four storage plan book 2

FOUR STORAGE PLAN BOOK 2

Introduction, cont.

Let us say that for whatever reason one day you wake up and say to yourself, Self, you gloriously beautiful meat sack, my pretty face won't last a minute in the apocalypse slavers camp, tossed around like a sex toy before I end up in the stew pot, so I need to listen to this weird guy I happened to run across whose hair exceeds only mine in lusciousness, and I need to listen to him and immediately procure Wheat & Ammo. And you should. Because you never know what disaster will take down Business As Usual.

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If you were like me and read THE bestest post apocalypse book ever in the universe, Lucifer's Hammer, you discovered that there were things as bad as a global thermonuclear war ( “shall we play a game?” ). An asteroid could hit us at any time. The odds are low, granted, but it could and that means no amount of “good governance” or “well run corporations” ( I denote their impossibility by quoting those terms ) could stop a world ending event. If you hate long books, I would heartily recommend “Cannibal Reign”. Now THAT is an apocalypse!

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Do NOT buy one lone can of freeze dried armadillo butthole. Do not buy a “survival pail of food” which is mainly crap foods you can buy cheaper like instant oatmeal, instant grits, instant flavored pasta noodles, Rice-A-Roni or the like. Go buy yourself one large bag of white flour, or white rice ( the 25 pound sack ). Done. You have one month of calories. Granted, substandard calories. Removing the hull of a grain only leaves the starch, no vitamins, no fiber, importantly, no protein ( do you want beriberi? Because that's how you get beriberi-too much White Foods ).

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But it is calories, which is fuel. You need fuel first. THEN you need nutrition. I am NOT advocating White Foods alone ( white rice and beans are fine. You get the protein, AND cheap calories from rice ). That is why I wouldn't go much past one months worth of ONLY a white grain. You'll have other canned goods with vegetables ( never rely on canned vegetables long term. FRESH vegetables from whole kernel wheat is what you need for the micro-nutriants and enzymes. Myself, personally? I wouldn't trust freeze dried either ) and some meats to supplement the white food.

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The point here is that you cheaply and instantly Calorie Up. Now you can relax, not panic ( if a month is as lame to you as it is me, get four bags, 100 pounds, which will fit in one $8 Wal-Mart plastic tote of 20 gallons, for about $22 in flour. Up to four months calories for $30. Add other foods as discussed, and you are still under $100 ) and not buy stupid foods like MRE's and freeze dried. They are fine, but in moderation. Now, obviously, if you are rich, go nuts on fancy foods. I just don't write for those 2% of survivalists. Plenty of those panderers up in Idaho.

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Don't worry, my pretty. You can have your Super Deluxe Survival Foods. I cover that under its own section, the “Bug-In Plan”. There are four plans, as the title might have clued you in to. The “Collapse Plan” is what you are always hearing me drone on about, five years of wheat and a few odds and ends. Super cheap, as low as $700, fits in one commercial tote and is such an incredible peace of mind that I cannot believe what an idiot I was to not have it earlier than ten years ago.

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The “Bug-In Plan” is your traditionally hawked foods that everyone wanted you to buy because that is where the advertising money came from. I'm not saying freeze dry canned butter and meat and milk is a bad idea, because it isn't, I merely state that most of you on a limited prepper budget need quantity over quality. After the calories, THEN the luxury. You can have a bit to start with, for the week or two you cannot cook, or are on the run, but it is a limited time plan, NOT realistic as a years worth of food.

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The “Inflation Plan” is buying your regular pre-collapse foods, your complete menu, to fight inflation that is as guaranteed as the sun rising tomorrow ( if 'Ol Sol does NOT pop up tomorrow, you are dead anyway, so don't worry about it ). You are still dependent on the grid for many of these foods ( although, you don't HAVE to be ), so it is an economic contraction plan more than a collapse plan. This not only saves you from inflation, a paying investment much better than the interest the banks pay you, under a dollar on a six month one thousand dollar CD, but it also lets you survive short term emergencies, AND, it allows you time to adapt to unusual, poverty time menus.

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The “Budget Plan” is ONLY items on Super Sale, the items that are loss leaders for the grocery stores ( this does NOT include Wal-Mart, which is why when you think you heard “sale”, they actually mean “stale”. There are zero sales at Wally, just “rollbacks”. The days of extreme low price leader are over, but that JUST means you don't have the convenience of One Spot Shopping. To save money, I'll gladly sacrifice that luxury ). This plan only works if you can live as a human being, and not a spoiled rich Yuppie Whore. You must plan ahead, always save money on everything, and invest instead of piss-away your money.

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The Collapse Plan doesn't really crossover to the other plans. Wheat is never on sale. It is sold with razor thin margins as it is, and no feed store wants to lure you in by giving it away at below cost. The crap doesn't go bad, so no emergency mark-downs. It is bulky and heavy and no one wants to overstock it for a sale. The Bug-In Plan, can, but usually doesn't, ever go on sale. If you are buying it, for all intents and purposes, it won't go bad ( except the MRE's, which are only a worry after five years if you kept them cool and dark ). It can be, mostly, considered a one time buy.

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The Budget and Inflation plan do mix and match a lot. I'm usually always endangering both plans by raiding them and putting them in the collapse plan, but I'm a little “off” that way, always trying to extend the number of years in my collapse plan. Luckily, I'm always short on storage containers so I cannot sin too bad, as much as I'd like ( the mice are not upstairs, but in the basement, so I don't need protection for my budget and inflation plans that are part of my regular menu ). Which is good because a lot of these foods only go on sale once a year, like white sugar after the holiday's.

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The whole point here is that you cannot have just one food storage plan. I mean, you CAN, but you shouldn't. I did myself. I had wheat only. Time proved that this was a terrible plan. I was spending too much on groceries, so I could never spend the extra on sales. I didn't have a way to ease into wheat only. It was what was in the fridge, then nothing but wheat. Stress, in a time of life and death stress. Plus, this plan almost finances itself. What you save on regular groceries buys a LOT of storage food. Perfect for those on the frugal budget.

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note: normally I don't take Ice Age Farmer totally to heart.  Too many times what he attributes to Solar Minimum can be otherwise explained ( when you are a hammer everything looks like a nail ).  However, the video yesterday had me rather concerned.  Like, the Chinese army taking over the main rice growing district along with the claim the soy exports to China halting weren't from the trade war but crop lose.  Again, both things explained away ( army isn't controlling production as much as providing needed manpower, or, it was Chinese PsychOps since there is a blackout of info over there ).  BUT.  All of it taken together makes sense and might be truer this time than the other times I've dismissed the report.  HERE 
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