Being Prepared - Updated Basic Food List On Page One

When SHTF all laws are suspended. There's no such thing as "criminals". Morality is not a factor in a survival situation, and do-gooders and bleeding hearts will be first to go as victims.

Its survival of the fittest and smartest.

If you think people will behave themselves and act accordingly with existing laws and rules of society .... you are dead wrong.

You can also buy canned heat (alcohol fuel) that will burn about 2 hrs from Dollar Tree. If they do not have it in the store, you can buy it on-line and pick it up at the store

[link to www.dollartree.com (secure)]

You have to buy it by the case online, 24/case.

This is one of the best prepper items around, I think,

Lol poor delusional useless eater.
Enjoy your future hunger pangs

When SHTF all laws are suspended. There's no such thing as "criminals". Morality is not a factor in a survival situation, and do-gooders and bleeding hearts will be first to go as victims.

Its survival of the fittest and smartest.

If you think people will behave themselves and act accordingly with existing laws and rules of society .... you are dead wrong.

There are two dominant traits in human behavior when people are placed, as a group, in extreme circumstances:

1) Pull together and make it work (watch "Jericho").
2) Go feral, steal and kill (watch "The Walking Dead").

Both are equally likely in any particular instance.

Whites and Orientals tend to pull together.
All other ethnic groups go feral.

Still trying to convince yourself that prepping is a waste of time?

Lulz!

My first preps I put in Mylar and everything after I put in vacuum bags. Long term items I will rotate every 10 years and shorter term every 5 years. Seems to be working so far. The vacuum bagged items should go in 5 gal buckets to protect against rodents if this is a problem in one's area.

I've heard of the use of DE just never used it myself. Good suggestions.

Word of warning, I bought two of these cheap as chips in a local supermarket. When I got home I did some investigation and this stuff is known as chafing fuel.

It is only really used to maintain heat on pre-cooked foods and isn't ideal for direct cooking from cold.

from their page;

"The best way to keep food warm at large gatherings. Canned fuel is designed to burn under chaffing dishes for up to 2 hours to maintain heat for buffets, cookouts and banquets. They can even be used as emergency heat or to cook with while camping or in emergency situations. Case includes 24 – 2.8-oz. Fancy Heat® canned fuel."

It says to cook with while camping or in emergency situations.
.....I have used Sterno in emergencies too. Backpackers use alcohol stoves all the time.

It works fine. It just is not a cooktop like your range.

It says to cook with while camping or in emergency situations.

They will boil water, which is fine for instant soups and foods and hot drinks and for heating food. Using them for boiling rice or beans would not be appropriate, but if you are using freeze dried they are great.

Cooking with canned heat depends on how close to the flame you place your cooking vessel and also what the vessel is made of. For keeping food warm you would not place the vessel as close as for cooking,

Years ago I drove across the US with my husband and toddler daughter, stopping at rest stops and heating food on a Sterno stove. We were so broke, I packed enough food for us before we left so we would not have to buy restaurant meals, I have used Sterno in emergencies too. Backpackers use alcohol stoves all the time.

It works fine. It just is not a cooktop like your range.

More water info:

Water is so hard to store and needs so much room, but all the food you store means nothing if you can't have water. Here is my plan, not great but it is what I can do. I have been saving 2-liter soda bottles for a year from our family and friends and have over 100 that are not being used at this point.

Clean them like mentioned above, except you don't need to let them dry out. Fill them with water and put in a drop of bleach, seal and label with the date you filled. Because there is a worry about the plastics, even so called safe ones leaching harmful chemicals into the water, many only store their water for 6 months. I have done enough research that I will store ours for a year or two.

If you do not have a dropper for putting ONE drop of water, you can do what I do. I put a little bleach in a 1/4 cup and dip a thin wooden dowel or skewer in and let it drop one drop into the bottle.

Stored water goes flat and doesn't taste good. When you first open a container of water that has been stored for a year or so, pour it back and forth between two containers to add air back into it. This improves the taste big time!

3.79 liters = 1 gallon, so you have a bit more than a gallon with two 2-liter bottles of water. 50 gallons of water means 100 bottles of 2-liter size, tons of room needed. You can lay they on their sides and stack up.

Note: the bleach needs to be regular house hold bleach with no scents
added and not the splash-less kind either. Just plain old fashion
bleach.

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The next thing I have planned for water is rain catching from my roof. My roof is asphalt and dangerous to collect water off from all the chemicals it will leach so I bought several rolls of plastic drop cloth from Home Depot. It is cheap and you will always need some for something, so make sure you have several extra rolls. I plan to cover my roof before a storm comes in, and make sure the gutters are still cleaned out.

Barrels will be on both ends of the house to collect the water. Take off the bottom end of the down spout and adjust so it goes straight into the barrels. You will want to let the first bunch of rain flow out, just to make sure you are getting clean water.

The web is full of ideas on how to do this, here is one: www.wikihow.com/Build-a-Rainwater...ion-System

If you have acid rain, you can make a two or three part filtration system, letting each barrel trickle down thru sand. Again there are many web sites about this and I will let you do a little research there.

It would be smart if you live in an area that doesn't have natural sand in your soil, to get several bags of "play-sand" so that you can filter your water when shtf.

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Get a water bob for your bathtub.
www.amazon.com/Aqua-Pod-Kit-Emerg...ge+bladder

www.waterbob.com/Welcome.do;jsess...FA67F4C3EC
FYI, the above site is out of stock as were two other sites I went to.

I have seen them at only $17 so they are cheaper than the one above but ti gives you an idea what I am talking about. 65+ (most will hold 100 gallons or more) gallons of clean drinking water is priceless!!!

99.9% of people that think they are set for survival in an event that requires survival WILL NOT survive.

Stocking up on food is pointless because it will be taken from you and your home by people that are stronger. Expecting to stay in your existing home is foolish.

What you need for survival is a weapon, knowledge, and street smarts.

Weapon to protect yourself and take from those who cannot.

Knowledge to eat and make shelter from whatever is available.

Street smarts to know who to trust and what to do in the context of really bad people.

Everything else is pointless.