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The S is just starting to hit the Fan. Could cool off in a few weeks, could get worse. Much worse.
Do y'all have any survival food?

The best food to get is corn, wheat and beans in five gallon buckets, nitrogen preserved.

https://pleasanthillgrain.com/buy-organic-yellow-dent-corn-for-sale

43 pounds of corn for 80 bucks. That is a lot of food. Along with that, you buy a bucket of kidney beans, you have the perfect nutritional mix. Protein, complex carbs, fiber and massive B vitamins. You ought to get a hand-grinder, but you could get along well without it.

Just those two buckets, you and your wife could live on that, alone for 3 months and be in pretty good shape.

Add to that a bucket of wheat, and a bucket of non-milled oat groats and y'all are off to the races.

You can buy all kinds of freeze dried food, and it is great I have eaten lots of them. But your biggest bang for the buck is these 5 gallon buckets of nitrogen packed grains and corn, and beans.

Gunpowder still burns, I’ve heard.

I’m not planning to live on corn and beans.

out the back door

need I say more ?

Hardtack, evaporated milk, peanut butter, honey. That is what I carry in the boat in case.

I saw a post on FB recently with a recipe for a food that will supposedly last for decades. Can't remember all the ingredients, but had jello in it. Made bars that you dehydrate in the oven. Didn't actually sound bad.

Look up PEMICAN. Mt man survival staple.
Meat, blueberries, and a lubricant.

Peanut butter generally lasts about a year, unopened and kept in a cool place. There have been times when I damn near lived on JIF, crackers and cheese.

Biggest concern for me is two weeks down time if/when I have to self-quarantine. I already have the dogs covered, I need more rice and beans.

I just ordered up treatment for 20000 gallons of water. Figure I will just go cannibal, survival KISS.

Rice and Soy sauce will store indefinitely and make almost any fish edible.

Sorta related, I recently found a copy of Tom Brown's {i] "Guide to Wild Edible and Medicinal Plants"[/i], I had forgotten all about that guy.

Apparently he's still around and still running a survival school in New Jersey where according to Wiki he runs sweats and his version of Plains Indian ceremonies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Brown_Jr.

Wrote a book about "Healing the Earth" as recently as 2019.

Gotta admire the guy for pulling this all off

Wiki casts doubt upon the existence of his buddy's Lipan Apache grandfather, who ostensibly sent Tom off down that path.

Small world! Back in the 70's this figure was as remote to me back in NY State as anyone, turns out there's a bunch of Lipans in San Antonio, tho many off of any Tribal rolls, I've taught some of their kids. There coulda been a Lipan "Stalking Wolf" sixty years ago as Mr Brown claims I guess, especially if he was raised in Mexico.

I have 90 potato plants planted. Just butchered a beef today, have another ready in nov. Quite a few dried, and canned goods stocked in. Lots of deer and elk around. Sure glad I don't live in, or near a Metro.

White rice and pinto beans are the best calories for $ and store well for decades. 5 gal bucket, mylar bags, oxygen absorbers.

I could kill a couple of deer a day on my property, right from my house. Along with squirrels, rabbits, doves and turkeys. Trout streams and warm water fisheries near by. We wouldn't go hungry.

Mac, and cheese.

I'd lose a lot of weight on a survival diet. The idea is to survive, not get fat.

Is he the one that came up with that stupid "tracker" knife?

Not too worried up here. The county has ~60 cases. Deer in the yard, neighbors with large gardens.

The old Sourdoughs use to live on the sour bread, beans, some bacon if they could get it.

A few years back, I put up some rice and some dry
beans ( about 30 pounds IIRC) in some metal cans
to avoid rodents, and it all went rancid in about a
years time. I don't know if it was the extremely high
humidity of the far northern Big Thicket, or for some
other reason. I never did try the sealed nitrogen
packed foods available from vendors such as
NitroPak and the like. I have had good luck with just
regular canned goods that I store in a spare insulated
drink cooler so as to avoid temperature extremes.
I just rotate them out regularly. I mark the date stored
and the expiration date in big letters on the can