Survivalist tip - 5 easy survival food preps

[mjknet]

Hey wake up... you are all stocking up on food but your government is going to come and arrest you, take away your food, put you into a FEMA camp and then dispose of your body with a FEMA coffin that you paid for!! Boy you are all in deep water! Good luck American's.

[KingFreak07]

Nobody should be picky in a shtf situation...

[Ninja8productions]

dont buy stuff from wal-mart please. walmart honey...really?

[269dremer]

Ravioli cans? Pork and beans? Chili? Roman noodles? Tuna? And I have been planting fruit trees all over the state as I drive around. Possible free food for someone someday? Know where all the wells are in your area? A good BB gun for hunting small game? Down load the LDS PREPAREDNESS GUIDE PDF, free 224 pages of survival info? Know where things you can not buy are now, so after some WORLD SHAKING disaster happens? A bow/crossbow to hunt? Solar panels, wind fan and a duracell power mate 600?

[craig79792000]

"Dont consume large amounts of fish". You lost me right there. The primary diet of the Japanese is fish and they have the longest life expectancy on the planet. Granted, the waters off of Asia are cleaner, but fish is a safe and healthy food and mercury poisoning would be the least of your worries in a survival situation. If you really knew what gets blended in with that peanut butter, you would cringe. But, bugs are protein I suppose.

[jorambler]

I wouldn't buy the store brand honey. You can get a pretty good price on honey from local sellers or even from the natural foods store. Our local one sells a big jar for less than $10.

[JubeeBijou]

I don't think people are going to be picky in a SHTF situation. 

[RCvolunteer1978]

good video i was saying this same thing I am all alone it is not wise to purxhase number 10 cans but got 12 cans of what I eat. In Dec WE HAD A cRISIS the family of four (friends of my Som ) had to moved in Have not left yet My 12 cans are gone but MOST of the can food was wasted thrown out the kids would only eat pizza and hamburgers

[IHighscoredYourGirl]

not just oils cause heartdesease... FAT causes heartdesease^^.. and peanutbutter is just pure fat with sugar and salt.

[crsbt]

@IHighscoredYourGirl

maridian peanut butter,pure natural,no salt no added oil,just crushed peanuts.

and its not high in fat at all.

i suppose its the brand you buy.

[wrongunnn]

lol u sound like red from pineapple express =]

[PacoMan2]

If you were in a "survivalist" type of situation (as the video title suggests), you would not be the least bit concerned about the mercury content in the tuna can. You'd happily eat it and be better off for having done so. Besides, I know of no one that has died from eating canned tuna. I've eaten it all my life and I'm still here.

[MrWirelesscaller]

Energy bars, you can eat them and stay on the move. Dollar Tree has the Cliff bars for $1 each, just take a multivitamin to round it out.

[SpAzZyWoNdErZ]

Thanks. I like how you threw in extra details and side notes for each item.

[gtrefghuk]

Those nutrition drinks are made up of synthetic vitamins. Your body doesn't assimilate them.

[chivone21]

I did a walk through, thru my local dollar pantry for prep items, and I was absolutely appalled by the amounts of SODIUM packed in these pre packaged foods. Like millions of people at one point in their life, become dependent on some type of medication as they get older, and living on stuff like this for any length of time, which I believe may be LONG, will KILL them, or send them to the imaginary hospital (don't count on it being there) There are ways to prep healthy food. Dont store SODIUM

[chivone21]

I'm going to shout this out. LEARN HOW TO PRESSURE CAN......SAFELY. Sit down and plan out meals for a week. Do it! Then pressure can for 7 days what you will eat for a week. Then, multiply all that x 4 for a month. PRESSURE CAN!! Then do another variation for a week, x 4 for the month and do that menu. Then prep store your dry goods, beans/rice/lentils, powdered milk, WATER WATER, and CANOLA OILS. You can't cook without oil.

[chivone21]

People don't realize that some of these items that contain, oh, lets say....Hydrochloronated such and such.....you have to eat TONS of this stuff on a regular basis, I mean every few days, in order to make an unhealthy difference in your body. As for storing peanut butter, fine, but don't knock yourself out buying "natural". Remember, this is a bugout, or get you over the hump type of meal. If you REALLY want to say something, tell people to stay away from canned SODIUM soups/stews/drinks.

[RES1ST0R]

you say "is that" all the time and it is way out of context and bad grammar

[lxXRazorXxl]

store brand honey is heated which kills all the enzymes and such, so in fact, store brand honey is not an anti bacterial. Also almost useless as nutrition. My dad sells local honey lol

[DiscoverTruth1776]

i didn't realize they had natural peanut butter. thats cool. I have been drinking Sierra Mist Naturals since it came out because it only has 5 ingredients and does not have hfcs, aspartame, etc. Its not my favorite pop, but it does the job.

[BreedBearWolf]

Take 2 cans of Mex vegs, one can of the Chicken, ( The ones the same size as Tuna) Pepper and salt to taste. Easy Hobo Chicken Vegetable soup. with a half a box of Crackes feed two good meal to one, or two ppl. for all under 4 to 5 bucks. Just a example of how easy you can prep food.

[hockeybrat95]

What about Spam?

[borderraven]

You may want to buy a few Steel Contractors Tool Boxes for the retreat. You need to be able to bolt them to the slab floor, from the inside, and modify them in/out to resist break-in by bear or man. See White Cap Contractor's Supply for KNAACK / WEATHERGUARD cabinets. As for foods, my local Abertson's brand raisins 2-pounds for $6, mixed with peanuts, roasted sunflower seeds, peanut brittle, M&M's, dried pineapple and banana chips, will feed you in a 1/2 cup. Find chia seeds in the healthfoods.

[1Joyeux]

In a survival situation, avoiding tuna fish due to mercury, or avoiding peanut butter with hydrodginated oils, makes absolutely no sense.

Dried fruit, dried meats, can-less food stuffs are worth looking into. No need lugging around unnecessary weight.

[dlstb]

if the supermarkets go down and/or the power goes out you'll need to learn how to make canned vegetables without a canner or heat at all. That is where lacto fermentation comes in handy. All you need is salt, clean water, containers, and veggies or fruit (hopefully you've been saving seed and gardening). Lacto fermented foods are more nutricious than fresh and give you the probiotic effect from the living lactobacillus that grows in it. You need lactobacillus.

[impulse120291]

Mr Garrison? 

[darthvader5300]

Container gardening with fruit salad trees wt mulberry trees & plant fast growing buckwheat in containers. Especially edible cattails w/c is the supermarket of the swamps and azolla in water containers containing rock dusts powders. Don't forget to plant also medicinal plants of all kinds and carefully label them & their uses & applications. Make sure all plants are certified GE-FREE/GMO-FREE

[ididcramsmom]

Good video; I never thought about rodents! Although I keep a month of canned food for an emergency, nothing beats the freeze dried products. They're more expensive but last 25-30 years.

[3344utube]

some processed "honey" brands say that they have honey from different countries blended together but they might have unlisted corn syrup and flavorings added.

buy local honey from your area.as long as it stays dry it will last forever.

[tennesseecoin]

skip the tuna

go to sams club buy the members mark canned turkey breast we eat it all the time make great turkey salad or canned chicken both are great

I have some tuna will use it in my animal traps lol

[brianmo180]

Every container of natural peanut butter I've had said it needed to be refridgerated after opening.

[mytuber81]

@brianmo180 That's just so the oil doesn't seperate from the peanuts, not b/c it will go bad.

[Mohukgsdfgs]

funny u buy all the brand shit.. that shit will more likley kill you then any person

[Lex60]

@Mohukgsdfgs the best is the natural and fresh food of course, but in one emergency [a tornando, hurricane, earthquake. flood] you need food that can last for days out of the fridge and dont need to be cooked, just heated. And if is for a family of four for example, you need a large reserve, hence the cheap stuff is better.

[phillipgaley]

We didn't have complainers, . . . 'course, we didn't have a TV, either; so, . . .

[931colonial]

you might want to check that palm oi peanut-butter if your concerned about getting a coronary. Palm & coconut oil contain just as much cholesterol as butter(same with the hydrogenated oils)

[jennpower1]

Palm oil is a fully hydrogenated oil (aka an alkane chain)! Any peanut butter that doesn't separate isn't natural.

[prepster411]

Bottom line is that food prices are going up. There's more and more people on the planet and agricultural food production is at a maximum. Store food now. I'll be more expensive later. Thanks for this video. Everyone needs to start somewhere.

[wildbill23c]

Your segment on someone complaining they don't want to eat what you cook, my answer would be too damn bad guess you can go hungry.  People who are really picky eaters will quickly die in a SHTF situation because they're favorite foods probably won't be available. The people who think they need to eat out all the time will also quickly die because those places won't be open either. People need to learn to not be picky, or well keep being picky it will cut the population down quickly.

[patriotusa200]

I hope your are kidding. I would not eat any type of fish from Louisiana periodr.

You will be sorry. Even the air there you are breathing is contaminated.

The toxic fumes are still coming up from the poisonous gasses in the ocean.

I cannot believe anyone still lives there.

[scramyou]

Excellent point about not having everything in number 10 cans. Food waste during a SHTF episode would be a sin. Not to mention, how do you say to a little one or an elderly adult, "Look I know the world is upside down, but this is what we are eating, take it or leave it." ?? Having some smaller portion cans of food they might go for is a much better way & would be a small comfort to everyone when the world around them is in disarray.

[hawkeyeprepper]

Excellent video. Glad to see that you have not forsaken nutrition with respect to your inventory. To each their own, but I see a lot of these vids where folks have Mt. Dew, booze, smokes, chips, pop tarts, etc stacked to the ceiling in their storage room. No doubt I would like to party there if SHTF, but not what I would stockpile for day-to-day living in a compromised environment.

[yourmajesty07]

remember sodium helps prevent water loss through sweating

[ninjacatmagic]

I live in SW Louisiana...During Hurricane Rita and Hurricane Katrina....Peanut Butter was my best friend......And I know it's not food......But stocking up on 'off' mosquito spray was also a life saver.....No A/C means less clothes and less clothes equals mosquitos in the Summer.....Also, cooking oil.....Not for cooking, but for making candles.....It's easy...Just roll up some paper into a jar of cooking oil....Makes a great light source and you can warm food up with it.....

[001madmex]

Can someone please explain for me whuch is preferrable: carbs or fiber? Ensure shows to have 41g of carbs and 1g of fiber while SlimFast shows 25g of carbs and 5g of fiber. I would believe I would want more fiber, but I could be wrong.

[joeri861]

@001madmex You might want to go for carbs, because thats what keeps your engine running.. The fibers are more or less stuffing... I know people want to stick with what their dietitian told them; that carbs are bad and fibers are good, but in a SHTF situation if food is scarce and it might take a day or two or more for the next meal, that diet should be your last concern. See it like this water is a nice filler, but it wont get your car engine to run.

[PurdyBear1]

PPS: You can get Ensure in powder form now, you just mix with milk or water. Might be a good thing for the BOB bags.

[PurdyBear1]

Ensure Iv had when I had to gain weight under medical supervision. The small cans I got were really expensive per tin here in the UK. The vanilla, and the chicken are pretty good. I might look out for it here in the plastic containers.

PS You can get water based or milk based replacement drinks.

[rondygal]

I was wondering if the tuna in oil might not be a better choice than that stored in water. The higher fat content would be needed in a survival situation.

[EbayFigureReviews777]

Im going shopping just in case the slightest tiniest chance the earthquake will happen on saturday...gonna make sure i keep my receipt lol

[AnnBearForFreedom]

Realize if you find a great deal on, for example, peabut butter...but its in a plastic jar, you can always slap the whole still-sealed plastic jar into a wider-mouth glass jar for storage. Although it doesn't add anything to the max storage date of the food, it does rodent-proof it.

[patriotusa200]

I BUY THE CANNED CHICKEN, BEEF AND TURKEY FROM COSTCO ALSO.

I PUT A CAN OF ANY OF THE ABOVE IN A CAN OR TWO OF ROSARITA REFRIED BEANS AND HEAT IN FRY PAN ALONG WITH A CAN OF GREEN CHILES, ADD SOME SHREDDED CHEESE, (CHEESE IS B4 A CRISIS) MIX ALL AND PUT IN TORTILLAS, JUST EAT LIKE THAT OR B4 CRISIS ROLL IN TORTILLAS AND PLACE IN PYREX AND POUR OVER YOUR FAV MEXICAN SAUCE. YOU DON'T NEED TO BUY MEAT, COOK IT ETC. REAL SIMPLE.

[arbit3r]

All you need is a bag of rice man.

[purity4all]

@arbit3r Rice will help for sure, but no one will live long on rice alone.You will get very ill or even die from malnutrition if all you eat is rice. And lets not even mention what will happen to your bowels eating just rice, especially if you are dehydrated already. Better add some veggies or fruits to that rice. Also if you add beans to that rice you will have a complete protein, but not without them.

[topher8096]

Thank you for all your GREAT videos ! Subscribed.

[Xxfreaks173xX]

When I saw this video a couple weeks ago the next time I was at the store I remembered this video and the peanut butter and what you said about it. I picked up some of the Skippy natural brand just because it was just to try it out.

That stuff is good! It's so much better than the regular kind. The natural brand might be a little more, but it's well worth the extra little bit of money for it.

[captquest1]

I've been storing pantry type foods for several months now. I have about three months supply for two without refrigeration. I need to add powdered milk and eggs, and a large tank for water. I have most items mentioned plus rice, pasta, powdered potatoes, pnut butter, honey, and cans of everything. Ovaltine is a good nutritional drink. Dehydrated meats (jerky) and dried fruit and nuts too. Powdered soups work. But, this is only a short term supply, what's next?

[Dorisequador]

No stores in the jungle pretty boy.

[DaveSuperPowers]

Greatest survival food ever, lb for lb, calorie for calorie, virtually all nutrients included, comes in easy to pack powder... WEIGHT GAINER.

[breakneck14]

@DaveSuperPowers I totally agree with you. I never see people mentioning this either. I have tons of protein isolate and weight gainer as a weight lifter and as a survivalist.

[breakneck14]

You're the first person I've ever heard say the 'l' in salmon in a serious way.

You wouldn't have to just throw the peanut butter away if rats or mice got to it, you could use it to bait other animals.

[rlmarin1968]

You mention opening a #10 can and it going bad...why wouldn't you simply put in the servings you need in a separate pot, add the hot water and make just what you need? You can just then put the plastic lid on your #10 can and it's good for a while as you use it....serving by serving.

[lorigmat]

I think the cans of soup I am storing, (with chunks of meat), would be a great meal over rice or instant potatos..For 1$ per large can, it is an inexpensive way to make a filling meal..

[AnotherCompartment]

There are plenty of storable organic options now.

[scadragon]

Sodium is poison to us with high blood preassure. But there is a possible light on the horizon--- a push to reduce sodium in our food. Hope it happens.

[rlmarin1968]

@scadragon: Look for foods that use sea salt...it is MUCH lower in sodium.

[astrialkil]

@rlmarin1968 Its 24 percent lower.

[rlmarin1968]

@astrialkil: Not sure if your comment was to disprove the benefit of foods containing sea salt ...but even if your "it's 24% lower" is true, when the "regular" Campbell's Chunky Soup brand is at 890mg of sodium per serving...I would say 24% (213.6mg) less sodium is a pretty important difference...especially for individuals who really need to watch that sort of thing.

[breckandy]

If I'm buying all this 'Great Value" stuff at Walmart, how will the local small businesses "survive"

[CaliforniaPrepper]

@breckandy If you dont buy great value how will the packing people over at great value keep a job to feed there kids and do there preps?

[thanson77]

When your peanut butter is down to bare scrapins, don't throw it away, or even put a lot of energy into cleaning it. Take the cover off and give it to your dog. It's pretty good for 'em in small quantities and the little calorie boost will help out in a SHTF situation.

[mywootgarden]

The "L" in salmon isnt pronounced... and you can eat fish just eat fish with short life spans.

[sideways586]

Smuckers makes a natural peanut butter that is nothing but peanuts & some peanut oil. No added salt, sugar or anything else. It seems to keep just as well as alduterated peanut butter with all the unnecessary ingredients. The Smuckers does cost more tho.....I never understood why a product with less ingredients costs more. I guess its cheaper to feed us poison & chemicals?

[will13788]

Since you mentioned it as your number 1 choice and you brought up Hg++ warning (Mercury), I thought I would remind all that Honey consumption is contraindicated for infants under 1 year of age. Reason due to infants underdeveloped immune system. I might wait longer than 1 year and 1 day. I would have cited Harrisons Internal Medicine' (it would not let me), but the information should be on the interwebs somewhere if you dont agree.



[doobing]

it does stay good for ever they pulled some out of the pyramids and warmed it up and it was fine

[blankthree]

I stock what all my fa,ily will eat, hot or cold. I have tried it with the kids and they love it. Baby food is good all the time.

[PhauxTheFox]

who the hell doesn't like Spaghetti-Os?

[dlmarti]

other than the fact that Ensure tastes like crap unless cold, they are great storage food.

[kessler003]

That is not natural peanut butter.... Natural PB, the ingredients are... Peanuts ... nothing else.

check it out in a health food store.

[MrLoiti100]

Nice video and great information. 

[actonbath]

Survival for what? Zombies?

All these food choices are heavy.

Flood comes and it's like "here honey grab this 500 # bag of canned survival food"

Dreaded Zombies come and you're screwed trying to run away with a 500 # bag of food.

..there's all kinds of Vit D & C in the wild, even in the desert.

[yankeegal01]

Kev honey, and no I'm not bashing this time, you are missing two major nutrients in your 5 easy preps. Vitamin D and Vitamin C. While you can use protein shakes over time, they will do more harm than good. An easy and lightweight source of Vitamin C are drops such as Halls Vitamin C Drops, not cough drops, although it's not food. Lack of C and you will develop scurvey very quickly. For D check into salmon or herring over tuna. Of just purchase a few bottles of vitamins. :)

[velona1234]

@yankeegal01 There is vitamin C in the canned fruits and Vitamin D isn't mandatory to get through your diet. The best source is sunlight and your body will make it on its own. If you had a vitamin D deficiency or live in the northern regions without as much sun, it is recommended that you take supplements anyway, which can be stored easily.

[yankeegal01]

@velona1234 Have you actually looked at the Vitamin C content in a can of fruit? Try about 10% of your RDA, at the cost of about 40% -50% of your sugar intake for the day. Why would I only want about 10% of my vitamin C when I can eat the C Drops and get 100%? Scurvy occurs pretty rapidly.  And the Drops take up much less room and quite a bit lighter than a can of fruit. And I also don't have to worry about having, needing or finding a can opener [Although a P-38 or P-51 takes up no room].

[rockhardxrocker]

Also, as your MRE's get old do you just throw them out or eat them? They are kind of a last resort food imo. Aren't they so full of chemicals and stuff that it's best to eat them only when you have to? I've eaten them before on camping trips and what not though, but I don't know how long it's safe to eat those things. Like would you eat one every day for lunch for a few weeks or something to get through your expiring stockpiles?

[EricShermansChannel]

@rockhardxrocker MREs are good for emergencies, though they are probably the least cost effective and most unhealthy way you can build up a food storage stash. They are loaded with trans fats and sugar. Most MREs and canned goods are good longh past their expiration date. There's a law that says foods must have an expiration date of two years from it's date of manufacture. There is seperation that occurs, but unless it's bloated, it's safe to eat.

[rockhardxrocker]

Can't forget multivitamin supplements!

[rockhardxrocker]

What do you think of powdered protein? You know the kind you scoop into water to make a protein shake? You don't have to refrigerate, you just scoop as much as you need, then put the rest away (like kool aid, or whatever). 

[theheathmould]

 oat bran porridge.

[anniequilts]

When you mentioned leaving stuff at a camp and mice getting into plastic containers. I think another thing to take into consideration if you are leaving food some place like that is whether or not it might freeze and possibly break open the container.

[anniequilts]

How can they call that peanut butter natural when it contains sugar? My natural peanut butter only contains peanuts and bit of salt.

[bishonenboy]

Great Value tastes aweful! haha.. I'll pay a quarter more for brand, cause I'll eat it.

^.^ Good video.

[sd4547]

Great video. I would remind people that if you're storing canned goods like this, have a system of rotating stored foods into your everyday pantry as they reach their expiration date.

Thanks for the post!

[lazydogdied]

Cosco has canned chicken that is pretty good. Cosco store Kirkland brand. 6 big cans for $10. They are good for a couple years. I use them when camping alot. Good to make chicken salad sandwiches with or pasta dishes. The can makes it taste a little like tuna though. Ironic.

[secedefromussa]

Good insight, stockpile what you would normally eat. If you have 800 lbs of rice, it would get to tasting bad after the first day knowing you only had that to eat. Comfort foods like these that you normally eat helps psychologically as well as keeping you going. As far as storing plastic jars/packaging, you can use metal buckets with lids to hold the jars and keep out the mice.

[katiatomsk]

We started working on expanding our eating habits to include a wider variety of items. Even working through wild eatables. Right now we are tasting and waiting for reactions, while we still have medical care.

Now is a good time to allow those picky eaters some understanding of hunger, when it is not so critical. I agree, during the SHTF, all people must eat. But if missing a meal today helps that picky eater expand their food list, it is a good time to learn.

[petrbohacek]

@katiatomsk

I would buy some vitamins pills and calcium too, because your's/ours varity of food will be sparingly...

[waypasthadenough]

I thought store bought honey(processed and pasturiezed) was not as good as local?

Local has the enzymes, or so some say...

Dried beans can get too old and not cook well.

[bishonenboy]

@waypasthadenough

I've heard eating local organic & raw honey can help if you have allergies to the local plants. But even if the bees are local, they may be shipped out to farms out of the area to polinate. So you have to inquire.

If you're talking health food then Expensive local raw honey. But food in general, calorie dense food for survival storage- Any store bought honey will fulfill that obligation.

I keep my bottle of honey in a mason jar, btw, because we have ants.

[katzcradul]

Walgreeen's has the best price on honey that I've found, when they run it on sale. I store tuna in oil rather than water because it has more calories. Most people on a tight prepping budget cannot afford natural peanut butter....it's very expensive. Watch for peanut butter to go on sale for 99 cents per jar. The stores run this sale several times a year. We buy 3 cases every time they do. Sodium won't be much of an issue when your sweatin' like a pig to grow your own food.

[sundance293]

GREAT Video !!!

[gotja]

Aren't "honey" these days added with other natural ingredients?

[bowley4]

also, worth noting, in reference to sodium content. lots of products use iodized salts, and, unless you're near a natural water-source, you'll eventually become deficient, so you've got to know about balancing your sodium intake, AS WELL AS, your iodine intake. depends what 'sort' of scenario you're talking about i suppose...

[zigzigerblat]

My number one survival stock food is not listed here. Dried beans are a complete protein 25%, and the rest is carbs and fiber. You can literally live on beans and all you would need is greens which can be foraged for vitamins or multivitamins themselves. Dried beans last forever and can be sprouted to produce greens, used as seed, or cooked. I am vegan and have lived on mostly beens for months at a time. I never get sick of them. The gas goes away when you eat them regularly. DRIED BEANS!

[vze284nw]

Dinty Moore stew is pretty good!

[machinegunmana]

cans of chili - you can eat the whole thing with or without heat, it contains a balance of proteins, carbs, fiber, sugar, sodium, and fats. one can per day can keep a man going. my personal favorite brand for stocking, here in the northwestern united states, is nalley chili. quite often you can find this for between 85 cents and 1 dollar per can.

[AppalachianFreedom]

Great advice as always sir!

[Buckhead1959]

Protein Powder is a good item. I have weight gainer protein that is 1650 calories per packet. Mix with water and drink.

[survivalofone]

These look like good things to supplement staple foods like rice, beans or flour. You get your calories from the staple and your vitamins, minerals, protein and fats from the canned goods. Something else is how long after the expiration date a canned food stays good. Like that old steamboat they pulled out of the Mississipi that had hundred-year-old cans of peaches and such on it that labs found were still nutritious and safe to eat (but nobody risked tasting as it was pretty ugly by then).

[veritasfiles]

Good suggestions!

[NoNORADon911]

Avoid GMO's, HFCS, Aspartame, Fluoride, vaccines.

[EastCoastPrepper]

Great video. I have been checking out the comments but I think that if it gets real bad out we will eat what ever we can to survive. A few years after something happens that food you have there will be a blessing to have. Thanks for sharing..

[moriahzhorizon]

thanks for information!! Definately good to know in these times.God Bless.

[hogkillerjp]

another great video,keep up the good work.

[RichTheRidgeHunter]

dont forget a can opener

[s556762]

stragglers beware, I'm going to survive by eating people.

[NoNORADon911]

@s556762 You mean Soylent Green? lol

[ConfederateHandjob]

What about nuts or dried fruit?

[notyranny1]

Careful about the tuna as well. Much of the canned tuna now has been contaminated with oil and toxic corexit thanks to the BP oil spill. Make your own decisions, but fish would not be my choice of food. Unless I knew it was prior oil spill.

A lot of people will have to learn not to be so finicky if they wish to survive. That is the problem of this nation we are a bunch of spoiled rotten brats that have never had to really suffer & we expect the gov to take care of our every need/desire.

[rickedwards55]

@notyranny1 Tuna is not fished in the Gulf of Mexico. tuna is fished in the Pacific

[notyranny1]

@rickedwards55 Then why have I heard 3rd hand reports from tuna connoisseurs that their tuna canned in water smells fishy. Just a word of warning as for contamination keep in mind that the fish does not have to smell oily or with corexit to be toxic.

watch?v=oS6rcuZOL7A

Ref. that blue-fin & yellow-fin tuna ARE fished from the gulf.

nytimes. com /2010/06/03/us/03seafood.html

oilspillaction. com /the-bp-oil-spills-long-term-t­hreat-to-bluefin-tuna

As stated above, Eat at your own Risk.

[tac223]

@notyranny1 Are you kidding? I live in New Orleans. The tuna is fine.

[MollyTheLag]

@notyranny1 i dont expect the gov to take care of anything of mine, except for the crimes i commit

[MaxxHark]

@notyranny1 I have anaphylaxis :c

[mattandpatti222]

I can not stand that crappy WAL-Mart Freemason Great Value stuff! You trust wal-mart food?

[TheStig000]

@mattandpatti222 You'll never know what's in your food unless you grow and make it yourself. Stop being so paranoid.

[yacrafter]

I'm all for being prepared, but I think a time frame would be useful for stockpiling food. How long do you think you could last on stockpiled food? A week? A year? 5 years? What kind of food do you think would keep for this amount of time. There's no such thing as being picky when you're starving. I think gathering food may be something to consider when making plans.

[zeno57]

I would eat soylent green before I eat spagettios and SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE.People -the other white meat,,,and yes its racist to eat black people.jk,,But its not racist for a black person to eat a white person.Danm now i am gonna go watch hotel hell and eat somw sausage ,lol.

[fang1998]

On canned meats, test different brands before you purchase a large amount of them. A friend bought a case lot of canned chicken, cheap, and it tasted wet sawdust, nothing we did could fix the taste. Gave it to the animal shelter, because the food bank wouldn't take it.

[RAMKING61]

MET-Rx bars, Powerbars, Kashi cereals(obviously without milk), unsalted sealed nuts, raisins, packaged Oatmeal.

Efoodsdirect emergency foods.

[REDSOXNYG]

store brand whole grain cereals are good too, they will last a while before they get stale

[79outlaw]

fully agree with your ideas. Family based food preps. Kids are picky, I don't care what your dicipline system is children just won't eat certain things. I've gotten into the habbit of storing meal replacement protein shakes. Perfect preping item, but not a great shelf life.

[jenn011754]

Great info, I like the canned chicken by Hormel or Makers Mark. Lasts about 3 years. 97% fat free

[AnnieNM06]

different types of tuna have differeing levels of mercury. The darker cheaper tuna actually has less mercury.

[asimov13647]

Stop believing the food Nazis when they try to make you afraid of what you eat.

[astrialkil]

@asimov13647 And on that thought , stop trying to live forever! Maybe that mercury laden tuna will keep enough protein in you system to get you threw the winter.

[askaxis]

palm oil ...i dunno man, i wish peanut butter and everything else for that matter came in glass jars! as usual nice video! hey btw do you have a trader joes out that way?they have organic almond butter... awesome stuff and better for you

[Miroshinen]

Most people dis MREs. I love them. Sometimes I eat them for a normal meal. But, only if I'm doing a lot of work (because of the high calories).

[Krogoth04]

if you're worried about mercury, you can always substitute the tuna with any other canned meat

[TheGrayman1234]

Protein powder for shakes.

[SECRETBOL]

Good reminders Thanks

[GONECRUISING72]

i bought alot of stuff at aldi's today and honey WILL last forever it's the only food that will. i stocked up on soup, honey and tuna and chicken i agree with the salt content but just check the label..

[calixtesaint]

Great video- good suggestions- had not thought of storing meal replacement cans.

[thehilitereel]

The great value Spaghetti O's are way better than the namebrand ones.. Just my opinion anyway.

[Zalahblue]

Soups. 

[survivalistboards]

@Zalahblue - I figured the topic of soups would come up, I do not recommend a lot of soups for a survivalist food stockpile:

1 - their not very filling

2 - their full of sodium.

Campbells chicken noodle soup 10.75 ounce can - 890 mg of sodium per serving, the label says there are 2.5 servings per can. That equals 2,225 mg of sodium per can. The great value chicken noodle soup is 1,175mg of sodium per can / 470mg per serving with 2.5 servings per can.

[Zalahblue]

@survivalistboards If your starving, what does it matter.

[survivalistboards]

@Zalahblue - if your using the "if your starving" argument, you have already lost the game.

[KLipneR]

@survivalistboards what does relatively high amounts of sodium do that makes it a food product that should be avoided even in starvation-level scenarios?

[theresaguninmytruck]

@survivalistboards just where in the hell have you been .. do i need to send you aa batts for the camera.. or what

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[gasdorf]

@survivalistboards you also want foods that dont need to be cooked ....smells mite alert the zombie hord to raid your stash?

[FFCchamp]

your an idiot zalahblue

[brown55061]

@Zalahblue

I see your point but remember sodium abuse actually dehydrates your body. And water would be scarce in an emergency. Things in moderation are key! Being alive versus alive and HEALTHY are two different things.

[bowley4]

@survivalistboards THEY'RE. sorry, grammar-nazi here.

[rlmarin1968]

@survivalistboards: Although I can't argue the sodium part...I will touch on the filling part of your comment. Soups are good if you add extenders to them such as rice or other pastas. I have taken Campbell's Chunky Soups and added a 2.5 serving can to 3 cups of cooked rice and made a meal out of it for 4 (2 adults and 2 teenagers). In an emergency situation, carbs are great for energy (to continue to do those tasks essential for survival like cut wood, hunt, etc). The meat and veggies also work

[drago433]

@survivalistboards not everyone has a heart condition and if your surving and/or staying with a limited supply of food in one house after say a flood, THEY'LL EAT WHAT IS FUCKING AVAILABLE ATM! its not like 3-4 meals will destroy your heart if you dont have any condition and if you do...... well thats survival of the fittest and all that shit

[lesleyhenriquez]

@Zalahblue Your colon will condemn you for lack of fiber. Srsly.

[minbound]

Good stuff, the one good thing about MRE's is that they are design so that you get all your calories for a day in one meal even though I know they are expense that's just one consideration to take when using them.

[workingforgear]

Great ideas!



[biglou250]

Good vid.