How much food do you have put away?
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jimdana1942
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Zero, none, nada.
flamatrix99
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We have a box of MREs of Gustav but i was thinking of throwing them away... We had 3 but I gave some away.
MRE's have a shelf live of about 5 years if kept cool. 1 MRE is about 1200 calories. My wife and I have made it a habit of each time we go grocery shopping to pick up for the 3 of us 1 canned vegetable, 1 canned fruit, and 1 canned protein. Thats about an extra 20-25 dollars on the bill, and we make sure to buy what we usually use. We've done this for about a year. Once the habit is formed, you dont notice, it just becomes automatic. We also have the rule that if you use a can, you replace it with two.
flamatrix99
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We usually buy extra around hurricane season if a storm looks like it might come our way. Otherwise I don't see a need for it. I don't believe allot of the doom and gloom guys that the world is going to hell and there will be mass riots, ect....
flamatrix99
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We got them from FEMA last year during Gustav.
Extra food is more along the lines of a form of savings account. Its reassuring to know that my family can keep eating if I were to be out of a job for any length of time, or in the case of the highways becoming impassible for whatever reason and those walmart trucks get delayed. So you see no reason to keep a supply of extra ammunition on hand either?
flamatrix99
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I dont have much... Mainly just to plink around..
peacemakr72
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Im new to this forum, been kinda lurking for past month or so. But,,.... I am an avid student of news reports from around the world. There is a large group of educated economists, political scientists and socialologists that are predicting interruption of our food supplies by the middle of this year. I hope they are wrong, but in the event they are right I have followed the Morman code of preparedness..... 1 year supply for your family. I am not in their group but they have this down to a science....
1. 60 lbs rice per adult for a year.
2. 60 lbs pinto beans per......
3. 60 lbs black beans per
4. Salt, Honey.....
5. Water or sport drinks.
Sealed in food grade 5 gal. pails with oxygen chaser packes sealed with a rubber ring seal, stored in climate controlled environment, they should last 20 years.
Add in some canned meat and your good to go.
There is at most a three day food supply in stores across this nation.
Hungry people can do crazy things.... so put your AK AR SKS close to your pantry.
1. 60 lbs rice per adult for a year.
2. 60 lbs pinto beans per......
3. 60 lbs black beans per
4. Salt, Honey.....
5. Water or sport drinks.
Sealed in food grade 5 gal. pails with oxygen chaser packes sealed with a rubber ring seal, stored in climate controlled environment, they should last 20 years.
Add in some canned meat and your good to go.
There is at most a three day food supply in stores across this nation.
Hungry people can do crazy things.... so put your AK AR SKS close to your pantry.
www.providentliving.org is the LDS website, you can find tons of good into on there.
For the question, I've got enough to sustain my family of 5 for over a year, not including livestock and our garden. Without the fresh food, eating will be very boring.
For those of you stockpiling large quantities of beans, might I recommend the LARGEST can of Tony Chacherie's you can get your hands on.
cajungunslinger
*Banned*
I dont have anything right now. But thats because I dont have the space in this tiny apartment.
We probably could live for about a month without hitting the store, with exception of milk. I guess I better add some powdered milk to the back of the pantry for my son.....
We also planted a garden, it is amazingly easy using raised beds and quality soil (compost, manure, peat moss in ours) We have not had any "fruit" yet but most plants look healthy, the only plants we had to replace were cucumbers that got too cold, they didn't freeze but I did not realize they could not take temps of 35f.
We are also trying potatoes of different varieties in containers and Grow bags, let me say the vines took off like wildfire I just hope there are potatoes under the soil.
We also planted a garden, it is amazingly easy using raised beds and quality soil (compost, manure, peat moss in ours) We have not had any "fruit" yet but most plants look healthy, the only plants we had to replace were cucumbers that got too cold, they didn't freeze but I did not realize they could not take temps of 35f.
We are also trying potatoes of different varieties in containers and Grow bags, let me say the vines took off like wildfire I just hope there are potatoes under the soil.
flamatrix99
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I was in Idaho last weekend. We were in a store and they were selling 50 lbs bags of powdered milk! I asked a friend who the hell needs 50 lbs of powdered milk. She explained that the Mormons use it for preparedness. These were huges sacks.. I would have no place to store them.
