10 Best Survival Foods At Your Local SupermarketByselfnews Post By now most people should be aware that grocery stores only have about 3 days of food in stock when crises strike. So if anything was to disrupt the food supply chain for an extended period of time, there would be untold chaos in most communities. Any number of events could trigger mass disruption to a fragile food system, many of which are well documented and even predicted. Even NASA has warned its staff to prepare for potential disasters with survival foods and other precautions with their Family Preparedness Program. Prepping for disasters can seem overwhelming with so many aspects to be considered. However, for those just beginning to recognize how perilous these times are and are new to prepping, you can find many great survival foods at your local grocery store. There are many freeze-dried food companies offering light-weight storable meals. These are cost effective and great for new preppers. But if you dont have $1000 laying around to buy a large supply, it may be better to pick up a few key items each week at the supermarket to build up your food bank gradually. And by buying base foods at the store, youll ultimately save money. Its best to keep your survival food list simple, and concentrate on storing foods with the highest amount of calories and the longest shelf life.This list is geared toward foods that will help you survivea crisis that lasts for extended periods of time. Here are the ten best and cheapest survival rations available at any store: Rice: Every time you go to the store you should buy one 10-lb bag of rice. You can find them for around $5 at most supermarkets. Rice will stay in good condition for 10 years or more if stored properly. It offers high carbohydrates which is especially important if you are exerting a lot of physical energy during a crisis. Beans: Beans are known to be one of the best all-round survival foods. Theyre high in protein, and if sealed in food-grade buckets with a small amount of dried ice, theyll stay for up to ten years. Make sure to store them in a cool, dry, dark location. Buy a 4-5 lb bags of dried beans every time you go to the store. All dry beans are good to store; black beans, red beans, pinto beans, lentils, etc. Cornmeal: All-purpose flours are good to store, but cornmeal may be the best overall. Cornmeal is packed with dense carbohydrates and contains oils that helps extend its shelf life. Additionally, if the power grid is down during a mega disaster, it is much easier to make good corn breads and tortillas with cornmeal in a simple skillet or solar oven, where refined flour will need yeast and oil to make decent bread or biscuits. Get a 5-lb bag of cornmeal ($10-$15) at each grocery visit. Seal and store the same way as beans (buckets, salt and dry ice), and it will safely keep 8 months to 2 years. Lard: If youre a health-conscious reader, hydrogenated lard does not sound very appetizing, but in a survival situation you cant afford to be picky. Animal lard or vegetable shortening both offer much-needed calories during times of crisis, cooking oil for multiple uses, and it will keep longer than cooking oils because of the hydrogenation. Buy a 6-lb can ($12) and store in a cool, dry, and dark place and it will stay good for 2-3 years or longer. Salt: Salt is one of the most useful survival food items. Its used for storing food, curing beef, and flavoring most meals. Salt will stay forever, so always buy extra when youre shopping. Canned Fruit Vegetables: These are another obvious survival food, but not as practical as many would think. Theyre heavy and somewhat costly for the calories they deliver. Additionally, acidic fruits and any cans with tomatoes will not keep as long as most people think. But most canned food is good for 5+ years. Buy green vegetables and fruits like peaches and pears for long-term storage, but more importantly, buy what you already eat in case you need to rotate them into your diet before they go bad. Canned Meat: Canned meats like ham, tuna, and chicken are excellent to store. They typically will keep for 6-10 years and theyre an excellent source of protein. However, if the grid is down for a long time (apocalyptic), hunting and fishing will likely provide most meats. Therefore, it may be sufficient to buy extra canned meats every other time you go shopping. Sugar: Brown and white sugar will add much-needed flavor and calories to a survival diet and theyll keep for ten years or more if stored properly. Honey is also excellent as it will store forever. Make sure to buy extra every other time you go grocery shopping. You wont need too much, but theyll be well worth having if a crisis strikes. Pasta: Pasta is a good light-weight storable food that is also a great source of carbohydrates. Pasta will not keep as long as rice, but it can stay for around 5 years in good conditions. Pasta is also very inexpensive and extra should be bought at each trip to the store. It will take up more space in your food bank than rice, beans and cornmeal, so plan your space the best you can. Peanut Butter: Peanut butter is a terrific source of protein, fat, and calories. Plus, its just a great treat to have on hand. Peanut butter can last up to five years in root cellar conditions. Stock up whenever there are good deals at your grocery store. Youll be happy you did if the SHTF. Barter Coins: Its also a good idea to have some silver coins for barter in an economic crisis situation. To track the value of silver coins you can use the silver coins calculator at http://www.coinvalues.com/silver. If you consistently buy these items 3-4 times per month, youll quickly acquire a years supply of survival rations for your whole family. How to store it? A really basic way to store the rice, beans, cornmeal, sugar and pastas is to buy several 5-gallon seal-able paint buckets or food-grade buckets from your local hardware store. Put a cup or so of salt into a sandwich baggie (opened) at the bottom of the buckets. Then fill it with food stuffs and add a couple of ounces of dried ice (found at large grocery stores) which will remove the oxygen from the bucket after its sealed. Finally, label each bucket with its contents and the date, and place it in your cellar. Please let us know what other food items you think will be useful for new preppers. Thats what a lot of people though in Southern Louisiana before Hurricane Katrina. Im sure there were quite a few who grew to enjoy the taste of GUNS, although I still wonder how they were cooked. Do they taste like chicken? An ebola outbreak. Please stop being a dumbass living in fairy land. Wake up to reality, if its not this outbreak itll be the next one. OMG! Its the zombies world now Yeah, howd that Ebola outbreak work out for ya? Worked out fine for me. Not so well for the people who died during it though. if your taking serious medicine your in trouble to start with. You will need to come together as a community to survive. You cannot stand alone with your supplies you will be caught offguard by a mob of hundreds who like you said will go door to door. You need an area that has access to fresh water. Fresh water can easily be decontaminated w/ chlorine. You stated you need medicine to survive. yes you will die if the temoil lasts over a year, but who wants to just sit down and give up. Fight to the end with dignity. Jesus did not give up up the road to crusifiction and neither should we. Did Jesus just up and quit when he knew he was going to be crucified? No, he walked the walk with dignity and I believe he expects us to do the same. In addition to the food, buy a bag of ascorbic acid, that is Vit C that will last years and prevent scurvy, remember scurvy? Its fatal. Buy a small bottle of Potassium Salt, it will last a few years and you have your potassium which is essential. Buy lots of lugols iodine or iodine of choice, to clean water and also as medicine, and clean wounds. Buy magnesium flakes to make magnesium oil, a bag will last many many years. Dont forget lots of colloidal silver since it kills Ebola easily. Stock up on iron tablets. Dried fruit like dates (the cheapest), very sweet and lots of potassium etc in them. When the epidemic hits, some say it has started, buy containers you can bury this stuff in your garden. When they ransack your house, they will not dig up your whole garden, they wont find it. Look desperate and plead with them that you will starve, which you might if you dont have enough rice etc. The main issue will be water and this is what will kill most of us anyway, when we dont live near water and cant distill sea water. Buy a camping stove because power will be out. Women dont forget as many tampons as you can afford you could use these to barter with as people will be desperate for them also. People will probably steal warm clothing when they ransack, steal shampoo and soap and anything useful for toilet paper. most are forgetting the number one survival tool. The Bible Fire starter. Good idea Good one. How about this, which is true. A friend of mine and I were riding around in his dads car. We had weed and no pipe or papers. We did, however, have his dads Bible in the car. Yes, we tore out a mostly-blank page and twisted one up. It worked. Ive been on a hell-bound train ever since. I figure, after that, JCs got my number, so what the heck. I hope you read the page before you burnt it, Im sure God wants you to be happy. can stop knives and small calibre bullets too. real tired of people saying water, water is not food. its called best survival foods, not tips, water is a different matter. ignorance is why we are going down hill. Prepping might not give you long term survivability.. but what is does do.. is give you options for the NOW. if you can live past the immediate, then it gives you time to think of options. I am trying to prepare a small on the go bag for emergencies. A lot of horrible things happened in 2014, but I feel in my heart that 2015 will be the year where these horrors will creep into the USA. I pray more people prepare, especially families. I see you posted this 6 months ago, prior to what is happening right now in Americaour freedom is going by the wayside and the economies of the world are in very bad shape (Greece in particular). A lot of people are starting to think that the latter-half of this year will be it: something will happen in the next 6 months. Trying to prepare, but on limited income and only the spouse working, its hard. May God help us. Im 22, I have a baby on the way. I work my ass off to support my little family. I think about everything Im going to have to do to make sure that if my family is going to die ,it will be from old age. I see people on here saying just give up its useless blah blah blah those are the people that are going to die first when shtf. One piece of advice buy ammo and shoot first. Let god sort these bastard traitors out. They ruined our world, and the people that are libtarded and bend over for the nwo deserve hot lead as well. Stock up on ammo because that will be the first to go. I pray for everyone who has kids, that atleast their kids will see better days. I plan on dying in a hot pile of spent brass and empty mags. Oh there ya go libtards are to blame for every thing including natural disasters? Oh wait With all the religious wackos on this thread, you probably DO think they are Gods punishment for liberal sins. A shame Gods aim is so bad, and those tornadoes always seem to hit rural trailer parks where conservative rednecks live, vs major cities where the libtards reside! Rather than focusing on the practicality of stocking enough supplies to survive long term, consider a much more likely scenario: the need to achieve social distancing. The Spanish Flu outbreak in 1918 killed 2% of the worlds population; how long before something jumps species and gets out of control? Maybe not an apocalyptic event, but something that would put our young and elderly at risk. The ability to remove yourself from society for 3 days to a week would be invaluable. Look no farther than the Ebola outbreak. If you lived in West Africa, how great would it be to not have to go to the store for food and expose your family to that hazard? Something to think about while you are starving to death for sure.. better to have and not need than need and not have Exactly!! Freaky christians! Freaky pagans and atheists, etc Like I always tell people, if you think Christianity is bad, look at what atheism did to the world. Mao, Stalin, Castro, etc. Millions of people died and millions more were impoverished and oppressed. I will take Christianity anyday. At least they have some constraints, How many people millions of people died at the hands of Christianity during the inquisition ? Or how about the time when missionaries would go to places like Australia or Africa what did that bloodbath look like hmmm. Even when the christianity pushers came to New World peddling fiction the bodies piled up. The only place Christianity had constraint is the mind. Wow..going back to the Inquisition which was a Catholic activity not tied to the vast majority of those who identify as Christians is a bit much. The Missionaries in the New World which destroyed so many native peoples? Damn if they werent Catholics as well, for the most part. Like I said Christianity. The only place Christianity had constraint is the mind. Good one, and oh so true. Christianity aint the only one, of course. You need to re-read your history.. The inquisition was the driving force of the Roman Catholics. This also included the Knights Templar. Christianity is not a religion. Its accepting Christ into your heart and allowing Him to change you from the inside. Belonging to a church or certain religious group will get you or me to heaven. Only accepting Christ and asking for forgiveness of your sins will truly set you free. The mind makes things real. And with that said millions upon millions of people believe that Christianity is a religion. So therefore it is a religion. I for one know that to believe that Jesus will set you free from your sins is the thinking of a child. You need to re-read history to find out no man name Jesus walked this Earth. First of all , belive in god is the key , i cant understand how we as humans came !! Forget the idea that we are monkeys or just came from nothing . Yes there are multiple religions but there is only one god Come let US make man in OUR image Dried fruit and vegetables keep really well and dont take up much space. Easy to use also. Yep,Exactly !! Nice list, I agree on the dried goods and peanut butter. You can also get powdered peanut butter that lasts a lot longer that the hydrated stuff. We have pulled together the biggest list of 131 survival foods which breaks each section down and explains how you can store and use these foods in a SHF scenario. You can check out here http://prepperzine.com/survival-food/ you must be so crazy that it makes your life difficult to live. while i feel very angry at your stupidity, i also feel incredibly sad for you For some (like me), survivalism is an intellectual exercise. Figuring out the best things to put in a limited space to keep you alive against a range of possible scenarios, researching protein content and caloric content, looking at user reviews, testing out snares and compact fishing tackle, learning to build fires from a variety of sources, keeping tactical gear and getting good with guns, planning emergency routes and transportation, building the perfect trauma kit. At best, its a fun and thoughtful hobby, and at worse, screw you, Im a lot further along if anything ever does happen. My partner is mildly scornful of it, too, although she doesnt troll good posts like this one just to make fun of people. Damn, I thought I was the only person that did thisthat is, just sort of fantasized about the end, sorta. I go as far as making written lists occasionally, but not much further. It really is fun. Check out a1960-ish cold war-inspired movie Panic in the Year Zero with Ray Miland. The big one hits while the family is on a camping vacation with a well-stocked camper.well, check it out. I think youll enjoy it. 99.9% of society is not going to believe what this guy is saying because hes a nutwhich is exactly why hes right. The Bible says that the gate is narrow; and few there be who will find it If you are siding with the majority, and have adopted the belief system of the worlds social majority, then you are on the broad path that leads to destruction. Repent and accept Jesus Christ now before its too late. If you are siding with the majority, and have adopted the belief system of the worlds social majority, then you are on the broad path that leads to destruction. With this logic you are on the road to destruction. Christianity is the major beLIEf system in the world. Or are you talking politically, in reference to Obama and Demopublicans? Care to clarify? Im not a Christian but study comparative mythologies and religious ideas. I see that for the most part Christianity is NOT the major belief system. While many may say they are, their behaviors and belief systems are straight out of public school misinformation. So you go to FEMA to lay down and die as they treat you like a pin cushion and I will do what I can to take care of myself and survive. Me and my loved ones will live. Why? Because we arent so lazy and pathetic that we will instantly crawl to FEMA and beg for a hand out. Most people that live now adays are too stupid and pitiful to do stuff for themselves, and you are part of that group apparently. If you want to live stop expecting others to coddle you. If not then go beg at FEMAs gate. The choice is yours! You point the finger at everyone else because we turned away from your god but you are the one who gives up so easily and we are the ones fighting. Who is really the one that fucked up? Stop blaming others because you dont care enough to do anything about anything! That is on you, not anyone else! Ill bet when your supplies run out, youll be visiting FEMA. Just a hunch. ok so lets say we have a general disaster. a tornado, an earthquake, a terrorist attack very close to your home. an event where you will only need to survive a few days to a few months to wait it out. That is not what I meant at all. I was responding to the bashing of FEMA. Yes, of course you want to have supplies on hand to be able to hunker down for a few days or weeks. thats a good strategy, and one that all too few people are prepared for. And yes, they will be seeking out the FEMA camps. But if the situation continues to drag on, so will you and I. I dont care how much prepping youve done or how many supplies you have on hand. It might be weeks, it might be months but eventually your stockpile is going to run out. And when it does, its hello FEMA. And thats not necessarily a bad thing. I dont want to be roaming the streets with my family, breaking into buildings trying to find supplies, and picking over what has already been Most canned vegies are packed in usable water. Buy extra canned food of what you usually use and rotate them while stockpiling. They will last long enough for long term use. Plus, they are a great projectile should you need one! (humor) Good luck, this message will self destruct in ten. poof! Quite a few of those who choose to survive by robbing will also die violently at someones door or maybe inside a strangers home. Also, robbers will encounter diminishing returns just like everyone else as the crisis deepens. People will have to work together to survive, maybe realize that what we gave up so easily was not a bad thing after all. Hopefully, we will re-learn that society flounders when moral codes are abandoned. Here is where the Bible is so necessary. My career was pure science, a way of thinking that I respect, but I also believe that God is real and that the wisdom we need is found in the Bible. 44 weak sheep. If I had away to get out of here. Youd all be left behind. The only problem with storing a lot of bulk items like rice beans pasta etc.They require lot of water to cook,maybe a precious commodity like water could be put to better uses,dried beans have to be soaked overnight.Im not saying dont purchase any of those items,just(in my opinion)go easy.Especially in my situation its just me and my wife.Plus cooking gives off odors which is just asking for trouble.I have plenty of canned items,i know they arent the healthiest things in the world,but they can(no pun intended)be cosumed directly and heated quickly if need be.Just my 2 cents worth. hey all some perspective on this whole imminent collapse of society thing going on here I live in Victoria, BC, on the Cascadia Subduction Zone. In the next 50ish years weve got a 30% chance of an M8 quake occurring, and a 10% chance of the Big One subduction-zone megathrust M9+ quake occurring. Since our wee little taster quake after Christmas Ive been feeling the tremors beneath me almost constantly, though the ground in fact does not move. By the time the tsunami has scoured the coast, the aftershocks have taken out what infrastructure survived the initial whammy, and our coastal communities have been shattered into a million and one little inaccessible and isolated pieces, were looking at 3 to 10 to even 20 days without assistance of any kind in the slightest. And we will have no warning whatsoever. Hence why Im combing sites like these and comment sections like these for useful things. Which is to say, as youre writing about the imminent end of all days, please, also keep in mind the more mundane disasters that folks here may be seeking help readying ourselves for. The hurricanes, tornadoes, run-of-the-mill epidemics, floods, droughts, and earthquakes that so many of us are so vulnerable to. The end of all days may indeed happen and it may indeed happen soon. But perched atop a ticking geologic clock that will rip apart our coast from Alaska to California when it rings I guess Im reminded of all the little things that we also need to prepare ourselves for too. In kindness, ~ Wylie i live on 250 acres with 8 of my buddies and there familys from 75th ranger corps come and get it If you were going to be stabbed, would you rather face it, and do something about it that way, or turn your back, and try to walk or run away? Most people would say, face it! Thats what you do, when something is coming at you. So it may not come. But even if it doesnt, you can still be prepared. If you dont, then your just plain lazy, or stupid. Those are the ones that will be in the FEMA camps. Most people will just die offbecause they didnt care. Those will be the ones begging others, and will get themselves killed. Dont want to face anything that MIGHT come? Your choice. All good things. BUTyou have a freezer full? Ummwhat are you going to do when we have an EMP or a solar flare, that fries all electronics? You might want to think about that food in the freezer if that happens? Id like to get one of those. What section in walmart would someone find one of those? ASU for sure, Anonymous. I dont know if G-d has time for people who have no time for G-d. Youre forgetting that we didnt start off like how life was when you were born.. You can survive in the wild. Some are survivors, some are not. No where in this post does it say anything about a full proof plan. Its called a cushion plan. Ill be sure to stop by and take what you dont need since clearly you wont need much of it anyways if something happens where you actually need this stuff. Of all things to ask God for, youd ask to put the Constitution back on track LMAO. Silly humans it would behoove the people to follow the constitution as it was written to protect us from the government , right or left wing nuts. its to keep us free and they dont like it , so if you want to survive , be prepared. dont come looking to me for help , cause ill be busy helping my own family and you all have the brainpower to help yourselves. as for me ill keep my constitutional rights and fight for them and live by them . thats what my dad , grandfather and greatgrandfather all fought and died for and they did it so we can remain free. if you dont want the gift of their blood to help keep you free then you are a fool. God bless all the veterans and active military .. Got news for you Barbara When SHTF, your constitutional rights wont mean squat. If it gets really bad, there wont be enough police or military to enforce the law. If fact, they will be worrying about the same as you and I defending ourselves and our families. Sweetie, the Constitution is just a nicely written peice of paper that granted limited rights to a select group of individuals for a brief period of time (land owning, Christian white males). What we have in our massive diverse society are privileges bestowed upon us by the money masters that really own everything and everyone and always have since the invention of the monetary system maybe even as far back as the start of agruculture system. We no longer live in that world because there are too many competing interests and people are more cruel and selfish and spoiled by our present way of life. We have to adapt to the changes in the world that we live in. But in the end we all have a date with death. The only choice you get is to face it with fear or courage. Mankind can do a lot of things but we havent mastered the weather and changing our solar system and cycles. The droughts and climate change are beyond our control and for people who are so use to having control, this is are for them to accept. Enjoy your family and the time you have on the planet and stop obsessing abou surviving the apocalypse. Prepare as best you can and go out and let the warm sunlight fall on your face and breathe in the scent of trees an flowers and hug your loved ones. That is our daily blessing in life and that is more than what we are entitled to. The founders werent Christian. They were deists, not theists. The conjobstitution was an act of treason. The Bill of Rights was unanimously defeated at the convention 10-0. It was the states that insisted upon them for ratification. Patrick Henry called it: king, conscription, taxation, empire and watch out for them using national security as a reason for secrecy. It didnt take long for them to violate the Bill of Rights with the Alien and Sedition act. If you expect it to protect you, you had better be prepared to take your case all the way to the supreme court, where you dont have standing. The USSC has ruled that the conjobstitution is a contract between the states and the federal government that the citizens are not party to in denying cases. Seriously? So do NOTHING bury your head in the sand and wait to be called home to God. Thats your plan? Youre an idiot, plain and simple. Not EVERY scenario is an end of times. A natural or man made disaster where food supplies are disrupted for a few days or weeks. I think it would be prudent to be prepared for a situation like that, where as youre just going to lie down and die? Thats brilliant. Patrick, you are correct. Im not an end-timer or a prepper or anything like that, but it wouldnt take much to completely wreck modern western life. For example, if the power grid or the internet went down for an extended period, were completely screwed. And its my understanding that both of these are way more vulnerable to destruction than any of us wanna believe. It would be CHAOS beyond imagination. Good thing Im a bad-ass tough guyIll be fine. Indeed chaos beyond imagination. And you might very well be a badass and do well on your own. For a limited time. But youre just one person, and youre going to eventually encounter the lawless gangs who out number and out GUN you. What will you do then? Youll have your supplies and weapons TAKEN by force. If youre lucky, MAYBE they might recognize your badassery and invite you to join them. If not, I suspect a bullet in the head to insure you dont seek revenge on them. Let me guess you love the military. Guess what Einstein the military is socially funded. Like those roads you drive on? How about a police and fire department? You republi-tards just love to toss around that word socialism because its a buzz word on Faux News. Too bad you have no idea what it means. I do not believe in god and especially a middle eastern one named jesus. Youre crazy. warped libber , have fun in the FEMA camps being tested on till you die . it s educated right winged independent people who prepare and take are of themelves and their families, if you want socialism , go to a country that has it and stand in lines for hours for a roll of toilet paper and a loaf of dried bread and contaminated water. FOOL . sounds like youve been loving too many boys loverboy .but you cant survive on stupidity or love. Socialists are liberals. They are collectivists. a good alternative to a rifle is a decent slingshot or a crossbow. they are easy to learn how to use and ammo is more readily available and lighter. they are also less restricted in most countries than firearms. tornados, earthquakes, epidemics, storms, terrorist attacks. the list goes on snare wire, parachord, a slingshot, fishing tackle (if in a good area for it) and nails are also usefull items. I agree about the rice and beans as well as multivitamins. I have emergency candles that can be used to heat water for cooking. MREs are fine, if you can afford them. Flour? What for? Things get this bad, you have to assume you will not have electricity, that means no baking unless you have an outdoor wood fired oven. A lot of these other foods are nice as well, but coffee? I guess if you must. Id rather spend the money and storage space on actual things that I need Kama vs creature Comfort foods and beverages. But to each their own. Good luck were all gonna need it. Whats the worst that can happen? Power grid failure. Hows that work for ya? Without power none of our computers work. Our phones dont work. Supply lines for food get disrupted , because the trucks to bring this food to us cant operate without fuel. You need electricity to run the gas pumps to refuel them. food sitting in the store and in your refrigerator will start to spoil very quickly. Cook it quickly before it spoils! How? The powers out. People get hungry quickly, and when people are hungry they panic. When people panic, they loot the grocery store of the remaining food very quickly. Id make sure youre there as an early looter to get the best available selection. And thats just scratching the surface. A ***LOT*** can go wrong in a very short span of time. Youre either a complete idiot or a complete troll. Buzz off. Keep a bottle of meds in the house and take the whole bottle and just call it quits. When things get bad people will eat food in storage, then pets, then other people. It has happened in all of the wars people revert to cannabalism. There are some things you cant prepare for. Earth is entering a solar season and Yellowstone has started to rumble. We live in a very fragile ecosystem and in surprised we havent encountered. a massive asteroid this century. There are sooo many disaster scenarios and you cant prepare for all of them. Embrace life, enjoy it and be prepared for good and bad things.? Sharon, why does it have to be all or nothing? Yes, a major catastrophe would get ugly, and we will truly see the worst in people as society crumbles. Indeed, our planet is extremely fragile. And youre absolutely right, the fact that we even are here having this conversation is a long shot against the odds . But what about a scenario where things are only bad for a few days or a couple of weeks? People need to prepare for something on that magnitude. Will doomsday happen in our lifetime? Maybe, maybe not. Whats far more likely is a temporary disruption at last perhaps a month or two at the most. Thats the scenario to expect, and if you can be in a position to survive it,? Well I certainly owe it to my family to do everything I can to ensure they can survive. Gardening, unless you live in the boonies isnt going to be be an option. In a crisis, you must assume someone is going to raid your lovely garden long before the fruits are even ripe. You stock up, and you actually use the supplies. As d you deplete your stockpiles, you rotate and restock. well first of all may i say i have no problem with FEMA. While I agree with you that we are a selfish, narcissistic bunch of people. A lot of the changes occurring are natural earth cycles of season. We are entering a solar season of increase earthquakes, drought and volcanic activity. Some things are just beyond our control and we have to stay faithful to God. As a black woman, Ive seen all the videos and articles about liberalism and minirities to blame. Blacks will always be the favorite scapegoat even being blamed for cyclical weather/solar changes. We will be the primary targets of those people who feel entitled and special and feel bad things only happen to those ignorant people in third world countries. Not responsible people like them. Those people in third world countries were, I believe, a test of our humanity. I think we have absolutely failed that test and rampant greed has taken over. In all countries, all races, all political parties. Humanity will have to stand judgment. I think about all of the food I threw out half eaten, not respecting what the earth gives us. We are all to blame. Well said. I agree with you that you should prepare as best you can but there isnt enough ammo food water to fend off thousands of well armed marauders. People who think like this watch too many hero worshipping Hollywood movies and are out of touch with reality. We will all Ask the Government about the 30,000 Guillotines they have stored at the FEMA camps for your Pleasure! Run! dont walk Away from any Fema camp unless your evil then go right in! Your tinfoil hat is on a bit too snug! Liberals believe in no class distinction: all have equal rights. That is not socialism. What the media calls liberal is anything but true liberalism. No true liberal would vote, as that creates the class distinction of ruler/subject. The first guy that says were all going to die is totally wrong! There are logical ways to Prep and Survivalists methods and ways of filtering water and growing your own food. You will need to have sufficient protection and a compound of land and back up sources of energy, like solar wind etc. Multiple Deep water wells will be needed and methods to pump and possibly filter the water you can make your own water filters very easily. The Fact is you can live in a Grid Down SHTF situation while having Faith in God! In fact they go hand in hand. Giving up is exactly what the evils putting up the camps and taking away our freedoms want. We must prevail and help our fellow neighbors and create communities and use everyones knowledge and skills to their fullest extent but it can be done and dont let this guy above tell you any different hes the type of person who will not make it garunteed. Its not a good guy/bad guy thing or a religious/non-religious thing . . . we all bought all of the stuff all through the years that has led to this, and we are all to blame if blaming is your game, look in the mirror. 