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You may not survive long enough to eat it.
That is true but in this scenario no one will be left alone eating their freeze dried food in peace.
You may not survive long enough to eat it.
All you guys counting on freeze dried foods like Mountain House, one question for y'all. Are you going to have enough potable water? Having water to rehydrate food rations can almost double or triple your water storage requirements.
Of course, you could always have some of this cans in your survival pantry.....
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We have about 6 months of survival food, a mix of Wise and Mountain Horse. Over the last few months, we have been buying bulk foods ( rice, flour, sugar, dried beans, etc) and storing them in air tight food grade 5 gallon buckets. We also have 20 chickens for eggs and started gardening and canning this year. We have about a year of chicken feed stocked, and can let them free range as we have multiple fenced acres. We also have the ability to hunt and fish here so long as the land provides. We have multiple streams, rivers and ponds around us and one stream that runs through the property. We also collect rain water to help with water needs
Moving into the middle of no where changed our bug out philosophy. When we were in Richmond, we had to balance what we had with what we could bug out with. Here in the country, we have moved towards bug out in place and have been stocking towards that. So we are stocking deep on staples and even heavier that i had been on ammo. The wife and i are getting older, so we're good with making this the hill we die on if it comes to that.
We are also surrounded by many that think the same way. It is a very close knit community that watches out for each other. I know that can change when time gets tight, but my gut says that this community will stick together. I hope i am right
You are definitely in better situation then city slickers. But in a total war you won't be. It would be like the Union Army burning down Shenandoah valley on the way to the sea.
For those of you interested in MRE's there's a guy on YouTube who reviews them. Some are over 50 years old and he opens them and goes through them. He reviews them from all over the world. Its fascinating in a weird way.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2I6Et1JkidnnbWgJFiMeHA
My wife was born and raised in Hawaii, where they eat a lot of SPAM. So I actually have several cases in my pantry. She prefers the lower sodium variety from Costco.
Now if we could find someplace to buy decent linguica....
All you guys counting on freeze dried foods like Mountain House, one question for y'all. Are you going to have enough potable water? Having water to rehydrate food rations can almost double or triple your water storage requirements.
.You need boiling water to reconstitute the freeze dried food.
Boiling kills living organisms.
So you just boil a bit more for a bit longer.
Other option, and a important part of any such plan is a way to filter/purify water. It can be a simple as a bunch of coffee filters and a gallon of bleach.
As for where to get water at all: Rain, Streams, Ponds, Lakes, Rivers.
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You think like a Zoomie and not a Grunt. SERE does not compensate for your POG mentality.
Boiling does kill Bio organisms but doesn't kill Chemical or Radiological contaminants in ground water sources and some aquafiers.
And heat for boiling may not be available in a cold bivouac. You may just have to reconstitute your meal with cold water. When you can heat water, the fist priority is COFFEE always COFFEE. And when you can use turbine exhaust to heat your water, your hot water can get a JP4/JP8 after-taste.
As for using bleach or iodine, you can't carry enough Coffee, Tang or Kool-aid to improve the taste just for drinking. Even if you boil and distill, your imagination will make you think you can still taste the bleach or iodine.
This ^^^also have more palatable and generally healthier staples like rice, beans, soups, lentils, frozen or dried meats, nuts, etc...Good quality food with longer term storage doesn't have to be that expensive if you are willing to do the work in properly sourcing and packaging. Those buckets provide convenience of course...
Freeze dried food stuffs are great because of shelf-life, but I am also of the opinion that with a little bit of planning you can store many months of weekly staples with basic pantry/freezer rotation.
I don't get "Survival" food. You have to stock Amazon size warehouse if you want to survive that long.
When it comes to Armageddon, surviving isn't about stocking anything. It is about getting into a group that knows where/how to get ammo (NG armories) and food (business warehouses).