Is it nuts to be prepping for a food shortage?

[Anonymous]

My favorite ultra Tampons have gone from $8.29 to $10.49 in Los Angeles. They’re also hard to find, so now I wear pads at home like I’m back to being 12 years old, and only tampons when I leave the house. Sucks but I can’t afford that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We’ve already been told by the “experts” it’s coming. Pay attention to current events. It isn’t even a serious question, OP. Start learning how to grow something you can eat.

Not the OP, but I live in an apartment without a balcony or fire escape and no direct sunlight. I can't even keep a plant alive in my apartment. Not everyone has the privilege of being able to grow their own food.

I am in an apt without a balcony or sun. I have 3 aero gardens. I grow all my herbs, spinach, lettuce, tomatoes, peppers, and even flowers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The following is what I have so far in my emergency kit/stash:

brown rice
canned fruits and vegetables
spam
baked beans
nuts
raisins
tuna
sardines
pasta
tons of water
powdered milk

And may other things that I can't recall that I grabbed for no real reason (e.g., boxes of stovetop stuffing, lol). I'm open for suggestions for practical items to add!

I have a lot of the above list as well as
a variety of canned beans
canned jalepenos
rotel
boxed mac and cheese
canned milk
one big bucket that is all stuff for baking (flour, sugar, yeast, baking powder, baking soda, egg replacer)
salt
peanut butter
nutella
jam
coffee
ketchup
pasta sauce
paper plates
collapsable 5 gallon water containers

Is it paranoid? yes. Am I glad to know we could survive for a couple months without a food supply? yes. I also put significant time, labor, and energy into putting in raised bed this year. They are proving to be a highly effective groundhog feeding station. So, I guess if the world collapses, we can hunt and eat groundhogs.

Jam! So happy I stocked up on raspberry smuckers when it was $3.62. Now it’s $5-7. Absurd!!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:6-12 months ago, people made fun of me for buying dry milk and egg replacers. One poster kept harping and telling me to stop posting and asked if I was advertising for egg replacers. Really hope she’s enjoying her $7 grass fed free range organic egg prices.

How many months supply could you realistically have? Who cares about saving a few bucks for a month or so when you will just have to run out and by more anyways. Do you expect inflation to subside soon enough that you won’t have to buy food at increased prices?

You can obviously afford to be flippant and not care about rising prices. I can’t and I’m stocked.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:6-12 months ago, people made fun of me for buying dry milk and egg replacers. One poster kept harping and telling me to stop posting and asked if I was advertising for egg replacers. Really hope she’s enjoying her $7 grass fed free range organic egg prices.

How many months supply could you realistically have? Who cares about saving a few bucks for a month or so when you will just have to run out and by more anyways. Do you expect inflation to subside soon enough that you won’t have to buy food at increased prices?

You can obviously afford to be flippant and not care about rising prices. I can’t and I’m stocked.

The ability to stock up is also a luxury.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP
The USDA projects an actual increase in exports this marketing year, to 204.6 million metric tons from 203.3 million tons in 2021/2022 and 199.3 million tons the year before.

While Putin is going for world hunger we should be ok. Not saying prices will drop just that there is enough.

If the GOP win in 2024 then all bets are off. We will have bread lines. We will have shortages they will do this to control the masses. I am not wrong they have written this down.

And this is an example of the kind of thing that is a "majority" opinion on DCUM, but is not normal. It is delusional.

[Anonymous]

I actually ordered a few bins of freeze dried food with a 20 year self life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My favorite ultra Tampons have gone from $8.29 to $10.49 in Los Angeles. They’re also hard to find, so now I wear pads at home like I’m back to being 12 years old, and only tampons when I leave the house. Sucks but I can’t afford that.

Or you could get a reusable cup and some reusable pads and not have to buy anything else for a few years. Amazon has bundles of pads for $10.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We’ve already been told by the “experts” it’s coming. Pay attention to current events. It isn’t even a serious question, OP. Start learning how to grow something you can eat.

Few people own enough land to grow food to sustain their families; and your "neighbors" would take it from you anyways.

NP - Thankfully, we live away from DC most of the time. My neighbors grow their own food as well. No one is taking anything. I would love to see someone try. We have two large German Shepherds and we are armed. I’m a liberal Dem in favor of strict gun control. But I’m not stupid. No one would get past our gate.

We grow about 70% of our fruits and veggies. We have chickens that lay plenty for our family plus enough to share. We live in the country where wildlife is plentiful. We have a well plus a pond on our property. And I have food stored that would last my family (including my adult kids) at least six months. We are always prepared.

I don’t think we will see massive food shortages.

That is adorable that you think your two dogs plus a few guns would hold of the masses indefinitely.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe I should also mention that she's mainly buying freeze dried food. So it's not even like it's something she's going to want to eat, if/when she gets over this phase.

Freeze dried food doesn’t take bad in most cases. Mountain House is pretty good, way better than canned food or MRE’s. I have about a month supply stockpiled and it has a shelf life of 30 years. The main disadvantage is it is expensive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is everyone buying? Don’t worry I’m in California and won’t affect your shopping! Would appreciate some prepping help.

You're in California but everyone else is here....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP
The USDA projects an actual increase in exports this marketing year, to 204.6 million metric tons from 203.3 million tons in 2021/2022 and 199.3 million tons the year before.

While Putin is going for world hunger we should be ok. Not saying prices will drop just that there is enough.

If the GOP win in 2024 then all bets are off. We will have bread lines. We will have shortages they will do this to control the masses. I am not wrong they have written this down.

And this is an example of the kind of thing that is a "majority" opinion on DCUM, but is not normal. It is delusional.

I seriously doubt that's a majority opinion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm sure there are even more people stocking up on staples than care to admit it.

Confirmed. I admittedly shop in spurts and don't fill my cart because I fear judgmental stares in the store that a full cart might bring. I go on Saturday and return on Sunday.

Buy what you want. Good grief.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We’ve already been told by the “experts” it’s coming. Pay attention to current events. It isn’t even a serious question, OP. Start learning how to grow something you can eat.

Not the OP, but I live in an apartment without a balcony or fire escape and no direct sunlight. I can't even keep a plant alive in my apartment. Not everyone has the privilege of being able to grow their own food.

I am in an apt without a balcony or sun. I have 3 aero gardens. I grow all my herbs, spinach, lettuce, tomatoes, peppers, and even flowers.

Wow! How big are the aero gardens?

[Anonymous]

For another perspective. my dad was a prepper and one day, left us. No notice; just left. Mom had the house and all in it but no job b/c she was a SAH with no degree (or high school degree) and no skills, 3 kids, 2 very small.

So, we ate the prep stuff. It was pretty good. No need to not prep. You n ever know what your personal crisis will be.