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Survival buckets usually use small servings because they're marketed as minimum size needed for emergencies. Hiking brands are geared more towards portion size to fuel a long hike.
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Long story short, you never know what's gonna happen so be prepared with a backup plan and at least some food and supplies to get you through a few days.
We also purchased enough radiation tabs to survive after a nuclear fallout. Cost about 50 bucks. We have Sawyer water filters, enough for about 30 years. Cost was around $70. I'm a hunter, so we always stocked up on ammo. If nothing ever happens, I'm fine with that. If it does, we won't die a horrible death of starvation. If food runs out after 10years and no animals left to hunt and mankind did not recover and we can't grow anything ourselves, which is unlikely, but we'd drink the kool aid at that point.
I've always imagined that in the event of a total breakdown of society, bands of well-organized, likely well armed raiders will go from place to place in the night stealing/killing whatever they find. Like in fallout I always thought that if you are going to survive you need 24-hour surveillance around a defensible plot of land with open sightlines, someone with rifles watching it ready to kill, alarm system or dogs, and a billion other things. I didn't think a stockpile of food would solve that, although it would be a requirement. Do you also have seeds to start a garden? Solar generator?
I've always imagined that in the event of a total breakdown of society, bands of well-organized, likely well armed raiders will go from place to place in the night stealing/killing whatever they find. Like in fallout I always thought that if you are going to survive you need 24-hour surveillance around a defensible plot of land with open sightlines, someone with rifles watching it ready to kill, alarm system or dogs, and a billion other things. I didn't think a stockpile of food would solve that, although it would be a requirement. Do you also have seeds to start a garden? Solar generator?
It's also sad you have to treat this subject like Fight Club with most people... you don't talk about it unless you know their mindset first.
If you look at canned food it has a shelf life of about 2-5 years whereas freeze-dried food comes in around 20-25 years. For me that's the big reason to have some of this stuff around. I don't have to cycle through food that I don't really want to eat to keep it fresh.
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I've always imagined that in the event of a total breakdown of society, bands of well-organized, likely well armed raiders will go from place to place in the night stealing/killing whatever they find. Like in fallout I always thought that if you are going to survive you need 24-hour surveillance around a defensible plot of land with open sightlines, someone with rifles watching it ready to kill, alarm system or dogs, and a billion other things. I didn't think a stockpile of food would solve that, although it would be a requirement. Do you also have seeds to start a garden? Solar generator?
So, it does not take a lot to spark people into a mob frenzy and the looting and chaos begins faster than most people realize. In some of those protests, we also say people being dragged from their cars and beaten, as the mob mentality caused people to do things, they ordinarily would not have done. Now you think about what would happen in a worldwide natural disaster or God forbid Putin launched a couple nukes at some country. The panic would be 100 fold compared to any city protest or Hurricane. What if we are all just minding our own business and the super volcano under Yellowstone decides to erupt in a few years. It sends up so much ash into the atmosphere, 80% of the U.S. is covered and everyone within a thousand miles of the volcano are killed. Crops would die all over the U.S., causing an immediate food panic. What's worse, is that all air traffic would be disrupted nationwide, including over Canada and Mexico. It would stay that way for months, it would be a nightmare. Truck commerce would be thrown into disarray and food/gas deliveries would be disrupted.
People would lose their ever loving minds. Your cities would see their grocery and sporting goods stores looted quickly, leaving most people with only the food they have in their fridge and pantry. That would not last long, as most people have on hand, enough food for a week or so. maybe 2 if they rationed what they have on hand. If the disaster knocked out power, as we saw during multiple hurricanes, your food in the fridge would last maybe only a couple days if you don't open the door a lot. So you'd be relying on your dry food and again, these days, most normal people only ever have around a weeks worth. It won't take long for people to get hungry and when they do, it will force them to go out looking for food.
The truth is, humans turn into animals real fast, when they see their kids starving or their wife hungry. A harmless math teacher may turn into someone who would suddenly harm you, to get the few cans of food you have left, if it means his kids or wife won't starve. However, with limited gas available after a disaster, take Hurricane Laura for instance as it is more recent than some of the others we've experienced. During that disaster in Louisiana, gas deliveries were virtually stopped. People had trouble getting gas for their generators, we had to travel 140 miles to fill up 5 gas cans. I was asked to fill the cans of my grandparents and neighbors, because they didn't have enough in their cars to make it out of town that far. Luckily my father taught us to always fill our vehicle tanks before a storm hits. I made the 140 mile trip several times, until gas came back to our area. If this would of been a nationwide disaster, there might not of been any gas at gas stations anywhere.
Without fuel, it will limit bands of roving people looking for food. They'd be forced to walk or ride bicycles. it's not like Mad Max movies, no one is going to be producing their own fuel. In the first few weeks, there may be enough fuel to have some gangs venture outside the city and into the suburbs. However, going even further out into the country would not be as fruitful, as homes are more spread out and stores or warehouses are not as plentiful. So you have to think about the gas you have left and try to hit the areas with the most "possible" resources. Not just the lone house on the outskirts of town. I imagine as they deplete their own city first, they would try to go to the next town or city over, to see if they had anything left.
I live 23 miles to my nearest city. My town here in Louisiana has a population of around 730 people and even they are spread out pretty good. I'm not out of reach of a mob from the city in the first couple weeks of a disaster, but I'm also not worried. I'm a hunter, as is most of my family, so guns are always on hand. My home sits back off the road as a lot of country homes are, so it's hard to get close to my home, without my dogs alerting us or we seeing someone coming. The woods in the rear of my house go on for many many miles, are dense and full of mosquitos, so traversing those is a heavy chore for most city people. The Red river is on the side of my home, making the only way to approach us there, is by boat. Even then, there is a line of woods you'd have to cross and it would not be easy, but not impossible either. The current in the river is swift, so you'd have to have fuel for a motor or you'd wear yourselves out trying to paddle up the river to get to the homes there.
To answer your questions, we always have seeds as my wife loves to plant a garden every year. Corn, squash, watermelons, peppers, cucumbers, etc. She also has a small electric tiller that uses rechargeable batteries. It's a Ryobi, as most of my rechargeable tools are Ryobi's, because I like to interchange batteries between them. We have a Jackery 3000 with 2 solar panels, that we use in power outages to power my cpap machine and charge our phones, etc. We also use it when camping in our RV. I have 2 small solar panels that are attached to my carport, that are just for charging my boat batteries, when it is not in use. They are nothing fancy, I think I bought them at harbor freight a few years ago, but they keep the boat batteries topped off.
In the event of an extended power outage, I could charge my power tool and Ryobi chainsaw batteries batteries off the Jackery or even the boat solar panels, using an inverter. With our food supply, I do not think I'd even try to plant food for probably 5 years or so. If the disaster lasted that long, or society did not recover. Around year 5, I'd probably think about trying to start growing and canning food. The woods on the backside of my property go on for about a hundred miles and are home to many animals such as deer, rabbits, squirrels, coons, possums, fox, etc. If their food supply is not interrupted, I could hunt for many years, but it would depend if the disaster destroyed their woods habitat. A volcano eruption like under Yellowstone, could darken the skies for a period of time, that most underbrush would die and devastate the populations of certain animals like rabbits who rely on those small plants. Deer as well, may be wiped out, it would just depend. Most rodents would probably still survive.
The Red river would still be flowing but may be contaminated from the ash for a while. It should recover within a few years and allow fishing if you have the means. So after a few years, fish would be a great source of food, if you can survive that long.
I did not mean to wrote a book here, it's an interesting subject for sure. I am not shaking in my boots, scared for something to happen, but as my state is a the center of so many storms and disasters over the years, we just have the mindset of being prepared. It made me realize after Katrina, just how fragile our society is and how fast people descend into panic. It really only takes a small investment to prepare, most people waste far more money on their designer clothing, their overpriced automobiles these days and all the other toys we surround ourselves with. My laptop I write to you on, is a a gaming laptop that costs 2 grand. Think how much food a family could stockpile for just the cost of a gaming laptop. Or their PS5, the 75 inch TV you have, etc.
You might never need it and most people think that people who prep are tinfoil hat wearing weirdos, but I guess if that big disaster ever comes, they won't be laughing then. No, they will be begging, starving, panicking and scared. I'll be eating beans and rice, seasoned with Cajun spices and watching episodes of Friends off the dvd on our laptop that we charged with the Jackery.
If you look at canned food it has a shelf life of about 2-5 years whereas freeze-dried food comes in around 20-25 years. For me that's the big reason to have some of this stuff around. I don't have to cycle through food that I don't really want to eat to keep it fresh.
While beans and rice may not be the most tasty foods, they can keep you alive. You can add in some other things like dry pastas, powdered soup mixes, both are not expensive if you again, shop the sales. One thing to keep in mind when stockpiling a lot of food is salt and spices. Both are cheap and I highly recommend placing some with your stockpile. We just buy Cajun seasoning as it can make bland rice and beans much more appetizing, or anything really. Living in Louisiana, a lot of grocery stores sell the 1 gallon containers of Tony Chacherie's or Slap Ya Mama. An 8oz can lasts my wife and me about 3 months and I sprinkle it on everything. It doesn't take a lot to season the food. So if you have several gallons on hand, your good for a very long time.
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