Smart thinking here about using preps and what we will actually need to have - experience speaks!



If you watch it on yt, note the comment by Versatec about living on preps. She surely had not prepped for real eating - and no doubt is incredibly thankful they tried the diet and learned what they really needed before they really need it!

Variety will be required for mental and physical health - remember this. All rice and beans and lentils will NOT enable you to survive. There will NOT be enough wild game and fish to live on due to so many thinking there will be enough! The variety has to be purchased now, and stored with your preps. Fish - canned fish of every kind, will be a tremendous help. Canned meats, including that horrible idea, Spam! All contain fish oil or animal fat, and are a great boost to the diet. Think about the variety you eat today, and find how much of that variety you can incorporate in your storage foods. Life depends on it!

Dried berries and other fruits. Peanut butter. Just think about everything you eat, and want to eat. The desire for those foods will only increase, not decrease.

Please do not consider your preparations complete with beans, rice, lentils, and oatmeal. That's only the barest minimum. I strongly hope nobody in this thread has limited their preps thusly - that scares me. If anybody has believed that will be adequate, please tell us what we need to do differently so that people will understand from their beginning in this thread that they MUST have a great variety of food when desperation comes around, in order to survive physically and mentally, and to be capable of doing the work that surviving will require.

Remember also a few taste treats - things you certainly do not need for nutrition and health, but that you will be so very glad to have. I have put away a few small things that I have deliberated not remembered - and when I run across them - just imagine the delight! A package of peanut butter and chocolate cookies, for example. When I hit that one, it will be celebration time!

Macaroni & Cheese - breathes there a soul so empty that would not find that a treat? Those packages, as long as the cheese in the packets is powdered, will last a long, long time in storage. I place mine in ziploc bags. If storage space is an issue, remove the contents from the box, write the cooking instructions on the ziploc bag or cut from box and insert in bag, and seal the paste and cheese packet in a bag. That would be a taste treat and a relief from the usual fare. Making pasta salads could still be possible, with just a little forethought. Perhaps not exactly as you would have made prior to SHingTF, but by then, it will seem ambrosia!

Just think about all the things you like to eat, and then think about tucking away some of this and some of that. After you read that person's comment on yt, you'll get it!

I wish the very best for all of you - from my heart. I think it may be soon, and I pray we don't lose contact, but if we do, pray for the people here, and I will be praying for you, for safety, for health, good nutrition, and that we will come together again.

One last thing - people of child-bearing age, please stock heavily on pregnancy prevention items - that's no time to try to carry a pregnancy to term and raise a baby with all the lacks. Please stock up on a variety of types, and please, above all, USE THEM. If we can restart the world, babies will be highly desirable and I hope you have a housefull! Until then, please be wise and careful.