Supplies

INDEX

-General Storage

-Water

-Farming

-Homestead

-Nutrition.

[Tried to organice into tiers in terms of difficulty or access]

General Storage

Practice cooking on your camp stove with your mess kit, to ensure it is usable for the purposes you desire. 

Sample your prep foods, buy accessory items such as canned meats, dried fruits, and bullion/seasoning flavors to make it more palatable for morale. 

Tier I,

I Wish I Would Have Known That Preppin

1. Food takes more space than you think. 2. Rotating Supplies.

3. Buy what you eat, not what you think you will eat.

4. Prepping its a lot, take it easy, take your time, know before you buy.

5. Water : Way out of the throat. 6. Plan for expansion.

7. Stop caring about what other people thinks about prepping, they wont get it.

Tier II

Obtain a 3 Month Supply in 12 Weeks By Kammie Roylance

"We encourage Church members worldwide to prepare for adversity in life by having a basic supply of food and water and some money in savings. "We ask that you be wise as you store food and water and build your savings. Do not go to extremes; it is not prudent, for example, to go into debt to establish your food storage all at once. With careful planning, you can, over time, establish a home storage supply and a financial reserve." “Build a small supply of food that is part of your normal, daily diet. One way to do this is to purchase a few extra items each week to build a one-week supply of food. Then you can gradually increase your supply until it is sufficient for three months. These items should be rotated regularly to avoid spoilage.”

This 12 week list, contains menu ideas that would provide 7 different meals, rotated weekly, for 3 months.

HOW MUCH TO STORE?

The experts at the FDA have said that the average adult will consume the following amounts of fresh food per year.

1. Meat - 150 to 200 pounds per year 2. Flour - 200 to 300 pounds

3. Sugar or honey - 60 pounds 4. Fats or Oils - 60 pounds

5. Salt - 5 pounds 6. Powdered Milk - 75 pounds

7. Vegetables and Fruits - 600 to 700 pounds 8. Water - 375 gallons

The figures above are nice guidelines, but they need to be considered from the technical angle of preserved foods rather than fresh foods.

Tier III

Water

Water Getting Started.

1. Why This is Important 2. How Much Water Should You Store 3. Storage 

Tier I

5 Myths about Water Storage | Emergency Essentials Blog

Myth #1: Water can expire.

Myth #2: It’s fine to store water in any type of plastic container I have at home.

Myth #3: If I have a water barrel, I’m set for every emergency I’ll encounter.

Myth #4: To save space, I can stack water barrels on top of each other.

Myth #5: If I have a water purifier, I don’t need a filter.

Water:

You should store 1 gallon of drinking water per person per day you are preparing for. You can get away with half of this in an emergency situation, but if you’ll also be out doing strenuous activities I’d suggest going ahead with a full gallon. Don’t forget, pets need water, too: my rule of thumb is a half gallon for every 50 pounds but your mileage may vary. It may be best to record how many times you fill the water bowl in your house per day, and the capacity of it and go from there. (When you have that value, I’d multiply it by 1.5 to be safe).

Water is cheap, easy to store, and in an emergency can be the difference between life and death.

Personally, I like purified water using reverse osmosis. I’m not a fan of spring water but many people are.

You can buy water in cases of bottles, 1 gallon jugs, or 5 gallon jugs. You can also get NEW food-grade blue 55-gallon drums and store your water there.

I like a mixture of bottles and drums. Bottles allow for ease of access and ease of transport. They are also cheap enough. $50 should get you more than 12 cases of 45 16-ounce bottles (or 67.5 gallons). That’s over 2 months of water for one person, or around 4 months of water in a real SHTF scenario.

Purified water comes clean, free of bacteria and chemicals (check the bottler’s quality report) and other unwanted things. It can store for a long time just by keeping it out of light and heat. When storing your own water, you must take precautions to make sure it is pure enough to be shelf-stable. The best option is to make sure the water you’re storing is pure and free of bacteria going in. This means boiling, purifying, or otherwise treating the water before it ever goes into storage. Water purification tablets work well for this purpose, but make sure you always keep some on hand for emergencies. If there is ever growth of anything in your stored water, you should throw it out.

Don’t ration drinking water. If you’re thirsty, drink water. If you’re low on water, drink water then work to secure a new source of clean drinking water. Rationing food makes sense as the body can live much longer than it tells you it can without food, but dehydration happens suddenly and severely and can keep you from making further rational decisions.

When drinking water from an unknown or untrusted source, use a filter like a sawyer, purification tablets, or boil the water for a full minute prior to consumption. Boiling will kill bacteria, filtering will filter out things like heavy metals and do a decent job removing bacteria, distillation will do both.

Chlorination also works to make water safe to drink. Use only pure bleach, non scented, non anything. Use 1/8 teaspoon per gallon of water and let sit for 30 minutes. You’re looking for your water to have a slight odor of bleach. If not, it’s possible you miscalculated volume, or that something in your water is keeping the bleach from working. Retreat the water once more and if still no smell of bleach, find another source of water.

Hydration Carrier:

Staying hydrated is extremely important during high stress, high exertion combat and survival scenarios. A one-quart canteen or hydration bladder carried on the L.B.E. should be considered a critical piece of equipment. 

Water Purifier:

Another piece of basic survival equipment that is duplicated in each line of equipment. One can survive for extended periods of time without food, but without a clean source of water, chances of survival drop drastically and quickly. Iodine tablets should be carried as an emergency measure, and water filters should be carried for more permanent use.

Top TEN Prepper Bug In or Bug Out Water Resource Options for SHTF!

1. Store Water. 2. Have a way to collect water during an emergency.

3. Rain catchment system. 4. Know your area. 5. Foraging water

6. Multiple ways to filter your water. 7. Test those methods!

8. Flavour your water 9. Alternative to regular bathing.

10. Learn to recicle water.

Cookset and Stove:

This will include instruments for heating and eating food and boiling water. If a 1 quart canteen is being used, a steel canteen cup makes an excellent, space saving option for a small pot. There are many different types of stoves available, but a solid fuel or alcohol burning stove will take up the least space and weight when compared to a gas stove. An additional benefit to solid fuel stoves such as Esbit stoves is that they can employ small sticks as fuel, meaning that fuel shortage will rarely be an issue.

Water carrier:

And additional two quart canteen or water bladder should be carried in the ruck, expanding water capacity of the full kit to at least three liters. Water should be kept topped off as much as possible, particularly if using canteens or water bottles; sloshing water is noisy.

Farming

Tier I

101 essential tips for growing vegetables.

1.Getting Started. 2.Preparing Your Site. 3.Essential Techniques.

4.Growing your own. 5.Plant Health.

Tier II

Youtube Channels :

Self Sufficient Me, his about: earn organic gardening, realistic self-sufficient living, keeping quail, chickens, and lots more! My channel is about self-sufficiency and based on my blog .

Small tips : Wood Chips in the garden - Incredible!

Misc Tier: Grow Mushrooms at Home In A 5 Gallon Bucket (Easy - No Sterilization!)

Homestead

Tier I

6 Reasons Why Rabbits Should be the FIRST Animal On Your Homestead

1. Great poo for compost.  2. Healthy Protein

3. Low Maintenence 4. You can sell bunnies as pets.

5.Rabbits breed like rabbits 6. Rabbits will eat fodder

I Wish I Would Have Known That About Rabbits

1. Cages!  2. Always wear long sleeve shirt and globes

3. When breeding your rabbits, take your girls to the box house.

4. Pregnant ones, nesting box. 5. Barriers between each rabbit.

Tier II

Homestead Youtube channel

Nutrition

Tier I

A general rule of thumb is eat all the colors of the rainbow in fruits and vegetables a day to get the full spectrum of nutrients. The darker the colors the more antioxidants they contain. Different colors of even the same produce contain different vitamins.

Here is a short summary of colors and nutrients:

Red:

Lycopene, ellagic acid, Quercetin, and Hesperidin

Orange & Yellow:

Beta-carotene, zeaxanthin, flavonoids, lycopene, potassium, and vitamin C

Green:

Chlorophyll, fiber, lutein, zeaxanthin, calcium, folate, vitamin C, calcium, and Beta-carotene.

Blue and Purple:

Lutein, zeaxanthin, resveratrol, vitamin C, fiber, flavonoids, ellagic acid, and quercetin

White:

Beta-glucans, EGCG, SDG, and lignans

What are antioxidants? A lot of people have no idea what they are and what they do. To put it simply, antioxidants deter or neutralize oxidation in the digestive system and cells of the body. Antioxidants are basically pigmented cells in the fruits and vegetables that absorbs oxidizing chemicals in the body's digestive tract. This is why when you eat a good amount of dark colored things, your urine or feces can actually turn different colors depending on what you ate. This is a good thing. Oxidation of your cells leads to damage of the cell walls and increases inflammation (swelling during the healing process) which can do much more harm than good. Dark berries such as blueberries, blackberries, acai and others have some of the most antioxidants due to their rich dark pigments in the fruit fiber.

Learn to eat and eat to learn. 

Youtube channels:

General Youtube channel about Nutrition Thomas DeLauer