Anonymous wrote:

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.

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!

Anonymous wrote:

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.

I am too. I would have assumed the DCUM crowd to be the spoiled opposite of preppers. Most have not had to experience a non-privileged lifestyle so the existence of such would be too foreign to conceptualize and prepare for.

She also thinks that China is trying to sabotage our infrastructure.

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

I have to say that I'm surprised by these answers.

I think this is insane. There might be supply chain problems that reduce availability of specific foods, but not that prevent anyone with any reasonable amount of money in the United States from getting enough to eat.

In Somalia, it's a different world:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2022/somalia-famine-ukraine-war/

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.

In the US, we don't so much as have a food supply chain as we have a food supply net.

Might we experience a temporary shortage of one specific food item for a brief period of time? Sure, that could happen. But, we can temporarily live without 2% Fairlife or Laura's 93% organic ground beef. Yes.

We will not run out of protein sources or fruit, vegetable, dairy sources. Worst case, we won't have our absolute first pick and maybe we'll have to choose a different NY Times recipe that evening.

Anonymous wrote:

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.

I'm doing the same. I am intentionally buying food that my family would only eat if we were starving. This method prevents them from going into the emergency stash for routine snacking needs. My kids insist that they would "never eat that!" And I tell them they certainly would if they got hungry enough. Hopefully, it won't come to that, but chance favors the prepared and whatnot.

Clever! We used to have some MRIs I had kept for emergencies and camping trips. When I finally opened them, my DC had eaten all the breakfast bars and bacon and left the scrambled eggs and water pouches.

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

It's nuts if you don't prepare to some extent.

We have solar panels, electric vehicle, outdoors grill, sanitary faucets attached to the toilets and ability to cook from scratch.

We also have rice, flour, lentils, oil, spices, tea, canned goods and two upright freezer.

We are not preppers but somehow our lifestyle is such that we have enough things to sustain us for a long time.

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.

Anonymous wrote:

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.

I'm doing the same. I am intentionally buying food that my family would only eat if we were starving. This method prevents them from going into the emergency stash for routine snacking needs. My kids insist that they would "never eat that!" And I tell them they certainly would if they got hungry enough. Hopefully, it won't come to that, but chance favors the prepared and whatnot.

Ok, am I missing something. What event is likely to happen that will cause the grocery stores in Virginia to run out of food?

As long as she is going to eat it before it expires, good for her! She will be the lady with toilet paper in the next pandemic!