Everyone should download their free copy of the LDS Preparedness Manual. It is an extremely thorough analysis of this topic.
Believe what you will about the LDS faith, but they are miles away from everyone else here. They're all supposed to have a 6-month food supply minimum, and many have way more than that.
There's some good "lessons learned" in there from Katrina when the Feds went door to door and started confiscating firearms, if you haven't gotten to that part yet.
Probably 80-90% of my liquid intake is coffee in the morning/afternoon and beer in the evening. I would make a terrible Mormon but will take good advice wherever I can find it.
I think you might be better off with a proper manual, but honestly, I don't think you even need a 6 month supply.
I honestly think most people who live in not crazy parts of America will be fine with 1 month supply of groceries just in reserve.
If there's lockdowns and Leftists in government, this is a whole different story.
I honestly think you should have $1,000 in cash in case banking restrictions come up. Gold and silver are fine for me to preserve my wealth, but for a while, I won't be able to trade in silver until more people start to have to adopt it.
I agree that most people probably don't need 6 months of food if they're operating under the assumption that their access to grocery stores may be temporarily interrupted but not permanently restricted.
I have a few months' supply of mostly dry goods as well as a good supply of meat in a garage freezer, but I live in a somewhat remote area where I was trying to account for severe weather preventing me from leaving the house combined with a sustained power outage due to the severe weather (which happens every year but on a shorter term basis).
Other things people need to consider are: can you cook your food, can you keep your food from spoiling (eg. if it's in a fridge or freezer), and can you stay warm in the winter? Important for people with electric heat and stoves.
Cash is always good. I also suspect you could barter with booze since stressful situations like that are more pleasant if you're a bit buzzed and people don't usually have large supplies of it like they might food. Something you won't learn from the Mormons.
I'd personally buy a lot of those little duty free bottles. Like you said, good as tradable commodities, but also as a rudimentary medicine so it's right up there with ammunition as far as cash and precious metals alternatives go.
Even cheap bottles of wine: crack one of those open and fun for the whole family. Doesn't work as a disinfectant, but it does work as long-term water storage.
Been black-pilled for awhile. I had a website that I posted to 100's of times a month for 5 years. I preached.
Now my only comment to others is "prepare your family for chaos".
The globalist pedal is to the metal now, as they will never allow a Trump to occur again and now that they got away with what they did the last 4-5 years, there is nothing holding them back.
For what it is worth, I think a secure and clean water source is the first priority along with shelter from potentially very bad events in the near future.
Otherwise, you can purchase canned food, prep packs, or do some canning of your own. You can also hunt and fish (learning those skills may be very, very important depending on where you live). I would assume at least 1,500 calories per day per person. So, I would estimate about 550,000 calories per person.
Getting in good shape is something that I would advise to everyone, and learn what skills you can along with your local geography.
Most of these is either population control or Chronic Wasting Disease where it eats them inside out and the meat is highly contaminated for human consumption. This shit had been a thing for years... before this current hysteria
A rain water collection system feeding into a mostly buried and tarped 1k litre IBC makes for a decent supply of water depending on where you live. It'll still need to be filtered but that's easy enough to set up with a decent pump, tubing and charcoal, ceramic and uv filters.
Buy some of those huge multivitamin jars so you can eat a shitty diet and not get scurvy or other diseases. Multivitamin won't always give you enough to cover a real deficit, but will be enough that you can get by.
If your intent is to be totally independent for food supply for 2022 and beyond, then a stockpile just isn't going to cut it, you can only save food for so long. Get to gardening and preservation. That's probably far and away the easiest part and you can get a lot out of a not all that big garden. It's not even that long lost of an art, I used to get vegetables and home-canned stuff from grandparents and great-grandparents all the time. I tried a little bit of it in the summer, as I usually grow a very small garden with nothing more than the easy-to-grow items and there's always too much of it. It's crazy easy to do and just from my tiny garden I've got a few jars each of pickles, peppers, and squash.
It's crazy easy to do and just from my tiny garden I've got a few jars each of pickles, peppers, and squash.
It's really satisfying getting to plate and serve the things you grow, too. I've gotten a ton of tomatoes this summer and wouldn't you believe it I'm still getting tomatoes! It's mid-November and the tomato plants just aren't wanting to give up! They've been good for eating raw, putting into the things I cook..
This is my 2nd year tending to one now and I wish I started years ago. Moreover, I wish I gardened with my Granddad. He'd tend a big one every summer and I helped a few times but kid-me thought it was boring and wanted to get back to playing his video games instead. Now I'm into gardening and he's so old and weak he can't garden anymore.
We get to talk about it, at least. And most importantly I know of one more thing I'm going to have my future children do that I didn't do when I was a kid!
Everyone should download their free copy of the LDS Preparedness Manual. It is an extremely thorough analysis of this topic.
Believe what you will about the LDS faith, but they are miles away from everyone else here. They're all supposed to have a 6-month food supply minimum, and many have way more than that.
There's some good "lessons learned" in there from Katrina when the Feds went door to door and started confiscating firearms, if you haven't gotten to that part yet.
So many boating accidents 😢
Probably 80-90% of my liquid intake is coffee in the morning/afternoon and beer in the evening. I would make a terrible Mormon but will take good advice wherever I can find it.
I think you might be better off with a proper manual, but honestly, I don't think you even need a 6 month supply.
I honestly think most people who live in not crazy parts of America will be fine with 1 month supply of groceries just in reserve.
If there's lockdowns and Leftists in government, this is a whole different story.
I honestly think you should have $1,000 in cash in case banking restrictions come up. Gold and silver are fine for me to preserve my wealth, but for a while, I won't be able to trade in silver until more people start to have to adopt it.
I agree that most people probably don't need 6 months of food if they're operating under the assumption that their access to grocery stores may be temporarily interrupted but not permanently restricted.
I have a few months' supply of mostly dry goods as well as a good supply of meat in a garage freezer, but I live in a somewhat remote area where I was trying to account for severe weather preventing me from leaving the house combined with a sustained power outage due to the severe weather (which happens every year but on a shorter term basis).
Other things people need to consider are: can you cook your food, can you keep your food from spoiling (eg. if it's in a fridge or freezer), and can you stay warm in the winter? Important for people with electric heat and stoves.
Cash is always good. I also suspect you could barter with booze since stressful situations like that are more pleasant if you're a bit buzzed and people don't usually have large supplies of it like they might food. Something you won't learn from the Mormons.
Yeah, I agree with all of this.
I'd personally buy a lot of those little duty free bottles. Like you said, good as tradable commodities, but also as a rudimentary medicine so it's right up there with ammunition as far as cash and precious metals alternatives go.
Even cheap bottles of wine: crack one of those open and fun for the whole family. Doesn't work as a disinfectant, but it does work as long-term water storage.
What's wrong with the one linked above? The manual, I mean. If you have a better one to share, please do.
its a thick read but the us army provides docs and stuff on survial for those unable to find it for some reason here is a link to a site where you can dl a pdf copy https://pdfroom.com/books/the-ultimate-guide-to-us-army-survival-skills-tactics-and-techniques/JzydDP01d14
if you perfer visual on youtube there is corporal's corner and survival skills primitive
Been black-pilled for awhile. I had a website that I posted to 100's of times a month for 5 years. I preached.
Now my only comment to others is "prepare your family for chaos".
The globalist pedal is to the metal now, as they will never allow a Trump to occur again and now that they got away with what they did the last 4-5 years, there is nothing holding them back.
For what it is worth, I think a secure and clean water source is the first priority along with shelter from potentially very bad events in the near future.
Otherwise, you can purchase canned food, prep packs, or do some canning of your own. You can also hunt and fish (learning those skills may be very, very important depending on where you live). I would assume at least 1,500 calories per day per person. So, I would estimate about 550,000 calories per person.
Getting in good shape is something that I would advise to everyone, and learn what skills you can along with your local geography.
Most of these is either population control or Chronic Wasting Disease where it eats them inside out and the meat is highly contaminated for human consumption. This shit had been a thing for years... before this current hysteria
Nothing would surprise me at this point.
Mark my words, every mammal on earth is going to be sacrificed for these psychopaths.
A rain water collection system feeding into a mostly buried and tarped 1k litre IBC makes for a decent supply of water depending on where you live. It'll still need to be filtered but that's easy enough to set up with a decent pump, tubing and charcoal, ceramic and uv filters.
2000 calories / day / person.
Buy some of those huge multivitamin jars so you can eat a shitty diet and not get scurvy or other diseases. Multivitamin won't always give you enough to cover a real deficit, but will be enough that you can get by.
Iodine is important to have as well, which a multivitamin will also provide if you don't use iodized salt.
Chlorine and bleach as well for disinfectant and water purification
Take 2 Multis and you should have the bare minimum you need to avoid illness. Vit C too since a lot of Multis don't have it.
If your intent is to be totally independent for food supply for 2022 and beyond, then a stockpile just isn't going to cut it, you can only save food for so long. Get to gardening and preservation. That's probably far and away the easiest part and you can get a lot out of a not all that big garden. It's not even that long lost of an art, I used to get vegetables and home-canned stuff from grandparents and great-grandparents all the time. I tried a little bit of it in the summer, as I usually grow a very small garden with nothing more than the easy-to-grow items and there's always too much of it. It's crazy easy to do and just from my tiny garden I've got a few jars each of pickles, peppers, and squash.
It's really satisfying getting to plate and serve the things you grow, too. I've gotten a ton of tomatoes this summer and wouldn't you believe it I'm still getting tomatoes! It's mid-November and the tomato plants just aren't wanting to give up! They've been good for eating raw, putting into the things I cook..
This is my 2nd year tending to one now and I wish I started years ago. Moreover, I wish I gardened with my Granddad. He'd tend a big one every summer and I helped a few times but kid-me thought it was boring and wanted to get back to playing his video games instead. Now I'm into gardening and he's so old and weak he can't garden anymore.
We get to talk about it, at least. And most importantly I know of one more thing I'm going to have my future children do that I didn't do when I was a kid!