Are you a prepper?

February 1, 2012
He’s a prepper, she’s a prepper, wouldn’t you like to be a prepper too?
It’s short for preparer. Preparing for gas prices to be too high for truckers to be able to afford to haul food to the grocery stores. Preparing for a drought that first makes meat and dairy prices go up up up and then grain prices (breads and related products) go up up up, and then fresh produce becomes food for the rich. Have YOU noticed any of these trends when you go to the grocery store?
If you’re a beginner, start with staples your family eats. If you must buy food that is more basic than you usually prepare, that’s okay. Flour, sugar, oats, beans, pasta, rice and powdered milk are good basic foods. Be sure you have lots of salt on hand. It’s cheap and makes all the difference in most basic foods. Try simple recipes using the basic, easily stored food. You’ll find that making the recipes printed on teh packages will guide you in what else you need to store to make foods most enjoyable.
Store some water. The two liter soda bottles are made of the right kind of plastic for long term storage. If you store them somewhere that they might freeze, be sure to allow a few inches of headspace at the top.
Did you know that you don’t have to be Mormon to buy large quantities of staples like wheat and milk, oats etc at the LDS Bishop’s Storehouse? They have facilities for you to package it for long term storage too. It’s very reasonably priced, too. Find the phone number online. Mormons have been told to be prepared for emergencies and famine for years.
Save up an emergency fund. Dave Ramsay is the super-guru for financial wisdom. Get his book and follow it. It will bring greater peace even if you do nothing else, I promise. As you enter the saving step, save some of that in food storage.
If you have access to a few square feet of dirt, grow something good to eat in it. A soil mix of one part spaghum peat moss, one part (aged) manure and one part topsoil is a good basic recipe for vegetables’ soil. Green beans and squash are fairly high yield and and dependable crops. Tomatoes might take a little practice to find the best variety for your climate and soil conditions. It’s almost time to put the onions, lettuce, spinach and other cool weather crops in! Once you’re started, add manure every year and work it into the garden soil. It’s like the frosting on the cake. It makes all the difference.
  It isn’t hard to be more prepared each week. Just do a little something every time you have opportunity. Invite your neighbors to do it to. Plant fruit trees, if you have room. Make it fun. Make it a game or a competition. I’ve been surprised by the huge upsurge in interest for “prepping”.
I hope you’ll want to be a prepper too!    

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