Practical Prepping Protocol even if Poor

IMO, and I am by no means an expert prepper, but canned soup seems the smartest purchase to me. Dried goods might have a longer shelf life, but it isn't food so much as access to clean water - and lots of it - that will be crucial to any survival scenario. Beans and Rice both need a fair amount of H2O to be prepared, and every ounce is water that could be otherwise utilized.

Plus, soup comes with it's own water.

I did purchase a 4-pack of Lifestraws recently, as well as water purification tablets (cheap) and de-iodinization tabs (cheap and make the purified tab water more palatable).

Otherwise, my water plans rely on rainwater and various catch basins (including a swimming pool XD).

Feel free to pick any and all of this apart. I am at best, a novice regarding these things.

Here’s a link about using colloidal silver to purify water.

It is what was used as an antibiotic before what is used today. It is or was used in eye drops when babies are born and the salve is used on burn victims. I have had great success using it for various things and to get rid of an infection from an abscessed tooth I couldn’t get hold of the dentist for. Worked within 24 hours.

I have also given to my kitties. One for a weepy eye and another who was bit from an animal to clear up his infection. In both cases I put few drops in their food a few times a day for 3-5 days. Same with humans although some people take it daily. I only use when needed. Can be used topically as well.

I have been using a cheap $3 solar/mains rechargeable torch for about a yr. So cheap that the mains part broke after first use lol, however, it is constantly charging in the light and it has been incredibly useful as we get so many power cuts here (daily).

Anyway food preps here are flour, rice, salt, sugar.
The locals grow wheat when not rice and grind for flour and we have sugar cane also nrby.
A useful book on wild edibles would also be handy. Most crops n lots of veg grows wild if you know what to look for. The local women from poorer households are out everyday foraging in the roadsides and by the river for spinach, garlic and other leaf veg, spices n herbs, plus flowers and nettles for eating. It seems crazy but when you see a guy pushing his stall in the city loaded with stinging nettles (same old common nettles the world over) and a que (lol) to buy it then it must be good eating!
I'm considering buying a wind up radio also, just in case shtf scenario

I would kill something before i ate beans and rice

I love colloidal silver, but for water purification, I like hydrogen peroxide better... and it is crazy cheap.




I have also given to my kitties. One for a weepy eye and another who was bit from an animal to clear up his infection. In both cases I put few drops in their food a few times a day for 3-5 days. Same with humans although some people take it daily. I only use when needed. Can be used topically as well.

I would put something I killed IN the beans and rice lol

Honey is my go to thing when i feel any sickness or anything down at all

can't sleep ? spoon full of honey

check this out for hard tac

Oh my, yes!

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Oh!! You mean I need to like them? Ewwww

This is survival - crunchy bones and all. Eww
:Ew Donwannatuchi:

Never have heard of using peroxide for purifying water

:Lolkitty22:

Anyway, I also have a sh__ ton of candles. Thrift store is sometimes a good place to find cheap ones

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I have never seen anything burn as clean or as long as crisco shortening!!!

If I'm burning a wide candle, I'll add a little shortening to the top before I light it.

After an hour or 2 it's only burned the shortening & barely any of the candle wax.

I have this stupid little but wide candle that I have over 50 hours of burn time on because I keep adding some crisco :)

This thread might be a good place for me to put down this idea, OP. While I was sitting on the toilet about ninety minutes ago as of this post I was reading through a Diabetes booklet I have. I was also thinking about the inevitable collapse of American society, and all of Humanity shortly after the collapse of America. I realized that insulin has a definite shelf life. I actually thought the stuff could remain in cold storage for decades and room temperature for months straight. Nope... turns out the stuff is only viable in the best of circumstances for normally less than a month's time. Only the "best of the best" insulin lasts up to close to eighty days in the best of circumstances.

This means once the power grid is out, probably for months or years straight, Type 1 Diabetes are going to definitely die within about a month's time. Unless if there are a number of them who happen to have operational generators with the proper maintenance and fuel to last for years or longer and manage to secure a vast amount of insulin all Type 1 Diabetics will die within about a month's time. Type 2 Diabetics on the other hand will have a chance to eat healthier depending on where they're surviving and being willing to eat healthy foodstuff.

I could of sworn I heard of a plant in another GLP thread that is a natural form of insulin. If this is true this would be absolutely essential for Type 1 Diabetics to grow as much and often as possible during the later Christian Apocalypse Events.

NUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU Neither of those are real cheese - velveeta is water and aluminum. I believe the canned type is too.

Nasty stuff, and aluminum is implicated in Alzheimer's.

[Check your antiperspirant - you may be soaking in aluminum on a daily basis!]

Didn't know it's great for sleep, too, but not surprising - it is such a superfood with so many incredible properties. We really need to encourage everyone to buy the real thing.

I love colloidal silver, but for water purification, I like hydrogen peroxide better... and it is crazy cheap.




Brilliant.

Also check Chlorine Dioxide, Hydrogen Peroxide, and Iodine + Sea Salt Solution for very similar uses.

I quite eating or drinking possessed sugars completely a couple years ago. Honey only for sweeteners. Period. 5 Stars OP for a great thread!!

I have been using a cheap $3 solar/mains rechargeable torch for about a yr. So cheap that the mains part broke after first use lol, however, it is constantly charging in the light and it has been incredibly useful as we get so many power cuts here (daily).

Anyway food preps here are flour, rice, salt, sugar.
The locals grow wheat when not rice and grind for flour and we have sugar cane also nrby.
A useful book on wild edibles would also be handy. Most crops n lots of veg grows wild if you know what to look for. The local women from poorer households are out everyday foraging in the roadsides and by the river for spinach, garlic and other leaf veg, spices n herbs, plus flowers and nettles for eating. It seems crazy but when you see a guy pushing his stall in the city loaded with stinging nettles (same old common nettles the world over) and a que (lol) to buy it then it must be good eating!
I'm considering buying a wind up radio also, just in case shtf scenario

Useful thread!
We are used to power outages here, i will see what i can come up with for tips.

I have so many boxes of velveeta in my pantry it’s not funny. During shtf, morale will be just as important as anything else. And what would be more comforting than some yummy Mac n cheese not from a box, hmm?

It doesn't cost me a cent to pay attention to the tracks in the snow.

And by doing so...I know that I have several rabbits and squirrels living under my tool shed & behind the wood pile.

Little do they know the diabolical doom I have planned for them if the SHTF!

Oh my, yes!

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