SHTF Food Preps 101

SHTF Food Preps 101. Assessing your Food Preps options in a Grid Down Environment. #Survival #Prepping #SHTF

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[drazicmilosovic]

I’m not even American, and when he says “God bless America - long live The Republic” I get misty. He’s a believer - and so am I - that’s enough. Great vid!

[finch]

It always cracks me up when people say they just can't eat the same thing every day. BS. I was poor growing up and we ate the same thing for breakfast, 7 days a week for the whole time I was growing up. Our diet consisted of some basic foods every day. If you are hungry, you'll eat it. It's just that simple.

[Homiloko]

I'm learning about prepping because of the coronavirus and even if ends up being a scare and we easily recover from it, I now know that I'll be a prepper for life. Cheers.

[jeffreyvb]

Don't forget moral boosters; Vacuum seal some of your favorite cookies and crackers. Coffee, cream and sugar; very important.
A small amount of your favorite adult beverage. Gum. Candy bars. These items can make an uncomfortable situation a little more bearable.

[kfeltenberger]

I've been watching a lot of videos by Jon Townsend over on the Townsends channel. While not "survival" or "prepper" related, his area of interest is life in the 18th century, and a lot of the cooking methods and lifestyle requirements are directly applicable to long term no-grid survival.

[ruthberanek]

Don't forget herbs and spices to flavor your cooking.

[bruceforster]

VERY timely video, Sootch!
I'm recovering from a surgery I HAD to have while the govt. as shut down. My wife works for one of the agencies that was impacted. We missed two paychecks, or 5 weeks without any money coming in. I have been a prepper for about a decade, and my wife is SLOWLY opening HER eyes.
She does buy some extra food to put back, but I have been buying the bulk of it. We heat with Kerosene in the Winter Months, and during the Spring and Summer, we buy the fuel we'll need for the following Winter. We have an "adequate" Solar setup for emergency lighting and communications, and we keep about 60 Gallons of ROTATED gasoline on hand for the cars.
So, when this latest shutdown happened, we ate-NORMALLY. We had heat-NORMALLY. We had lights-NORMALLY.
Because my family was prepared, we were able to financially assist two of my wife's co-workers, one of whom literally would have run out of food.
Prepping isn't about just yourself-it is also about being able to HELP OTHERS!

[lynnlamont]

The best time to plant a tree was ten years ago, the next best time is NOW.

[tikacalifornia]

I am so glad that you mention food fatigue. There are some people who get it easily and others who voluntarily eat the same five things day-in and day-out. As with most human behavior, it's not so simple as "If you are hungry enough, you'll eat it."

I am one of the first, and my room mate is one of the second. My roommate will eat the same supper for seven or eight days in a row, and for me, I can go twice, or even three times and then I am done. But I am a firm believer in 'play with your preps' so this is something that has helped me, who is at risk of food fatigue and maybe it will help others..

First of all, there are some things I can consume every day, like tea, coffee, bread, salad and other things. What keeps me going with these daily foods is different flavors. I have several salad dressings, make different sandwiches, and so forth. So, when playing with my preps, I try to keep things as base (I use that word deliberately) as possible. For example, scrambled or crumbled ground meat is the base for (at least) spaghetti sauce, tacos, pizza topping, sloppy joes, and taco salad. Skill turns flour, fat and salt into pasta, tortillas, pizza base, bread and croutons.

Another example is that my room-mate would roast a whole chicken and then eat warmed over roast chicken all week. I, on the other hand, will take that same chicken, section it and use it far more varied. The breast fillets become chicken parmesan, wings and tenders - buffalo wings, legs and thighs - fried chicken, and the carcass chicken soup with dumplings. One chicken, two people, five meals, no boredom.

It takes some effort, and a little imagination, but food fatigue, for those of us for whom it is a true issue, can be life threatening and I have read several case studies. The other thing to consider is how many clever Eastern European cooks turned basic ingredients into a cuisine? I am learning from my wonderful Russian-American neighbor who survived Perestroika that there are more ways to cook cabbage, flour, onions, carrots and meat scraps than are statistically possible.=)

Keep up the good work. I enjoy your insight.

[rock]

Have a can opener that you keep with canned food.

[kianagonzalez]

My grandmother used to preserve meats and veggies in honey. (She was a beekeeper) Even if the honey crystallized they were still good to eat once worked on. They’re technically good for centuries.

[timhood]

Great video! I guess I was "prepping" before it was cool... I am 52 years old, been hunting, fishing, raising cattle, pigs, chickens, and a garden and canning all of my life, that's just how us Southern farm raised country boys roll! And actually, it is smoking or salt curing meat, not drying it. ;-)

[stephenhunter]

Hey my friend. I'm in China now and I prepped before this outbreak. Your advice really helped. We also saw the writing on the wall before the travel restriction set in place.
-Thanks

[christaylor]

Started my food preps one month ago. Just getting a few extra cans every time I go to the store.

So far got 20 days worth, and building it up slowly :)

[phaser]

This is one of the best no non-sense videos on food prepping I have ever seen. Well done!

[wolfm]

Before the coronavirus virus hit I had already purchased some can stuff because we ate all our food preps from the years before..and it all came in handy when this stuff hit worldwide. Always good to have storage food

[daisym]

I have grown a garden for years, canned vegetables, dehydrated foods and prepped for most of my life. When you spoke of drying meat I though about my Grandpa, he had a smokehouse with hams hanging in there. I never saw smoke coming out of it so I believed they were drying. He has passed away. I wished I would have asked him more about how he did it. This is a great video!

[evilfluff]

I live in a semi truck we keep food and water in the truck at all times

[andrewfaulkner]

LDS store in Houston is open to public. It's open on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Very inexpensive often same or lower price than store brand.

[celticguy]

Ive been watching you since 09 but I don't think Ive ever said thank you for all your knowledge and words of advice, so thank you Don and family for your hard work. From my family to yours, and long live the republic!