Here are some top priorities as I see it.
Food
including Wheat and grains, Water,
Wheat Grinder (Electric and a Hand),
Heavy Duty Dough Mixer, Medications and medical supplies, clothing, blankets, fuel
if you are allowed or an All
American Sun Oven.
Weapons. Some think that
this is not needed, but if we get to the point where the dollar crashes and the
economy goes down, those will be important.
You may have to protect your family and what you have in storage. If things break down there may be mobs
roaming the streets. This is not
wild. Look at Europe. It is coming here. When? Unknown but possibly soon and that is not
the time to try and prepare for the wolf will already be in the hen house. Read what the Lord said through a prophet of the Lord:
45 Nevertheless,
the Nephites were inspired by a better cause, for they were not
fighting for monarchy nor power but they were fighting for their homes and their
liberties, their wives and their children, and their all, yea, for their rites
of worship and their church.
46 And
they were doing that which they felt
was the duty which they owed to their God; for the Lord had said unto them, and
also unto their fathers, that: Inasmuch as ye
are not guilty of the first offense, neither the second, ye shall not suffer
yourselves to be slain by the hands of your enemies.
47 And
again, the
Lord has said that: Ye shall
defend your families even unto bloodshed. Therefore for this cause were the
Nephites contending with the Lamanites, to defend
themselves, and their families, and their lands, their country, and their
rights, and their religion.
If you pick up the book “Making the Best of Basics 12.5 Edition”
handbook. It will take you into much more detail in all areas of
being self-reliant.
FOOD: No
matter what else you have, if you do not have this, the rest will be useless. Start by getting an extra weeks supply, then
two, then a months, then two, then three, then do that 3 more times to
accumulate a year supply.
If you can afford it, WITHOUT GOING INTO DEBT, you
can buy a complete unit for a year for about $900.00. This is a Basic Unit for one person. There are more expensive ones with a better
selection, but to sustain life, the basic unit will work. These units are dehydrated food in cans or
Freeze dried. Freeze dried is lighter in
weight but a little more expensive.
A note on Wheat. This is the
staff of life according to the Lord.
Red
wheat,
after ground up become darker wheat flour and becomes darker wheat bread (which
I like the best).
White
wheat
grinds into white flour for white bread.
Wheat
lasts for years. Wheat has been taken out of the pyramids that
are over 3000 years old and it is perfectly good today. Why?
They were stored in a cool dark place as far as I could see. Once you crack it to make flour, then it
starts to deteriorate in nutritional value.
Don’t start eating a strict whole wheat diet. Help your system to switch by using some
white flour in it and gradually go to straight wheat. You can make cracked wheat cereal. Try to get use to your food storage, little
by little BEFORE you have to use it strictly.
Be sure to replenish what you use.
Use a black marker for marking dates on items.
I
cannot over emphasize the importance of the book I mentioned.
You don’t necessarily have to rotate these
items. They are usually good for 20 to
25 years, in sealed #10 cans and some bulk items in buckets.
GRINDERS AND MIXERS: If wheat is involved, which is used
for making bread, you will need a grinder and a heavy duty mixer for the
dough. These will be mostly electric,
but if you hunt around you may come across some that can work on electric and
by crank, if the electricity goes out.
If you cannot find one, you can buy Hand Grinders separately but you may
have to make the dough by hand. I was lucky;
I found both grinder and mixer that can work both ways. Look around. Some may be used.
Pick up other items to vary the diet and to
make it enjoyable like peanut butter, jellies, spices, and other items that
your family like and usually eat. Those
will have to be rotated, eating the oldest first so they won’t go bad.
WATER: Water should be kept cool and covered over to
keep it in the dark. You can also use
DARK containers. Blue or Black, not
clear. Bacteria grow in light. If gotten
from a good water source, it will keep for a year or two. It can be disinfected by boiling if needed,
or by using Clorox Regular, unscented bleach without soap additives or
phosphates. An example is 2 drops per
quart if the water is clear, 4 drops if it is cloudy. For a gallon, 8 drops
clear, 16 cloudy. Use only the liquid,
not powdered bleach. Stir and let stand
for an hour or more. Bleach more than
one year old, double the amount, more than two years old; it has lost its
effectiveness. Keep it rotated.
How much do you need? About 1 gallon per day per each family member
for two weeks. With dehydrated items to
reconstitute, you will need more. Then
there is washing, cleaning, etc. A
couple of plastic, dark, 55 gallon drums would do OK. Just don’t use water like you would in normal
times.
I just cannot stress the above mentioned book enough. Get it from the source you want but get it. It will teach you much of what you need to
know to be ready for things that are coming.
Be sure to get the 12.5 Edition.
It is
the newest edition.
They first came out years ago with only about
250 pages, then 500 pages; now this 12.5 Edition is 750 pages. There are loads of websites and information
sites in it. This is a great way to
learn.
You do not have to get it from this website
but so far as I have found it, this is the cheapest site.
I
will touch
lightly
on the other items in the upcoming articles
and give you some web sites to look at and my opinion on each.
Here is one good website.
Comments are welcome.
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