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hi it's AlaskaGranny Alaska Prepper today I wanted to talk about sensible prepping on a budget lots of
people don't have a lot of expendable income and they're not sure how they can
actually get started prepping stockpiling buy things that are usable and be ready for an unknown
future uncertain prepping a lot of suggestions are to get a big bucket of rice beans and a big old survival
knife that isn't necessarily helpful on how to build a food stockpile and be a prepper with a budget if you don't really know how to use those supplies
things or they're not things that you really need in your everyday life what I
think you need to do is start small prepping stockpile foods that you can just open
and eat in most emergency situations it might be something like you have someone
in your family that's sick and you can't go to the store or you ran out of money
before you ran out of month and you need something to eat perhaps your power went
off or your water is out a winter storm you can't get to the store so after you
get foods that you can just tear open and eat then search for foods in your
store that you just add water there are a lot of foods that you just add water
that you can make nutritious meals for your family check it out figure out what
you could make for breakfast lunch and dinner pay attention to the calorie
count to make sure you stock piling enough calories so that the average
person in your family will get 2,000 calories of food per day for an extended period
of days then you also want to make sure that you're getting a lot of protein in
the foods that you're storing don't just store foods with carbs make sure there's
protein too that are going to help keep you nourished and have the strength and
energy that you need to deal with your everyday life there are simple solutions
for everyday emergencies so that they don't become catastrophic events start
by stockpiling a few extra food items every time you go to the store buy
something that's ready to eat you can just tear it open and eat it and then if
you have some kind of a crises emergency you can go to your cupboard pull out that food
tear it open and eat it that's not the time when you want to start figuring out
how to cook a big ol bucket of rice or beans you may
not have the time you may not have the water you may not have the electricity
and it's not even helpful then you have a great big bucket of dried rice and beans food that's in your way
keeping you from doing the things that you need to to get yourself going and
figure out what to do next if you have the basic food and water supplies that
you need you can nourish yourself and your family and then figure out what to
do next in a crisis a crisis is not the time to figure out how to prepare food
you don't know how you're not familiar with that's not even helpful so buy food some
food that you can tear open and eat that are readily available that your family
is willing to eat and then has a long shelf life they don't have to be
expensive you can just look through the grocery shelves you don't have to go to
the camping hunting or survival shelves to find foods that are shelf
stable and ready to eat what you do want to check is the expiration day and make
sure that you're rotating these foods so that they're still fresh and ready to go
when you need them foods can last past their expiration date but the quality
tends to deteriorate and you don't want to find that all of your hard-earned
money and your storage space is holding storing stockpiled with foods that are no longer fit to eat so
rotate the food as you go if you find you're not rotating those stored and stockpiled emergency foods you're probably
stockpile foods that you don't really want to eat so it makes sense to figure
out what it is that you will eat and that you're normally going to rotate it
through your foods and those are the foods that you need to buy more of start
small buy food get a few things at a time stockpile your pantry until you have
enough make sure you have a few days worth get a few weeks worth of food and
even up to a few months then once you have stockpiled all those kind of foods
that's when you would want a big bucket of rice and beans because in a
protracted emergency where the life that we know has really changed having that
long term food and the time to spend figuring out what to do with it might be
a great idea make sure you're also storing
plenty of water water is something that we absolutely need to survive it's
simple pick up some water when you're at the
store refill some containers in your kitchen buy a five six or seven gallon
jug and find somewhere in your home to store it and if you have a lot of room
consider getting a water barrel that holds like 55 gallons prepping doesn't
have to be expensive or complicated but it's certainly something important that
you need to do if you don't prepare yourself to have the things that you
need before things happen then you're going to have to go out searching for
the food water supplies that you need while things are happening that's when
you really could run into an emergency situation when your family is no longer
safe and the security that you long for has eluded you simply because you failed
to prepare take a few dollars a week and get the things that you need make sure
that you have the things that you count on prepping is a lifestyle insurance
that you're setting aside the things you never want to be without so that you
have the things you need no matter what comes your way it only makes sense to
keep your family as safe and secure as possible
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