Shopping for the Apocalypse

Food storage is one of the most important things you can do for any stay-in place emergency. I use a $20 a week list. Instead of buying every week, I buy food on week 1 and week 3. On week 2, I buy from my medical and hygiene supply list, and on week 4 I buy miscellaneous items. So the first month's shopping list would look like this:

Week 1:
1 box oatmeal
3 lbs lentils
2 boxes of saltines
1 can of coffee
3 cans of condensed milk

Week 2:
3 bottles expectorant type cough syrup
2 bottles hydrogen peroxide
2 bottles isopropyl alcohol
2 boxes assorted bandages
4 packs latex household gloves
1 bottle acetaminophen
1 bottle ibuprofen
2 bottles waterless anti-bacterial hand cleaner
1 roll trash bags

Week 3:
10 lbs. complete pancake mix
1 gallon pancake syrup
12 cans cream of chicken soup

Week 4:
5 bottles of vitamin C
1 12-pack of toilet paper
5 packs of AA batteries

So how did I come up with the month's shopping list? First, I looked at the budget. $20 dollars a week. Then I looked at everyone else's list. I'm not buying wheat yet, because I don't have a mill. I don't bu grits because I'm not sure I could force myself to eat them. You should store things you normally eat, and you should eat the things you store. All food has an expiration date, so you'll probably eat a lot of your storage food before the Zombie get around to being undead, and who wants to only has instant mashed potatoes to eat for the rest of their lives?

Lists to take take a look at (Some of these list come from religious groups, just giving you a head's up):

Planning Smart

Food Storage Worksheet

LDS Food Storage Calculator

Getting Started in Food Storage

Nana's Food Storage List
Nana's Flu Preps List
Nana's Supplemental List

How Long Things Store

Why Zombies?

Okay, now that real life has died down a bit, I'm going to try and post here more often. For those of you who are wondering how the blog got it's name, here's the story. When Can-We-Nuke-'em and I talk about emergency preparedness, we always discuss it in terms of Zombie attacks. Will we have enough food if we're under siege from Zombies? What will life be like after the Zombies are defeated and the population is depleted?

What we're really talking about is being able to survive flood, fire and famine. It's just that Zombies are way more fun to talk about!