I've read countless prepping articles, I'm not sure I need another link to a prepping blog. I'm am more interested in knowing what my extremely smart anons are doing for prepping. An article might say I only need two weeks of food or 2 years of food, but realistically based on the political data gathered from this forum, is 3 months of food enough or too much? Is a couple cases of bullets enough or is more needed?
What prepping supplies and how much prepping supplies do YOU guys have considering that some food prepping makes sense but I doubt that things will be so bad that we need a years supply of food.
Thank you everyone!!! I'm just a worried father of 3 youngins trying to prep with a somewhat limited budget.
Also should I take out all my money from my bank and put it in a credit union or is it smarter to have it at my house because credit unions might not be accessible or might go under too?
Aim for dried food. There is no guarantee that the West will not suffer the power shortages the UK and Europe are. Local hardware store or just google - food grade buckets with lids. We have oats, rice, pasta, flour, sugar, beans, salt, etc. stored. Have for many years. The buckets should be lined with MYLAR BAGS, fill to near top, drop in oxygen absorbers and seal with hot iron. Instructions on Ytube. Once bags are sealed the oxygen absorbers will do their job. Then put the lid on correctly, label and date it. In some cases these staples can last 20 years.
If you go on PINTEREST people have created tables to show how much food for say 2 adults and 2 children for 2 weeks up to 2 years.
Oh, and don't put oxygen absorbers in the sugar unless you like having to chisel it apart.
Or salt. 😀. But in general. You learn that as you go along. There was a series of videos that I followed years ago about this one family, but there was the Mum and Dad, the 2 sons and wives and daughters and their husbands etc. that shopped big at a Amish market. They had car loads of produce and they had a day of just dividing up the items they purchased in bulk and breaking them into the family lots, then into the buckets. They did a canning day too. Many hands make light work.
Keep a rotation of fresh water jugs going so you can make the rice and have fluid.
We are lucky in Australia. Every new home going back 15 years must have a water tank. But as time went by, it became obvious to install one even if your home was a hundred years old. 100 years ago every home had a corrugated iron tank, then some bright spark on council said to pull them down. Decades later they are back and come in all shapes and sizes and colours. They are poly tanks these days. We have ours on a ‘tank stand’ and the water off the roof via the gutter. We’re capped it off as we are getting flooding rains and this water just goes down the stormwater pipes. Such waste. We could have an inland sea if our politicians had brains, but it flows to the sea and is wasted. It would open up our outback which is arid but as it is in Australia, flooding rains then drought, but before that the bushfires. We’re on the east coast and we normally have high winds in August but they are roaring atm. drying out our land, come summer it will be a tinderbox.
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