Food Advice

You can smoke and can most fish. Once canned the shelf life is decades, until it is opened. The same for fruits and veggies. Canning food is not a complicated. Just remember to make sure the lids sealed after removing jars from pressure cooker and cooled.

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Peanutbutter, jelly and crackers work well. How about cans of tuna?

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so they can be stored for many years. All the rice, wheat, and pasta in the world won't matter a hill of beans if bugs and moisture can get into the package.

Either buy in pre-sealed cans that are of an appropriate size to use up in a decent time frame, or buy the appropriate cans and lids and moisture absorbtion packets, or whatever other method you can do to keep pest and moisture out of your food.

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Who cares what you are eating if you are forced to use your stock. Don't waste your money on fancy crap and MRE's.

You can also make some tasty means out of beans and rice as long as you replenish your reserves.

Ditto with Wheat, grind that up and make some nutritional bread without all the crap they put in it in the stores. It is rewarding and only takes a few minutes a day.

See if you can find a local wheat farmer and buy from the source. It'll save you a bundle. $200 can easily get you a years supply and offer you peace of mind.

If famine or supply infrastructure collapses, that wheat will be as good as gold.

Beans and Wheat can store 30+ years maintaining their nutritional value.

Coconut milk is a great substitute for cows milk. I purchase coconut milk by the case at Whole Foods. I use it in everything that normally takes milk, like cream soups or when I make rice, I use coconut milk and water. You can't substitute coconut milk for whipping cream, but other than that, it works great. It is very nutritious for younger children due to the high content of lauric acid, which also helps to fight off viruses.

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You CANNOT store enough food for you and your family and friends to live on until this thing is over. Great Depression One lasted over a decade. Can you store ten years worth of food for each person that will be looking to you for help? No? Then you had better start thinking along different lines.

My advice: once you have six months worth of food on hand (and it sounds like you do) you need to start acquiring the tools, skills, and materials that will allow you to make a living in the post-collapse economy. Or acquire the tools and skills you will need to extract food and energy from your local environment permanently and in quantity. And I don't mean shooting game. A year after the bad stuff hits, the game will be GONE. Maybe if you are a GREAT hunter, you will be getting game a bit longer than the guy with no experience. But there are thousands of experieinced hunters out there and they are going to scour the hills. So forget it.

Make friends with some local farmers and try to figure out what they will be willing to trade their produce for. If you live by the ocean, get a boat and equipment for extracting food from the ocean. If you have some land, plant an orchard. Use your brain and think LONG term.

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