NOT A PREPPER, BUT..

[Peyton Manning]

I know it is recommended to have a weeks emergency supplies in a ready to go pack.

I want your ideas on the food part. I used to backpack when I was young and we took Mountain house freeze dried meals. What do you think is best, both in taste and in long lasting? And I guess value too.

 

[Red James Cash]

I have stuff you can eat on the go,there may not be time to stop and cook or prepare.Cans of spam,vienna sausages,protein bars,bottle of vitamins,some candy bars,water purifying tablets.With whats in my little back pack,I can last a month.Winter is different though,walking,hiking a lot and being out in the cold,plan on needing 5000 calories a day.Dont plan on just dehydrated stuff,what if water is scarce.

 

[onfire]

The water thing "Don't eat the yellow snow"

 

[DeepseekerADS]

Been thinking bout a bug out bag. I drive home to my farm every weekend, rent a trailer near where I work. Listen to news radio completely. Was hearing an ad for dehydrated survival foods. So, when I got back and online, I looked up the recommended website - sounded like such a great deal...

Good Lord!!! Beyond belief the cost.

Got my bag.

But what I do is little by little. I always make a point to go by the "discontinued" racks in the grocery stores, and pick up cans of food cheap, like half price. I check to make sure the barcode isn't China, and I get a couple or maybe more of the cans, and put them away. That adds up, and it doesn't deflate your bank account.

It's food, may not necessarily taste good if you're well fed, but it will taste darned good when I am really hungry.

Just tips from the outside....

 

[smokeythecat]

Yellow snow is just plain wrong......

 

[DeepseekerADS]

Yellow snow is just plain wrong......

Remember, he took a dog doo snow cone and stuck it in his right eye....

 

[Red James Cash]

Been thinking bout a bug out bag. I drive home to my farm every weekend, rent a trailer near where I work. Listen to news radio completely. Was hearing an ad for dehydrated survival foods. So, when I got back and online, I looked up the recommended website - sounded like such a great deal...

Good Lord!!! Beyond belief the cost.

Got my bag.

But what I do is little by little. I always make a point to go by the "discontinued" racks in the grocery stores, and pick up cans of food cheap, like half price. I check to make sure the barcode isn't China, and I get a couple or maybe more of the cans, and put them away. That adds up, and it doesn't deflate your bank account.

It's food, may not necessarily taste good if you're well fed, but it will taste darned good when I am really hungry.

Just tips from the outside....

As long as it keeps you alive and going long enough to get situated,better organized,and the situation assessed better ,thats all that counts

 

[Red James Cash]

If all you have is yellow snow,solar distill it.

 

[austin]

Take Jack Links beef jerky, moon pies and an RC. Grow your duck dynasty beard, wear your confederate flag bandana and at least y'all will die a good old boy...

 

[Unclebuck257]

It may well depend on where you live too. Remember that old country song, "Country Boys can Survive"? Lots of truth in that song. A 3-6 month supply for you and the family is recommended, but as has been said, it doesn't have to all be bought at one time. Put it together on a week by week basis, and depending what kind of food, be sure to check your dates and rotate it out too. Pressure in the inner cities and just the cities themselves will be much greater at first than it will out in the rural areas. Plan accordingly for all the contingencies that statement means too!

 

[NHBandit]

You don't have to be a "prepper" to be prepared either. When you buy canned food for example, buy more than you need. As you go about your daily life cooking and eating that food use the oldest first and keep replacing it so you always have a fresh surplus. Get a Sams club membership and buy cases instead of a couple cans but don't just let it sit. Eat it and keep replacing it. When it's half gone buy another case. Repeat.. Filling your basement with 3 months supply and then leaving it to rot is a huge waste of money. Where you live can play a role as well. Here in the East Tennessee mountains where I am I have a 200 acre cattle farm on 3 sides of my property. Next to that is corn fields for as far as I can see. An old friend once told me it's better to live where there are few people and be surrounded by food than to live where you're surrounded by people and have little food. Simple statement but very true.

 

[Peyton Manning]

all good ideas, thanks. I was thinking about the freeze dried stuff for the weight, a pack full of canned goods would be heavy.

 

[Peyton Manning]

guess I could have the wife carry that one though

 

[NHBandit]

all good ideas, thanks. I was thinking about the freeze dried stuff for the weight, a pack full of canned goods would be heavy.

I guess I misunderstood your thread. So are you expecting a situation that will require you leaving your home to survive ? A good rifle, ammo for it, and the ability to use it will get you farther than a backpack full of food but I'm getting the impression from other recent posts of yours that you're anti-gun ? If I'm misreading you my apologies. How you prepare will, of course, depend greatly on WHERE you think you'll need to be. Leaving your home should be your last resort.

 

[Peyton Manning]

no I'm not anti gun, I have some. but I don't want to count on my hunting abilities. I want to be prepared even for my home being unusable yes. So i could get along in the woods for a week if we had to.

 

[Peyton Manning]

we had some recent tornados here in indiana, so it made me think about it

 

[smokeythecat]

I have enough for a little while. If a blizzard is heading in, I pick up some extras, but that's about it. In case of apocalypse, I'm toast.....

 

[Gold Maven]

Checked into MREs, $400 plus shipping for 1 month, 1 person, 2000 cal./day was the best I could find. I'm guessing demand has been increasing over the last few years. It seems expensive.

 

[NHBandit]

Spam and fruitcake lasts forever... Seriously though freeze dried stuff will be the lightest to carry but you would have to be assured of a safe supply of clean water to drink and to turn your bags of dust back into food. If you're prepping for a natural disaster I still feel that storing supplies in or near your home is the best option. If you have a basement use that and just make sure whatever you store is well protected from tornados and other events that could level the house itself. For a bug out bag that you would take with you the lighter the better. Henry and Charter Arms used to make take down .22 caliber survival rifles that would be handy as well as having some basic fishing gear. Water purification tablets, salt, basic first aid stuff, a good knife and a hatchet, a waterproof fire starting method. There are good websites out there dedicated to answering all of your questions. Some things are extremely simple yet people don't think about it. Wear a bracelet made of woven paracord. Takes up no space and can be extremely handy if taken apart. Things like that can be the difference between making it or being a casualty

 

[JohnnyFlake]

all good ideas, thanks. I was thinking about the freeze dried stuff for the weight, a pack full of canned goods would be heavy.

Yes weight is important but freeze dried foods (which I really like) require water. You also need to carry water and that's heavy or you have to be dam sure that water is available where you plan on going.

Here are a few canned goods that last for many years, past their expiration dates, canned Tuna, Salmon, Vienna Sausages, Chef Boyardee Pastas, Spam, Corn Beef Hash, Peanut Butter, B&M Brown Breads, Beans (all Kinds) and Old Sailor Pilot Crackers.