Is it nuts to be prepping for a food shortage?

[Anonymous]

I’m an immigrant from a socialist country. I remember as a kid visiting the government-run “super markets”. They had aisle after aisle of empty shelves. We’d have to stand in line literally for an hour to get inside the store just so that we could buy the last lonely can of tomatoes or the last container of milk. I think if that were ever to occur here in the US (and I highly, highly doubt that it will) all he!! will break loose.

[Anonymous]

Our pandemic food stores have acted as a hedge for inflation, so that's worked out for us.

I basically prep very year in the summer for DC fall hurricane season or snowstorm season, either way we might have power outages and I don't want to fight the crowds at the store.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I have 5 boxes of Cinnamon Toast Crunch in my pantry because that’s all DS will eat for breakfast and there was a deal at giant. Does that count?

I don’t doubt we will have trouble getting x and will have to substitute y, but we are not going to starve.

This is the most normal response on the thread.

Agreed!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hoarding causes shortages. Stop it.

+10000

Now we know who took all the toilet paper.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP - this site is the wrong place to ask this. There a quite a few preppers lurking here.

So they should only ask if they get the answer they want to hear? I'm surprised how many people so far -- nearly unanimous -- are prepping to some extent. I think COVID has taught everyone that yes, shit does sometimes happen and it's good to be prepared.

Well I think OP was looking for answers from normal people to feel out how off base her mother is - and so far the answers are not from normal people. Sorry, they just aren’t.

And as I said, I am not surprised by the initial posts. There have been several threads like this on DCUM and the prepped said respond immediately. The normal folks are just rolling their eyes and not responding.

Well you're proving my point -- you only want to hear from people with one perspective, and agreeing with you makes that normal. Seems like a surprising number of people are prepping to some extent. So I guess that's normal now.

I count 8, and that's assuming no people double posted, which absolutely isn't the case. That doesn't make it normal.

Also, there's a big difference between "I'll keep a few extra items in the basement" and . . . you people.

[Anonymous]

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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.

You make two trips to the grocery store because you "fear" that strangers may look at you in a judgmental way?

I hope you're stocking up on your meds as well and rice and dried beans.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP - this site is the wrong place to ask this. There a quite a few preppers lurking here.

So they should only ask if they get the answer they want to hear? I'm surprised how many people so far -- nearly unanimous -- are prepping to some extent. I think COVID has taught everyone that yes, shit does sometimes happen and it's good to be prepared.

Well I think OP was looking for answers from normal people to feel out how off base her mother is - and so far the answers are not from normal people. Sorry, they just aren’t.

And as I said, I am not surprised by the initial posts. There have been several threads like this on DCUM and the prepped said respond immediately. The normal folks are just rolling their eyes and not responding.

Well you're proving my point -- you only want to hear from people with one perspective, and agreeing with you makes that normal. Seems like a surprising number of people are prepping to some extent. So I guess that's normal now.

I count 8, and that's assuming no people double posted, which absolutely isn't the case. That doesn't make it normal.

Also, there's a big difference between "I'll keep a few extra items in the basement" and . . . you people.

So don't stock up. No one cares if you do or not. OP was asking if it's nuts. Apparently it's not nuts to others, even if it seems nuts to you.

[Anonymous]

Food will become expensive, but there will be only sporadic shortages for certain items.

People will be better served to learn how to cook healthy and nutritious foods that can keep them trim and healthy. What they should worry about is not being healthy rather than food shortages. Also, make sure that your family is also self sufficient in making healthy food and becoming healthy so that the kind of lifestyle induced comorbities that killed many during the worst of COVID is not their future.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP - this site is the wrong place to ask this. There a quite a few preppers lurking here.

So they should only ask if they get the answer they want to hear? I'm surprised how many people so far -- nearly unanimous -- are prepping to some extent. I think COVID has taught everyone that yes, shit does sometimes happen and it's good to be prepared.

Well I think OP was looking for answers from normal people to feel out how off base her mother is - and so far the answers are not from normal people. Sorry, they just aren’t.

And as I said, I am not surprised by the initial posts. There have been several threads like this on DCUM and the prepped said respond immediately. The normal folks are just rolling their eyes and not responding.

Well you're proving my point -- you only want to hear from people with one perspective, and agreeing with you makes that normal. Seems like a surprising number of people are prepping to some extent. So I guess that's normal now.

I count 8, and that's assuming no people double posted, which absolutely isn't the case. That doesn't make it normal.

Also, there's a big difference between "I'll keep a few extra items in the basement" and . . . you people.

So don't stock up. No one cares if you do or not. OP was asking if it's nuts. Apparently it's not nuts to others, even if it seems nuts to you.

It's not nuts to nuts is not exactly a ringing endorsement.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Likely a lot of tasty squirrels you can nab. I’ve got tons here and read they are quite delicious.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Learning to grow a plant isn’t a privilege. Poor people around the world have done it for centuries just to survive.

Elites should take their hate politics elsewhere.

[Anonymous]

Sure. We will never have an infant formula shortage. Never. To think we will is just nuts.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Learning to grow a plant isn’t a privilege. Poor people around the world have done it for centuries just to survive.

Elites should take their hate politics elsewhere.

Prepping is an elite activity. And people all over the world grow food and still manage to go hungry.