four storage plan book 9

FOUR STORAGE PLAN BOOK 9

Chapter Five

Collapse Plan

The collapse plan is basically wheat. Lots and lots of wheat. Four hundred pounds per person per year. The more years the better, like a minimum of three, better five and if biblical seven years. You might be choking on your coffee right about now, splattering the computer screen with a high velocity nasal mist, but five years of wheat is easy peasy and cheaper than dirt. What? You can't find $500 to eat for five years?

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Don't you think right now this very minute spending $500-less than most of you will spend on a plastic poodle shooter-for that kind of food security is the best thing you could ever conceive of doing? You might need to drive a few hours, to find a feed store ( the kind people use to buy bales of hay, not bags of hippie brewed organic dog food ). You might need to rent a truck, paying a bit more. But basically, you buy a ton of wheat-literally one ton, two thousand pounds-and put that up in a 330 gallon IBC tote.

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The only reason I recommend that size tote-and normally I like to decentralize things-is that it is the cheapest route, as low as $125 if you find a used food grade one. The wheat cost is going to vary. My eastern Nevada feed store charges $11 a fifty pound sack. $220 a thousand pounds. So, okay, you are probably looking at a more realistic $600-$800 food supply. But have you priced freeze dried? Even if it was available, that runs in the thousands of dollars. $600 for five years of calories. Two weeks of minimum wages ( if there were any jobs ).

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A pound of wheat is 1500 calories, which is what you need for a sedentary life, just enough calories your body doesn't start cannibalizing itself. Okay, yes, I know that may or may not be exact. I've seen plenty of people live a long time on far less calories than that. I don't entirely trust the body of research on calories and vitamins and related subjects. There is plenty we don't know that we don't know. But as a general guideline it is good enough for government work.

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The extra wheat is for sprouting. Your body will crave fresh foods. A can of freeze dried peas will NOT fool your body. Sprouts may taste like green dirt now, but you will come to love them on a survival diet. And to be clear, I'm not suggesting that you ONLY eat wheat. It would be much better to garden for greens and potatoes and corn, and to raise chickens for eggs. The wheat is there as a base calorie food, ideally not even used but set aside for crop failures. But for the most dire of circumstances, it will keep you alive. Have vitamin pills to supplement, just in case ( and shortening for long term fat storage ).

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If your feed store is unable to get so much wheat, as perhaps it is being rationed, or there are shortages at the wholesale level, or you can't afford to rent a U-Haul, a years supply of wheat is certainly better than nothing. You will need twelve 5-gallon buckets, about $60 at Home Depot. But I wouldn't buy at Home Depot. After buying there for a decade, the cheese dingus slurping whores cheaped out on the lid and they are now a waste of money ( I was so pissed, I refused to try a more expensive lid-but the orange lid now has such a thin inner lip they tear and rip and you don't get a secure seal. Do NOT buy the Home Despot orange units ).

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I always liked Wally Mart buckets, but they are perpetually out of lids. If you can get through their slow ass web site you might be able to order the lids and buckets so you assure yourself you get exactly what you need. As a bonus for all that grief, the white plastic is food grade ( whereas Home Depot may not be. I know if you put the orange buckets in the sun, they start outgassing ). I can't vouch for the quality, now, as it has been many years, so start out with one to test. But even though both companies play fast and loose with quality, Home Depot seems much worse.

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If you are paying much more than $26 a hundred pounds for wheat ( if the grain is NOT treated with vet medicine, it should be fit for human consumption. Red, or White variety doesn't matter so long as it is Hard variety. More protein and stores better. I think Red tastes better, but I store whatever they have at the time, not being picky. This is the apocalypse after all ), you can always buy half white flour and half whole kernels. I wouldn't go over half white. If the grocery store is out, check the local restaurant supply. I would store both outside ( out of the sun ) during the winter to kill any weevils. Or, bay leaves in the flour and food grade diatomaceous earth rolled around in the wheat ( if filling that big tote, I'd fill a five gallon bucket with one cup of DE and roll it around, then pour into the tote ).

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You'll need several grinders ( what? ONE grinder for ALL that wheat? I don't think so. One Is None, Buckwheat ). Start out with a Victoria brand ( $45 ) and a back-up Chinese knock off at half that price. Then I'd buy something that actually ground a fine pastry flour rather than the cheaper units course chicken feed. The cheap grinders are made for corn, not wheat, and you'll need to use them three times ( once on course, then medium, then fine, NEVER allowing the plates to touch each other or you'll get metal shavings ) and you won't get a pastry flour. A more course peasant flour. That is the price for budget.

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Good luck finding beans or rice right now. You will be lucky to even find the wheat. If you cannot eat wheat, you'll be spending Big Bucks eating an imported impostor grain ( I've had issues storing corn, with its high moisture content. Plus, it needs to be treated with lime, AND it is no longer cheap ). But believe me, it helps you sleep like a baby at night, and money will be worthless soon enough anyway.

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