30 days 30 bucks

30 DAYS 30 BUCKS


It used to be that the place you were from had special meaning. You were, say, a Virginian and then an American. Then, as the Federal government replaced the states in importance ( coincidentally the War Of Northern Aggression began the same time as the Oil Age ) people started thinking of themselves as just Americans. A few forward thinkers such as myself ( and you can include yourself if you think of the Federal government as Damn Yankees ) are already looking to a time after the central government collapses and regional differences are paramount once again. Not because we necessarily think that a collapse is fun but because millions, nay, tens of millions of scum sucking asshats will get their comeuppance. And the sound of their suffering will be sweet music indeed. Hey, I’m not responsible for the end of civilization; I’m just preparing to enjoy one aspect of it. Die, lawyer/politician/banker/corporate titan scum! I bring this up to congratulate my adopted state of Nevada. We’re Number One!!! Take that!! We have the highest unemployment in the nation.

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If you ever meander over to my world class, award winning web site at http://www.bisonpress.com/ you will notice that towards the bottom of the page I’ve started putting those little graphics that are links to other companies. So far I’ve got Rawles and Emergency Essentials. I’m not endorsing anyone in particular ( although both are highly favored ), nor am I getting paid to do so. I’m just cluttering up my page. If you or someone you know has a product and wants to be added, e-mail me at jimd303@netzero.com . You have to have your own line of code that turns into a graphic link ( text links are at their own page ). I’m not Paul The Programmer, I can only copy and paste.

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I know I’ve covered this before, but today I got no world changing analysis for you. I can’t be “on” all the time. Thirty bucks for thirty days of food. Now, I do not intend this to be advice for a long term food storage program. These are mostly empty calories. Nor do they provide a low cooking fuel food program such as we covered over at “Earthquake Food”. It is the cheapest way to provide calories, outside of grain stores. I know that wheat can be a bitch to acquire ( on Saturday I saw the new square wheat buckets at Wal-Mart I was telling you about- what a friggin rip off! The whores want the same $15 for the square 25lb as they wanted for the round 45lb ). When I had yet to come to my senses and leave the Rectum Of The First World ( California ) for good it was hard to find a feed store. Most of them were, to quote a loyal minion, glorified pet food stores. Yuppies can’t be expected to step into a dusty and dark metal barn for bags of feed. That might upset their fine sensibilities and their double decaf latte mocha with soy might sour in their stomach. They need cheerful lighting and clean floors and clerks in slacks and polo’s rather than coveralls. So you pay three times the feed store price and wait while they special order the item, delivered presumably before store hours in the dark delivery bay so as to hide the shame of it all. If you buy by mail it is no longer cheap. So you put off stockpiling wheat. Which means, at most, you have a few weeks of food stockpiled.

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The very least you should do is stockpile a months worth for $30. If you already have a months worth of extra regular grocery items this painlessly doubles your stockpile. If you have done absolutely nothing to stockpile food because you are too busy buying $2,000 worth of semis and mags and ammo ( I couldn’t believe it when I saw in the newspaper Big 5 ad a Mini-14 on “sale” for $700. Are those things really selling that high now? ) and wasting $300 on a factory made Berky water filter, then this is a great way to get you started putting some food aside. 25 pounds of white flour are selling for $8. 20 pounds of rice is about $12. Round this out with eight pounds of pinto beans. Actually, I would cut back a bit on the rice and add more beans. Some folks might only want flour and beans, or just rice and beans. The point here is that for a measly thirty bucks you can get close to 2500 to 3000 calories a day for a month. Not the best food. You need some vitamin pills to go with that at a minimum. But it provides a base. You might not satisfy all your cravings, it might not be the healthiest diet. But at least your ability to think logically in a crisis isn’t impaired because of hunger pains. Have you actually ever gone that long without food? Three days, even?

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I’m not saying this should be duplicated twelve times for a years supply of food. What I am suggesting is that no one should have less than a months supply of emergency food. It is available at any supermarket, it doesn’t require that you, God forbid, spend $25 on a cast iron grain grinder. Nothing else is necessary except putting aside a few extra bucks for a few weeks. Even crackheads living in a tent by the river can afford this ( we set aside the issue of rodent proofing for now ). Really, you ought to be embarrassed if you don’t have this basic level of food preparedness. It is dirt cheap, it provides variety every day, and it has abundant calories to fuel activities such as laying snares, chasing down errant neighbor cats for dinner or escaping from cannibal hunters. Every time you go to the store, spend a buck fifty. Five pounds of flour, or two pounds of rice or beans. If nothing else, barter it later for gold as you are eating your freeze dried pouch meals. You have plenty of excuses to avoid buying buckets of wheat kernels and a grinder. You have no excuses for not buying the 30/30 plan. Even if you don’t think the world will end, you know everyday natural disasters make having a months supply of food a darn good idea.
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