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If you and your family have plenty of water and food, in some kind of collapse-of-civilization situation, and someone attacks your family, and kills all of you, to take what you have, then, as you are dying, you might feel your prepping efforts have failed.
I’m a lover, not a fighter, so this truly is not my favorite topic.
But maybe we should discuss it.
Something to consider.
Tell me what you think, about weapons as part of your prepping, in the comments.
Please specify what weapons you might consider, and how many hours per week of weapons training you and your family feel would be sufficient.
Back to our bigjac family inventory of supplies on hand:
We have 25 cases of bottled water, the smaller, 28 half liter bottle cases, in one stack,
22 cases of the larger, 32 bottle cases, in the older stack,
and 1 more small case in the car,
and 4 big cases in the house.
That’s 52 cases of water, nearly enough for 2 months.
We are now building stacks of newer cases, and bringing in, gradually, the water from the older stack.
The importance of storing plenty of bottled water for your family, or having your own filtration system, if you live near a stream or pond, that importance is, right now, shoved in our faces, as we read about the current situation in Puerto Rico:
www.motherjones.com/…
The storm is testing Puerto Rico’s already fragile water infrastructure. About 1.5 million people—44 percent of the island—are without clean drinking water and are relying on water bottles or unsafe water sources for cleaning, drinking, and cooking.
Really makes you think, about water for your family.
Now, on to the rest of our supplies:
We recently got, for free, 44 boxes of raisins. 15 ounce, Lion brand, California raisins.
I boiled and simmered two boxes, with bottled water, and used a ladle or two of those reconstituted raisins, in a small batch of made-from-scratch pancake batter.
I ate the pancakes with peanut butter, and blackberry jam, all of which we got for free.
We also have five or ten pounds of other dried fruit, cranberries and cherries.
We now have the following in canned goods:
35 potatoes
33 mixed veggies
34 peas
74 corn
64 green beans
20 or so beans
20 or so fruit
20 pounds or so canned protein: turkey, chicken, tuna, salmon.
About 10 bottles of salad dressing.
Only about 5 cans of pasta sauce.
6, 18 ounce jars of peanut butter.
We also have about 20 pounds of rice, 20 pounds of dry beans, and at least 20 pounds of pasta, maybe half of it in the form of mac and cheese dinners, meaning we have the powdered cheese packets.
Only about 20 packages of ramen noodles.
We have a lot of salt and spices, including MSG, but we have not yet stocked up on salt. I feel we should buy at least a case of iodized salt, and, maybe, a case of regular salt.
This selection of food is not the result of our planning. This is all food we got for free. We have way too much carbohydrates. Nearly all the food we have is carbohydrates. To actually prepare a meal, we add butter or margarine to what we have. We also buy eggs. And milk.
I have a project for you: in the comments, tell us what you would cook, using one or two items from our stash, and adding butter and eggs, and maybe cheese.
Specify your seasonings.
Looking forward to your recipes.
Thanks for reading.