What have done towards your prep?

[Mortblanc]

Come now SS, we know you are obsessed with growing your own but that does not mean that canned foods are useless!

My meds will run out and I will die of both diabetes complications and/or a heart attack long before I run out of cans, and a good few months before the veg comes ripe for picking.

My "use by" date is on the med bottle, not on a can.

Wind up throwing canned goods away??

Perish the thought! You know that those dates on canned foods mean absolutely nothing!

And why would one purchase a load of canned foods they do not eat, or want to eat, and never rotate or restock? Even if you do believe the "use by" date rotation of stock is still easier than raising and preserving yourself! Having something go "bad" is not the fault of the can, but of the person in charge of the can.

There are some preppers that actually work for a living. Some of them more than the customary 40 hour week, and they simply do not have time to tend growing, climbing and sprawling veg patches.

For those of us older and more feeble, that do not want to break our backs and have stroke or heart attack out in the veg patch, or spend hours slaving over a hot canning bath or pressure cooker, canned and bottled foods are both convenient and cheap.

Plus they generally take far less cooking time, fuel, and do not spread the aroma of cooking food through the overpopulated neighborhoods where most people actually live.

I know that some of you guys have the ability to grow enough to feed 5000 out of a sack of potting soil on the patio, but canned foods are a good alternative for anyone not blessed with a farm, acres of poly tunnels and a green thumb.

I have the land, and the equipment, and the seed, and I will grow veg if I have too, when spring comes, if my canned goods hold out until the weather breaks, and the sun shines, and the rains are right, and the storms don't blow me away, and the critters and hooligans don't loot all my growing veg,,,if I have too, I guess.

Or I can go open a can.