Re: 1 Year Supply of Food


MindsEye wrote:
Here are the conditions that I am preparing for:

1. It is likely that my place of dwelling is still intact.
2. However there is no electricity. So I will have to get along for 1
year without it. So any cooking will need to be done without the
benefit of electricity. I'm not sure what the best alternative is
then. Maybe the little gas powered cooking devices used for camping or
MRE heaters or something.
3. Of course there is no supply of food from the outside.

No electricity or outside food for a year?
That is a long time for the infrastructure to be down and yet not run
you out of your house.
You are going to want to look at fortification in order to keep the
neighbors out of your food stash.
You will also want to look at heating your home in the winter, unless
you are in a year long hot spot or something.

If you are in an area where there is forest, then you could use wood to
both heat your house and cook your food.
A simple BBQ like you would get at Walmart will work with wood as well
as charcoal.
Personally, I do not count on gas for a stored fuel, sense it can leak
out and be gone so easily.
A stack of fire wood will not only stay there when you poke a hole in
it, but will also work as a wall to hide behind while you are trying to
poke a hole in something else.

4. As for a water source, I am uncertain on this issue. I don't
know what it takes to keep the water flowing from the faucet. But I
expect that I will need to find some way to either store water or
guarantee that I will have access to water.

No electricity for a year pretty much guarantees that there will also
be no water for a year, as resources will be aimed at electricity
first.

Now then, where you are at, is there a swimming pool, pond, lake,
river, or some other large body of water?
If there is, then you can get water there.
You will need some type of filtration system for it, and I would have
it tested by the county to find out what you will normally need to deal
with.

Here in Oklahoma, the Arkansas River had heavy mettles in it for a
while, and that would have needed a better filtration system then just
mud would have needed.

Beyond that, you will want at least one gallon of plane bleach.
Not sent, softener added, or any of that stuff.

Personally, the land that I have has a small artesian well on it that
has had a small pool for the entire time that Oklahoma has been in
drought.
In addition, I have a pond that also is spring fed and keeps water in
it.
A large pond on the neighbors land.
A creak one mile away.
The Arkansas River one mile away.
The city lake where Hooterville (what I call my town) gets it water.

Just plan on boiling your water allot.

5. Food will not be eaten on the run and I will have time to cook it.
Although it would probably be a good idea to have some meals that are
ready or nearly ready to eat to make it a little easier in the
beginning.

For a years worth of food, stored without electricity, it will cost you
plenty if you do not use dried allot.
Pasta, rice, beans, wheat.
These are the staples.
Canned sauces and anything else you can get in a can or jar will help.
But a years worth of food is allot larger box then you may think it is.
Just stack up everything you would use for one meal and look how big
that stack is.
Now then, multiply that by 3 (meals a day), times 365 days a year.
Now look at some extra to use as barter or just to keep someone you did
not count on alive.

And look at serving size.
You don't want to open more then you will use at one setting, sense you
have no way to refrigerate it.
A camper refrigerator would be a good idea.
They use 12 V DC or propane to cool things.

.

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