Dont forget your furry friends!

[the-gnole]

So how long do we need to prep for, a real SHTF situation could be three or more years, Guinea pigs breed real quick so plenty of spare capacity for extended periods.

If there were a super volcano eruption it could be several years before there were good amounts of food available.

I don't go down the route of really long term preps, because "hopefully" it won't happen in my life time.

As "preppers" should we not be preparing 9either physically or mentally) for the situation that is beyond the preps we have done so far?

The chickens would provide more protein though, and remember, a dog is not just for christmas, carefully jointed it can last till Easter

[Bournemouthprepper]

The chickens would provide more protein though, and remember, a dog is not just for christmas, carefully jointed it can last till Easter

made me chuckle but your so not meeting reggie my dog

[the-gnole]

The chickens would provide more protein though, and remember, a dog is not just for christmas, carefully jointed it can last till Easter

made me chuckle but your so not meeting reggie my dog

It's alright Bp, I'm a big softie really, well up until I haven't eaten for a while I will be

[preppingsu]

Gnole is right. We prepare for many different situations, job loss,ill health, shut down of water supplies, fuel disruptions leading to disruption of supermarket supplies to the long term volcano etc etc.
But seriously, how long do you prep for?? 1 year, 2 years or more. How much food would that be? Yes we need to have our tinned, dehydrated, salted, freeze dried supplies but it might be that services are not up and running for a long time so we need to know how to get food from other sources ie rabbits, game, growing veg, keeping chooks for meat and eggs etc.

We just don't know what the future holds so should be prepared to prepare for all eventualities. I have a long way to go to learn some skills but in the mean time I will continue with adding to my food preps, expanding my growing area and range of veg. Thats me preparing for whatever.

[the-gnole]

I tried to imagine the amount needed once, it is a scary amount.

For a scale I used one 14oz tin of food per person per meal.

So for three people that is nine cans for a three meals a day regime.

so nine tins a day for a 4 week month is 252 tins

252 tins for 13 months (28 day months in a year) 3276 tins, and that is multiplied by weight, so I was getting up to almost 1.5 tons of food for one year.

I think I need a bigger shed

[Carrot Cruncher]

The vast majority of us will never store enough food for a lifetime. I read somewhere else that the ideal is enough food to last you until crops you plant start to produce, 18 months worth or so I suppose depending on the time of year. You'd still be screwed if your crop failed but at least you are putting the balance slightly more in your favour.

Thats why learning how to grow fruit and veg (imo) is way more relevant to survival and prepping than learning 100 ways to strip down your shotgun or landrover while blindfolded.....just not as "sexy" a topic in the Survival world

[the-gnole]

Thats why learning how to grow fruit and veg (imo) is way more relevant to survival and prepping than learning 100 ways to strip down your shotgun or landrover while blindfolded.....just not as "sexy" a topic in the Survival world

We are hoping to get more fruit this year, we got four trees in last year, and one a few years ago, not sure we have enough room for any more, the veg is going in at the moment, spuds are in, onions are in and we are having a little success with half a dozen garlic bulbs we put in pots.

We have planted 45 runner beans, last year was a huge crop, so hoping for a similar success this year.

A shot gun and a landrover are well and good to have, but my PCP air rifle and a set of legs will get me closer to the prey.

[diamond lil]

I think trying to store years of tins is a waste of time . I'd rather be doing as others have said, learning skills that enable us to feed ourselves from what we grow. And very important is learning to live on less, expect less. Because if you can live on less now, then you will need less in the future. Does that make sense ? LOL - If a plate of thick filling home made soup and a wodge of home made bread is our standard meal now, then its all we need to grow/find in the future. But if a meal simply has to consist of a Victorian 9-courser, then post-shit we are basically stuffed eh

[diamond lil]

But I should say that there are times when you're going to maybe need a months supply of tins - say if there was a strike or a money meltdown or whatever, so yes I do stash tins . Just not millions of them I have more in the way of porridge, flour and broth mix.

[the-gnole]

We do have a few tins, but we have a few barrels of sugar, salt, pasta, flour and packets of dried as well.

Still need a bigger shed though, for all the seeds and tools to grow our own spaghetti hoops and HP sauce:mrgreen: