PLEASE ASSUME YUGE FOOD SHORTAGES ARE COMING

If you're new to prepping and on a budget, I'd stockpile breakfast cereal, long life milk or milk powder, ramen noodles, cans of baked beans or similar such as canned chili con carne or stew and lots of tubs of peanut butter.

If the SHIF and breadlines become the new normal then peanut butter sandwiches can become a perfect high calorie meal with some protein.

Start small and buy enough of ^^^^^^ these items to last your family for two weeks.

DO NOT buy instant coffee or coffee whitener because as much as your instincts compel you, if SHTF you will not care about such luxuries. Even if you have a gas cooker with plenty of gas canisters, I guarantee you won't be wasting gas on luxuries like coffee or tea unless you have invested in solar ovens or if you are trying to comfort children with hot chocolate.

After that, buy a big bag of rice, lots of instant mashed potato powder, some boxes instant gravy powder and invest a $20 into a gas cooker and also buy six gas canisters, a gas lighter, matches, lots of tealight candles, a small battery powered radio, a small battery powered floodlight, some cheap drink coasters and the cheapest whisky glasses you can find...

...now your family can enjoy hot dinners even if the power goes out and you can light candles and listen to the radio which will be FAR superior to having all of your family sitting silently in the dark. Put the tea light candles in the whisky classes and put a coaster under them so the heat doesn't ruin your furniture.

You'll also want to buy some bottled water. If your family drinks fizzy drinks, start collecting those empty bottles and filling them with tap water - you'll need it for washing dishes but it can also be treated... perhaps we'll get to that stage later if people are interested. I recommend adding blue food coloring to treated water so nobody is every confused. If it's not blue then DO NOT drink it.

I can keep going and talk about weapons and fish antibiotics and horse-paste, how to cook perfect rice with almost no heat.

PLEASE ASSUME YUGE FOOD SHORTAGES ARE COMING

If you're new to prepping and on a budget, I'd stockpile breakfast cereal, long life milk or milk powder, ramen noodles, cans of baked beans or similar such as canned chili con carne or stew and lots of tubs of peanut butter.

If the SHIF and breadlines become the new normal then peanut butter sandwiches can become a perfect high calorie meal with some protein.

Start small and buy enough of ^^^^^^ these items to last your family for two weeks.

After that, buy a big bag of rice, lots of instant mashed potato powder, some boxes instant gravy powder and invest a $20 into a gas cooker and also buy six gas canisters, a gas lighter, matches, lots of tealight candles, a small battery powered radio, a small battery powered floodlight, some cheap drink coasters and the cheapest whisky glasses you can find...

...now your family can enjoy hot dinners even if the power goes out and you can light candles and listen to the radio which will be FAR superior to having all of your family sitting silently in the dark. Put the tea light candles in the whisky classes and put a coaster under them so the heat doesn't ruin your furniture.

You'll also want to buy some bottled water. If your family drinks fizzy drinks, start collecting those empty bottles and filling them with tap water - you'll need it for washing dishes but it can also be treated... perhaps we'll get to that stage later if people are interested. I recommend adding blue food coloring to treated water so nobody is every confused. If it's not blue then DO NOT drink it.

I can keep going and talk about weapons and fish antibiotics and horse-paste, how to cook perfect rice with almost no heat.

PLEASE ASSUME YUGE FOOD SHORTAGES ARE COMING

If you're new to prepping and on a budget, I'd stockpile breakfast cereal, long life milk or milk powder, ramen noodles, cans of baked beans or similar such as canned chili con carne or stew and lots of cans of peanut butter.

If the SHIF and breadlines become the new normal then peanut butter sandwiches can become a perfect high calorie meal with some protein.

Start small and buy enough of ^^^^^^ these items to last your family for two weeks.

After that, buy a big bag of rice, lots of instant mashed potato powder, some boxes instant gravy powder and invest a $20 into a gas cooker and also buy six gas canisters, a gas lighter, matches, lots of tealight candles, a small battery powered radio, a small battery powered floodlight, some cheap drink coasters and the cheapest whisky glasses you can find...

...now your family can enjoy hot dinners even if the power goes out and you can light candles and listen to the radio which will be FAR superior to having all of your family sitting silently in the dark. Put the tea light candles in the whisky classes and put a coaster under them so the heat doesn't ruin your furniture.

You'll also want to buy some bottled water. If your family drinks fizzy drinks, start collecting those empty bottles and filling them with tap water - you'll need it for washing dishes but it can also be treated... perhaps we'll get to that stage later if people are interested. I recommend adding blue food coloring to treated water so nobody is every confused. If it's not blue then DO NOT drink it.

I can keep going and talk about weapons and fish antibiotics and horse-paste, how to cook perfect rice with almost no heat.