I referenced this article by Daisy Luther at The Organic Prepper: I discussed this a bit on today’s podcast. Knowing this, we are currently practicing “lean weeks” in which we live off the survival food we have rather than ordering out or getting fresh food from the grocery store. I am hopeful that the current trajectory of the nation and the world can be reversed, but I’m not going to sit around and assume it will all end well. You or members of your family may find eating beans and rice every day drives you a little bonkers. There can be psychological repercussions from major dietary changes. But even those who have stored away emergency food or are living lifestyles that allows them to produce their own may find themselves with a different challenge. If the crap hits the fan in any of an assortment of highly possible ways, many of us will be stuck trying to feed our families without the resources to do so very well.Įating insufficient amounts of food can harm us physically.
It’s a lot harder to do that today with inflation and growing food scarcity, but here’s the thing. There were weeks when I could get by on under $10 with Ramen noodles (the Dollar Store often had them at $0.10 a package), cheap fresh veggies (a cucumber was practically a full meal for less than a quarter), and generic packages of processed meat. When I was in college, then later as a struggling new father and husband, we learned to eat very inexpensively.
