Emergency Food

If we would get into a long term breakdown of society thing, then I am in trouble to start with. Kidney transplant. If I can't get my medicine, then the transplant fails. The most I can get at one time is 3 months worth. But they wont let me refill till I am down to 4 or 6 weeks worth. So at times I may have two months on hand. I could probably ration it out to last 3-4 months, but then what?

If I know I am a gonner I guess I can take out anyone who ticked me off in the past.

Again, you will need weapons and ammo to fight off the looters. You can have years worth of supplies and food, but when the masses get hungry and scared, they will take it away from you.

Gene

Just think if the terrorists blow up a number of the large substations in the country and the country goes dark - not for a week but for months - during the winter - you better be prepared especially if you have small kids - you sure wouldn't want to see them hungry - it doesn't take that much effort to store enough food for your family - for least 3 or 4 months - maybe even more - and some way to keep warm - remember the Boy Scout's motto - be prepared -

One thing we have done in the past (Y2K etc) is if there looks to be an outage of any kind is to buy a country cured ham. They do not have to be refridgerated... and once the have been cut into just have to be kept cool and covered. Pieces will go a long way with beans, cabbage and other things. The local brand up our way is "Burgers"

http://www.smokehouse.com/burgers.ns...ct/Country-Ham

Not trying to advertise for them, just showing what I am speaking of.

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I keep lots of grains, rice, and even beans (even though I don't personally like them, I keep them for others) on hand, stored in 5 gallon buckets. If they are mylar sealed with O2 absorbers or have been frozen, you really have no worries about bug damage.

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The whole freeze dried foods and long terms storage solutions are not feasible for me. First is expense - these foods are a huge investment all at once and the price per meal is just not low enough for me to feel as tho it is worth saving up for or being behind for. Secondly, I store food because I don't want to buy certain foods from questionable sources, and in my opinion - packaged foods are just a preserved version of what I am trying to avoid.
Living rural, in an area that can easily be cut off for weeks at a time, and the time to go to town, I will always have at least 30 days worth of supplies available - especially food. I also want to limit the amount of less than desirable food processing that I eat, so am working towards producing all my own food. This literally means I am working towards having just shy of a years supply of food stored. I say just shy because whatever is in season I can eat fresh and don't have to take out of my pantry, but when things are not is season, I need to have them stored. Then, there are the years when the tomatoes just flop - so I want to have extra for the years when the harvest is shy.

I would encourage any of you reading this thread to check out the Survival and Emergency Preparedness forum near the bottom of the main page. Lots of info there on what people store, how they do it and why. Tin foil hats are optional.

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How long do these last the country hams without being in a fridge?

1. Like a barrel, but made of a solid cardboard like covering, often with a locking lid. Food grade steel barrel works, too.

2. Whole point of hoarding anything, not there with minor disruption.

In NY, threat of a snow storm wiped out food in stores.

One thing I want to mention is people that do buy the emergency freeze-dried meals look to companies that have been around for awhile. Alot of these companies are fly by and don't last do to quality issues in their products.... Also don't buy the 10lb cans unless you can eat it after opening before it spoils which unless your feed a mess of people it's just not feasible.