What will you do when the store shelves go empty?

You can live on the young shoots from multiple types of wild grass.

It is a renewable resource and grows most everywhere.

This would get you through the initial spell until you can setup a rhythm to live by.

Peace

reply to post by IntastellaBurst


Yeah...I suppose that is one solution... I find it a bit grotesque, personally. Much easier on my psyche to go shoot a harmless deer, or catch a trout. Not to mention safer, as deer and trout don't shoot back, or eat me. Maybe even, though I don't like the idea much, raise a garden. Hate gardening...but hate hunger even more.

Cannabilism is a solution to hunger without a doubt...but I'd keep that in reserve...waaaaay back.

Ever check into Ration bars? Each one is good for 3 days worth of nutrients, and has a 5 year shelf life. They are also not so terribly expensive.

Sure, they taste like coconut and sawdust, but beats starving to death, and an easy way to have a safeguard.

First thing I am knocking over is a pharmacy, not a grocery store. Food can be caught and bartered for,but no one can make drugs, antibiotics and heart medications.

I will get as far away from society as I can... take my years supply of canned food with me, take a gun (yet to purchase), lots of bullets, 5 year supply of lighters, and a dog to keep me company and help me hunt and wake me when predators approach. Then I will find a river and set up camp.

Don't forget about feed stores if you live outside the city, sacks of cracked corn , sunflower seed, dog food. If it's near any kind of hunting season they usually sell large bags of carrots, sugar beets and apples for bait piles. Not much of a selection but it's better than nothing. I think I'd save the dog food for last though

We are set for food, medications and supplies for a year unless we have to put up my unprepared son and his family. In that case we are set for about four months. I have next year's seeds already set back, chickens for eggs, meat and new supply of chickens, ducks for the same thing. The only thing I worry about is feeding the dogs although they are less discriminating and will eat whatever I throw in front of them. I'm sure they'd love a big pot of boiled road kill

When the SHTF and everybody finishes raiding my
storage room.I will go out alone in the woods,dig a hole,
curl up into a ball and let nature take it's course.

If the shelves are going empty I'm likely already at my retreat location and setup for the duration of whatever event is causing the run on stores. The crowd I spend my time with are already ahead of the curve in terms of stockpiling necessities so unless something goes catastrophically wrong (like a comet taking out the retreat) I don't have a lot to worry about other than keeping looters at bay and managing the garden plots.

Wow, someone said they had been preparing for 30years but it didn't sound like he/she was ready yet? If you know this is coming, why haven't you moved to someplace safe. Survival has three foundational rules; location, location, location. Next is planning and then preparing with continual refinement of the process (Edwards Deming). If you are planning on going into the woods to survive and you are a 20 something Ranger you might survive, otherwise you are going to die. I am a survivalist, therefore I am an optimist. I have moved to a rural area, 20 years ago, developed gardening skills, to raise most of our food, and continuing to develop them since it isn't as easy as it looks on TV. I am in the process of getting off the grid with PVs and passive solar. We raise chickens, rabbits, pigeons, worms and goats. There is standing timber for firewood and all manner of alternative methods are used. Solar oven for cooking as well as wood burning stove for outside cooking in the summer along with a large rain water cistern. This time next year I will have no bills but taxes. As far as ATS having a lock on the "who's who" of survival discussions this place isn't even close. Most of the people here seem to have a very limited understanding of what it takes to survive. If you don't have a two year supply of food for you and yours and have procured a rural survival homestead (or at least some non-urban place to go) with appropriate equipment and supplies of dry goods, times will indeed be hard for you. You don't have to be Bill Gates guys. You just need a realistic homestead plan and a food storage plan. One acre out in the sticks is enough area to raise food for 20 people with intensive gardening and animal husbandry techniques. This doesn't cost megabucks. Some contribution monthly and before you realize it you've got "food storage". You need a location, food storage, appropriate equipment and most importantly you need a brain and a plan. If TSHTF is survivable, then these are the things you'll need. 2cents

What will you do when the store shelves go empty

Do what "Lemmy" Kilmister said EAT THE RICH

Originally posted by rajaten
I guess id have to lie down in bed and cry until starvation takes me.

Lets hope this never happens.

Another option is to identify IMMEDIATELY when the crisis happens and be among the first in the grocery store. Grab at least 2-3 months' worth of food. Next grab all the medical supplies you'll need. And don't forget water. Pull out all available containers, fill them up. Disinfect your bathtub, wash it clean, fill it up, cover it with cellophane to keep the dust out.

pfft, imma grab all the packs of smokes i can carry.

reply to post by FlyersFan
Flyers Fan, if you don't mind me asking.. what foods are you able to eat? There has to be a solution!

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I worked out a plan for the next 2 years with a six monthly goal.

If anyone waits for the shelves to go empty before making their move; it's much to late.
All or most of urban America will be on fire two weeks after essential services are cut off.

Americans will rapidly revert back to primitive animals in short order when they get hungry.
For every person that has made preparations for a shtf event; there are a thousand predators that will be
going after your stash. All vestiges of civilization will completely be broken down with the weak and confused being nothing more than prey. There will be no hippy back to the land option. It will simply be bloody chaos and total anarchy. If the predators and starvation don't get you...diarrhea, disease and lack of medical services will.

The living will envy the dead!!

Cormic McCarthys' "The Road" will look like a walk in the park.

It'll be fun

Happy New Year everyone!

Want justice? Work for Peace!!

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In many (most?) places in the USA, game animals and fish are part of a totally artificial system that is supported by hunting and fishing fees that pay for the management of game and fish. That is to say, the animals and fish are available only because the number of hunters and fishermen have been restricted to levels that allow the animals and fish to maintain a predetermined, sustainable population. In a free-for-all of hunting and fishing, how long would be before fish and game were scarce? One season? Unless one lived in someplace like Alaska, hunting and fishing for food might not be practical or productive.

I'd go shoot a couple deer on my property and go do a lil fishing. where we live you could sustain life for years without worrying for anything. we have live springs coming out from the hillsides and lots of indigenous fruits, nuts, mushrooms and edible plants. not including all the wildlife...personally i'm not concerned.

Living in Utah as long as I have, my family got into the habit of food storage. We aren't LDS, but have many friends who are. They introduced us to a number of options, least of all to have a minimum of 6 months food stored at all times.
For fresh meat, there is always hunting/fishing. But the basic protein requirements would be met.

I grow my own fruit and veg already, dunno if it's enough to sustain me for long, but it's a start.

And where I live, there will always be rain, plus the sea is nearby, not that hard to desalinate.