Is Anyone Seriously Stocking Up On Food Right Now ??

These sites are a good start: [link to beprepared.com]

have been for over a year

and this : [link to rareseeds.com]

Me too. Any recommendations for a Northern Illinois climate? I'm just started to research this stuff (yeah, I know I'm late to the game ).

It's taken me a while to "wake up" to what's going on. Now I feel like I'm so far behind where I should be.

I always thought financial collapse was inevitable, but now it seems like we're right there at the edge of the cliff.

Thanks!

just look around and see what's been growing there all along.
corn, tomatoes, all the usual stuff.... you've got a good climate and good soil there so you'll do fine.

but make sure you get the NON-GMO seeds. The GMO seeds are only good for one crop, meaning they do not produce seeds for the next one. the NON-GMO seeds do.

Why you all stocking NOW?

All of you preppers should try couponing. It's fun and easy, and all of you have internet access. Get a Sunday paper and save all the coupons regardless if you think you will use them or not. The drugstores always have deals on tolietries, which you can stock up on with all the deals that come out. Just look at the store circulars that come each week, and match up your coupons to the stuff on sale. You can print coupons too, not sure if I can mention specific websites here, but search on printing coupons and you will find sites you can print coupons for. And print and save them in a binder. When a sale comes up for coupons you have, go and get it. You can get lots of free stuff this way. Grocery coupons too. I find that most of the grocery coupons are not for food my family will eat, but a lot of it is processed dry or canned things that you can store, so you may be interested in that for this purpose. Check it out.

that's a good heads-up, AC.... nice.

Thanks! I am unemployed, and started couponing as a way to save money. I get free things all the time now, not usually things you can eat, because I seem to be better at finding the deals on toothpaste, shampoo, ect...but it really helps. I wish I could list a bunch of the sites I use here, but I'm not sure if it is against the rules or not. I got clued into it from the show extreme couponing, but I dont't do the 100 bottles of mustard thing they showed. I just clip all my coupons, put them in a binder, and print extras. I go to several websites, and my news feed on a major social internet website has tons of pages you can like, and they literally spell out all the deals for you. You just pull out the coupon and go to the store to score the deal. Some of the major drugstores also combine sales with instant cash back rewards on your registar receipt. You do have to sign up for the store cards though. But it will save a LOT of money.

I'd lump GMO and hybrids together but technically there's a distinction and an unsuspecting person might be truthfully told that a variety of seeds wasn't GMO but it would still be worthless for becoming self-reliant.

Hybrid varieties won't breed true and are only good for a single season. I've been seen traditional varieties being marketed at a premium using the "heirloom" moniker.

When in doubt I thumb through my copy of "The Garden Seed Inventory".

I'm just about to take my first vacation in 10 years, will cost a few hundred dollars.. and of course my timing sucks, just in time for disaster.

Now wondering if I'm being foolish, and should stay home and put my money into beans and rice.


I've been waiting so long for a few days away.


Feel like crying.. what should I do?

me personally, i'd take the vacation... but only because i've been prepping for years....

I've got at least a 6 month supply for myself and my family plus plenty of fruit trees around and plenty of veggie seeds and a secluded place to fish a short walk through the county woods. Of course it will help to stock up. People go crazy when they are hungry. Everything/everyone becomes a target. When TSHTF you don't want to be out with the masses trying to find shit. You want to be hold up, preferably out of sight and out of mind while the unprepared rip each other to shreds. Have food and water. If nothing else, buy as much dried beans and rice and canned fruits and vegetables as you can.

When you begin gardening, you'll want heirloom seeds and begin to save your own seeds. If you watch which plant comes up first, which has the first blooms, which produces the most, you'll have an idea of which one/s to use for your seed plants. After a while, you'll find the plants not only get better, develop faster with more produce, but seem to acclimate to your area and produce faster and earlier in colder climates. Almost like they know, and are trying to beat the first frost.

i've got to say... the wife and i want to costo this morning
and the place was a busy as i'd ever seen it.

and they're buying food.

Well.. I don't feel like prepping. Nor do I have the room to hoard anything. I'm just going to go with the following. If I perish.. oh well.. guess it was meant to be. Without a reprieve after so long, what's the point of living? It's just life with zero reward.



25 "Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? 26Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?
27Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?
28"So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; 29and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
31"Therefore do not worry, saying, "What shall we eat?' or "What shall we drink?' or "What shall we wear?' 32For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. 33But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. 34Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

then best of luck to you.

and don't come around here.

Says they are at full capacity and not taking non-members at this time. Pretty telling actually.

And what pray tell do you plan to plug that trickle charger into? The batteries will only last until the charge is gone and they are dead so how do you charge them? Also, I don't think you will find an inverter cheaper than a generator that can run your refrigerator.

You can modify a diesel engine to run on vegetable oil or engine oil collected from restaurants etc. My truck uses waste veggie oil from our local bar.

You can also run a generator on woodgas. There are plenty of videos on youtube on making one. I have not made on yet, but I plan to soon. The wood is turned to charcoal in a small metal container and the output goes to the engine intake. Once the flow is adjusted and there is sufficient gas the engine will run normally using wood as a fuel source.

If you have neighbors with food that will spoil and you have a working generator make a deal with them to keep their food from spoiling. Most likely everyone will have something to contribute, but even if they don't you can make them contribute in other ways such as helping get the garden started or tended if you already have one.

Remember to only run your generator for refrigerators and power tools and then shut it off. This saves a lot of fuel and keeps your frozen goods frozen. If you run woodgas or have plenty of fuel you could run nonstop and use a/c, lights, water pump, washing machine, etc. If your neighbors want to share some of your comforts you can work that out with them.

What about these?

Proverbs 22:3
A prudent person foresees the danger ahead and takes precautions; the simpleton goes blindly on and suffers the consequences.

Proverbs 6:
6 Go to the ant, you sluggard;
consider its ways and be wise!
7 It has no commander,
no overseer or ruler,
8 yet it stores its provisions in summer
and gathers its food at harvest.

If all life is about is mere survival, I would rather be dead anyway.

You can order online. Won't find a better price. They have beans and wheat too.
[link to store.lds.org]

those are good prices...

i bought mine in bulk at sunflower market... vacuum sealed them in bags, and stored those in food grade 5 gallon plastic buckets.

the cans are much simpler.

lds has really got it going on with the food.

Yuck, I just clicked on the chili, it's full of partially hydrogenated soybean oil, soy flour, soy protein, autolyed yeast. Unhealthy stuff.

Any small solar panel can be hooked up to a battery without a charge controller. It usually has a blocking diode to keep it from discharging the battery when the sun goes down, if not it is easy to put a diode in-line on the ground side. I keep a solar panel hooked up to a 12 volt car battery in all of my boats. It gets used for sump pumps when it rains. I never worry about the batteries because they are always charged when I need them.

If you plan on using a large inverter you will need enough battery to handle the watts you want to use. All batteries have ratings telling you how many watts the battery will put out per hour (Watt-hour) so a 15 wh battery will handle 15 watts of output per hour. You need to know what wattage your device uses so you know how big your inverter and battery needs to be. The larger panels need a power controller.

I grew up on a farm and keeping the pantry stocked, the root cellar full, and the smoke house hung with plenty of country hams and bacon was normal everyday routine of hard work. We grew a big garden and had a big orchard, along with laying hens for eggs and Jersey cows for milk. It's knobland here and there's always a good supply of wildlife for frying and gravy.

We've never called it prepping. To us it's just life as normal.

nice.... very, very nice.

good for you!

You guys gotta invest in a good dehydrator....you will save a ton of cash by dehydrating 10 bags of frozen veggies at a time...seal them in mylar with a oxygen absorber...do it everyday and suddenly you will find yourselves with a year of veggies.

so i have all these packages of dried beans and peas and whatnot that i bought during the time of the economic doom and bailouts of 2008...according to the packaging, they're long expired - but they look fine and intact and have been stored out of light and in fairly cool conditions...anyone know if they're still ok to use?