I built up a store of mres and freeze dried.
I have 60 gals of water..planing on more
How did you test? Eat it?
“How did you test? Eat it?”
yep
Didn’t use stored water but we have a berkley filter so I don’t expect water to be a serious issue. Also planning on a 3 stage pre-filter to help.
Plan 3 gallons of water per day per person.
Personally, I recommend you have a Berkey or Lifesaver unit.
My Lifesaver can purify 6,000 liters of water. Enough for four people and a year. I have an extra filter, so that should make it definitely a year if something goes wrong.
16 extra prefilters and 16 additional carbon filters.
Still I would like to have an additional system for my other backpack and will purchase one soon, with an extra filter.
That would be 4 years water but, even so, LifeSaver now has a Jerry can version and that will purify 20,000 liters. With extra filters that can take me to 60,000 liters.
just $300 bucks and it won’t seem all that expensive if am sitting somewhere wondering where I am going to get clean water.
In fact, I will be thanking my lucky stars for being so forward thinking.
MREs and freeze dried meals are a great layer for your food storage in case you don’t have any electricity or need to evacuate. Also, they’re easy to prepare in case mom and/or dad are incapacitated, away from home, or dead. The bulk of your storage, though, should be INGREDIENTS: wheat, spices, salt, sugar, honey, dehydrated and canned veggies, etc. When you focus on ingredients, you can make hundreds of different recipes. Rice, beans, all the grains are included in that category.
I write quite a bit about food storage on my blog, thesurvivalmom.com and can answer questions you might have.