Shelves are emptying and now prices are about to jump again. This is the moment your crazy prepper friends tried to warn you about. This is your last chance to prepare for the worst.
Guns and ammo: doesn't have to be fancy. Get something you are comfortable hunting and defending yourself with.
Food: canned goods. Anything that has a shelf life longer than 6 months. Hopefully this won't last longer than a few weeks, but hope is not a game plan. Anticipating the worst is.
Warm clothing and blankets: remember the Texas deep freeze? Plan for that times 10 if you want to make it.
That's all basic stuff you can and should get right now... God bless and protect, Frens... We'll make it.
Ooooooo. I've been dehydrating everything all summer. I have a batch of celery and asparagus in there right now. This is just a regular dehydrator, not a super whizbang freeze dryer. Wow. I'm jealous. Don't feel even fractionally guilty!
I love the ease of dehydrating, so much easier than canning and no sweltering kitchen. But if power goes out, it has no effect on the dried items.
The smartest things to stockpile are beans, rice and greens, I think. Going back to the old Recipes for a Small Planet vegetarian cookbook (I'm not a vegetarian but have always like to try new things) are close to complete proteins, especially if you add in some cheese. And they can all be dried so they're easy to store.
You can grow kale outside all winter unless you live at the North Pole. You can also get you a mini hoop house and really keep them going in winter. I grew some one year under a large old fish tank that had cracked. Just prop up one end an inch or so for ventilation.
Half a cord of wood isn't a lot. I hope you can do more. We do all our heating with a pellet stove and a woodstove. Did you see my post about being able to get a permit to cut dead wood if you have a national forest nearby?
If they eat a wide variety of plant foods (eat intelligently), vegans can get complete protein.
In the developed world, it is practically impossible to consume too little protein, unless you are really deficient in calories.
One essential amino acid (not a protein) that vegans cannot get is taurine. Our supplement provides some.
Half a cord of word is a lot for us because of storage space. We have crammed wood into every nook and cranny in our garage and also have a pile of wood sitting out in the weather. We also have a backup generator.
All of our wood sits out in the weather. We throw a tarp over it if it's going to snow but take it off when it clears. We stack some on the back porch or side patio when using the woodstove a lot.