Bugging in?

[muddywings]

thread revival...hope someone peeks in here for my query.

I'm moving out of our rental and into "our" first home. (I owed two during my military career, but since getting married and becoming a civvy, this will be our first house together). While I wish I could have picked a more defensible home, current work situation dictated where we bought and limited options and timing.

Anyway, I have a nice unfinished basement that is prime for a SHTF storage area. I'll be buying some water barrels pretty quickly but I didn't see a lot of talk in here about food.
I'm going to head down to the Mormon place in C Springs soon and check that out but wanted to ask opinions for long term food supplies. I am figuring that a minimum food/water to bug in with would one year's worth. Hopefully, by then all the die off would be complete and there would be small communities putting things back together (hopefully, like-minded people). Anyway, I digress. So long-term food supplies? Good brands? Good values? Taste? Mixing different things? ie: Mormon prepper food, bags of rice, bulk storage food from Costco, MREs?

Luckily, it's just the wife, the dog and me.

Thanks for the opinions.

[Great-Kazoo]

thread revival...hope someone peeks in here for my query.

I'm moving out of our rental and into "our" first home. (I owed two during my military career, but since getting married and becoming a civvy, this will be our first house together). While I wish I could have picked a more defensible home, current work situation dictated where we bought and limited options and timing.

Anyway, I have a nice unfinished basement that is prime for a SHTF storage area. I'll be buying some water barrels pretty quickly but I didn't see a lot of talk in here about food.
I'm going to head down to the Mormon place in C Springs soon and check that out but wanted to ask opinions for long term food supplies. I am figuring that a minimum food/water to bug in with would one year's worth. Hopefully, by then all the die off would be complete and there would be small communities putting things back together (hopefully, like-minded people). Anyway, I digress. So long-term food supplies? Good brands? Good values? Taste? Mixing different things? ie: Mormon prepper food, bags of rice, bulk storage food from Costco, MREs?

Luckily, it's just the wife, the dog and me.

Thanks for the opinions.

The LDS place i recommend macaronis, rice, flour small / short term potato pearls, quick oats apple slices and carrots.

[jerrymrc]

Start here. www.ar-15.co/threads/35633-amount-of-food-to-store?

I will add more later.

later.

http://www.ar-15.co/threads/19906-Th...t-food-thread?

[muddywings]

Start here. www.ar-15.co/threads/35633-amount-of-food-to-store?

I will add more later.

later.


www.ar-15.co/threads/19906-The-everything-about-food-thread?

oops, my bad...got in here and got tunnel vision. Will check it out. Thanks.

[Great-Kazoo]

Forgot to add. If you're using a below ground area for storage, consider placing items on pallets / skids. Keeping anything off the floor even canned goods is always a plus.

[rbeau30]

Jim posted good info there. I keep my stored water on pallets, (not 55 gallon drums) and my buckets of staples in Mylar. Everything else is on heavy duty shelves where the first shelf is up off the ground.

The LDS cannery in Aurora is staying open until October. They said the same stuff will be available for purchase afterwards (already canned up) so I'm not panicking or anything. As long as I can go there and support them through purchase of the product I will continue to go there.