Wyoming Survival: Its Hard To Fight When You’re Hungry

Originally appears on Wyoming Survival. T1P has a course coming up as well. Get out and train. -NCS

I always wonder why people in the prepper/survivalist community mainly focus on guns and gear. You don’t get as many subscribers or likes posting about food storage I’m guessing.
I believe after you have bought your first AR15/AK47, magazines, and ammo the next step is a food storage program for you and your family. Remember if you can’t protect it you don’t own it.
Last years food shortages should be enough to encourage even the biggest skeptic on why you need more than three days worth of food put away at the house. I believe the shortages are going to get worse. We have farm equipment shortages. We have this horrible drought in the west. We have a trucker shortage. We have worker shortages. This could end up extremely bad by this winter. Hopefully it doesn’t but we need to be ready if it turns south.
My idea of food storage is a four phase system.
Phase one is what we eat on a daily basis. It’s what we keep in our pantry, fridge, and freezer. It made me laugh last year when ALL the freeze dried food was sold out EVERYWHERE but there where still tons of canned goods, meats, and everything else on the shelves. Apparently as soon as things go south these people are going to jump right into their freeze dried foods. I on the other hand was going to be eating elk steak with canned potatoes and gravy. So phase one is full freezers, 6 months or more worth of canned goods, pasta, and so on. Just day to day food you eat normally but x10.
Next is phase two. That is your freeze dried and dehydrated foods. How much you get is up to you but I reccomend getting a huge variety of things. As your phase one depletes you can supplement with phase two food.
Next is phase 3. Long term food storage. This is the mere basics but they store as long as the freeze dried. Needless to say if you are digging into this things have gotten extremely bad.
Below is the list for 1 person for one year. Depending on the selection of grains and legumes you should be around 2600 calories a day. This is also the CHEAPEST way to do long term food storage. You will need a few other things to go with this list. A wheat grinder and a cooking with basics cookbook are the main two. You will need to store the beans and grains in sealed mylar bags with O2 absorbers in the bag with them.

  1. 8 lbs Salt (1/2 table, 1/2 pickling & canning
  2. 60 lbs nonfat dry milk
  3. 21 lbs of oil (2 gal liquid, 6 lbs shortening)
  4. 65 lbs sugar
  5. 375 lbs grains (wheat, rice, corn, ect)
  6. 60 lbs of legumes (beans, peas, lentils)
  7. 365 pills of multivitamin with minerals
  8. Leavening agents(3/4 lb yeast, 1 lb baking powder) and seasonings

You should be working on Phase four as I write. Phase four is providing your own. First off in phase four is gardening. Gardening takes many years to prefect and you should be working on that now. You need to know what you can and cannot grow in your area. You also need to start collecting the seeds from the HEIRLOOM plants you have planted. Remember once the store shelves are empty and there is no resupply you have only you to rely on for food. Along with gardening you need to know how to can the food from your garden. You will need canning equipment also. I suggest you learn to can now while things are good. Buy some vegetables and meat from the grocery store and practiced canning. Also in phase four is raising farm animals. If you only have chickens its better than nothing. You want to make sure you have at least one rooster with your hens so you can hatch eggs for meat or for more layers. Rabbits are another great option. One buck and two does will give you alot of meat through out the year.
Another part of phase 4 is hunting. I believe hunting is great for many reasons. Number one is you get meat free of any hormones, antibiotics, ect. Number two you get a chance to see what its like to kill a living creature. This is something not to be taken lightly. You need to know that you can put a living creature in you crosshairs and pull the trigger. You need to be able to flip the switch and kill when needed.

This empire is declining. Things will only get worse. It’s up to you to keep you and your family alive and well.

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About the Author: NC Scout

NC Scout is the nom de guerre of a former Infantry Scout and Sergeant in one of the Army’s best Reconnaissance Units. He has combat tours in both Iraq and Afghanistan. He teaches a series of courses focusing on small unit skills rarely if ever taught anywhere else in the prepping and survival field, including his RTO Course which focuses on small unit communications. In his free time he is an avid hunter, bushcrafter, writer, long range shooter, prepper, amateur radio operator and Libertarian activist. He can be contacted at [email protected] or via his blog at brushbeater.wordpress.com .

15 Comments

  1. Michael August 21, 2021 at 09:24

    A good solid article. I would suggest adding root cellaring, dehydration and fermenting foods in your food storage tricks. Canning is useful but most of the known world lives with out it aside from buying tinned foods as they are available. Also canning depends on a reliable source of canning LIDS. And like ammo they’ve been getting scarce. A Solar Dehydrator can be as simple as a automobile with the windows cracked to vent moisture upwards to a purpose built firewood dehydrator (yes they exist) that doubles as a massive village sized food dehydrator. I suggest using Aluminum Screening material for the solar dehydrator as I hate glass fibers from fiberglass window screens in my food. With Silicone dehydrating sheets you can even dehydrate EGGS :-) and Soups for later use. Just powder them and place in glass jars.
    Learning how to render fat and sort it for use will help when your store bought cooking oils run out. Leaf lard near the intestines and kidneys of a pig are so desirable for baking for example. Bacon grease makes decent butter once you develop a taste for it on pancakes and toast.
    I also suggest trying to raise wheat and other grains. In Maine they’ve been experimenting for some years now growing wheat using shredded leaves as mulch. A surprisingly large amount of wheat grain and useful straw for mulch can be grown in a patch in the 100 square foot size. I’ve done one this year and so far it looks good in NH, awaiting the Tropical Storm Henri to see if it troubles it much. I call it the pancake patch.
    A 5 gallon pail, a drill a threaded rod with locking nuts and some dog chain makes a decent thresher. A fan and something to pour the wheat-chaff into makes cleaning easier. Chickens LOVE to scratch through the chaff later.
    Snip from your article, SO TRUE : Number two you get a chance to see what its like to kill a living creature. This is something not to be taken lightly. You need to know that you can put a living creature in you crosshairs and pull the trigger. You need to be able to flip the switch and kill when needed.
    So many paper punchers are going to be surprised just how hard it is to center the Red Dot onto a live target and kill it for real. Used to be called Buck Fever back in the day but it’s harder than you think even to take a rabbit or chicken you’ve raised and protected to the butchers block and process it. I’ve done it.
    Water, you never have too many sources, just the needed water for a henhouse to keep producing eggs, chicks and meat is more than you think. LEARN your “Normal” rainfall patterns. Here in NH my gardens watering schedule is mostly in late July and August, sometime early September. My rainwater collection from my house (and soon my sheds) fills several 330 gallon IBC totes to gravity feed the gardens and fruit trees. Sometimes I need to use my well water. Painting the IBC’s a dark color keeps down the algae growth and helps protect the plastic from the Suns UV ray damage.
    Killhouse Rules Nobody’s coming to save you, your on your own, always be working, there is always something you can do to improve your situation.

    • Gary August 21, 2021 at 10:10

      “it’s harder than you think even to take a rabbit or chicken you’ve raised and protected to the butchers block and process it. I’ve done it.”
      Yes Sir , Me too , 30 plus years , and it doesn’t get any easier.
      Canning lids ,check out Tattler lids , https://reusablecanninglids.com/ , Wife and I are using this for the first time this year. So far they’re working
      great . Hanging on to our metal lids as possible barter material.

    • Recon Prepper August 21, 2021 at 10:30

      Michael yeah the lids are becoming more hard to find. I have reused lids successfully as have others as long as there are no dings nicks or bends in them when taking them off. Also TATTLER makes a reusable lid. Just google Tattler lids in regular and widemouth. I purchased a thousand of them years ago because of how much we can.

  2. Anonymous August 21, 2021 at 10:28

    4.5

  3. Anonymous August 21, 2021 at 10:46

    5

  4. RB in GA August 21, 2021 at 10:56

    In re: hunting. The only thing about hunting is that when the SHTF every jackass will be trying to do it. Game will dry up quickly, some common ones may even go the way of the Passenger pigeon. So dont rely on it, even if you’re God’s gift to hunting. Also, as the cesspool deepens, expect any livestock to be fair game. As the man said, if you can’t protect it, you don’t own it.
    I suppose if you have the money and space to set something up aquaculture might make sense- I keep thinking of that scene from Blast from the Past of harvesting fish in the bunker.

    • Michael August 21, 2021 at 13:35

      Actually aquaculture or rather aquaponics the growing of fish and veggies in system isn’t that difficult. Several excellent chop and flip systems that start with cutting IBC totes in half to form fish tanks on You Tube. Rob Bob’s are the best IMHO.
      Feeding the fish generates fish poop generating ammonia/nitrite/nitrates that are hard on them. Happily Hydroponic Plants LOVE them, thus cleaning the water for the fish. Temperature control is an issue for the more tender fish so I always suggest Carp as they are tough so a great learner fish AND frankly are the basis of Asian Cooking. Whenever the water tests show you need to exchange water to balance it THAT water is the best fertilizer-irrigation you can put in your garden. Just don’t put it on leafy cut and grow again crops like Lettice. In Hydroponics the Lettice floats in the irrigation with the roots exposed. In the garden we’re spraying from above so….
      I’m looking at an earth sheltered greenhouse to install such a system. Fresh fish and tomatoes in January, such a problem :-)
      Too much details for a comment but well worth taking some time to see the information.

  5. Rooster August 21, 2021 at 11:22

    Another great food post! Yes to all. Unfortunately, 75% of all animals that were on hoof will be fox food. Every other household in America has a hunting rifle and folks will killing at will without a plan. No sharing to build community. No canning or preserving for the future and hoarding of meat without food safety concerns. If your in a really rural region, meat on the hoof may be an option. Where I am in suburban Philly, I dont expect any live meat other than what I have raised if we go dark.
    Holomodor is a real thing! Death by starvation!
    Rooster

  6. Rob157 August 21, 2021 at 13:57

    One thing to remember, is that there are “laws” in place that allow for the confiscation and redistribution of your food. We can expect that the marxtards will have a good time doing it, for the common good, of course. Nine meals to anarchy…

  7. Johnny Paratrooper August 21, 2021 at 14:21

    Great Post.
    I am a huge proponent of prepping grains and legumes. Both of these crops are VERY labor intensive to harvest. It’s not even close to the same as picking a tomato or squash from the garden. Incredible time and energy is spent harvesting grains.
    I started at 1 pound of grain per day per person. I chose Rice first. Then doubled that, and then added 1.5 pounds of wheat per day to that.
    I have nearly 1,200 pounds of grains and cereals prepped.
    I could, in theory, relative to other reports from China and Europe, reduce that to half rations and nearly double my time to stay alive. However, borderline starvation is very hard on your body. It’s really not a good idea because some of those medical issues from malnutrition are permanent.

  8. BePrepared August 21, 2021 at 14:40

    Practice your canning skills now, even if you don’t have a garden. Local store or farmers market have a good deal of fresh veggies? Can it up, it’s better for you than processed foods and you probably get a better price.
    +10 for saving your Heirloom seeds. Practically all I use now are seeds from last year. There is more to “scooping it out and saving it”, several different plants have several different ways to process the seeds, practice now. Not all your seed will be viable, learn to process and store it correctly.

  9. Captain Mike August 21, 2021 at 16:16

    We make pemmican made of tallow, beef and cranberries and vacuum seal and then store some in our packs as mre. No mason jars with missing lids to worry about. I don’t see why it’s so expensive to buy a pair of 5lb weight plates or any other iron weights but for the same reason they don’t want us to have meat the same reason they don’t want us to have weight training – they’re going to get their asses smashed every time the stick their mongoloid faces up out of their holes for all the crap they’ve done in taking Microsoft from Bill Gates for these purposes we now see all around us everywhere – the people are waking up.

  10. Cavguy August 22, 2021 at 10:10

    The used lids are best for the DRY PACKING of your dehydrated goods.
    Saber 7

  11. random comment August 24, 2021 at 10:46

    8 pounds of salt and 65 pounds of sugar? that’s a LOT of sugar. even supposing you use a lot of it for preserving fruits etc, thats a lot of sugar to be eating. likewise 8 pounds seems very light on the salt. maybe one doesnt need too much more table salt, but canning/preserving salt, 8 pounds a person doesnt leave much if you’re pickling or canning vegetables.. and for meat or fish?
    salt never goes bad, and it is really important for preserving foods without refrigeration. almost all the old methods use large amounts of salt.
    ive got at least 100 lbs down in the pantry and i know i should have several times more once i clear out some space and build more shelving.

  12. Captain Mike August 25, 2021 at 14:30

    My grandma did all of this stuff you’ns are talking about. At one time my ancestors owned over a-million farm acres in Florida. So, yes, I agree with all of this work for the women to help in the fight. I’m almost ready to mass replicate a production line computer (PLC) for autonomous control of multiple aethers, pH, water temp., air humidity and air temp., dissolved oxygen in water, bulkhead camera, turbidity and appliances like water pumps, aeration pumps, titration dosing pumps, water heating element, fish food dispenser, etc. – all powered from commonly available 12vdc sources – I powering all with a single 12v 100w solar panel and marine deep cycle battery. I using 250 gallon IBC tanks with this PLC. I think we about to relocate these tanks further north and into an old school building made of bricks, the gymnasium for replication. NC Scout and Johnny Paratrooper have email for me if interested in an exchange with some new friends – vets need a place to recover from the battles ahead. My wife, Bethany, and I are planning to find a way for converting the school into a medical school for women who are of Scandinavian (blonde hair and blue eyes) descent and whose men have been successfully castrated with accusations of racists. Sick shit but it’s going to be fun when men find their balls again and process of natural selection instead of mongoloid rape gangs to break the genetic blessing from the creator God. I wouldn’t be having fun if it weren’t for gods plan for his people during these difficult times… I honestly believe we are all going to have a good time. V for victory, peace sign language for assholes like on political news, didn’t mean peace in ww2 from what I’ve heard, I am not too good with sign language so I have to use two middle fingers to make a peace or victory sign language.

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