Survival Pack- Home Alone

Any survivalist worth their  MRE’s will tell you that having a defensible, well-stocked safe place is much preferable to being forced to go looking for resources and a hidey-hole. 

If and when the “shit hits the fan” if a person is reasonably prepared with food and water and has a reasonably secure stronghold, there should be little cause to go anywhere.  Every time the survivor(s) ventures out into the view of other people, they run the risk of losing every thing they’ve worked so hard to accumulate.

To survive for any period of time that it might take to bring law and order back to society the survivor must be able to provide their household members with at least 2,000 calories worth of food daily and at least 2 liters of water.

This is not the very least to maintain life, and is definitely not a weight loss diet, but it is geared towards an active life. A person could get by on much  less living in a secure place like a bunker where there would be few threats to everyday survival, but to remain active, aware, and ready to defend your home you can’t be undernourished.

If  you need to forage for food or gear you must have the energy to do so effectively and safely which means quickly and making no mistakes that might endanger your stronghold.

Being at home or at a safe place does give the survivor the options of gardening to provide basic nutritional needs.  Packing vegetable seeds would be a good idea; beans, melons, tomatoes, squash and the dark green leafy veggies will be the most important.  If the Native Americans subsisted on these plants along with hunting and fishing, the new age survivalist ought to be able to do the same.

Vitamin supplements will be necessary to maintain real health if the stored foods aren’t nutritionally complete or foraging and gardening are not options.

After a major disaster the chances of having good, clean, living water anywhere near an urban complex are slim and none.  Water filtration and storage will be  necessary everywhere but the cities and suburbs will be hit hardest because of the population pressure.

Water could be literally worth it’s weight in gold before too long in these environments so plan accordingly.

Anything that can hold water should be filled and capped if possible to avoid evaporation.  Start saving your soda(soft drink) bottles, milk jugs, wine bottles,  and aquariums for future use.  I recommend using iodine to disinfect your water over chlorine bleach because of chlorine’s nasty side affects to your pancreas and other tissues.

In any case, disinfected and treated water tastes like shit so be sure to have some kind of flavorings, even kool-aid, to make the taste bearable for  kids and lots of picky grownups too.

If the survivors are lucky (smart) enough to be living in the country or close to a good water source, they should be prepared to defend it with their lives because all those thirsty people from the cities will be looking for water first and will be in no mood to ask nicely for a drink.

In some ways, packing the storage area at home to survive for an extended, unknown period of time, with few ways  of procuring more food and goods can be more difficult than snagging a bug-out-bag on the way out the door and toughing it in the wilderness.

Large quantities of nutritionally balanced food must be stock-piled, water must be stored, heating and cooking fuel needs to be in good supply  and there must be sanitation facilities of some kind.

Special efforts must be made to avoid letting other people know of the stock-piled resources because as in any survival situation, the more people involved, the more problems.

For instance, I don’t care how strong and secure the stronghold is, if other people know about it they will try and take it for themselves.  It might be the local authorities and martial law, it might be a group of berserk, starving housewives, or maybe just the kid across the street with a baseball bat, if people see something  desperately needed, like food and water, the  survivors home alone, must be prepared to do what is necessary for their own well-being.

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