What are we prepping for? Let your intuition be your guide. Some worst case scenarios:
- Financial turbulence. Bank holiday.
- EMP or CME.
- No banking or credit cards.
- No transportation in modern vehicles
- Grocery stores closed
- Civil unrest,
- WW III (economic war is currently under way).
- No jobs
- Weather events
- Earth changes
- Fracking and ground water contamination. Wherever there is a pipeline, fracking for corporate profit may be only one well paid politician away.
- Quarantines, Ebola, marshal law. How long will your current provisions last?
- Wood may be the only plentiful fuel available for a while.
- Schedule, duration and severity of future event are unknown.
Water retrieval, filtering and storage
Where to purchase dehydrated and freeze dried food
- Local grocery store,
- SAMS Club,
- Cosco
- East Coast Preppers (10 miles S.E. of Charlottesville)
- Beprepared.com (Emergency Essentials)
- Honeyville.com
Container selection for commercially packed food:
- Super pails,
- #10 cans,
- small Mylar bags from camping stores.
Container selection for food vacuum packed at home:
- Mason jars,
- P.E.T.E. Jars,
- Mylar bags (requires special procedures)
- No Foodsaver bags for long term storage
What commercially dehydrated and freeze dried foods are available in #10 cans:
- complete meals,
- vegetables (not lettuce)
- fruit,
- milk,
- eggs,
- cheese,
- meat and more.
- $49 Snackmaster (Walmart),
- $200 Excalibur.
- Homemade solar dehydrator is needed if electricity becomes unavailable.
Frozen foods require no processing (blanching). Chop if too large and put directly into the dehydrator.
Healthy foods are available from:
- farmers market,
- health food stores.
- Foodsaver Jar sealers
- Pump-N-Seal
- Ziplock
Shelf life of dehydrated and freeze dried foods can be 30 years or more depending on food item and temperature.
East Coast Preppers (10 miles S.E. of Charlottesville)
- Free tours of ECFS, show and tell, no hard sell. Bob Snow shares a wealth of information about food and more. Tours require 6 people minimum, 17 maximum. Call 434-242-9762 for an appointment.
- Classes being planned (FREE). Contact Bob Snow for details.