of the mouths of hikers nationwide.

Swear to God, people do not understand the Engligh language.

Literally? Acccording to this, preppers are going up to people and literally taking food from their mouths. Don't think so.

[Red in Blue PA]

Wow!

Oregon Freeze Dry expected a 30-percent increase. That turned into a 400-percent increase in just 30 days, Cornutt states in her letter.

[bgill]

the emergency-preparedness crowds are called "preppers," and they literally are taking food out of the mouths of hikers nationwide

Of course, it's the preppers' fault.

nothing says "buy freeze-dried food" louder than a 9.0 earthquake in Japan

Or the Soros puppet out to destroy the free world.

[sergeantdave]

Freeze dried chow is a ticket to constipationville. I’ve switched to canned food. I think it’s more nutritious and better tasting. A can of pineapple chunks in juice is much better than gnawing like a mouse on freeze-dried apples.

And if you prefer freeze-dried, the local grocery stores can provide pretty much everything you want, except the exotic stuff like taco flavored TVP, about the only recycled shoe leather I ever found tolerable.

[ronnyquest]

"In the industry, the emergency-preparedness crowds are called "preppers," and they literally are taking food out of the mouths of hikers nationwide."

Get dipped. The US government, specifically DHS and FEMA, are the ones causing shortages, not preppers. Hikers should have stocked up before now.

[BunnySlippers]

I’m a Prepper, you’re a Prepper, everybody gonna be a Prepper too.

[LowOiL]

There used to be a great thread on FR about these subjects. It was called “(+) THE ART OF THE CACHE (+)” but it has gone down memory lane. Great thread with many helpful comments from food to how to store your weapons in the woods to keep from losing them when SHTF.