If food shortages threaten, what would you stock up on?

[sparky]

we've been thinking commercial freeze drier , any advice???

~S~

 

[deannalw]

I am currently the proud owner of a genuine 1964 Cold War-era Civil Defense shelter survival crackers, sealed in the original 5-gallon tin.

Not that I'd actually eat them. They're probably pretty nasty by now.

No more so than they were then...

 

[toobfreak]

I am currently the proud owner of a genuine 1964 Cold War-era Civil Defense shelter survival crackers, sealed in the original 5-gallon tin.
Not that I'd actually eat them. They're probably pretty nasty by now.

They might be stale but they would likely not kill you.

Throw a little hot sauce on there along with some mango-coconut puree, and you will be good to go.

STILL better than what Greta Thunberg would have us eat.

 

[JOSweetHeart]

Canned goods. I do not like eating such stuff, but you can keep canned goods stored for many years. Pragmatism will keep one alive when all else fails.

I second this.

God bless you always!!!

Holly

 

[Darkwind]

I am currently the proud owner of a genuine 1964 Cold War-era Civil Defense shelter survival crackers, sealed in the original 5-gallon tin.

Not that I'd actually eat them. They're probably pretty nasty by now.

You'd learn some brand new colors. LOL

 

[Darkwind]

They might be stale but they would likely not kill you.

Throw a little hot sauce on there along with some mango-coconut puree, and you will be good to go.

STILL better than what Greta Thunberg would have us eat.

So, we're talking like, end of the world shit and you're talking mango-coconut puree?

Da Fuq? Never figured you for a hoitie Toitie type. lol

 

[citygator]

My neighbors have put on some weight and look way slower than me. I'll be good.

 

[sparky]

~S~

 

[skye]

I second this.

God bless you always!!!

Holly

And I third this.... canned goods!

 

[JustAGuy1]

Without becoming a 'prepper', what foods would you squirrel away against possible shortages due to the ominous forecasts concerning the weather, shortages of fertilizer, possible price hikes?

My choice would be peanut butter and whole wheat products.

Can goods

 

[Muhammed]

we've been thinking commercial freeze drier , any advice???

~S~

It saves energy if you use it in the winter and pre-freeze stuff on the porch first.

 

[drudge X]

Canned goods. I do not like eating such stuff, but you can keep canned goods stored for many years. Pragmatism will keep one alive when all else fails.

Agreed. Canned food can last a very long time if well stored. I stock up on canned soup whenever it’s on sale.

 

[Doc7505]

Without becoming a 'prepper', what foods would you squirrel away against possible shortages due to the ominous forecasts concerning the weather, shortages of fertilizer, possible price hikes?

My choice would be peanut butter and whole wheat products.

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We're planting tomatoes, carrots, beans (Green and Yellow), white and sweet potatoes, Corn, cabbage, onions, garlic, basil and oregano this weekend.
I'd like to set up a chicken coop and raise some hens, but that might be a step to far for the division I live in.
Got a deal with the dairy farmer down the road for free cow manure that I compost with grass clippings and scraps from the table.
So, I'm not concerned about high prices of fertilizer

 

[Invisibleflash]

Without becoming a 'prepper', what foods would you squirrel away against possible shortages due to the ominous forecasts concerning the weather, shortages of fertilizer, possible price hikes?

My choice would be peanut butter and whole wheat products.

There are a lot of easy to stock and cheap survival foods for the broke crowd or those that can't move to a working homestead. Everyone is not rich enough to stock freeze dried foods, so look elsewhere. Cereal and powdered milk are just one example of easy and cheap prep foods. I like Shredded Wheat, Wheaties, Wheat Chex, Total and Life cereal as some healthy examples. I don't like the corn cereals as they are GMO corn. I also don't like cereals with wheat gluten in them. Wheat cereals are fine, just no 'added' vital wheat gluten. Read the ingredients list! If you got some water, powder milk and cereal you got a few weeks of something to eat. And many cereals are fortified with vitamins.

If you will have uninterrupted refrigeration, you can buy ultra pasteurized milk, which usually means organic milk or grass-fed milk. Ultra pasteurized milk will last for many months unopened. And as a backup you should stock powdered milk. Just rotate your powdered milk as it does not last that much longer after it has expired. The foil packs it comes in has air in it and it degrades in taste.

Another good prep food is Nutri Grain bars. Fortified with vitamins. They are foil wrapped and last a long time. Only issue is they have lots of acids in them (citric acid / malic acid) for preservatives. In other words, if you are predisposed to heartburn, you can't eat too many of them at once or per day or you get acid reflux. If you eat oatmeal, get the quick oats. Saves on fuel in SHTFF. Bad thing about oats is they use a lot of water to cook. Add some canned / dried food to that, such as rice, beans, pasta, pasta sauce, can veg, canned tuna, Dash (Used to be Mrs. Dash), etc., and you got a nice food mix if and when SHTFF. If you are short on fuel, get angel hair pasta. It cooks in a few minutes. The thing with cereal and the rest is...you must rotate it, so don't forget. Store what you eat and eat what you store. And don't forget the water in the deep preps.

Ramen is another good survival food to stock. I'm not interested in this, but you may be. Besides your own survival, ramen is also a good charity hot food to give to people that may come to you when hungry. Just add hot water, a Styrofoam cup and plastic spoon and you can hand out some hot meals. Point is, anyone can get a month or two of food preps to start with, even if on a low budget. Just chip away at it every time you go shopping with some extra prep food you buy. Just remember, food storage eventually runs out, so always be looking to rebuild your supply of stored foods.

Apartment dwellers and those with little space and $$ got a rough go with prepping. If you are not a food producer, you need to be a hoarder. If you are not a producer or hoarder, then you have to be a forager, sponger / vampire or a werewolf. There is no magic bullet to prepping. To be a hoarder with little room, get chrome wire shelving and go up to the ceiling with it. Keep adding tubes and shelves until you get to the max height. Have them on high quality casters and have 2 layers of them in front of each other. You roll out the front shelving unit to get to the rear unit. I like chrome wire shelving as it is very adaptable and standardized to filling even odd spaces. My walls are short. If your walls are a decent length, you could have 500 linear feet of shelving easily.

When I moved here, they had one narrow 10-foot long by 10-inch-wide wood shelf on the wall. I removed it and went from one 10 linear foot wood shelf of storage to 120 linear feet of shelving with just one layer of shelving on 1-1/2 walls. And as a bonus, my shelf width went from 10 inches deep of wood to 18 inches deep of chrome wire. If you already have built-in wood shelving, you can add another layer of roll-out chrome wire shelving in front of it. Just get the big, easy roll casters.

Here is a bonus for you...

In SHTFF you can get a source of vitamin C from unrefrigerated - store bought refrigerated OJ. What I'm saying is...you can bulk up with the deep preps and keep refrigerated OJ...unrefrigerated. I've found out that the refrigerated OJ they sell in the market does not need refrigeration, it is shelf stable. It is refrigerated for show. You can test this out for yourself. If you keep a bottle at room temp and the bottle does not get hard, that means there is no gas forming inside. (Even if there was gas, it would just be fermenting and still probably safe.)

I've tested out a few brands by storing them room temp and drinking it months later. The results are all the same...it is stable at room temp. Now, I haven't tested out all brands, just a handful. And I haven't stored it at 118 degrees out in the Mojave Desert or tested it 4.7 years later. Hottest my bottles have been 85 degrees F and stored for 8 months unrefrigerated. So, before SHTFF, you test out all the brands and conditions that affect you.

Now, don't forget the Katrina guns!

Fudds, fossils and gun fondlers...do you know what time it is? It is time to stop the gun fondling and get set with your disposable Katrina guns in the deep preps. They have to be reliable, cheap and disposable because gov will set up roadblocks in SHTFF, like they did in Katrina, and take your guns. You will get no receipt and you won't ever get your confiscated guns back. When your guns are confiscated on the road and if you are still alive, you go back home and grab another Katrina gun from the deep preps. The gov also went door to door with their Katrina confiscation efforts. So, cache some of your Katrina guns in hiding if this happens again.

Don't be a gun fondler with all sorts of guns. You want each class of weapon identical for seamless swap-ability. You don't want to have to think when changing guns in SHTFF. For pistols, Taurus G3's or Caniks are good, cheap, reliable and disposable 9mm. I've never used them, but Stoeger 9mm is also a possibility for disposable guns. Wheel guns are more or less useless in this day and age. Commie dems have seen to that...they are pack hunters.

Gun fondlers, it is time to move on from the old west fantasies. Well, you may want some wheel guns for insurance if dems ever outlaw semi-auto. But in SHTFF we will have worse problems than worrying about semi-auto being illegal. If money is no object and you are rich, then stock whatever you like in the deep preps for Katrina guns.

 

[sparky]

It saves energy if you use it in the winter and pre-freeze stuff on the porch first.

great tip....thx ~S~

 

[ThisIsMe]

Without becoming a 'prepper', what foods would you squirrel away against possible shortages due to the ominous forecasts concerning the weather, shortages of fertilizer, possible price hikes?

My choice would be peanut butter and whole wheat products.

Coffee, rice and salt.

I’d also order a shitload of those meal boxes from a place like patriot supply..the 25 year shelf life meal kits. They might be loaded with salt and preservatives, but they are shelf stable for 25 years.

 

[sparky]

Now, don't forget the Katrina guns!

Fudds, fossils and gun fondlers...do you know what time it is? It is time to stop the gun fondling and get set with your disposable Katrina guns in the deep preps. They have to be reliable, cheap and disposable because gov will set up roadblocks in SHTFF, like they did in Katrina, and take your guns. You will get no receipt and you won't ever get your confiscated guns back. When your guns are confiscated on the road and if you are still alive, you go back home and grab another Katrina gun from the deep preps. The gov also went door to door with their Katrina confiscation efforts. So, cache some of your Katrina guns in hiding if this happens again.

Now you got me wondering if 'da man' could confiscate our supplies Flash........~S~

 

[Winston]

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We're planting tomatoes, carrots, beans (Green and Yellow), white and sweet potatoes, Corn, cabbage, onions, garlic, basil and oregano this weekend.
I'd like to set up a chicken coop and raise some hens, but that might be a step to far for the division I live in.
Got a deal with the dairy farmer down the road for free cow manure that I compost with grass clippings and scraps from the table.
So, I'm not concerned about high prices of fertilizer

Be careful with that manure. Grandpaw gave me some Heirloom giant tomato seeds. I lived in an apartment, made a raised container bed and planted those tomatoes, along with a bunch of manure from my other grandfather's farm. Them vines went nuts, climbed over the top of the apartment, like twelve feet high. Tomatoes the size of softballs, tasted just like shit.