I hope everyone's stockpiled food so they can feed their family when the grocery store shelves are empty.
Just buy extra of what you normally consume, stuff like: cans of baked beans and stew and chili con carne and canned soup and vegetables, ramen noodles, LOTS of rice, pasta, long life milk and milk powder, breakfast cereal like Weetabix, instant coffee, pasta sauce and stir-fry sauce, canned meats like tuna and sausages, sugar and seasoning. Buy LOTS of peanut butter because emergency breadlines will happen after the grocery store shelves are empty and a peanut butter sandwiches will make a satisfying meal when your family is hungry. Serve everything with rice or pasta for extra carbs. Bakes beans become a poor-man's chili con carne if you mix in cumin and chili powder and serve it on rice.
Keep your plastic fizzy drink bottles - wash them out and store water in them. This will save your life if the water supply is interrupted.
Ensure you have at least one battery powered or hand-crank torch and plenty of long-life tealight candles. Normal cheap tealights will burn for over two hours but the taller and more expensive ones will burn for up to nine hours. Put the tealights in short drinking glasses (whisky glasses) for safety.
another tip for lighting is to get the cheap, outdoor solar lights. Keep them outside during the day to charge, and then bring them inside at night to use as lighting. They don't produce much heat and are safer than candles (and re-usable!).
Learn how to pressure can meat, storing away protein will be important when it is too expensive or non-existent at the grocery store. Learn to make bread, and store away basic ingredients like bread flour, salt, sugar, oil, and yeast. Plant a garden, even if you only produce a couple of tomatoes and a cucumber, you are 1 step closer to not depending on the system. There is a learning curve to gardening, so start now.
Think about what life would be like without power, running water, sewer, etc. How would you get water, how would you use the bathroom, how would you dispose of waste?
I hope everyone's stockpiled food so they can feed their family when the grocery store shelves are empty.
Just buy extra of what you normally consume, stuff like: cans of baked beans and stew and chili con carne and canned soup and vegetables, ramen noodles, LOTS of rice, pasta, long life milk and milk powder, breakfast cereal like Weetabix, instant coffee, pasta sauce and stir-fry sauce, canned meats like tuna and sausages, sugar and seasoning. Buy LOTS of peanut butter because emergency breadlines will happen after the grocery store shelves are empty and a peanut butter sandwiches will make a satisfying meal when your family is hungry. Serve everything with rice or pasta for extra carbs. Bakes beans become a poor-man's chili con carne if you mix in cumin and chili powder and serve it on rice.
Keep your plastic fizzy drink bottles - wash them out and store water in them. This will save your life if the water supply is interrupted.
Ensure you have at least one battery powered or hand-crank torch and plenty of long-life tealight candles. Normal cheap tealights will burn for over two hours but the taller and more expensive ones will burn for up to nine hours. Put the tealights in short drinking glasses (whisky glasses) for safety.
Better have plenty of lead and be ready to use it. The joggers will be out in force if they think food is short and you have some.
I just moved from Jogger Central (DC) to a jogging-free zone in NC. Glorious. Also been 92 days since I've seen a burka.
another tip for lighting is to get the cheap, outdoor solar lights. Keep them outside during the day to charge, and then bring them inside at night to use as lighting. They don't produce much heat and are safer than candles (and re-usable!).
Learn how to pressure can meat, storing away protein will be important when it is too expensive or non-existent at the grocery store. Learn to make bread, and store away basic ingredients like bread flour, salt, sugar, oil, and yeast. Plant a garden, even if you only produce a couple of tomatoes and a cucumber, you are 1 step closer to not depending on the system. There is a learning curve to gardening, so start now.
Think about what life would be like without power, running water, sewer, etc. How would you get water, how would you use the bathroom, how would you dispose of waste?