A little Physical Gold and Silver if you can swing it. A Gun and some Ammo if you don’t have one already. You maybe able to do without depending on how rural and close knit your community is. Probably a couple 40 packs of Bottled Water. Not necessarily ideal but if you don’t have any other means. Certainly would buy time before resorting to Dirty Water.
Get some Rice and assorted Canned Goods. A decent bulk bag of rice can last a while if properly stored. And it can be used to stretch any canned goods. Canned Goods unless it specifically says to cook it can also be eaten out of the can cold. Won’t necessarily taste the best. But I digress.
I’d suggest flour but ground flour can be a bit of a touchy thing to store long term. And The wheat berries used to make flour will keep. But they aren’t particularly useful without a grain mill.
Also Booze. The cheaper the better. Can be used as disinfectant in a pinch and to barter.
If your outside a heavily urban area. I’d suggest some manual tools. Axe, Shovel, Pick, Hoe etc. Chain Saw and Gas powered tools are great. Until the gas runs out.
Personally I don’t foresee any long term permanent interruption. Probably a couple weeks at most before some degree of normalcy resumes at least as far as the deliveries of gas and goods to stores is concerned.
I live in an apartment on the edge of downtown, my parents live only 10 minutes from me in suburbia, and our close relatives live in down south 30 minutes from downtown in one of the newest housing developments. If I have to scuttle from the chaos downtown for a couple weeks, I have 2 immediate locations I can run to
Rice and beans as well, but airtight buckets aren't always airtight. Get a women's hair straightener (looks like a curling iron with 2 flat pieces) and different sized mylar bags, and some oxygen absorbers. Think before you choose which bags to seal your stuff in - 5 gallons of rice probably isn't the best idea but 5 one-gallon bags of rice is ok. Keep the sealed stuff in the "airtight buckets". Won't matter if they leak if you mylar seal the stuff. This also works if you don't have the time or space to freeze your grain first as long as your oxygen absorbers are the right size to remove the air from the sealed bags.
Also get coffee. Some people say get the beans, but I just got Folgers instant. I put it in mason jars (small and normal) with oxygen absorbers, and I also used my foodsaver jar sealing attachment to be safe. The small jars I set aside for trading - people will want their coffee. I suggest also doing the same with rice so you don't have to break into buckets and bags right away.
(Edited - forgot to add) Make sure you label your buckets, bags, and even mason jars (so you don't mix up say powdered gravy and cinnamon). You don't want to be opening stuff just to see what you have. Make an inventory. I have a spreadsheet along with the labels, and my sheet lists buy and expire dates, calories, and protein.
A little Physical Gold and Silver if you can swing it. A Gun and some Ammo if you don’t have one already. You maybe able to do without depending on how rural and close knit your community is. Probably a couple 40 packs of Bottled Water. Not necessarily ideal but if you don’t have any other means. Certainly would buy time before resorting to Dirty Water.
Get some Rice and assorted Canned Goods. A decent bulk bag of rice can last a while if properly stored. And it can be used to stretch any canned goods. Canned Goods unless it specifically says to cook it can also be eaten out of the can cold. Won’t necessarily taste the best. But I digress.
I’d suggest flour but ground flour can be a bit of a touchy thing to store long term. And The wheat berries used to make flour will keep. But they aren’t particularly useful without a grain mill.
Also Booze. The cheaper the better. Can be used as disinfectant in a pinch and to barter.
If your outside a heavily urban area. I’d suggest some manual tools. Axe, Shovel, Pick, Hoe etc. Chain Saw and Gas powered tools are great. Until the gas runs out.
Personally I don’t foresee any long term permanent interruption. Probably a couple weeks at most before some degree of normalcy resumes at least as far as the deliveries of gas and goods to stores is concerned.
Great ideas. I'm pretty good on the foods. Will do the others. TY
I live in an apartment on the edge of downtown, my parents live only 10 minutes from me in suburbia, and our close relatives live in down south 30 minutes from downtown in one of the newest housing developments. If I have to scuttle from the chaos downtown for a couple weeks, I have 2 immediate locations I can run to
Put your flour in the freezer for 48 hours to kill any weevil eggs, then store it in airtight buckets.
Rice and beans as well, but airtight buckets aren't always airtight. Get a women's hair straightener (looks like a curling iron with 2 flat pieces) and different sized mylar bags, and some oxygen absorbers. Think before you choose which bags to seal your stuff in - 5 gallons of rice probably isn't the best idea but 5 one-gallon bags of rice is ok. Keep the sealed stuff in the "airtight buckets". Won't matter if they leak if you mylar seal the stuff. This also works if you don't have the time or space to freeze your grain first as long as your oxygen absorbers are the right size to remove the air from the sealed bags.
Also get coffee. Some people say get the beans, but I just got Folgers instant. I put it in mason jars (small and normal) with oxygen absorbers, and I also used my foodsaver jar sealing attachment to be safe. The small jars I set aside for trading - people will want their coffee. I suggest also doing the same with rice so you don't have to break into buckets and bags right away.
(Edited - forgot to add) Make sure you label your buckets, bags, and even mason jars (so you don't mix up say powdered gravy and cinnamon). You don't want to be opening stuff just to see what you have. Make an inventory. I have a spreadsheet along with the labels, and my sheet lists buy and expire dates, calories, and protein.
Organized prepper. Kudos