What have done towards your prep?

[Mortblanc]

"I would not be in a hurry to buy a load of tinned foods unless you eat the contents regular and can rotate out the supply by date ….you will end up throwing it away …just like I did ……and do now still , but not so much anymore ! ." ---from about 5 posts back.

SS you grow all you want too, I don't care, but I'm not putting in a garden any more. It is a year around job to get 3 months food!

I can buy a year long supply of nutritious and varied canned foods for about 700 of your pounds money. Multiply the number of hours you spend tilling and sweating and risking you near 80 year old heart in the veg patch times the minimum wage at a job under roof in the AC and see how long you could eat canned goods?

What about 2nd year, or third year harvest? Chances of living to second or third year in a truly stressful event are ZERO!

I have a year supply laid back. That is about 6 months more than I need.

For most of us, old geezers over 70, the issue will not be food but meds and medical care.

I have had three heart attacks, each with its own procedures. I have endured five separate back surgeries. I have an electronic implant blocking the pain in my spine so I can walk. I have type two diabetes. About 17 pills daily and a highly restricted diet that eliminates almost all long storage life vegetables are keeping me alive at this point.

Me, and most others, are not going to die of heart failure, uncontrolled blood sugar from sweating or over exertion, or rip our spines out working the garden patch preparing for possible survival of an event that is never going to happen.

And if said event does happen we 70+ year olds are not going to be the survivors. That will fall to the younger group with better backs and stronger muscles. You will be turned out of your houses to face starvation within days of social breakdown.

I myself would run out of meds at the 6 month point. I will last another few weeks in severe pain and reduced capabilities to move about and care for myself.

There are no plants growing in the hedge row that I can boil, or dry, or simmer down and keep myself alive. I am only alive today due to 21st century medicines. 19th Century ones won't do the job, that is why the life expectancy when my grandfather was born was 47. Because of the discovery of antibiotics he made it to 60 before cancer took him.

You absolutely do not have to work yourself into the ground to put food on the table for the duration of your limited remaining time after "SHTF", a term no one can define and fewer can mark the start point and end.