Practical Prepping Protocol even if Poor

Keurig owners. If you are near an Ollie's Bargain Outlet, you can find quite a selection at very good prices.

If you haven't already some and have a garden, plant some Jerusalem artichokes.

Pretty flowers like sunflowers and the roots are edible like potatoes, recommended for diabetics as well. Just keep it slow at the beginning some people tend to produce more gas from eating them.

Oh, and if you don't want them to spread over your whole yard, put a root barrier in or plant them in a big garden pot.

Bonus, you can dig them out whenever you need them, don't have to store them inside. Just leave them out and dig up some if you want them.

We put new fresh bags of flour in the freezer for a week or more then put in zip lock bags and store in cabinet. Never a problem with bugs. We make wheat biscuits couple times a week so our stock gets rotated naturally.

Same with rice. 25 lb. bag of jasmine rice in the freezer for a week or more then store in it's original bag inside plastic buckets with screw lids. Never any bugs.

Same with pasta. We also put bay leaves out on the shelves, does a good job keeping bugs away.

SAVING GARDEN SEEDS.

Ensure your seeds are dry.

I use the foil package from individual tea bags.

I up cycle these foil package from individual tea bags.

I air these out first. Blow them out with my hair dryer.

Add the seeds. Then use a curling iron to reseal the packages.

Label them with name & date.

These tiny packets are simply perfect.

We store mung beans in empty plastic mayo jars. We just sprouted some that have been stored that way for 5 years. Made excellent beansprouts.

Same with dried beans. The mayo jars stack easy on a shelf and protect the beans. Made some ham beans in an Instant Pot a few weeks ago with some old beans. Beans were tender and tasted great.

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Reverse Diabetics by cutting out all WHEAT .. and Sugar..
Wheat turns to sugar..

Wheat causes Inflammation, High Blood Pressure, Diabetics.. and Hunger.

See the book Wheat Belly or UnDoctored.. See the membership website UnDoctored.com

Wake up fools.. the medical system is not a health system.

We grow bitter melon every year. It's easy to grow and produces well. We grow an open pollinated variety, Green Skin, to save seeds for next year. Cut up, blanch, spread on a sheet pan and freeze. Bag the frozen bitter melon and keep frozen until needed for your recipes.

Has anti-diabetic properties.

Nothing wrong with eating wheat. Wheat gets a bad rap because of all the junk food made from wheat containing high levels of sugar and unhealthy oils like donuts, cakes, cookies, frozen pizza and other highly processed factory "foods".

From our MC


With the fertilizer shortage looming, I wanted to mention again...I dug trenches in my garden and buried all my fall leaves...it was A LOT of work but it ended up to be the best fertilizer I have ever used!

- MC

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"How Much Does It Cost to be a Character from James Rawles’ Book, Patriots?"

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Guns ($22,495)
We’re told on page 18 that Dan Fong has a collection of 29 guns. We’re not given the names of all of them, but from what we can gather, here is what Dan Fong owns in the gun department as well as the current price (or estimated current price) of each.

Model 97 trench gun – (?) As far as I know, these are unobtainable, so who can tell on a price. You can find mention of it on page 18.
Remington 870 – $450 – This was the group standard shotgun everybody was required to purchase.
Belgian FN/FAL – $1153
1960s Portuguese AR-10 – $900 – No data out there on accurate pricing here, but this is a reasonable estimate.
SSG Scharf Shuetzen Gewehr sniper rifle – $1500 – I’ve never even heard of this rifle and can’t find any info price-wise on it, so we’ll assume $1500 based on the prices of other similar sniper rifles.
Beretta Model 92SB 9mm – $950 – Another average price.
Two Browning Hi-Power 9mm pistols – $2600 each – Total cost of $6200
S&W .357 magnum in stainless steel – $778 – We’re not sure on the make/model, but we’ll use the Model 60 as reference.
Winchester Model 1897 – $1600
McMillan counter-sniper rifle in the .50 cal machinegun cartridge – $2000 – We have no data available on this that I can find, but I think $2000 is a conservative estimate here.
Thompson-Center Contender in .223 – $642 – This is the used price.
Walther P38 – $1300
M1A1 – $2000
M1 Garand -$1641
Group standard gun mags – $336 – It’s never specified how many mags each member would have. If we assume 8 mags per battle rifle and 8 mags per pistol, and further assume each battle rifle mag cost $12 and each pistol mag cost $30, we’re looking at $96 in battle rifle magazines and $240 in pistol magazines. Page 46 seems to show that 8 magazines was standard for the pistols. This is probably a low estimate on the number of mags each would have per battle rifle, however. This doesn’t account for mags for other weapons either, and as such, this is a very low estimate.
Spare birdgun long barrel for the Remington 870 and screw-in choke tubes – $230 – $170 seems to be reasonable for the barrel from what I can find. Let’s assume there are three screw-in choke tubes which cost $20 each.
Dozens of mags, cleaning kits, spare parts, holsters, and an Army LC-1 web gear harness with canteen and gun mag pouches – $500 – It’s hard to give an estimate on this one. The LC-1 costs $20.
Holsters can easily cost $50 each, if not more. Cleaning kits are typically around $30. All this combined, $500 is a very conservative estimate here.

H&K Model 91 – $700 – Hard to find data here, but $700 is likely to be cheap for anything made by H&K.
Colt .45 Gold Cup – $1455
Takedown variant of the Ruger Model 10/22 – $390
Drop-in auto sear (6x) – $1050 – Page 64 details these cost him $175 each.
Six sets of M16 lower receiver parts – $320+
Whether the lower receivers themselves are included in this is uncertain. Receivers alone would be $320.
A low estimate of the total cost of all the guns, magazines, spare parts, holsters, and other firearm paraphernalia Fong had would come in at around $22,495. Keep in mind this is a very conservative estimate and it doesn’t take ammunition into account.

According to the book, it appears as if members of the Group had nine years to prepare from the time the Group was started till the time the hyperinflation and societal collapse commenced. This would mean Fong spent approximately $2499/year on gun-related purchases from the time he got into prepping until Day Zero.
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You need to move to a place where prepping is a way of life.

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I have seen a few videos, seems like a long process or maybe i haven't watched the right one yet? either way can you imagine the process of making it back in the day without modern appliances!

for those who are kinda new to prepping... with the higher prices of just about everything today it's still very doable, just buying an extra $10 every grocery trip will add up pretty quick just not as fast as it did a couple years ago, stay with it, Food and water security alone will make you sleep better especially if you have a Family to worry about in these uncertain times! start with stocking extra of what you normally eat, once you get a month or so ahead then stock some long term food items, rotate and keep adding a little extra to the normal groceries, then buy more longer storing foods and so on, don't forget Water and a reliable cooking source, it's never too late until it is and surely it's not too late atm!

This may sound like a weird place to get prepping ideas, but I watch this dude Steve1989 on youtube eat old MREs. The thing is, I'm learning what keeps well and what doesn't keep well over time. Peanut butter does exceptionally well but jam does not. This guy has eaten super old military rations, checks them out for botulism and the like first, but there are some items that store really well and some do not.

Also storing one thing with another might be bad too. He's very easy to listen to.

I've had K rations that were stored in a barn for 30 years. Not too bad for one meal, but a proper dinner needs proper planning and proper provision. It's the sense that adds to a meal. A kind stir at the stove, the banter at the table. That's what makes food into an event.

Hello, I've been prepping for awhile...

My question to everyone is, are you prepping for 2 meals or 3 meals a day...

The problem with most "prepping", is that you over prep, the wrong stuff!

Most people will have to bug out of their location (even out of their original bug out location) at some point. From natural disasters to man caused ones, to Attacks from armed attackers. Sooner or later it will happen.
So the first thing to do, is to Cashe most of those preps into multiple cashes.
You can always dig them up if nothing happens and you need them. It is better to have them safely hidden, than to have to leave in a hurry and have almost no supplies, after all those years of Prepping.

The second is to prep Cashes minimally. Just the bare essentials, as if you had nothing but what was contained in that Cashe.
You can "prep' other things, but remember that those items are for "comfort" and thus expendable. You must be willing and able to leave them behind, if needed.

Make sure all your basic "preps' are such that you can go mobile with them at any time, incase you have to bug out in a hurry or are on the run.
You can't do that if they are scattered everywhere, unless you have good back up cashes to rely upon.

For all of you that think you will bug in and stay put, you are dreaming.
If things go bad, as in SHTF, some people will acquire military grade weapons including, tanks, mortars and artillery. They only need to break into the Local Natation Guard base, to get some of this stuff.
These things do not discriminate upon who they rain destruction upon. Nor will you be able to defend against them.

This especially will be a problem for Urban preppers. But eventually they will move out into the countryside, to get their needed resources from those Preppers.
Now in this Scenario, you can try to stay and fight (and die) or go to Plan B and quickly Bug out, with what ever you can carry on your back.
Which is where Prepping Cashes ahead of time, comes in handy.

So beware of "putting all your eggs in one basket", lest it gets "dropped" and all of them, get destroyed or confiscated.. Leaving you without anything at all.

I understand what you are saying about distributing your preps...

The problem arises when bugging out. If you go rural, there will be someone there or along the way that will kill you for your preps...

Rural local people don't like strangers. Since it's rural, there will be Animal Traps and pits. If your not related you will be killed...

I used to live rural where my closest neighbor was a half mile away. I know the mentality and they will not tolerate strangers...

So where are you going to bug out too. A cabin or place you have in the woods. Most likely, someone could already be there and call it their home. They will defend that too...

The best solution would be to form a like minded group of neighbors that will help you defend the area...

If your in the city, you're Fooked...



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2 meals for me since that is how i eat normally, usually starts with a pretty big Breakfast between 5 and 7am, I usually eat a late Supper between the hours of 8 and 10pm sometimes later, but i usually carry me a pack or a baggie of Peanut butter crackers to snack on throughout the day or a couple of hard boiled Eggs, i don't drink as much Coffee as i once did but in the past i always carried a thermos full of coffee with me along with a full 20oz cup but Breakfast was much lighter back then too and i hardly ate any mid day snacks because the Coffee acted as a food suppressant at least for me it does. By stocking up on lots of Coffee i could basically eat a little less but shrinking down to one meal a day would really suck and depending on how many Calories you are burning in a day it would probably not be nearly enough to sustain you/me over a long time period unless someone is holed up in a bunker 24/7 and doing nothing?? Actually i think a bunker could be worse since so many seem to eat out of boredom? you would really need to be disciplined.

Since you asked what about you? you planning on Two or
three meals a day or maybe 4 or 5 much smaller meals
throughout the day.

Do the same thing here with the Flour and Rice, Sugar also!

imo the Bay leaves do work!

I'm planning on 3 meals a day...

My original plan was for 2 meals, but decided to up the calorie content by adding a lunch of Knorr pasta sides and rotating with Idaohan loaded potato and broccoli cheddar soups...

The plan is a 1 year supply, which would get me through a bad growing season. I already have a 1 year supply of breakfast and diner rations...

Fresh Potato's are great, but don't last long. I've only been able to keep them for about 3 months. Sweet potato's last longer, about 6 months or more. They also cost more...

That is why the Knorr and Idahoan products are great because, they last years...