Preppers Food Storage Truths

Boy, did I take many, many different paths to get to you today. PBM family, Oh my goodness, eleven o'clock in the morning. I started this journey at ten. I think cameras wouldn't work, microphones wouldn't work, computers wouldn't work. Cameras and microphones wouldn't work together. Yesterday I didn't get a show. I don't know. It was one of those put off things yesterday for surviving Americans, like, all right, I won't do it at ten, I'll do it at noon, all right. I won't do it at noon. I'll do it at two. All right, I won't I'll do it in the car ride. All right. I won't do it in the car ride. I'll do it in the evening. And I almost did too. I was real close. I was really close to jumping on and literally doing a complete and total Surviving America war Hammer paint session with you, where you wouldn't even have seen my face. You'd have just seen me, you know, working, and we would have talked the radical similarities between the grim darkness of the far future and modern times. So whatever, you know, this is what it is. Let's talk about what we want to talk about today. Which is food storage truths, Preppers, food storage truths at a time where more and more people are looking at food storage as a solution. But what exactly are they looking at when they're looking at food storage? Right when I say the word food storage to you, it brings up what what comes to mind? What comes to mind? What a cornucopia of methods and means is what comes to mind when I say food storage. But when I first got into prepping, it certainly wasn't that way. Right, We're coming up with the anniversary of the year anniversary of Rational Ruin, which was a deciding factor in how I handled food storage in my life going forward. Big changes, big changes, man. You know, I posted a a post up on Reddit preppers and it went absolutely insane, and it was all about the fact that I'm not buying freeze driding pre made freeze driding meals anymore from any company. You know that those days are over for me. And I mentioned that after Rational Ruin, I really had a lot of problems with that stuff. I just wasn't happy with it. I wasn't happy with. What I was most unhappy with was how how it felt even when I was hungry, you know, what I mean, because I'm not a very picky guy, so it says a lot, you know what I mean, when you're in that situation. But so food storage Truths, Today's show is going to be all about some truths that you need to contemplate, you need to consider as you build out your own food storage or maybe as you revise what food storage means to you. Right, if you have a stockpile and it looks a certain way and it's it's got a long shelf life, you're in the good no matter what I'm about to say, right, So don't worry about that. Remember, like, if if it turns out you hate all the freeze dried meals that you have or something like that, then pretty easy to just pretty easy to just you know, go with it, go with something else. Pretty easy to trade up, right, pretty easy to use that stuff as giveaway barter if you don't want to eat it, or if you decide it ain't worth it, you know, whatever it is you decide. Probably the biggest food storage truth of all is the fact that you need to figure out what your goal is first and foremost. That's number one. Number one is what is the goal here? So what are we doing with food storage. Most people give the short answer, right, oh my god, there's gonna be a family, We're gonna run out of food. What are we going to do? We need more food. And in that flurry and in that fear, in that fever, you look the preppers. You look to people online to give you an answer, and you pretty quickly realize like, oh, well, they're telling me I should have may day ration bars and long term food storage made by four Patriots dot com. And look, I've been in that boat. And again it's better than nothing. But what what do you really want to do? What is your goal? Is your goal to eat well for two weeks? Is your goal to eat well for three months? I really do believe that if you can sustain yourself for three months with any manner of preps, then you're prepared for most everything. You're prepared for most everything except for a situation that changes the face of the world that we live in on a whole. Right, But you can look back over the last what really probably almost one hundred years, nearly one hundred years, You can look back and say, three months of preps, food, water, goods, tools, so on. You can know you put ninety nine point nine percent prepared for the things that happen and have happened in the last eighty years. Right, rationing whatever it is, right, you'd be prepared. So what does food storage look like in your mind as a goal? And I think that to me is probably where people where people should start, even though they don't start. Right, that's the truth of where you should start in food storage. If you pop in and go, here's the most dangerous thing you can do. I want a year's worth of food. So I'm gonna buy a year's worth of food for four thousand bucks online. And then you buy a year's worth of food you've never tasted. You don't know if your body's gonna like it. Your family's gonna like it, your mouth is gonna like it, your stomach, your digestive track, whatever the situation is. Ideal food storage is the type that allows you to eat well, to be healthy, to eat foods that you like to eat. Right, here's the food storage truth number two that people don't want to hear. If you can't cook, food storage is really hard. It's really hard. Yeah. If you can't cook, food storage gets significantly harder because the way to rule in long term food storage, and it probably is Prepper's most it's probably preppers. One of Prepper's most effective, if not greatest, contributions to modern society is the mylar bag five gallon buckets staple good, right, a staple good that can be packed at home like flour with our two thousand cc oxygen absorbers seven millimeters mylar bags into five gallon buckets and last four. I mean, I've eaten ten year old flour. Okay, I've done it. I've eaten ten year old flour stored in this way. I can tell you in its raw state, it does taste. It's got like a little bit of a metallic taste. But when you bake bread with it, you can't tell can't even remotely come close to tell it rose with the yeast. It did everything it was supposed to do ten year old flour. But in order to take advantage of that style of food storage, which I think is the most efficient, right when you talk about how do you put up three months worth of food, where you do it in massive calorie dumps in staples like rice and flour and sugar. Right in pasta, these are massive calorie dumps. They are you know, a fifty pound bag of rice is the white long grain white rice is basically eighty thousand calories, Okay, at a cost of about twenty two bucks right now, so you know, you can very quickly see how your calories per month for your family can be met. Those needs can be met easily and effectively if you if you use this method. Right. But the hard truth is, flour, sugar, pasta, rice, beans ain't gonna do you a whole lot of good if you don't know, if you've never cooked rice, if you never made a pot of beans cooked to be nice and tender and flavorful. Right, if you don't know how to bake, so you know, I can't really do anything with the flour that make like, you know, screwel or something. You know what I'm saying. The better you could become it preparing foods from scratch, A variety of rice dishes, of a variety of bean dishes, A variety of rice and bean dishes, a variety of right better, a variety of things that you can prepare with sugar, flour, and maybe some other ingredients. Right yeast, most importantly but not necessarily needed, right could do baking soda, baking powder, become a master of the quick bread. You don't need a lot of sweets, probably, but in a situation where you're in that three month window of preparedness, like zucchini breads and banana breads and carrot cakes and whatever else, they're gonna be a godsend man. So these things are essential. I mean this as wonderful as it is to stockpile calories. In this way, you have to be able to cook, and you want to get better at cooking. You don't want to stop it. I know the two to one ratio necessary to cook rice, and I've cooked white rice a handful of time, so I'm ready. You want to build a repertoire of recipes, you know what I mean, so that you can you can prepare these foods. It goes a long way. I'll tell you right now. You check this out, Okay, this is what you want to You want to check out the SHTF chef at TV Family Doctor. It's been a while since we've done it. We're not going to do it a particular segment today, but suffice it to say, though, one of my simplest and most favorite rice dishes is the browning of beef or the browning of ground turkey in a pan. Remove it, drain it, Add peppers and onions. Dehydrate it if you have them, freeze dried if you have them, whatever you can rehydrate and use those, or pull them from the garden. Sweat them down right, sweat them down until they're softened your Add your meatback. Add say you did a pound of beef. Right, add your meatback. Add a normal sized coffee cup half coffee cup of rice. Let all that stir together. Add things like Now you can season up power if you want. The seasonings don't matter, but I like to add things like smoke, paprika, chip hotl like chili powder or ancho chili powder, human tumoric. All right, start that in with your rice and let it get kind of fragrant. Right. The spices will come to life. As you add heat to it. It come to life. Then add a full coffee cup of some kind of broth or plain water, depending on what you got right, bring that to a simmer. Cover the whole thing until the rice is soft and you have just a dead easy, nutritious, healthy meal that could be made with. Oh and if you don't have fruits. If you don't have raw ground beef or turkey, then you could use you know, freeze dry ground beef. You don't have to brown it, just add it in to the I would, I would rehydrate it and then I would toss it with the onion and the pepper once it softened, and then add the spices and go from there. There's a dish I make probably once a week. It's like a lunch meal once a week, super easy, simple, you know, packed with flavor. Build on this, you know, because to that dish can all kinds of things can come. You know what I mean, All kinds of things can build out of that based dish. You can change the meat so out. You can change the ground beef for a sausage. You can add shrimp. You can create a paie, right. That was one of the inspirations for that was a bass pie or jumbalaya. I used to do it with chicken and turkey sausage, and like I said, you do it. You can add beans to it. You can add bacon and black beans to it. You can do amazing stuff with that dish. You learn the bas you add to it, you develop your repertoire. Hard truth number two about food stores. You got to be able to cook. Okay, you should just be able to cook. Like it's you got to eat three times a day. You want to leave it up to somebody else. Why why leave that up to somebody else? Doesn't make any sense? So, uh, that's number number two. Number three. This is a This is not necessarily a hard truth, but it is a truth. Like try not to listen in terms of preference to too many people, the hard truth is no one has your preference. Sitting next to me is a case of MRI's twelve MRIs from MR's World, and my son and I are gonna go make a video about a video review in the woods where you're gonna have have a meal and eat it and and see what we think about it and all that kind of stuff, and do a little video review. You'll see it. I'll put it up. I'll do like an extended version and put it up for you guys, because you never really get to see my son very often if they've grown to be a very cool kid, of course. But I got a case of these mrs. You know, mrs are kind of like a fun treat, that's what they are. They're kind of like a fun treat that we play with. You know, They're not a meal, they're not a dinner, they're not a lunch. They're not a thing we rely on for in disaster. But I have MRIs, and you know, most of the time it's like a fun thing, like let's pop open an MR and watch a movie. You know what I mean. Well, let's pop up in an MRI and just play with it and see what's good and what's not good. I've never really taken them camping. I typically do like a what's it called for camping because I like those like a mountain house or bring our own food. And in case you're confused, the difference between a mountainhouse meal and a freeze dried meal out of a bag that has to be simmered for twenty minutes is the fact that it has to be simmered for twenty minutes and the fact that most of the time it's not nearly as good as the one that just sits in boiling water in a package for fifteen minutes. And again, I think I don't have the budget for three months worth of mountainhouse meals. They're very expensive. Even if I had the budget, though I still wouldn't depend on three months of Mountainhouse wheels to get me through a crisis. But these foods are as much novelty as they are the food prep for me, key in that sentence is for me, You know what about for you? You may love MRIs and if you love him, dude, you are living pack them because MRIs are exceptional. They're exceptional for a number of reasons when it comes to emergency preparedness, when it comes to prepping, they offer something far beyond simple food storage. Right, you get a bucket of meals, you're gonna be eating the very cheaply produced food. But worse than that is you're gonna be you're gonna have very very little choice and very little difference. What I like about an MRI is that, you know, while the entrede changes and some of the snacks change and that kind of stuff, Like, there's a variety of things in EACHMRI, and there's something about that that is just way better than like, you know, how's your chicken flavored rice tonight, honey? From the morale standpoint, right, there's some really cool about tearing a package open, tearing another package open, preparing the food yourself at the MR food heating water heater type thing with the water activated heater, right, I mean, I don't know. There's just something cool about all of that that adds add something to an MRI that it makes it exceptionally. It makes it way better than standard dry freeze dried food storage in my opinion. Okay, whatever your preference is, though, go with that. I know a lot of guys that would eat bark you know what I mean, to survive, like having chicken flavored rice. If it was enough calories and close to enough protein to survive and be healthy, they wouldn't care, you know what I mean. It would eat it every day. Same thing. Talk to Phil Rabelay about beans and rice. You know what I mean, red beans and rice. So that's an other hard truth, right. There's a lot of people out there telling you what to buy where to buy. I'm doing it right now to some degree. I'm not telling you what to buy by what you want, but there's a lot of advice out there and preference rules when it comes to food storage. You know, preference is king, there's no getting around it. Let's take a break from the hard truths. I want to talk to you about government fasting, because I think it's time I have taken larger and larger chunks of time off of government news. Donald Trump speaking gigantic situations where you know people are being in this one's being indicted, and that one's being indicted in this level of corruption, that ice is breaking into Minneapolis, and you know, all this stuff has happened. Like media and government fasting is essential right now if you want to live a good life. You know, the level of corruption, the level of violence, the level of hatred in the air. It's too much, and your brain's not designed to absorb it all. It shouldn't absorb it all. There's no need for it to be absorbed, right So, rather than deal with that, I think, you know, what's the most pertinent headlines. If you must, if you must, look at the most pertinent headlines and move on, you know, really go into about of media and government fasting, and you're going to see real results in how you look at the world and the people around you. You're gonna see real results about how you feel. Every single day. I've been given to coming out in the mornings, early before the sun gets up, sitting in the peace and quiet and going like, oh, this is my life. This is my life. My life is not what's up on the Drudge Report, what's up on the Epic Times website, what's up on in the PBN chat rooms, what's in the PBN host chat rooms. Like, that's not my life. It's not your life either. Frankly, it's next to no one's life. I sum it up pretty and succinctly the other day by talking about you see a lot of violence in the world on the Internet, but in the real world, how much violence do you actually see? You know? In other words, you developed this idea that like, oh, we live in a country that is racked with violence, because every time you go on act see a bunch of violence. But the reality is you look around and you go, you know, I don't really see a lot of violence. When's the last time I've seen a violent act with my own two eyes? Right, It's just an example. Food Storage Truths PBN Family Food Store Ridge Truths. We talked about preference, we talked about cooking ability, we talked about the hard truth about ready made meals, you know what I mean, and that kind of stuff. Those really are the top three in my book, you know, I guess another real here's a hard truth for food storage. If you're not into the self reliance aspect or into the growing aspect of stuff, like really really understand how little, like how miniscule subsidizing and supplementing real food into your stored food can change the game. This was another observation through rational ruin. Right, this is a rational ruin observation where it was like every buddies eating, See, I had I had one big benefit on my side against the other guys in rational ruin. It was that I was allowed to use foods that I had grown. Right, I was allowed to use foods that I had grown, And it gave me the ability to put eggs on top of the horrible freeze dried meals. So I could have chicken flavored rice and I put eggs on top of it. And I put some kind of a leaf but I don't remember what it was. It wasn't kale, but it was something that would have been growing here in May. It could have been like a Swiss chard. I can't remember exactly what it was. It could have been a turnip green. Actually, yeah, the turnips are looking good here at Liberty Farm. Turnips are looking good at the group. The peas are climbing. I'm actually set here in the in the raspberry field that has left the building. The raspberries have left the building. They have gone out into the world to make their own way, and it's phenomenal. I'm delighted, to be honest, So PB and family, this is the situation. Oh my god, brilliant. Sorry, I just realized something so important. Anyway, So that's the situation. You know what I mean. You can turn crap powdered potatoes into something magnificent if you have onions and garlic growing, and rosemary that can be minced and stirred in and it's like what I'm telling you. The takeaway is if you think that growing a little food in some pots, growing a little herbs in some pots, having a few chickens isn't going to make a difference for you, well you're wrong, and it will. It will make a difference for you in a very big way. You don't have to have a massive garden. If you add forging to the picture, now you have all kinds of options. So you've got to look at this thing that way and understand that even a small garden that puts out a little bit of tomatoes and a little bit of peppers, a little bit of leafy greens, maybe a little bit of fruit here and there. Like this can radically change your food storage. Right, I store pails of oatmeal, right, and you have fine. Oatmeal is good, But oatmeal with raspberries is way better. Oatmeal with mulberries is way better. Right. I can't say I've ever had oatmeal with gooseberries, but the gooseberries are coming in oatmeal with apples. Should I ever have apples, that would be nice. My backyard is not the place to grow fruits, I can tell you that much. It's quite the struggle to get them going. But whatever. Speaking of mulberries, is actually a new mulberry tree that just started producing fruit right to my right, literally in arm's length. I forgot about it last year. Last year. Just the only reason I noticed it is because I was so hungry. We're not quite there yet, but I'm gonna nurse that baby. That baby's gonna grow big and strong and produce lots of mulberries every year for us. So yeah, understand the power of supplementation, man, fresh fresh foods. Right, that's what it was. It was dandelion leaf. Yeah, that's what it was. I was putting eggs, like poached or fried eggs and dandelion leaf because the dandelions would come in and they were still pretty young, into my chicken flavored rice and into my other entrees that were kind of, you know, void of anything. So even small supplementation of homegrown or forged foods can take boring freeze, dried or even boring food storage like rice and beans and turn it into something special. Right, you make a big pot of beans. You got a big pot of black beans. You're making rice every night. You're not ready to go insane over even black beans and rice. You add some scrambled eggs, You add some wild wild greens or maybe even some root, right, like some doc some some of those kinds of rootsy dandelion root, that kind of stuff. Not too much. It's a diuretic, so if you're low on water, it could be an issue. But you add those kinds of things and all of a sudden, herbs, I mean, herbs are incredible, right, fresh herbs are incredible. Regano we get the ones that count right time or regno rosemary, basil, things that really knock it out of the park, grow really well. You know, I've tried to grow cilantro so many times. It's so delicate. It gets mashed and ruined and destroyed. It's just a waste of time. I like a big like a big woody time right with the nice woody stalk, A powerful big rosemary bush mint. Mint goes a long way, it's almost unstoppable. Comes back year over year, right, Rosemary, same thing. And then you know, basil from seed. Basil doesn't come back year over year, but it's so good and so powerful, it's amazing. We gotta have it. It's one of those secrets. Right, you keep a parmesan cheese and refrigerator and basil, Like, maam, how long do you think parmesan cheese will last? You could get You could probably eat parmesan cheese from the from one a d you know what I mean, It'd be fine. It's just salted to death and dried to death. But the So tell me about your food storage truths, folks, I'd love to hear about them. I'd love to hear about your food storage truth DM me, message me, email me, whatever. There are hard truths that have to do with food storage. In the prepping world, and we preppers have gone through a lot of them, right, we preppers have gone through a lot of them. Oh, here's another great one. You will lose money if you stock your pantry just to stock your pantry. In other words, if you panic in the early days and you say, buy a bunch of chicken noodle soup, buy a bunch of chef boy r D. Buy a bunch of canned meals that I never eat. But buy a bunch of them, You'll throw them away and you'll lose money. Ask me how I know. Ask me how I know about spam? Right? I ate spam for a week years ago, just to test my might, and my body couldn't take it. You literally couldn't take It's too much salt. I think too much salt, too much chemical, something along those lines. Just didn't work. I tried it, you know, I tried to do like a spam two meals out of the day or something like that. I ate it with eggs, I ate it with lunch. I was physically ill and before the week was out right, chef boyard, I don't eat it. We stored a bunch of it for years because it was cheap and it was like, just put calories on the in the pantry. Oh, I went in to trash, right, So be very careful about that man stocking a pantry. To stock a pantry will cost you money twice. It'll cost you money to stock it, and it'll cost you money when you realize, Oh, I didn't eat that stuff because I don't eat that stuff. So don't get don't get stabbed twice in the wallet. Last, but not least, PBN Family, The Relentless Routine is over. Four thirty twenty twenty six. Tomorrow kicks off the month of First, the month of First routine inspired by Dave Jones, the NBC guys too many first prepping adage. Look forward to it, can't wait. You're gonna love it. And look do the routines, folks. You know I give you thirty days. Do ten? Do ten. You don't have to do thirty. I don't do them. I don't do every single day, right, but it's there. It's there. You say, Oh, I got some free time. What's going on in the relentless routine today? What haven't I done? Maybe I should do something? Download it, put it on your desktop, pop it open every day and look at it, or just have it on your desktop so when it pops into your head and you can go, oh, the routine I forgot. If you do five days of the routine, it's better than none. Right, think about a pbon family. I'll talk to you folks soon. Man, thanks for everything. And I may be on camera tomorrow, I may not. I may shun the camera all together this week. We'll see talk to you soon. Stops st stop steps stops