1 Year Food Storage Plan
I’ve talked to friends and family alike about preparing for disaster, and a possibly coming economic collapse. Most of them have laughed at me, look at me like I am crazy, and to the extreme. The look is very understandable because I’ve given that exact same look to people before.
I wouldn’t be concerned with preparing for the worse if I didn’t think that something dramatic and devastating may happen to OUR Country. Hopefully, I am wrong. I would love to be wrong on this one, but if I am not I want to be prepared and I want my family and loved ones to be prepared as well. I’ve read alot about people who are into extreme couponing, and preparedness. I am truly shocked to see what people think they will need for a 1 year food supply. They have microwave popcorn, ritz crackers, BBQ sauce, mac and cheese, etc.. At first I was like okay I want to live how I am living now and hopefully 1 year is all we will struggle. However, if the worse case senerio does happen we are going to be struggling for more than a year. Then what happens after your one year supply is gone if we have not learned the basics for ourselves?
Awesome you have a lot of BBQ sauce, and microwave popcorn. These are store bought, processed, filled with sugar, fat, and NO nutritional value. Additionally, power is needed to cook microwave popcorn, and what good will BBQ sauce do you if there is no meat? Let’s say your able to find meat and want BBQ what happens when all of that sauce is gone? Do you even know how to make BBQ sauce and what about all the additional ingredients you will need? Do you have them in your 1 year food storage? Would you even been able to afford them? When times change, our attitudes, and perceptions need to change as well. If we fall into an Economic Collapse the likes of what Greece, and Spain are currently seeing then life as we know it will change dramatically. No longer are the days where you go to the store and buy everything easily processed, and preserved.
I’ve kept this in mind as I began to search and ponder what should be in a real 1 year food storage plan.
1. Cooking Supplies (Pressure Canner/Cooker, Wheat Grinder, Cast Iron Skillet, Dutch Oven, etc…)
2. Recipes, Cook Books, etc. (Printed from the internet, and saved on computer)
3. Books on living off the grid covering everything from making your personal hygiene products, sewing, gardening, seed storage, food preservation, solar power, solar cooking.
4. Food Supplies
5. Safety Supplies
6. Fuel & Alternative Fuel Sources
7. Shelter
8. Hunting & Fishing Supplies
9. Medical Supplies
10. Cleaning & Storage Supplies
11. Personal Hygiene products
12. Gardening Supplies
I feel like this covers the bare bone basics of what you would need to survive, and be fully self-reliant. If you were truly cut off from electricity, running water, shelter, etc… Our concerns will not be the luxuries we were once accustomed to but rather if we were cut off from civilization as we know it then we will be grateful for what we have and are able to make. I can’t see how continuing to live in the processed world and being self-reliant are compatible. This should be common sense!!
I will be covering each category in detail over the next few weeks. In addition I am going to try include homemade recipes for popular purchased food like gold fish 
. Many of the principals that I will outline in the coming weeks and months hopefully it will teach my readers how to change the way they are currently thinking and be prepared for the worse. Power is knowledge, so prepare yourself with the best tools possible!
“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a life time.”- Lao Tzu
