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If you dont mind eating porridge, I could see that as fairly cheap.
I get corn, barley, oats from local farmers for pretty cheap. Mixing 'sweet feed' is easy and the same feed goes to our chickens, hogs, goats and sheep. They all do fine on it.
If you consumed about 4 cups of porridge each day [for each full-size adult] would cost about 14 cents/day. Of course that is a lot of grain for one person to be eating. I have not done it, just basing this on how much we feed livestock.
You could supplement it with foraged mushrooms, greens and critters.
I don't stockpile food for when the "SHTF", I stockpile food because I have 4 growing boys and buying in bulk when it is on sale, in season, or the cow/pig is ready is the only way to go.
You might also try BePrepared.com, which sells supplies for long-term food storage and emergency essentials, ranging from MREs, self-powering flashlight/radios, to cans of dried food. The long-storage foods don't taste too bad when cooked properly, and you can get cookbooks specifically for that if you don't know how to prepare them. It has most of everything you need to get and keep a rotating storage. Be warned, this takes up a lot of room in the standard home. You may have to take up most of the free space in your garage, under beds, ect. It is strongly recommended that you elevate the food canisters by putting a pallet or two-by-fours under them.
My sister (and most of my family) is LDS, and she is determined to get everything she needs for food storage for at least a two-year supply by March, and she's dragging everyone in her ward with her. So far she's got everything from several cabinets of long-storage food, to a bucket/plunge-washer setup for washing clothes without electricity. She's on a charge about water purification just now.
Stockpiling food is one thing and I don't think it's a horrible idea, though I don't buy into the gloom and doom that seems to be running a bit rampant here. Maybe it's been mentioned in this thread and I've missed it, but all the stockpiled top ramen you can fit into your basement isn't worth as much as true survival skills.
And if the world really does go to hell the way some of you are predicting, one of your best survival tools is going to be your trigger finger.
Anyway, it really isn't all that difficult going for weeks and even months without taking a trip to the store. We do it in rural/remote Alaska all the time.
Stockpiling food is one thing and I don't think it's a horrible idea, though I don't buy into the gloom and doom that seems to be running a bit rampant here. Maybe it's been mentioned in this thread and I've missed it, but all the stockpiled top ramen you can fit into your basement isn't worth as much as true survival skills.
And if the world really does go to hell the way some of you are predicting, one of your best survival tools is going to be your trigger finger.
Anyway, it really isn't all that difficult going for weeks and even months without taking a trip to the store. We do it in rural/remote Alaska all the time.
people who live in the countryside or even in rural Alaska is one thing. but most people living in the city dont know where they are going to buy their next meal from, let alone next weeks or next months.
people always tell me that I am foolish for putting food back in case of hard times, but I just look at it as another insurance policy.
to those that would say that they will just steal anothers food (looters) in case of some gloom and doom of the future, just to let you know, the people who stockpile do not only put food back, they also put firearms and ammo back as well, plus they are for the most part better shots than you as they actually practice.
Stockpiling food is one thing and I don't think it's a horrible idea, though I don't buy into the gloom and doom that seems to be running a bit rampant here. Maybe it's been mentioned in this thread and I've missed it, but all the stockpiled top ramen you can fit into your basement isn't worth as much as true survival skills.
And if the world really does go to hell the way some of you are predicting, one of your best survival tools is going to be your trigger finger.
Anyway, it really isn't all that difficult going for weeks and even months without taking a trip to the store. We do it in rural/remote Alaska all the time.
I think most people realize that being able to raise your own food/hunt for food are valuable skills, but having a stockpile will help if your crops go bad/you can't find game etc. Its a safety net for times when crops/livestock can not produce.
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