Is it nuts to be prepping for a food shortage?

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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.

It really isn't. Look at the prepper community and also remember the Mormons are the ultimate preppers...The current LDS church asks members to have 1 year of supplies at all times and always has. If a kid is in a house-share, they are still encouraged to have 2 weeks for each person in the home. So are LDS ppl not normal?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Before COVID we ate exclusively fresh food. I went to the store once or twice a week to buy what we needed. I never used something from a can -- gross, never. I never bought frozen food unless it was ice cream or tilapia. We just didn't eat or shop like that.

During COVID I had to spend a small fortune on Whole Foods and Instacart deliveries. I never knew WHEN I could schedule a delivery or what they would have in stock. Every delivery was missing multiple items. I didn't like it at all. I don't care if we never have food shortages that lead to rioting and shooting pet dogs, or totally empty shelves like they had in the former Soviet Union -- what I went through during COVID was stressful enough, thanks.

Now we have a good pantry of foods we like and can probably live off of for 3 months. I'm glad we have it. I will never go back to being unprepared.

Thank you. I think this is what most on the thread who are prepping are trying to say: We won't be caught again with our pants hanging down.

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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.

Excellent alternative for our elites who are above learning how to grow anything. They can go shoot an animal and skin it. But hey, they’ll need a gun first! Lol.

Most people in DC would have no idea how to kill, dress, and cook squirrel. Yes. I have eaten squirrel. It would not be my first choice for a protein.

Also, many of your neighbors do know how to do this so all the squirrels will be gone PDQ so, youll need to prep.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hoarding causes shortages. Stop it.

Hoarding isn’t sustainable. DH and I have had serious conversations about survival if it comes to this. Where would we go where we can live off the land? Can we make it work here with our yard? Could we kill a deer if we had to? We have kids and always prepare for the worst. Although I think OP’s mother maybe taking it to an extreme, I understand.

[Anonymous]

^^ PPrepping is not hoarding.

Preppers buy, for example, 2 of the things they would normally use and "bank" one of the two things. It's not hoarding. Hoarding will, though, happen when there's rice but not pasta, or pasta, but no rice. That happened in covid and might happen in winter.

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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.

Excellent alternative for our elites who are above learning how to grow anything. They can go shoot an animal and skin it. But hey, they’ll need a gun first! Lol.

Most people in DC would have no idea how to kill, dress, and cook squirrel. Yes. I have eaten squirrel. It would not be my first choice for a protein.

Do you know how to fish?

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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.

Yup, not doing that and causing artificial shortages.

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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.

Excellent alternative for our elites who are above learning how to grow anything. They can go shoot an animal and skin it. But hey, they’ll need a gun first! Lol.

Most people in DC would have no idea how to kill, dress, and cook squirrel. Yes. I have eaten squirrel. It would not be my first choice for a protein.

I think I would stave to death before I could bring myself to kill an animal. That's why I have canned beans on hand.

[Anonymous]

Ha! Upon realizing that there are so many preppers amongst us, the anti-prepper crowd is suddenly quiet now and considering a visit to the local Piggly Wiggly

[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.

Excellent alternative for our elites who are above learning how to grow anything. They can go shoot an animal and skin it. But hey, they’ll need a gun first! Lol.

Most people in DC would have no idea how to kill, dress, and cook squirrel. Yes. I have eaten squirrel. It would not be my first choice for a protein.

Do you know how to fish?

I do. And I’m the PP with a stocked pond on the property. I would definitely eat large-mouth over squirrel.

[Anonymous]

At my local grocery store, I've been finding lots of expired products on the shelves. It's usually somewhat expensive things like meat, bacon, speciality dairy products. I assume it is because people can't afford the foods so they sit around longer.

So the question is, will inflation drive food shortages? e.g. because bacon costs more, people buy less bacon, so the company makes less bacon, making bacon even rarer and more expensive.

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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.

Excellent alternative for our elites who are above learning how to grow anything. They can go shoot an animal and skin it. But hey, they’ll need a gun first! Lol.

Most people in DC would have no idea how to kill, dress, and cook squirrel. Yes. I have eaten squirrel. It would not be my first choice for a protein.

Do you know how to fish?

I do. And I’m the PP with a stocked pond on the property. I would definitely eat large-mouth over squirrel.

I figured. I need a real man who knows the most important basics of survival. Where are they?

[Anonymous]

So many crazy people in one thread. It draws them in like moths to a porch light.

You are all insane.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So many crazy people in one thread. It draws them in like moths to a porch light.

You are all insane.

Speak for yourself.