Hoping We Won't Need It
 

The wife and I were talking last night about how much better we feel with long storage food and water on hand, and how much we will not mind using and rotating it if it should come to pass that we never need it.

So many will suffer if we ever do need it that we will be delighted to have 'wasted' some money being alarmists while others did the granite counter top waste instead.

And we are getting more of that brown bread. We think we have finally got enough beans, grains, and long storage 'fast food' and are getting comfort food now. It will make it much nicer if we need to use it, and besides, anything bought this year will be cheaper than next year.

Re: Hoping We Won't Need It
 

Funny how folks think of extra food that 'might' go bad ( and I opened a can of Del Monte kernnel corn the other day from our stash, dated 1995...it was just fine ) as wasted, but year after year pay house, car, and other insurances and never have a claim......"Just in case".

:D

Edit: It's GOT to have something to do with the fact they've seen houses burn, and cars wreck....but never seen a grocery store with every shelf empty.

But they just might down the road.

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AMforPM,
My wife and I totally agree with you and your wife about the long storage of food. Besides the last two years of precious metals preps, we started to get serious about food preps six months ago. We bought a vacuum sealer and it's been great to pack the beans, rice, salt, flour, sugar,,etc..for long term storage. We been also buying extra 5 gallon jugs for water, about twice of month. I've also been working on the guns and ammo side of the preps. I need to start to spending some time on renewable energy sources. (solar generator, wind generator) I have a small 5000 watt generator with 20 gallons of fuel already.

Frosty:coolbeer:

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I live in hurricane country, I've seen dry gas stations and empty grocery stores. You would not believe how quickly everything can sell out. One of the first things we did when my wife and I got married was put back some food. Of course now we can produce food of our own, which is a whole nother level. Most of the people who live in the area can or already do produce food on some level and could scale up to a point of self sufficiency. The cities are toast, though. Everybody talks about the great depression, population levels are so much higher now and there are far, far fewer farmers.

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Rev, high rise places with no green space might be toast, but in both Russia and Cuba the greenspace got gardened and it worked.

Houses with yards can feed their residents. I gardened about 1/20th of our yard and kept hens in about 1/5th and it provided about half our food because it tasted so good we preferred it.

You can't grow space hog crops like watermelon, but you can grow a lot of turnips, peas, beans, squash, tomatoes, etc in a very small area. We went vertical with cantaloupe and they worked great too.

Cabbage and sweet potatoes keep well and are high yield per square foot too.