How to Make it Without Depending on the Grocery Store

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Of all the incredible advantages modern society has brought us, arguably the most under-appreciated and almost overused is the grocery store.

With relatively little effort and at an amazingly affordable cost, you can quickly have access to cooked, pre-cooked, ready to cook meals, salads, and raw ingredients so you can make it on your own.

The food is fresh, canned, bottled, wrapped, you name it, it is yours for the taking.

But what if that all disappeared?

Don't think it can happen in North America?

Look at the food shortages in Venezuela, or Cuba, or parts of Africa or the old USSR.

Closer to home, look at the frenzy we go into before a big winter storm or after a major natural disaster, like Hurricane Katrina.

Now, imagine a large scale disaster striking.

To find out what you can do to avoid depending on the grocery or at least to survive if it disappears, check out the next page.

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3 Comments

  1. Tarra Sabin said:

    Finally, a TRULY practical article here! So many of your articles recommend commercial products, instead of telling people how to improvise. Well, when the SHTF, you won’t be able to buy all kinds of stuff, and whatever you’ve managed to stockpile will run out quicker than you can imagine. I literally lived off the land and my wits for 15 years (1992-2007), in the Sierra Madre Occidental of western Mexico, with nothing but a couple of changes of clothes and a very good multi-use knife. And no, I’m not ex-military. I’m a 72-year-old widowed teacher. Instead of trying to stockpile expensive commercial items that you may not even be able to take with you, learn how to improvise, and how to make do. Learn to grow your own food and save your own seeds. Learn what wild foods are edible in your area (or wherever you plan to go), how to recognize them, how to prepare them, and how to forage for your food. Spend weekends practicing foraging. Learn about herbal remedies (and prevention). Learn how to build shelters (temporary and long-term) from whatever is available, and/or whatever you can scrounge up. Learn how to raise chickens and goats, and other small livestock that don’t require a lot of land. Learn how to purify water with the sun, how to build an outdoor oven from mud and clay, how to build a slow steady fire, even with wet wood. I live in a small town in Mexico now, but I still live simply, with manual tools in my kitchen instead of electric ones, and grow most of my own food. I haven’t forgotten what I learned during those 15 years. Whatever happens (and the worst will), whenever it happens, I’m ready. If you’re serious about surviving, you’d better be ready, too. And thanks, DHS, for a practical article, at last.

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