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Im in australia but i keep hearing on this site about food shortages. i grow peas but not many, only like 30 sprouts.

which can goods should i buy. or should i just rely on peas.

also how many pea seeds would feed me regularly?

Im in australia but i keep hearing on this site about food shortages. i grow peas but not many, only like 30 sprouts. which can goods should i buy. or should i just rely on peas. also how many pea seeds would feed me regularly?

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Potatoes, I can't explain how good of a food it is.

I still eat potatoes and lose weight. Can't do that with wheat for me anyway. Potatoes are easy to grow. Easy to find dehydrated potatoes and they are surprisingly tasty.

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FunFact: humans can live off a diet of potatoes and butter (and water).

Another fun fact: In the novel "The Death of Grass" potatoes are all that's left after an engineered virus kills all forms of grass.

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How long? Also how fucked would you be due to lack of other nutrients?

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Please re-read my comment, slowly.

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Potatoes don't store as long as dried beans though.

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Stock up on food you regularly eat and rotate it. Otherwise, you'll toss a lot of stored food once it expires.

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Steak, buy lots of steak. Meat is strength.

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Some of the old voat preppers came here, I assume you are not alergic to nuts or dairy s/preppers/ ...maybe learn how to make soap, bags, tools and masks. We last only a few days without waters so store water of course, could be an idea to have oxygen and some biofarm greenhouse going. Water and canned food is step one but the good thing is you are already growing stuff, so you have a knife, farm tools and ammo? Canned seltzer water lasts indefinitely, adds fizzy pep to your water supply and supports your gut and helps relieve constipation! A mirror and ham radio can be good for communication. You need to hide food underground or lock it away and defend what you have.

You can dry, prep and salt the meat, this dry Meat, such as jerky, is a great way to get some much-needed protein. Rice, noodles and pasta store for years if you keep it cool and dry, Canned fruits, vegetables can keep you healthy. Do you have a bee farm??? because honey can keep you alive and honey can also be used medicinally. Pure alcohol can be made from any fermenting crops and is used for wounds or cleaning electronics, bad old wine is still good Vinegar can be an effective cleaning agent.. You need tins and cans and stuff preserved in jars, canned beans, some type of meat in a tin, Dried Fruit lasts over time, some Candy chocolate sugar can be good if you need a sudden energy rush and they won't soil over time. Energy/Cereal is also important and seeds for when it slowly gets back to normal.

In the worst case your water might shut off, the entire system might break down with Apocalypse Doomsday type Rioting, Protests and Looting, you could need guns, patriots, cameras and look out dogs to defend your people, family and town... and you might need to recycle things like lost food/waste to produce more soil / fuels etc You can buy up a bunch of tinned canned stuff store them in a room or cellar and if nothing happens then just donate to some chairty shelter for homeless. Some of the hippie alt food buddhist werido yoga community are good at making things with flour and knowing what wild weeds and plants are edible and good for putting into bread and cakes, you could always just invest in an old school plant book or survival book, Flour is the key ingredient for many great home made cooked foods. Cheese can be a good one because encased in European style wax it can last up to 25 years. Things like Salt and Gold have been trade items since ancient times, Gold is used in electronics, Silver is used in Water Filters and Salt is used as a preservative, that draws in moisture from other foods. Salt's dryness proprety is a barter currency it is helpful and prevents bacteria from spoiling food. Learn what plants, wildlife and fish live near you, use plants and weeds to make herbal teas, find other preppers and off the grid home stead people. Have some sort of stove, moulds, pit fires or work tool shop in case you have to start making stuff, buy a big DIY book because books will be importnt if the interwebs is down.

a guy who survived Bosnia between 1992 and 1995 said women will whore themselves to eat ...maybe also spread STDs during end times? and candles, lighters, antibiotics, batteries are important...people can kill each other over these items or they are important for trade / barter. You probably need a team,you cant watch out 24/7 and living alone can get you killed by another bandit mafia raider team. https://www.silverdoctors.com/gold/gold-news/one-year-in-hellsurviving-a-full-shtf-collapse-in-bosnia/ 'Money soon became worthless.'...The streets were blocked by wreckage and by abandoned cars...Every tree in the city and in the city park was cut down for fuel in the first two months.

People died foolishly quite often. Simple diarrhea will kill you in a few days without medicine, with limited amounts of water. There were many skin diseases and food poisonings… nothing to it. Many used local plants and pure alcohol — enough for the short-term, but useless in the long term. Hygiene is very important, as well as having as much medicine as possible — especially antibiotics

Without electricity for cooking and heat, we burned anything that burned. Furniture, doors, flooring: That wood burns swiftly. We had no suburbs or suburban farms. The enemy was in the suburbs. We were surrounded. Even in the city you never knew who was the enemy at any given point.

If I do nothing else, this is #1 prep food item.

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I have some ribeye seeds available for anyone that has too much bitcoin lying around...

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Look into freeze drying, you can preserve meat for a long time.

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Because it has a quantity of saturated fats most similar to our own.

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What you want to grow will depend on your circumstances. How much land you have, the climate, etc.

Another thing to consider is how you plan to store your food. Storing food in cold storage is resource intensive and a risk if power is lost even for a few days. Here, in Aus, the fowler preserving system is widely used. I use that to preserve enough tomatoes to feed myself for the year. I really only need to grow half a dozen tomatoe plants. They are preserved simply in jars or cooked down into pasata.

Look for storage alternatives that are room temp. Another option is to make sauerkraut. It is simple to make (cabbage + salt), stores well and is good for you. Also kimchi if you like a bit of spice, but that is best stored in the fridge.

I tend to avoid crops that are grown commercially locally (potatoes, onions and peas for me) as commercial producers are much more efficient than me and I can buy them locally quite cheaply.

Other things you might grow are zucchini (huge yield for little effort), corn, pumpkin, silverbeet, etc.

Also perennial herbs like rosemary, sage, thyme, etc.

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I've been stocking for about a year. Beans tune rice Also got a bow and arrow kit from wish Deer are a pest in Australia. Thank God. Incase shit does go down.

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Do you have any idea how difficult bow hunting deer is you faggot? Bambi doesn't just come up to you

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You might be interested in

There are several posts such as that one below that might help answering your questions.

https://poal.co/s/preppers/348258

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cool beans

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Yes, i missed beans. easy to cook and massive protein.

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Been a month since anyone posted there. Might be just informational stuff, but, as far as any dialogue good luck.

They downvote too much so that would be a pass.

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Feel free to correct that and share your knowledge on the topic. Anything will be welcome.

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171 subscribers on it I am surprised it has gone quiet.

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Beans and rice make a complete protein when eaten together. Stock up on those too.

Don't know about peas, but here is what I do. I stocked up on canned beans and meats. I like canned chili , canned tomatoes, beets, and prepared soups too. Rice and corn torillas I keep a good stock of those since I don't eat wheat. Frozen meats and veggies to go through first. It will be getting cold here so we keep the freezers in an outdoor building. Bought some uncured sausages and franks. Anything that takes a lot of water and cooking time isn't worth the energy expenditure.

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Bacon, Peanut butter. Flour and any can soup.

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Yes bacon. Also smoked fish, frozen fish and equipment to go fishing and hunting. Peanut butter? I forgot it. Will put it on my list.

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Honey lasts forever, it has been found in Egyptian tombs, still edible.

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Sugar also lasts forever. Honey is just sugar.

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not true. honey has additional antimicrobial factors. this is why it was traditionally used to treat wounds, even up until ww1, it was used on the battlefield.

here's a white paper that briefly explaines how bee saliva in the honey breaks down into hydrogen peroxide after application.

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2012.00242/full

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  • Rice (dry)
  • Beans (dry and canned)
  • Tuna
  • Spam
  • Flour
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Non-perishable goods, meat, or things that you can stretch to last a long time.

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Invest in a dehydrator. A water filtration for camping like Sawyer brand or Aussie equivalent. Since you are heading into your summer start a garden with heirloom vegetables.

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