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Unlike last February when I started getting ready for the end of the world, kek, this year to repopulate my shelves I have been more selective about what I buy. I have 3 criteria:

  1. It must be shelf stable

  2. It must be something that my family will eat on a normal non SHTF day

  3. It must be at least 40% off

Every Wednesday when I take my boys to Kung Fu practice I have an hour to visit the big store there and walk all of the isles looking for stuff that meets my criteria, the loss leaders that these big retail chains offer just to get you in the door has been very helpful. I don't buy any of their other stuff just the cheap good stuff that meets my needs so fuck them.

For example today I picked up 27 juice boxes (right section, 3rd shelf down, blue box) at a 50% discount; I got 12 bottles of Heinz ketchup (same shelf) at a 45% discount; 12 cans of hot dogs at a 69% discount and a box of Oreos for 50% off (right section 2nd shelf down). Today was a good day.

We will be rotating all of this into our normal food plans and will be saving an actual bundle; if SHTF we should be fine for about 4-5 months.

So niggers, give it to me straight, what am I missing and what am I doing right?

Unlike last February when I started getting ready for the end of the world, kek, this year to repopulate my shelves I have been more selective about what I buy. I have 3 criteria: 1. It must be shelf stable 2. It must be something that my family will eat on a normal non SHTF day 3. It must be at least 40% off Every Wednesday when I take my boys to Kung Fu practice I have an hour to visit the big store there and walk all of the isles looking for stuff that meets my criteria, the loss leaders that these big retail chains offer just to get you in the door has been very helpful. I don't buy any of their other stuff just the cheap good stuff that meets my needs so fuck them. For example today I picked up 27 juice boxes (right section, 3rd shelf down, blue box) at a 50% discount; I got 12 bottles of Heinz ketchup (same shelf) at a 45% discount; 12 cans of hot dogs at a 69% discount and a box of Oreos for 50% off (right section 2nd shelf down). Today was a good day. We will be rotating all of this into our normal food plans and will be saving an actual bundle; if SHTF we should be fine for about 4-5 months. So niggers, give it to me straight, what am I missing and what am I doing right?

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[–] • 3 pts

A big part of what you are doing right is buying stuff in bulk and on sale as part of your regular diet.

Let's say you are saving an average of 30% off across all of your purchases.

If you took that money and put it in any bank these days, you are not going to generate 30% in annual interest.

Think of how much money you spend on food every year. It kind of adds up quickly.

And these gains are after tax too. They are actually the equivalent of much larger taxable returns.

What's the word for that? Thrift, I believe.

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Thrift, I believe.

I actually identify as a skinflint thank you very much. But seriously you are not wrong, this is our first house so it took me a while to realize how much money we could save by buying normal (shelf stable) foods at bulk discount and using our basement to store the stuff. Even if ayyy lmao don't land next week we are saving min 40% on everyday items that we use and if ayyy lmao do land we are ok for a fair bit. We will use all of it and since it isn't going to go bad we have a fair amount of time to do so. At least that's how I look at it.

[–] • 1 pt

we have a fair amount of time

You need enough time to re-adjust to a new way of acquiring foodstuffs. That can mostly depend on outside factors, but you can hedge your bets by getting into gardening or make sure you are up on your tradeable skills.

You cannot buy enough to last the rest of your lifetime.

In the meantime you are practicing skills that will work well when a slump/crash hits. Get into making shit from scratch. Like with just flour and a few other ingredients. Hunting/fishing/smoking/salting/canning/bottling are good too. You don't need to become an expert, just good enough to produce something.

[–] • 3 pts

Maybe you could look into honey, it'll last forever and can be used as an antiseptic on wounds.

Be aware storing foods like rice or flour in plastic containers. The plastic doesn't stop oxygen molecules, you'll have to use mylar bags to store rice for very long term. Also a good idea to stick flour in the freezer, to kill any eggs from insects, before long term storage.

Also, try looking into meat such as beef. Meat is the most efficient food, and meat like beef has all the fats you need for energy and mental stability.

[–] • 1 pt

I had honey stocked last year but since then it really hasn't been on sale and is god awful expensive. 40% rule.

I do have pork, chicken, turkey and tuna on the shelves but my beef from last year only lasted about six months. It was such a pain in the ass that I am really not going to do that again: https://poal.co/s/BBQ/156515

Thanks for the advice!

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I bought a set of freeze dried chicken and beef. The chicken turned out good, but I've not tried the beef.

We've done similar in purchasing with my wife doing a lot 9f couponing to top it off. Unfortunately our shelves are a hodge podge mess, and we're looking at redoing our "pantry" to store more.

The canned chicken from Costco seems to last a good year at least in our experience.

Same overall goals though, buy what we eat so we can cycle through it, with some levels of "emergency" food on top to at the very least take camping.

[–] • 0 pt

I should add, maybe look into compressed towels or similar. Might come in handy when you need to use the toilet or clean up. As well as other toiletries.

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Needs more guns.

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I know I'll be eating a gun in a shtf scenario.

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Why wait?

[–] [deleted] • 2 pts

I am a chronic procrastinator.

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U need more safety straw thing that allow u to drink any water

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Needs more ILLEGAL CONTRABANDs!

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Don't talk about my (not pictured) crawlspace under the stairs.

Note to all LEOs: All of my posts are satire and only refer to a local Minecraft server.

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That time your crawlspace under the stairs fell overboard was tragic. I am sorry for your loss.

In local minecraft servers.

[–] • 2 pts

I appreciate your condolences from that time we played. In Minecraft. On that server.

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Wait. Canned hotdogs?

[–] • 0 pt

They are actually really good, far better than those faggot tier vienna sausages.

[–] • 0 pt

I've just never seen hotdogs in a can I don't think. Those vienna sausages yeah but not regular dogs. Huh til

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It's a Euro thing.

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I have 3 shelves full and 18 buckets of just add water food. Have 3 50gallon rain barrels and I also vacuum foodseal all flour, sugar, rice, beans, coffee in usable portions to not open a bulk container.

Tip: for vacuum seals.

Use paper bags to portion, place one bay leaf inside (bugs away), and tape top down. Allow for air in paper bag, or the vaccumm sealer will suck the contents in unit. Place paper bag in sealer bag. Use unit.

Buy a manual table grinder for corn, coffee, or beans. French press for coffee. Buy bone scissors for hunting. Easier than a knife for some parts.

I'll be canning this summer. I already ate all my canning up.

One thing to stock is matches, and good knives and scissors, candles, iodine, bandaids.

I also have liquor (vodka, whiskey, and a bit of everclear) and tobacco hidden by the case for barter if needed. Those will be looted first, weed of course will too.

Have a bug out bag made, and have weapons for defense. I have 3 30gallon gas cans and I also bought emp protection for both vehicles but have not installed them yet.

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Sounds like you are set.

I did vacuum seal the flour and pasta and the rice should be fine since it is in sealed plastic bags inside an unsealed plastic container (it hasn't been a problem yet).

EMP protection you are way ahead of me there, I will just have to hoof it if that happens.

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150 and connect to your battery.

Great beginning btw!

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The only thing that I personally would change is to put your dried goods in food grade 5 gallon buckets. You can easily get them from your local bakery for free. The buckets that their frosting comes in are air tight and they will gladly give them away just to get rid of them. Otherwise, it's perfect. Mine looks pretty close, except I can a shit ton of meals like soups and stews, fruits and veggies from my garden.

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An excellent point since you can see by looking at our basement walls that we do have moisture issues. Fortunately I addressed that today by taking anything that isn't sealed in plastic and putting it into a vacuum sealed bag (commercial grade thick plastic).

If you look at section 2, 4th shelf down you will see some Barrilla pasta that formerly lived in a paper box and if you look at the bottom container on the right closely you will see that every 1kg bag of flour has also been similarly sealed. It took about an hour to do it but was well worth it, I grabbed a bag of sugar last month that felt like a rock from not being in a watertight container.

Being able to make your own food for your shelves is the absolute best, I gave it a go last year but since I didn't have any curing salt it only lasted about 6 months. Still some of the best damned jerky I have ever had. https://poal.co/s/BBQ/156515

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

That jerky looks delicious. I'm going to give your marinade a try as it's different from mine. I buy my meat and eggs directly from farmers. I have two large chest freezers and I buy half cows, and whole pigs and chickens. It's nice and they will butcher it any way that I like. When I do have to go to the store, I do the same as you do, I buy in bulk on sale.

Damn it, I really want some homemade jerky now. lol

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For my BBQ I also have a direct line to a butcher who works at the farm to part out the animals to retail butchers. Farm direct is the best. Period. Freaks the Mrs. out though sometimes since I generally get the goods in plastic trash bags rather than hygienic vacuum sealed cuck bags. Lots of blood around too, I like it.

For my smoker I don't generally ever use a marinade or even inject, good beef really just needs salt, pepper and IMHO a bit of paprika on occasion.

Pork and chicken on the other hand are a different story.

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Good post.

More dried goods is my call, and more water storage/supplies.

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I have about 15 kilos of flour and about 30 kilos of rice, I've just been waiting for the rice to go on sale (will stock another 30 kilos since we eat a fair amount of rice normally). Water I am currently stocking but only because our well is frozen in the winter and that bottom left section is empty because I am waiting on a test order of powdered milk. I ordered it today but have no idea what it will taste like so I want to test it first, if it sucks then it will be back to the boxed milk like I had last year.

Thanks for the suggestions!

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I like the shelves, but not what’s on them. You are aware that food stores need to be rotated, right! That means you are dedicated to eating a shit ton of baked beans. I can’t recall the last time I ate a shitty can of high fructose corn syrup laden anything, much less shitty baked beans. If that’s what you poison your family with, along with other Goy foods on the reg, then fine, I can’t stop you, but I wouldn’t eat any of that shit other than in an emergency.

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No vegetable? I suggest you to grow some vegetables, and fruits there too.

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