It’s better to be paranoid than hungry.

I sit in amazement at the sheep of the world looking out saying everything is going to fine; relax the US is too big to fail. It is hard not to laugh in their face. Let see, didn't Greece believe this too big to fail. Didn't Rome believe this too? Being a working class fool my whole life I saved bought what I could afford and paid for it. I own my house free and clear and my vehicles no loans and no credit cards. Now I am being punished with more taxes to pay for a corrupt Wall Street, corrupt bankers, and people making $10 an hour that bought $250,000 houses? The punch line the press calls me crazy nut-case for putting up food, guns and ammo. I am starting to think that I awoke to find myself living in the wizard of Oz and this nightmare well soon end when I wake up. Unfortunate the next day when I awake I find the same insane world.
 
I had the misfortune of coming across a forum with a thread title "Web site to ban"?
 
 
Web sites to be banned; these people are so far out in left field that can't see it anymore. Read through the first 12 pages of comments and you come away in shock, disbelief and anger.  Do they hate gun owners? Yep you bet, you all are racist. I am not kidding there is a picture of a young African America Man holding a gun saying guns should be banned. I want to ask if this was a parody site like the Onion? But it appears to be a real web site full of communist liberals in support of Obama.  Of course anyone preparing with food, guns, ammo and gold is paranoid according to the radical left wing. They believe in the communist dream of everyone equal in housing, food and money. Even though everywhere in the world throughout history that has gone to communist model end with mass genocide these folks don't care.
 
Hence the title of the Article It’s better to be paranoid than hungry. I put together a basic list of food as a suggestion for folks to prepare.
 

One year of Food

52 cans of Tuna fish	79 a can	$41.08
52 cans of treet	$1	$52.00
52 cans of Chef Bourdee	$1	$52.00
Mac and Cheese  52 boxes	3 for $1	$17.33
Spaghetti sauce 52 cans	$1	$52.00
spaghetti - 52 pounds	$1	$52.00
Ham in a can - 52 cans	$3	$156.00
chicken in can - 52 cans	$1.50	$78
Stews-Chili - 52 cans	$2.41	$125.00
	Sub-total	$625.00
Lunch
Flour yeast salt 5 pound s month of flour per person  60 pounds		$35.00
Assorted soup -  52 cups of soup		$20.80
Peanut butter   12 jars		$24.00
Jelly		$24.00
	Sub-Total	$103.80
Breakfast
Oatmeal - 6 boxes	$3.00	$18.00
Cream of Wheat - 6 boxes	$3.00	$18.00
Honey and sugar - 20 lbs sugar 5 pounds of honey		$30.00
Butter - 12 pounds		$12.00
Salt - 12 pounds		$7.80
	Sub-Total	$85.80
	Grand Total	$815.01

This is just a suggestion of a list of course you can add delete as you see fit.  What is missing is potatoes or rice and veggies. You can add this from your garden. Fresh meat from running your traps and your snares.
 
You see if break this down it is not that hard to get ready. Now if you are a family with 2-3 children then you would change this around for more staples beans rice cornmeal flour wheat barley. But even right now Ramon noodles is dirt cheap you can buy lots of them for storage. But make you store them where the mice can't get to them.
 
Until you have your food, guns and ammo stock up I would not even think about buying gold but that is just my opinion. This is not financial advice we are all adults do as you see fit. Then I would stock up on snares and 110 conibears.
 
Notice I said take care of food first now why would I say that and not traps and snares first. Good question. Actually it is quite simple. Our body are amazing in how they work you get use to eating certain foods your body is use to. You become accustomed to it. Now if you take that and go straight wild plants and fresh meat your body is not going to like it. You are going to want ease into this using part of your normal food with add supply from the wild. Here is a great for instance. Say you cook lots of goulash with ground beef. I grind my venison up with 1 pound of ground sausage to 9 pounds of venison. This makes the venison burger real close to store bought burger and once mixed with spaghetti sauces you can't tell the difference.
 
I said a whole lot in the above statement. You are going to need a hand grinder for your venison. 50 pounds of ground sausage pack right well last 3 years in a freezer and handle 500 pounds of wild meat.  There is a new freezer on the market that one 75 watt solar panel can power. Amazing advances have been made.  Note I said wild meat not just venison. What are some un common over lookrd dark meat that sort of taste like beef? Two over looked protein source is the beaver and the muskrat. Both eat really good veggies. Once the fat is removed and ground up mixed with sausage good enough for spaghetti sauces. See there is some sanity in my madness. :-)
 
Starving is not something folks should look forward to in life. It does not take a lot of money to prepare some common sense goes a long ways. A lot of folks ask me what should I get in the ways of traps and snares. Here is a common trying to fit all area at once general list.
 
4  to 12 ea. 110 conibears
5 dozen small game snares
10 dozen medium snares (especially if you are in the danger zone for wild dogs)
4 dozen Cam lock snares
1 emergency snare kit
2 repair kits
 
The emergency kit is for your get out of town bag bug out bag minute man pack what ever you want to call it.
the 110 are for your base unit but always good to have 1 or 2 in Bug out bag. The beauty of these snares if you have remote bug out locale you can store a mixture of 10 dozen carefully pack in a 5 gal bury will be there when you really need it to survive.
 
Remember it is better to be paranoid then hungry. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. As Duncan Long stated in his book Survival Rifles "A garden and Traps (snares) will feed you better then wealth  of hunting rifles."
 

Bruce-Buckshot

 
*20 August, 2009 is the date that Buckshot's Articles were migrated from the Trapping Section to his own sub domain on RuralSurvivial.info