Eve Opener!!!

[Colorado Luckydog]

My first time in Survival forum was yeterday. I learned a lot in just a few minutes of reading. There's a lot more to SHTF senarios than just having plenty of ammo and guns. If I went right out and bought eveything I want to buy right now, my wife would chop my nuts off. So I set a goal to get as "prepared" as I can, by the end of the summer. You guys will be seeing me in this forum more often.

[jerrymrc]

My first time in Survival forum was yeterday. I learned a lot in just a few minutes of reading. There's a lot more to SHTF senarios than just having plenty of ammo and guns. If I went right out and bought eveything I want to buy right now, my wife would chop my nuts off. So I set a goal to get as "prepared" as I can, by the end of the summer. You guys will be seeing me in this forum more often.

A little here, a little there. I would say that it took 4 years to get where I am at now.

[BushMasterBoy]

I started by buying two 20lb bags of rice. You can kill all the meat you want, you still have to have carbohydrates. I plan on eating alot of cattail roots. They are to be cooked like a potato.

[TEAMRICO]

As of late I have been picking up bulk items for storage in the basement.
Mostly canned items that will last a year and I can rotate and use as needed.
My wife is understanding and always asks what else we can pick up.
First Im preping for a month of sustainment for us 3. Mainly food for my 5 YO. I can eat crap but my main concern is my boy, then the wife then me. Ha, the low calorie intake might do me some good.
I am always in a defensive mode anyway so it is down there if we need it.

[theGinsue]

I started by buying two 20lb bags of rice. You can kill all the meat you want, you still have to have carbohydrates. I plan on eating alot of cattail roots. They are to be cooked like a potato.

I don't recall ever seeing cattail's in CO. Are they readily available where you live or plan to bug out to?

[Irving]

I know where a bunch of cattails are. Well, a bunch compared to none anyway. Not much to live off of.

[cowboykjohnson]

There is a bunch over by my house, all along the ditch and the swamp type land it pours into.

[Marlin]

Yep,, Lots of 'em in Slaughterhouse glutch in Littleton...

[BushMasterBoy]

Yeah I'd bug out if Colorado Springs was nuked! Probably head up the Arkansas River if it was summer, down it if it was winter. I can usually get enough to eat from the water, fish and the like. Anyways below is a link on the cattail.



http://www.backwoodshome.com/articles/duffyk43.html

[cowboykjohnson]

Yeah I'd bug out if Colorado Springs was nuked! Probably head up the Arkansas River if it was summer, down it if it was winter. I can usually get enough to eat from the water, fish and the like. Anyways below is a link on the cattail.



http://www.backwoodshome.com/articles/duffyk43.html

Great info