Start collecting information and buying books on what to forage in your local area and start practicing this summer. There is no guarantee, but you might need it next year even is just a dietary supplement to what you can pick up in the grocery store. Plus even if you don't need it, it's a cool skill to have and there's tons of stuff that you can make that is very useful regardless of whether or not anything bad happens.
There are plenty of weeds that are super nutritious and that are kind of ridiculous to call weeds considering the amount of nutrition that's available in them.
For example, wild chamomile grows through the cracks in sidewalks. I wouldn't eat or make tea from chamomile that was growing anywhere near where vehicles are running or were people might have polluted, but I bring it up to prove a point.
Book recommendations:
- the Boreal herbal
- food plants of the interior first Peoples
- edible and medicinal plants of Canada
- wild berries of Ontario
- wild edible mushrooms of Ontario
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What are you doing in 25 years when you run out and even then what kind of life do you want to live; eating stale food? And before you say you can do things that will keep it from going stale remember what they say about the best laid plans.
The best nutrition is the freshest nutrition, doesn't hurt anything to learn what you can eat in your local environment.
IKR, top kek.
Rice and beans is Plan D for me. Also, I'm going to use it between the "good stuff" so the good stuff lasts a little further.
Notice I said “also” not “or”…
The point of 25 year beans is that if you bought some 10 years ago you don't have to throw them out because "The Event" hasn't happened yet. Duh.
I agree, I'd be lost without some type of fresh plant to eat. have always been that way, so wouldn't want to 'subsist' on just rice either. been trying to think of ways to preserve vegetables so they don't lose their crunch. the Mexican restaurants pickle the carrots, so I might try that, keep a few jars around.