How much should I eat when SHTF??
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MedicHerbalist
Re: How much should I eat when SHTF??
If the SHTF you are going to be active and there is little doubt about that! You are going to be foraging to spin out your food stores as long as possible. You also need to be really careful to eat as well as possible because staying healthy will be a survival issue. Timing is also an issue to fall in line with circadium rhythms of the body. Can I make some suggestions?
1 Men 2500 calories per day. Women 2000 cpd
2 Eat a breakfast containing protein
3 Leave 5-6 hours between meals
4 No snacking between meals
5 Do not eat after the evening meal until breakfast next day.
6 Reduce carbohydrates - particularly sugars. Less than 40% of calories should come form carbs.
This raises issues for the logic of food to be stored. There are 4 big issues:
1 Cost of food to be stored. The cheaper it is the more can be stored from a fixed amount of money.
2 Long-term storage potential. If you are having to cycle it every year or less this may not be affordable,
3 Nutrition: (You may love Crunchy Nut Cornflakes, but there is f**k all nutrition in them). Prepper foods need a lot of nutrition per pound. (both weight and cash)
4 Bulk: I do not have a basement or unlimited storage. I therefore need density.
I suggest prepper food may not therefore be the same stuff that you eat on a day to day basis at the moment. Organ meat is both superbly nutritious and very cheap. I have bought a pressure canner and am canning pigs liver in bulk. (£1 per kilo at Asda). I have also canned ox-heart and ox liver, brawn (made from pigs head) and a massive run of concentrated pea and ham soup (both dried peas and ham-hocks are dirt cheap). For a staple carbohydrate, I am bulk storing red lentils because they are cheap (£7.50 per 5 kilo at our Indian supermarket). They have protein as well as fibre and carbs and a 30 year shelf life if stored in an oxygen free mylar bag.
My wife says that there is no way that she will eat liver. I suspect that 2 days without food and presented with a cooked liver and lentil stew (spiced up with ginger garlic fenugreek and maybe a bit of cumin) she would down it with gusto.
1 Men 2500 calories per day. Women 2000 cpd
2 Eat a breakfast containing protein
3 Leave 5-6 hours between meals
4 No snacking between meals
5 Do not eat after the evening meal until breakfast next day.
6 Reduce carbohydrates - particularly sugars. Less than 40% of calories should come form carbs.
This raises issues for the logic of food to be stored. There are 4 big issues:
1 Cost of food to be stored. The cheaper it is the more can be stored from a fixed amount of money.
2 Long-term storage potential. If you are having to cycle it every year or less this may not be affordable,
3 Nutrition: (You may love Crunchy Nut Cornflakes, but there is f**k all nutrition in them). Prepper foods need a lot of nutrition per pound. (both weight and cash)
4 Bulk: I do not have a basement or unlimited storage. I therefore need density.
I suggest prepper food may not therefore be the same stuff that you eat on a day to day basis at the moment. Organ meat is both superbly nutritious and very cheap. I have bought a pressure canner and am canning pigs liver in bulk. (£1 per kilo at Asda). I have also canned ox-heart and ox liver, brawn (made from pigs head) and a massive run of concentrated pea and ham soup (both dried peas and ham-hocks are dirt cheap). For a staple carbohydrate, I am bulk storing red lentils because they are cheap (£7.50 per 5 kilo at our Indian supermarket). They have protein as well as fibre and carbs and a 30 year shelf life if stored in an oxygen free mylar bag.
My wife says that there is no way that she will eat liver. I suspect that 2 days without food and presented with a cooked liver and lentil stew (spiced up with ginger garlic fenugreek and maybe a bit of cumin) she would down it with gusto.