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A FLIR SCOPE AWAY 3

Calories are cheap.  The only issue is when you are stocking a LOT of them beforehand, or trying to get a high quality calorie. Of course, my go-to answer is always wheat, wheat, wheat ( Marsha, Marsha, Marsha! ), and I know this isn’t usually what anyone wants to hear. In fact, the average response seems to be as if I were suggesting that you all engage in consuming my ass.  Which hurts deeply since I’m only trying to help.  Cheap, healthy and tasty, pick one. 

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That applies to freeze dried, canned or dry goods.  Air dried still gets one out of three because while tasty and MORE healthy, you still kill a lot of the beneficial nutrients even under low heat ( for instance, bread with sprouts is BETTER than regular flour bread, but it still isn’t BEST which is raw and fresh spouts ).  Only whole kernel wheat, in my estimation, gets two out of three.  You can’t beat its health aspects nor its price, so I won’t argue with you that it can to some taste like cardboard.  No, it isn’t a complete food.  That is where the cost part of the equation enters.

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Far too many folks make the mistake of shopping Full Luxury for their survival stockpile.  There are a LOT of different steps to food storage.  At the top of the pyramid is your day to day regular eating, with eggs and cheese and meat and potatoes and desert and fast food and all in all yummy excess caloric intakes.  Most preppers try to duplicate that menu for after the apocalypse.  Which is SOOO realistic because, you know, factory beef and Mexican produce and three thousand mile salad AFTER the collapse.  #1 prepping mistake is Continuity.

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You need to start at the BOTTOM of the Desirability Pyramid.  First is calories.  NOT nutrients per se.  Yes, try to get the healthiest nutrients as possible, thank you Captain Obvious.  Which is why I say whole kernel wheat rather than white rice, white pasta, white flour or white sugar.  Because the first has far more nutrients AND fiber and the rest are empty calories.  Sometimes only the White Foods will do ( racist! ), but you try to minimize them. But the Prime Objective is calories.  When you are starting out, Calories First.  An empty calorie will keep you alive better than a No Calorie.

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People are so focused on Best Calories, heavy on the animal protein and heavy on vegetables in a vain attempt at Taste Diversity ( diversity is our strength! ), that they come no where near ENOUGH calories.  Bad Spanky!  Bad! No biscuit for you!  Calories first.  THEN move up to nutrients.  Go from empty calories to far more nutritious calories to complement those empty calories.  Then you can move up the pyramid again to be closer to a modern diet.  THEN, after all the post-collapse calories are secured, you move up to the best part.

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The pantry and freezer stockpile that exactly duplicates your daily diet which is great for unemployment and stands in for money savings.  Plus, it allows you to bulk buy and buy on sales and NEVER must you pay full price for groceries again ( except fresh produce ).  That stockpile should be about a six month supply.  The post-collapse stockpile should start at a year, and I’d be restless at night until it hit a three year supply.  Good gravy, its grain and oil and some vitamin pills.  Anyone can afford it.  But have it before the better food.

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I stock all wheat kernels, with almost zero white flour.  But I’ve also eaten whole wheat my whole life, and in times of severe financial stress I’ve eaten the bulk of my daily calories in whole wheat and butter.  I like the taste and I’m used to eating a lot of it.  Your mileage is most likely far different.  I assume most of you prefer white flour over whole wheat.  You’ll also need to do this if there is no feed and grain store nearby ( Wal-Mart wheat is near a buck a pound, feed store is 35cents after container  ).

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So you go long white flour and supplement that with whole kernel flour.  Half and half is optimal, but you could go lower on the whole flour.  White flour finally came down after ten years to 28cents a pound ( which speaks of economic collapse in an overpopulated world of crop failures ).  1 to 3 whole kernel to white flour sees you at 46cents a pound ( remember, compared to $1lb for the bucket wheat at Wally ). Which is usually cheaper than rice, and is more nutritious and a more variable menu.  Go Wheat, rice sucks!

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White Foods last a good ten years plus with little taste difference ( there were no nutrients to lose ).  White flour might taste slightly off after five years, but it won’t taste terrible and will still deliver calories.  Again, yes, this is sub-optimal for a diet.  Yes, in a stressful and combat filled existence high quality food is best.  But you cannot afford all that many MRE’s ( price and taste are out, pick calorie and protein rich ).  One MRE equals two weeks of wheat calories.  You want to starve by day two rather than day sixteen?

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Always start at quantity over quality, in case the end is indeed nigh tomorrow.  Then work your way towards quality.  All wheat, from the feed store, in a container is $500 for FIVE years of calories.  Yes, you want supplements to those calories.  But if the worst happens at least you have that base calorie unit.  Enough calories to look for more calories. 

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Okay, obviously this series of articles isn’t going to stop at three installments.  But I’m a bit bored already and I know you are, since you are easily distracted by shiny glitter on unicorns.  So, if I do continue this, it will be at a latter date. 

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