Prepper Priorities Just In Time Prepping Food Shortages Why Stockpile Food reasons to stockpile
food water hi it's AlaskaGranny Alaska Prepper if you think back over your life maybe that of your
parents and your grandparents people used to have food on hand in a pantry in the cellar somewhere
in their home because they you still want to make sure just in case they had enough to eat if you
came from a farming family you definitely had the food canned and put away because you needed
to provide for your family over the winter people didn't go to the grocery store every few days they
didn't run out to buy one item they kept things on hand they did their big shopping maybe once a
week every few weeks once a month and in between they made do with what they had we evolved from
just in case to just in time people started going to the grocery store just to pick up an
item or two just to make dinner for tonight stores carried a larger variety of foods so then they had
just in time space to store things it used to be a special occasion to go out to eat now there are
fast foods and chain restaurants on nearly every other corner 25 years ago i was on a trip with
one of my friends and we passed a McDonald's and her two-year-old started yelling and screaming
chicken nuggets chicken nuggets I thought how does the kid even know about chicken nuggets
you're obviously going there because my kids are just looking out the window do you see how we've
changed and evolved into what are the food storage protocols that we have for our family lots of
people aren't worried what's my next meal going to be they're worried where am I going to pick it up
people don't seem to have stockpiles in their home like they used to if you look even on home
remodeling channels at the television they don't have pantries they take out the cupboards and
make open shelving there's obviously no place for people to be storing and stockpiling extra food
we don't want to get into that habit of no more just in case and then we went to just in time
because what happens if we are just too late and we're out of time then what are we going to do
think about what you're seeing in our society and even when you go to the grocery store yourself
I went recently and the food I picked up had the same best buy used by sell by date as food
I bought months and even a year ago it's almost like somebody in the warehouse was holding the
food back and just in time we need to put that out in the store before it's expired when I was young
I was involved in a farming community we used to have grain potatoes cattle and yes you could send
some of that to the mill you could put some of that in the sellers but then by the next spring
you absolutely needed to sell those products they began to deteriorate you needed the room
also to store the next year's harvest so it appears they're cleaning out the warehouses
pushing the food out onto the shelf before the best buy used by cell by date has passed
and then look what's going on there are huge droughts there are record-setting heats crops
are not being grown this year in many many places some places may be having bumper crops but not
everywhere and it's alarming at the amount of food that is not being produced this year which should
be coming into the stores in the fall through the winter and all of next year until the next crops
can be grown combine that with what happened during the pandemic when people were lined up
for miles to get foods from a food bank then if you look at the news you see worldwide there is
violence there is unrest there are problems there are food shortages people are hungry things don't
seem to be calming down and it doesn't look like rainbows and sunshine are on the horizon
it actually looks like it might be grim and dim we want to make sure that we're providing the
things that we need for our family I was recently looking at a FEMA guideline and yes it told you
all of the things that you need to be prepared and it also had a few photographs let's just go to the
truck and get some fresh water why wouldn't you want to have enough water in your home
plus if you've ever watched the news after a storm it's not a few people standing there
it's desperate people lined up in the heat trying to get any little drops of water look at this
picture oh let's just wander down the table at the food bank and just pick out whatever we want
that is not the reality of what's going on in most communities people that are going to food
banks are lined up in their cars and because of the pandemic they're not even allowed to come in
and pick out things they're just sticking a box or a bag in the back of their car and that's after
they waited for hours if you don't have food on hand think about at the minimum what the FEMA
guidelines are get some food get some water stock up on the basic supplies that you're going to need
then you need to think about the response time for FEMA and help is not available they're not
there within just a few days and when they do come into a widespread area
after some kind of an emergency it still takes a long time to get things organized and they
tend to set up in the middle parts of cities they're not looking at helping people in suburbs
and out in the countryside nearly as quickly if at all the people in the cities become the priorities
so if you're in the city you definitely need to make sure that you have things you need
because you don't want to be stranded waiting for help to come if you're in the suburbs or
the countryside help may not be coming for a long long time if at all so it's critical that you make
sure that you have the things that you need as a society have we evolved from just in case just in
time to just too late make sure it's not out of time for you stockpile the things that you need
get some emergency food that you can open and eat canned foods easy to prepare packaged foods tear
open and eat things because in a big emergency the first things you need to do are just make sure you
can get something to eat so that you can deal with all of the other things that come with emergencies
it's not the time to break out your big barrels of beans and rice and start cooking things it might
not even be possible in a time of a power outage you need foods that you can open and eat yes you
need to have your beans and rice your long-term food storage but after things calm down that's
when you can rely on those foods to help feed your family so yes get a nice supply of open and eat
foods things you can eat for breakfast lunch dinner and snacks make sure you have several weeks
of simple easy to prepare foods then you can start incorporating the deepest longest food storage
foods you want to make sure that if something happens tomorrow that you have something to eat
that day making sure that we can provide for ourselves and our family just in case is what
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