You can do a lot if you start early. Unfortunately, “early” might have been yesterday.
Now we’re way past early, and you need a reasonable plan to get food supplies that
will store well and don’t cost too much. You’ve probably already realized that
buying up extra cans of soup at the grocery store is one way to spend your preparedness money,
and they already contain water. Every $10 you spend at the store might feed a person for a
few days. To get more leverage, where you can spend $10 and feed a person for a few weeks.
Buy extra, use FIFO
Go ahead and buy more food than normal when you’re out shopping, and set it aside.
Use the “first in, first out” rule to eat your older supplies first. Keep rotating your
supplies so you never abandon food “way in the back.”
Buy ingredients, not prepared foods
Ingredients such as salt, honey, oatmeal and rice will last a lot longer than prepared
foods like TV dinners, cereals, and food mixes. Naturally, as you purchase food ingredients,
you’ll want to practice actually using them! And remember the basics.
For example, if you purchase a bag of popcorn, how exactly do you
plan to make flour out of it? I’ve personally seen plans in a survival
book that described throwing some popcorn in a coffee can and pounding
it into flour with a blunt stick. You can make a few cups of flour after
ten of fifteen minutes of noisemaking.
A Warning from Scripture
Isa 24:4-6
4 The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people
of the earth do languish.
5 The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed
the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.
6 Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants
of the earth are burned, and few men left.