It might not be nutritionally optimal or particularly appetising but like 9 cans of tinned meal of your choice will get you through that kind of period and won’t take a lot of space.
Sorry but I don’t think you understand that there are people out there that don’t have the spare change to buy an extra fridge, bottle of water, and 20 packets of noodles.
These shouldn’t be “extra” really. It should be food you eat already, so it’s basically “Keep your pantry stocked” level of “preparing”.
And I get it, money is tight.
3 minutes without air
3 hours without shelter
3 days without water
3 weeks without food
Start with water. You can upcycle 2L soda bottles (Rinse them, and don’t think about using upcycled milk jugs). And honestly, most Americans are storing 5 days+ of calories right on their bodies.
After water, buy 1 or two extra canned goods each shopping trip. Or a bag of rice. Or a box of Ramen.
Do people generally not have space to keep 7 days of groceries on hand?
I mean, I get some folks are houseless which obvs, they can’t do this…
But I am hard pressed to figure how someone can’t buy an extra canned good on a shopping trip? That’s literally 0.79. 2l bottles of soda aren’t things people.buy from time to time? Can’t harvest them from recycle buns?
I think a lot of this is looking at the end result, and seeing it to be impossible, because they are trying to eat the elephant in one bit, rather than just one bite at a time…
And, if you leave it closed, it’s good for 2 days. If you have ice, you can prolong that. If in the NE, you’re biggest concern is power outages during winter, in which case, you can put it outside, between October and May.
If you cannot stote 3 days worth of food, my first investment would be a single fridge. Because it can totally hold that much.
Electricity isn’t a given during an emergency tho. I think the focus is on non perishables
It might not be nutritionally optimal or particularly appetising but like 9 cans of tinned meal of your choice will get you through that kind of period and won’t take a lot of space.
Oh, I was just mocking the claim that they can’t store 3 days worth of food.
Unless of course they are like 6 people on 60 m², in which case I want to sincerely apologise
Sorry but I don’t think you understand that there are people out there that don’t have the spare change to buy an extra fridge, bottle of water, and 20 packets of noodles.
These shouldn’t be “extra” really. It should be food you eat already, so it’s basically “Keep your pantry stocked” level of “preparing”.
And I get it, money is tight. 3 minutes without air 3 hours without shelter 3 days without water 3 weeks without food
Start with water. You can upcycle 2L soda bottles (Rinse them, and don’t think about using upcycled milk jugs). And honestly, most Americans are storing 5 days+ of calories right on their bodies.
After water, buy 1 or two extra canned goods each shopping trip. Or a bag of rice. Or a box of Ramen.
It just sounds like ideal world stuff.
Do people generally not have space to keep 7 days of groceries on hand?
I mean, I get some folks are houseless which obvs, they can’t do this…
But I am hard pressed to figure how someone can’t buy an extra canned good on a shopping trip? That’s literally 0.79. 2l bottles of soda aren’t things people.buy from time to time? Can’t harvest them from recycle buns?
I think a lot of this is looking at the end result, and seeing it to be impossible, because they are trying to eat the elephant in one bit, rather than just one bite at a time…
And, if you leave it closed, it’s good for 2 days. If you have ice, you can prolong that. If in the NE, you’re biggest concern is power outages during winter, in which case, you can put it outside, between October and May.
Good info to have, is all.