Practical Prepping: No Apocalypse Required: BOOK TWO: THE BASICS (#1) by Steven Konkoly & Randall S. Powers

Author:Steven Konkoly & Randall S. Powers [Konkoly, Steven]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Stribling Media
Published: 2014-09-18T04:00:00+00:00

Last thought: My water discussion is more or less limited to consumption needs. When you add cooking and sanitation to the equation, you add roughly one more gallon per person per day. I pray to the faucet gods every day. Please don’t stop giving me water!

Chapter 8: FOOD

“Where would we go—Charlie’s?”

“I don’t think that would work out,” he whispered.

“I can’t believe someone ransacked all of his stuff,” she said.

“It wouldn’t have made a difference. He had a year’s worth of dehydrated food for four people. We have seventeen mouths to feed. That’s three months of minimal rations. Not that it matters.”

“We can bring enough food to get us through to the summer,” she said.

“Then what? We’d have to start from scratch growing food. It’s taken us three years to get to this point, and it’s not enough to keep us from digging into the reserve supplies by January. Earlier with this many people. We’re barely sustainable for the long run if everyone stays.”

—From Point of Crisis

The bunker resembled an expanded version of Kate and Alex’s Scarborough home. The far western wall, underneath the expanded great room, housed the furnace, hot water tank, oil tanks and electrical system. Sturdy metal shelves lined the rest of the cement foundation, containing enough food and essential supplies to support the Fletchers’ core family for at least five years—well beyond the expiration dates on some of the canned goods rotated through the stockpile.

Supplementing the vast selection of canned, pickled and dry goods, a deep tower of pre-packed plastic buckets, each containing one hundred twenty individually sealed freeze-dried meals, occupied the entire wall next to the door. She knew that the buckets alone contained enough meals to sustain eight adults for an entire year, only requiring water to reconstitute. With a shelf life of twenty-five years, the buckets represented their last option. She shuddered to think how they might feel after eating nothing but freeze-dried food for a year, but it easily beat the alternative.

—From Event Horizon

Steven

One of my favorite lunchtime topics is “what are we having for dinner?” I’m always looking one or two meals ahead. I bet some of you think I’m about to embark on a guilt trip about people in the world (probably in Africa) that don’t know when they’ll eat their next meal. I don’t have to. You know what it’s like to feel hungry, and it’s not an enjoyable sensation. Oddly enough, I get crankier about food than water. By all logic, it should be the other way around, but it isn’t. My kids never throw a fit because they’re thirsty. If we run out of snacks (for eating between meals), watch out! Rough seas ahead.

Food serves two purposes. Nourishment and morale. Like my wife said, it takes three to four weeks to die of starvation—from a strictly nutritional perspective. You’ll mentally collapse a lot sooner than that, especially in a crisis situation, when everyone is already stressed to maximum levels. Food procurement needs to be a major component of your personal preparedness plan.

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