If you’re broke and need SOMETHING buy a 10 pound bag of rice, 10 pound bag of pinto beans, chicken broth cubes, and whatever preference of canned goods. You can easily put this in the back of your pantry for 2 years without touching any of it and your total price will be around $20
This is for desperate measures only and not preferred stocking up. Water will be your number one concern. At least 1 gallon per person per day. Prepare water for 2 weeks. Propane is also essential. 2 bottles of small propane for 4-8 dollars to cook/heat. Well worth buying and storing.
Those are nice! I’m well prepared and live out in the boonies with overbearing family members that keep buying me propane bottles for some reason lol. I’ve also seen some that are “smokeless and odorless” grills but they’re pretty high value 300-500.
By week 3 or 4 when people are desperate for food and they smell you cooking outside, they will show up for it.
Don't cook smelly food. Also, don't cook when the wind is blowing. If you must cook something that smells, cook it around 3AM when no one else is awake. Then you can just warm it up the next day and eat. A sun oven is a free way to cook a lot of things. I wouldn't use a grill at all, at least for a long time and things get more settled after a collapse.
Instead of the broth cubes, you can get large bags of the same stuff in loose powder form in the Mexican section of the grocery store. I have stored some. It is good for flavoring any kind of noodles. It's similar to the powder in ramen noodles.
Buy a gas stove to replace your electric one and have a large propane tank installed. The ovens won't work without electricity in the new gas stoves, but you can use the burners by holding a lit match to one and turning on the gas. I've had to do that in the past.
Luckily, I live in eastern NC, where you can't go a mile without crossing a river, creek, or swamp. There's also plenty of rain that I can catch and store.
I've never noticed different kinds. I thought all of it came from China. That's why I have stocked up on American made noodles and powdered chicken bouillon.
The things you don’t even think about b/c they’re just “there” and taken for granted. Storing that info away in the “things to know during the apocalypse” file. 😉
Get tinned fish too. Full of good things. For water, buy bottles, but also prepare to catch run off and buy/make a water purifier. There's plenty of vids that show how to do that, and how to make a simple wood burning stove.
Lentils are better than pintos. Pintos have tons of lectins in them which are stressful on the kidneys. Lentils have very little. If you soak them in water with baking soda it pulls most them out. This works for all beans
If you’re broke and need SOMETHING buy a 10 pound bag of rice, 10 pound bag of pinto beans, chicken broth cubes, and whatever preference of canned goods. You can easily put this in the back of your pantry for 2 years without touching any of it and your total price will be around $20 This is for desperate measures only and not preferred stocking up. Water will be your number one concern. At least 1 gallon per person per day. Prepare water for 2 weeks. Propane is also essential. 2 bottles of small propane for 4-8 dollars to cook/heat. Well worth buying and storing.
I would recommend this for cooking using biofuel instead of propane. Most people can get virtually unlimited sticks around where they live…
https://ecozoom.com/
Those are nice! I’m well prepared and live out in the boonies with overbearing family members that keep buying me propane bottles for some reason lol. I’ve also seen some that are “smokeless and odorless” grills but they’re pretty high value 300-500.
By week 3 or 4 when people are desperate for food and they smell you cooking outside, they will show up for it.
people can be useful
Don't cook smelly food. Also, don't cook when the wind is blowing. If you must cook something that smells, cook it around 3AM when no one else is awake. Then you can just warm it up the next day and eat. A sun oven is a free way to cook a lot of things. I wouldn't use a grill at all, at least for a long time and things get more settled after a collapse.
Yes, that was my worry too. More people showing up than you can feed.
I have a home made rocket stove for just in case. Daughter is a welder.
You can make hobo stoves from coffee cans.
Yes, but where do I get the coffee cans?
Instead of the broth cubes, you can get large bags of the same stuff in loose powder form in the Mexican section of the grocery store. I have stored some. It is good for flavoring any kind of noodles. It's similar to the powder in ramen noodles.
Buy a gas stove to replace your electric one and have a large propane tank installed. The ovens won't work without electricity in the new gas stoves, but you can use the burners by holding a lit match to one and turning on the gas. I've had to do that in the past.
Luckily, I live in eastern NC, where you can't go a mile without crossing a river, creek, or swamp. There's also plenty of rain that I can catch and store.
I've never noticed different kinds. I thought all of it came from China. That's why I have stocked up on American made noodles and powdered chicken bouillon.
In dire situations, remember most homes have a 40 gallon hot water tank that can be drained at the bottom.
The things you don’t even think about b/c they’re just “there” and taken for granted. Storing that info away in the “things to know during the apocalypse” file. 😉
Get tinned fish too. Full of good things. For water, buy bottles, but also prepare to catch run off and buy/make a water purifier. There's plenty of vids that show how to do that, and how to make a simple wood burning stove.
Just a friendly reminder that those disposable plastic water bottles are not good long-term storage. Get some food-grade container like this: https://www.amazon.com/Emergency-Water-Storage-Gallon-Tank/dp/B07YLYQG2L
Also keep a little bleach on-hand for disinfecting it.
Lentils are better than pintos. Pintos have tons of lectins in them which are stressful on the kidneys. Lentils have very little. If you soak them in water with baking soda it pulls most them out. This works for all beans