Eve Opener!!!

[Colorado Luckydog]

My first time in Survival forum was yeterday. I learned a lot in just a few minutes of reading. There's a lot more to SHTF senarios than just having plenty of ammo and guns. If I went right out and bought eveything I want to buy right now, my wife would chop my nuts off. So I set a goal to get as "prepared" as I can, by the end of the summer. You guys will be seeing me in this forum more often.

[jerrymrc]

My first time in Survival forum was yeterday. I learned a lot in just a few minutes of reading. There's a lot more to SHTF senarios than just having plenty of ammo and guns. If I went right out and bought eveything I want to buy right now, my wife would chop my nuts off. So I set a goal to get as "prepared" as I can, by the end of the summer. You guys will be seeing me in this forum more often.

A little here, a little there. I would say that it took 4 years to get where I am at now.

[BushMasterBoy]

I started by buying two 20lb bags of rice. You can kill all the meat you want, you still have to have carbohydrates. I plan on eating alot of cattail roots. They are to be cooked like a potato.

[TEAMRICO]

As of late I have been picking up bulk items for storage in the basement.
Mostly canned items that will last a year and I can rotate and use as needed.
My wife is understanding and always asks what else we can pick up.
First Im preping for a month of sustainment for us 3. Mainly food for my 5 YO. I can eat crap but my main concern is my boy, then the wife then me. Ha, the low calorie intake might do me some good.
I am always in a defensive mode anyway so it is down there if we need it.

[theGinsue]

I started by buying two 20lb bags of rice. You can kill all the meat you want, you still have to have carbohydrates. I plan on eating alot of cattail roots. They are to be cooked like a potato.

I don't recall ever seeing cattail's in CO. Are they readily available where you live or plan to bug out to?

[Irving]

I know where a bunch of cattails are. Well, a bunch compared to none anyway. Not much to live off of.

[M2MG]

I started by buying two 20lb bags of rice. You can kill all the meat you want, you still have to have carbohydrates. I plan on eating alot of cattail roots. They are to be cooked like a potato.

Why just the tail? Pussy makes a damn fine meal.

M2MG

[Mtn.man]

Don't eat the roots if they have been dyed.

[Mtn.man]

Quick ? what Eve are we opening here?

[ChadAmberg]

My first time in Survival forum was yeterday. I learned a lot in just a few minutes of reading. There's a lot more to SHTF senarios than just having plenty of ammo and guns. If I went right out and bought eveything I want to buy right now, my wife would chop my nuts off. So I set a goal to get as "prepared" as I can, by the end of the summer. You guys will be seeing me in this forum more often.

This brings up a point I always like to make. Ammo and guns are about worthless in a SHTF if you do nothing else. Who are you going to take food from? The family down the road that didn't prepare either and has nothing left after 2 days?

Nope, you're going to get the bright idea to go to try and take stuff from that survivalist guy down the road. But trust me, he's going to be a lot better prepared to defend himself than you ever will be attacking.

The proper mindset to have is that you have guns and ammo to protect what you have prepared from those that don't have it. That's about it.