• BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world
    2 months

    Canned food - usually it’s sterilized in over 100°C giving it a very long expiration date.

    Additionally dry stuff like pasta. Pure sugar won’t spoil ever as well.

  • Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world
    2 months
    • Water purification method
    • Rice
    • Beans (dried)
    • Salt

    Get white rice if you want it to last a REALLY long time. It doesnt have the nutrients, but it wont rot as quickly as wild rice or brown rice.

    • Successful_Try543@feddit.org
      2 days

      The downside of dried beans, pasta, etc. is that the need to be cooked, beans even for a long period of time. Canned food however can even be eaten cold without heating up.

  • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.clubEnglish
    2 months

    You need to define the design event before determining what the correct course of action is. If it is a natural disaster response, you should have enough food, potable water, and fuel for a few weeks. Anything beyond that and you really need to start questioning how the assumptions affect your prep.

    If you’re expecting climate change/agricultural blight, not all crops are going to go at once. You need to select foodstuffs to keep where there aren’t any equivalents in the market.

    If you’re expecting long term war creating embargos, there will be a calorie deficit over months or years. You are also going to have community members and government trying to redistribute any available foodstuffs from hoarders. Unless you are very wealthy, you likely run out of food within a year unless you can grow and keep your food. Even then, you’ll likely be caught as everyone is starving and you still have some fat on you.

    If you’re expecting collapse of supply chains causing mass shortages, security is going to be a major concern. That’s why people are recommending being armed and organized.

    It is the reason why a lot is people don’t take preppers seriously. A sustained food shortage beyond a natural disaster is likely going to result in an issue with a lack of security or the security apparatus has a vested interest in controlling scarce resources.

    • kinther@lemmy.world
      2 months

      Can’t eat bullets. Enough people already have guns, so you’re more likely to be shot if you try anything.

      • PlasticExistence@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2 months

        You have more faith in humanity than I do if you think a stockpile of resources won’t need defense

  • dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net
    2 months

    OH!

    Books on local flora that cover what is edible. Lots of shit that grows in the wild or green spaces is edible (often after some preparation like blanching or roasting.)