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CopperFinder
Penny Sorter Member
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 Posted - 09/25/2009 : 01:22:20
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About how much money should I save to buy this much food. If I want to invest every month $200 for one year how should I start will that be enough time to store 1 year of food?
I generally don't make much money, I make about 400 a month with no bills or debts so I am willing to spend half of it on food, and the other half on necessities.
Any type of direction will be appreciated.
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Nickelless
Administrator
USA
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Posted - 09/25/2009 : 03:32:15
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The most important thing--and granted, this sounds like a cliche, but it holds true--is to store what you're going to eat, and eat what you store. If you buy bulk quantities of items you use anyway, you'll more than likely get better bargains buying larger quantities. Personally, I'm not a finicky eater, and for the sake of getting as much food as possible for my money, I'm stocking up on about a dozen varieties of beans (pretty much everything they carry at Walmart--all the Great Value bean varieties), 50-lb. bags of rice from Sam's Club, I'm dehydrating plenty of vegetables (lots of diced tomatoes, spinach, shredded carrots and other veggies high in vitamins A and C) and storing them first in mason jars with oxygen absorbers until I get about a dozen jars full, then I transfer them into mylar bags sealed up with a vacuum sealer. Here are a few links you might want to check out:
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I'll reiterate what I've said in other threads that using rice and beans as your base doesn't mean that you're going to have boring food--quite to the contrary, you can make pretty much anything you want with rice and beans as your base and make everything from beef stew (just add beef and veggies) to vegetable soup to goulash to anything else. You want to make sure you have enough calories and that what you're eating will make you feel full, and besides giving you all the essential amino acids that you need to survive, rice and beans will help fill you up. (Soak the beans overnight to remove the sugars on the shell of the beans that cause gas--you'll feel a lot better. ) But like I said, you don't have to spend a lot of money to stock up on food--just buy in bulk and make everything yourself instead of buying prepackaged dehydrated or freeze-dried items. You'll save a ton of money making your own. Let me know if I can help answer any other questions you might have. |
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CopperFinder
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 Posted - 09/26/2009 : 05:26:53
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Originally posted by Nickelless
The most important thing--and granted, this sounds like a cliche, but it holds true--is to store what you're going to eat, and eat what you store. If you buy bulk quantities of items you use anyway, you'll more than likely get better bargains buying larger quantities. Personally, I'm not a finicky eater, and for the sake of getting as much food as possible for my money, I'm stocking up on about a dozen varieties of beans (pretty much everything they carry at Walmart--all the Great Value bean varieties), 50-lb. bags of rice from Sam's Club, I'm dehydrating plenty of vegetables (lots of diced tomatoes, spinach, shredded carrots and other veggies high in vitamins A and C) and storing them first in mason jars with oxygen absorbers until I get about a dozen jars full, then I transfer them into mylar bags sealed up with a vacuum sealer. Here are a few links you might want to check out:
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I'll reiterate what I've said in other threads that using rice and beans as your base doesn't mean that you're going to have boring food--quite to the contrary, you can make pretty much anything you want with rice and beans as your base and make everything from beef stew (just add beef and veggies) to vegetable soup to goulash to anything else. You want to make sure you have enough calories and that what you're eating will make you feel full, and besides giving you all the essential amino acids that you need to survive, rice and beans will help fill you up. (Soak the beans overnight to remove the sugars on the shell of the beans that cause gas--you'll feel a lot better.) But like I said, you don't have to spend a lot of money to stock up on food--just buy in bulk and make everything yourself instead of buying prepackaged dehydrated or freeze-dried items. You'll save a ton of money making your own. Let me know if I can help answer any other questions you might have.
Thank you for this. Once again you have enlightened me with new information.
The first thing I am going to do is buy some more 5 gallons water bottles(I don't have enough yet).
Then I am going to buy my self one of those vacuum sealers, so I can start packing some beans and rice into 5 gallon food grade buckets, inside Mylar bags, sealed with my vacuum sealer. I would of never thought about putting oxygen bags(to swallow any left over oxygen the vacuum sealer might leave), or the bay leaves(to keep the bugs away) if you would of never linked me.
Thank you.
I appreciated it once again. Because of your passion on being self-sustainable and not wanting to have to rely on some fake government to save you, because of that I will be that too one day.
That's my goal. To be self-sustainable. It does the heart good, and it's part of a humans purpose, just like any other species out there, to survive, and replicate.
No matter who you are, if you can't survive, your children won't survive, your wife will leave you, since survival is what's more important to her, and if you don't have that, your hard-wired brain that lives to survive and replicate will wish you did have that.
So I am after that and I will succeed. |
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