Is Stockpiling Prepper Food A Good Idea?

When I was a little boy, and we ran out of peanut butter, my mother would send me downstairs to get another jar off the shelf.

Usually, there would be two more jars behind that one.

My mother (just like her mother before her) always had months of food on hand at any given moment.

I grew up assuming this was normal. Yet as a young adult, I didn’t shop this way.

After buying “BIG”, I might have two weeks of food on hand.

Never three jars of peanut butter, eight cans of pork and beans or ten loaves of frozen bread.

I once asked my grandmother why she always had so much food in the house.

Her answer was, “Just In Case.” [Read more…]

Building a backyard root cellar is not a new trick.

In fact, it’s an ancient one.

It’s one of the oldest survival tricks in the book.

But is utilizing the earth for refrigeration still necessary?

In America, there’s an appliance called a refrigerator, duh!?

Our $3,000 stainless refrigerators and chest freezers take care of all our food preservation needs.

Plus, we have an overabundance of reliable power to run those things forever, everyone knows that.

No one needs to (or cares to) store their food underground anymore, right?

WRONG. [Read more…]