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Once a year shopping.. I love the idea of that. I wish I could get away with it. I keep a close eye on sales and try to stock up when I find good deals, but I would love to be just one and done! I have a good supply in my closet, but I hadn't thought of hydrogen peroxide, q-tips, and cotton balls. I am adding them to the list.
I got 2 boxes of 750 count Q-tips , 3 cotton ball bags, and 2 hydrogen peroxide. It is a start. I love opening the closet door and seeing my preps.
 
We bought a couple buckets of (some brand of) freeze dried meals from Amazon. Basically 3 months worth of meals for 2 people. Haven't tried it yet, but to be honest, in a grid down scenario any meal should be pretty tasty. Shelf life is 10-20 years depending on storage temp. Bought those 6 years ago. Going to look at cycling them out in the next couple years. In the meantime, I supplement with 12-36 unit trays of canned goods from Winco. Stuff like mac'n'cheese, spaghettios, ravioli, canned corn and green beens, chicken breast, tuna, chili, and pork'n'beans. They have a year's shelf life, so gives me plenty of time to cycle them out. If things go bad today I have sufficient reserves. If society can hang on for another year or so, I can get a fresh stockpile.

The freeze dried food buckets were like $72-120 each. The trays of canned food (amounts to about another 30-60 days of meals) was $169.
 
We went over the top a year or two ago and bought a freeze dryer. We have really used it, and it does a great job. Properly stored freeze dried food should have a long long shelf life.

The canned stuff: a year is very conservative. A lot of people here go way past the ‘best used by’ date, and have tested their stores. It loses a little taste and probably some nutrients, but is still edible. I wouldn’t use a can if it were swelled up or damaged, but otherwise would.
 
The canned stuff: a year is very conservative. A lot of people here go way past the ‘best used by’ date, and have tested their stores. It loses a little taste and probably some nutrients, but is still edible. I wouldn’t use a can if it were swelled up or damaged, but otherwise would.

Yep, a few years even, and still fine. (unless the contents are acidic, like fruit or tomatoes (which are fruit)...)

Home canning though, many years.
 
Be careful if practicing a survival situation and living off the land . You can see these "professional" survivalists digging worms or grabbing insects eating them whole. Claiming they are getting protein. I just saw where the Aussie Rugby Player that swallowed the slug as a dare has been in a vegetated state for a long time has just died . I could forage alot from the land but I also cook almost everything .
 
Be careful if practicing a survival situation and living off the land . You can see these "professional" survivalists digging worms or grabbing insects eating them whole. Claiming they are getting protein. I just saw where the Aussie Rugby Player that swallowed the slug as a dare has been in a vegetated state for a long time has just died . I could forage alot from the land but I also cook almost everything .

The slugs favorite food is mouse/rat ****, so go ahead and eat that slug ;) ya, I seen those survival stunts too where they eat slugs and certain snails, I remember through JOTC training they strongly advised against it so I don't know where the hell these so-called tv and youtube experts are getting this from.
 
a lot of insects like snails and worms have to be starved for a few days to get all the toxins out of their systems before you can eat them, not everything is edible straight away.
 
Hey guys! So, where's the best place to buy emergency food? And if they offer a monthly payment to pay it out would be better!
There's a large lot of emergency food on Craigslist, Brazil ,Indiana. If you got 3K to fork over. Thought that was interesting as it is the first time I have seen this type of thing on Craigslist.
 
The slugs favorite food is mouse/rat ****, so go ahead and eat that slug ;) ya, I seen those survival stunts too where they eat slugs and certain snails, I remember through JOTC training they strongly advised against it so I don't know where the hell these so-called tv and youtube experts are getting this from.
Yea, I'm cooking my slugs, thank you very much.
 
If you live up north, an excellent renewable substitute for TP is mullein (Verbascum sp.).

This plant is great because it grows wild all over the place (at least in upstate N.Y.), and it's supposedly good for asthma and flu symptoms.

The leaves are velvety soft, yet large. They also don't rip easily, and are an appropriate substitute for TP.
Wonder what that's like when the temp goes below freezing?
 
The slugs favorite food is mouse/rat ****, so go ahead and eat that slug ;) ya, I seen those survival stunts too where they eat slugs and certain snails, I remember through JOTC training they strongly advised against it so I don't know where the hell these so-called tv and youtube experts are getting this from.
A 19 year old rugby player was turned into a quadripeleigic by eating a raw slug when he became infected with rat lungworm.

When the body fights the lungworm, a crisis happens called eosiniphillic encephalitis (I think--but am not sure), and this 19 year old rugby player was left a quad and in a vegetative state.

Cook you snails and slugs.
 
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