Guns, bullets and more bullets.

Medical supplies: I know someone who works in a hospital. (me)

Radio, flash lights and batteries

Generator, extension cords and half dozen 5 gallons cans of gasoline: keep the food in your freezer from going bad.

Stock pile flour, sugar: I repacked mine in mylar bags and oxygen absorbers. I have had flour and sugar stored in mylar since Obama was in office. I opened a bag the other day and it was fresh as new. This is how they offer you 25 year shelf emergency food.

Bottled water: or you can get something called a water bob, it goes in your bathtub, it is a 100 gallon bag you can fill up, it comes with a pump to pump the water out.

Places like Costco sells canned chicken, you can get 6 cans wrapped in plastic for a decent price. I had some that were expiring soon, the wife has been feeding it to the stray cats in the neighborhood.

I also stocked up on 25 year shelf life food from the site below.

https://www.mypatriotsupply.com/collections/case-pack-food-pouches

I got some of the basic stuff I knew my kids would eat. If you buy the bundles, it seems like you get a bunch of stuff you would never use.

I have tried these, the flavor is not bad.

Homestyle Potato Soup

Spaghetti

Honey Wheat Bread

Buttermilk Pancake

Mashed Potatoes

Creamy Chicken Flavored Rice

Creamy Stroganoff

Mac & Cheese Case

Last night I water bathed 10 quarts of salsa. Few days ago I water bather 5 quarts of dill pickles and 10 pints of sweet pickles. I cut the sweet pickles into thick chunks and added a little cayenne pepper, onions and peppers to give them a kick, they are so delicious.

I still have tomato sauce and spaghetti sauce that I canned from last year.

I have about 20 zucchini in my garage, I will start making blueberry walnut zucchini bread soon, I usually make like 20 loaves and freeze them.

I will pick my carrots and beets soon, peel, dice and freeze. Freeze them on a cookie sheet and then bag them, keeps them from sticking together.

I cut down all my kale few weeks ago, washed and crammed the leaves really tight into gallon size bags, prevents freezer burn. I cut off a piece and put it in my smoothies.

I make apple butter and apple pie filling from my apple trees.

I planted 2 more apple this year along with 2 peach trees, 2 blue berry bushes and a cherry tree. They are doing well, hoping they make it through the winter.

My corn is still not ready yet, I am hoping i got them in the ground soon enough. The first batch of corn I planted this year didn't come up, must have bought some bad seeds.

Been eating coleslaw from my cabbage plants, putting it in my smoothies as well. I have like 10 heads of cabbage this year. I don't remember planting that many.

I keep frozen sliced bread in the freezer. It will stay good for couple months, just rotate when you buy new.

Peanut Butter, jelly, noodles, dog and cat food, mayo, canned veggies.

I buy only chicken and beef that is vacuum packed, prevents freezer burn.

Frozen veggies.

I have 10 chickens also, they provide more eggs than I could ever eat. I am stocked up on 4 months worth of chicken food most of the time.

It takes a lot of work if you want to do it right and cover all the bases, good luck to ya!!!

Don't go down the prepackaged emergency meals road- unless you have money to burn.

Try Amazon or ebay for dried bulk beans and canned food. Free shipping is glorious. Beans store very well but look out for rodents.

Water- don't count on tap water or a well. If the grid is down so are city pumps. Get a big berkey water filter. Drink pool water. Creeks ponds.

Fire- some way to boil water. Firewood. Blocks, a cooking grate for pans and pots and 2 million waterproof matches.

Shot gun and a buttload of buckshot. Word gets out if you have food so buy tons of really cheap food to give away so you don't have to shoot everyone.

That's just starter advice. You can take it as far as you want.

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Gain 50 pounds of fat. Lasts for a long time and you have it wherever you go.

Chickens, goats, cows.

Our hope is the SHTF doesn’t last years.

My fear in August is that the AC goes off. Damn it’s hot.

I find that Dollar General is where to locate your canned Roast Beef and Gravy. At one time this was the only store I could find it. It is also cheaper to buy the 2 or 4 can pack of chicken breasts at Walmart. Make sure to check all USED BY or SELL BY dates on the cans. I mark mine with a black Sharpie or Magic Marker before storing them in FIFO. Also Dollar Tree Shelf Stable Milk is as good a bargain as you can get (IF) you absolutely need that fresh milk taste. Again, check the Use By date and mark. For packaged goods like Muffin Mix, Gravy Mix, Instant Potatoes and such, I store those in a plastic seal tote for extra air tight seal. Again, don't forget to FIFO (first in first out) and mark the dates. Happy Prepping.

I made a spreadsheet to track several data points.

• Calories per dollar * I excluded fiber from the calorie count
• Calories per pound
• Protein per dollar
• How much water needed to cook it
• How many pounds I have in inventory
• Total calories in inventory.

Maybe there's an app to do that, but I don't trust phones.

Here are some things I found from my spreadsheet:

• The cheapest (healthy?) calories are white rice.
• Next, sugar, flour and high sugar foods like cookies.
• Dried beans have less net calories per lb than rice due to their fiber and cost more per lb. They are still a good food to store.
• Nuts and dairy give more calories per dollar than canned meat, but have reduced shelf life.
• You will want some foods that are expensive per calorie like meat, fish, cod liver oil, yeast flakes, fruit etc. Spam was one of the cheaper meats when I did the calculations in 2020.

It's worth checking "dollar" stores, restaurant supply stores

We don't that much protein? http://www.fatfree.com/FAQ/protein-myths

Download an offline copy of Wikipedia and other sites with Kiwix. https://greatawakening.win/p/140cNWK90K/kiwix-download-gutenbergs-public/ You may also want a pdf package like that linked by Dreadnought. You may have an old phone or computer to dedicate to this. Store it in a Faraday cage. Just get a small metal garbage can with a tight fitting lid and line it with an insulating material, maybe cardboard. Label it so you or others know that it's worth charging up that device.

Make sure you have plenty of WATER. And you need to have fuel to cook all the food. A pressure cooker can save fuel. And maybe some paper plates to avoid using water to wash dishes.

A somewhat overlooked aspect of prepping is drinking water. Buy yourself a collapsible rain barrel and some purification tablets as well as some means to filter the water. I bought a gazillion coffee filters for this. And make sure you can access firewood to boil water. Buy an axe, hatchet and machete at the very least.

I have 3 50 pound bags of rice I got at Costco. Noodles and ramen, spaghetti sauce. Peanut butter and crackers. I have a dutch oven for baking. Flour too. You can make sourdough bread and all you need is a fire and a stick to wrap the dough around.

As for meat, I have 2 chest freezers and a standup freezer. I am a hunter and fisherman too. I also have a smokehouse and make my own sausage. So meat for us isnt a problem. But I have bought about a months supply of canned tuna and chicken and some canned corn beef and spam (my wife likes these...yuck).

If you expect to do a bit of trading, stock up in tobacco, even, or expecially, if you don't smoke (if you don't smoke, the stash will last for a decade, no problem). It's amazing what people will happily trade for a some smokes.

Same with medical supplies: get extra supplies of everything, OTC or mail-order, some people (even family) might desperately need aspirin, or ivermectin etc.

Whey powder (Body-builders like it) is super compact and can be stored for a couple of years. This is useful when nearly starving, or sick. (it was used as a remedy for convalescence in Culpeper days, sometimes it is the only thing that will stay down). Find the one with no added soy or yuck sweeteners. You can get good clean ones, with chocolate or vanilla flavor, whih helps, as it is pretty tasteless otherwise. I dunno if this company will ship overseas, but shout out to https://www.nothingnaughty.kiwi.nz/. The product is made in the Waikato dairy country - grass-fed.

With food and gasoline and other perishables, ROTATING STOCK (newest at the front) and culling the no-longer-reasonably-useful is a constant job.

I have a bunch of buckets from this source.

https://augasonfarms.com/collections/emergency-kits-coming-soon

Water is very important. I keep 6 months worth on hand for me, my wife, three dogs and two cats. You will want to make sure you're getting all the nutrients you need and too much of something from such a narrow diet. Freeze dried food is generally considered the most shelf stable and nutritious. It's expensive and requires rehydration. Canned might leave holes in your nutrient profile but it's cheap and lasts years. Maybe consider a multivitamin. Bags if beans and rice are cheap but maybe harder to store long term and very bland and again you'll become nutrient deficient from such a narrow diet. Only you can know your needs but in addition to six months of water we keep six months of dog and cat food. Nine months of freeze dried food buckets under beds. 12 gallons of alcohol fuel - it burns super clean and has an indefinite shelf life.

Our goal is to be able to lock the gate and stay home for 6 months in a grid down scenario. Think about how long you'll be on survival resources, in what conditions and calculate how much each individual needs. The longer you go the more money you need. Start right now, prepping is a process and you will need to budget, buying a bit each pay check or monthly.

Aldi's has some great affordable canned foods. Also CostCo

Food 4 patriots, fuel and a penny, real money, security tools and a network of like minded people. But mostly... study God's Word amd believe it. Best prep of all.

Matt 6:34

Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

Chickens, garden/green house, pool.

Check out “Field Craft Survival” on YouTube.

Take your daily life right now and stock up on it for at least a 2-week time frame. Canned goods, dry good, cooking oil, fuel, batteries (I get the 100 pack AA and AAAs), propane bottles for a grill like 4 bottles, yes guns and ammo for self-defense, also a couple of radios and at least one that has shortwave/SSB single sideband capabilities. Any emergency that will have widespread outages will only last a few weeks. I'm not prepping for the apocalypse because I don't think that's a realistic scenario, and if that does happen it's a whole new ballgame. If it's a cyber thing, I would suggest you have 30 days of ready cash because CC processing will not work, nor will ATM's.

Buy Spam, love me some Spam