What is some good advice that hardcore doomsday preppers can give to the general public?
Like Scott said, there are essentials that Doomsday Preppers can teach anyone without having that person roll their eyes at them.Make a plan and practice it at least once. If you have kids, it might be difficult to practice it more than that if you approach it the wrong way. Where will everyone meet if you’re separated when things happen? If you have young children who cannot get to the rally point on their own, who’s responsible for picking them up? If you need to leave town, which routes would be the best to take? Which are the best alternate routes? Where will you stay once you’re out of the danger zone?Never let your gas tank get below 1/2 a tank.Start with at least a week’s worth of food and water in your pantry, and try to build it up to 2–4 weeks worth. It’ll depend on how long it usually takes your town/city to have utilities returned to service after a disaster/storm.Have a way to cook when the power is out. Cast iron cookware. Solar oven. Camper grill and propane.Know how to filter and purify water. Get some Lifestraws. Have the means to boil water. Have bleach available.Have a fully equipped first aid kit as well as a book or printed instructions on how to set broken limbs, dress wounds, treat shock, and possibly even sew closed deep cuts.Learn how to quickly judge who you should help and who you should turn away.Know how to deal with garbage and human waste when the utilities aren’t in service.Do your best to stock up on medications. Learn natural remedies that can be useful if your prescription medicine runs out.
What are the top 10 items doomsday preppers stockpile?
I think Andreas said most of it. Water, food, (dry, canned) #10 cans of dehydrated food if you have the room.Gun or guns , ammo. What type of gun? When in doubt, 9mm is very popular so you could find a lot of it stashed in homes. But. .22 is light and you can carry 1,000 rounds. estimated to weigh 5 pounds. VS 1000 rounds of 5.56 est. 28 pounds. If it is a full blown Armageddon you may need to go on foot.So lets go with.Water, Food, Rifle, Hand gun, Medical kit. (good one), Sanitary items, Seeds, , Radios, flashlights, (only use flashlights that are AA or AAA, try to keep them all the same. Solar charging system. 12 vdc. MRE’s . Water purification knowledge.The amount of food and water if you are stationary will have to last you till you can start growing your own. The list can get long. How much fuel will you need to go to another location? Do you have friends you can count on as a group.If you are thinking of prepping, Start with 2 cases of water for each member of your family. Then look into dry food and canned goods. The cans from the store last a minimum of 2 years, so you can rotate them out slowly. Learn first aid and buy a good med kit. Buying a few things a month makes it easy on the budget. Buy generic water. FYI water does not expire. Ignore the date on the bottle. The water is already 6 billion years old.
What type of emergency food can be stored for many years without perishing?
I recently ate a few MREs (military/camping rations), comprising vacuum-sealed (but not dehydrated) foods — spaghetti with meatballs, a beef-bean chili, cheese tortellini in tomato sauce, side bread/crackers/cornbread, you get the idea. I bought these for a fraction of their original cost, because they were coming up on their ten-year expiration date.[This is a common practice; campers, hunters, and doomsday-preppers will sometimes sell their supplies when reaching expiration, so they can get fresh rations and start the five- or ten-year cycle anew.]I let some of these MREs age to 11–12 years, in a sun-shielded but otherwise variable-temperature house pantry. All of them were just fine; I wouldn’t call any ‘delicious,’ but the tomato sauce hadn’t darkened, the meat wasn’t rancid, had no oily sheen, the squeezable peanut-butter was still cohesive and had not separated, etc. They were certainly better than some of the stuff I ate as a kid, including most of my school lunches.So I’m gonna say that, under proper storage conditions, MREs will last somewhere between twelve and twenty years. It turns out there is a YouTube community who actively try and film these experiments — they eat and share their reactions to 75-yr-old WW2 rations, 40-yr-old Vietnam rations, newer Gulf-War rations, and, most impressively, a 150-yr-old Civil War hardtack biscuit which has actually receded and separated into a Triscuit-looking-thing. I strongly recommend Steve1989MREInfo and his videos to your attention.
Is it possible to have a healthy diet eating only non-perishable items (canned, boxed, etc… no fresh meat, dairy, fruits)?
No.I want to go as far as saying that it is impossible to have a healthy diet INCLUDING these items.I don’t know of anything boxed that is of any benefit other than keep you from starving if you were. Cans are preserved with substances that are usually destructive on your health and those that are not are commonly processed so far that there is no nutrient value left, aside from the fact that their content is just that: Processed and in being so, of a glycemic index that nature does not truly support (hence the diabetes pandemic). Processed meats then are ALSO associated with diabetes, never mind the sulfites found in there……Anything that gravitates from fresh and in season FRUIT VEGETABLE ANIMAL OF SOME SORT and possibly dairy, and hand pressed oils is nothing you are by nature and by being of the species you are, intended to eat and stay healthy.we can do many many mistakes with our nutrition but eventually, the balance tips and the body breaks.