Leaf lettuce like butterhead/buttercrunch and romaine is simple to grow indoors under lights. I use the little tabletop hydro gardens. Folgers Instant coffee containers are a perfect fit for three inch net cups. Fill these cups with expanded clay beads, fill the container with nutrient/water solution up to the bottom 1/3rd of the net cup, put lettuce seeds in them, and keep beads moist until seeds begin growing and produce roots. After the plant uses most of the nutrient solution only refill container 1/3rd full each time to allow air roots to breathe. Put under lights or in a sunny window. Basil does great too.
Hey in the near future could you do a video on armed cults in America and what to look for or how to prepare for those situations and maybe how they dress the states they live in and possibly give them a grade as far as how dangerous they are. Thx keep up the good work I really do appreciate it as well as many others
My brother in Arkansas lives and works in and around the chicken industry. He tells me that federal inspectors have been ordering the destruction of hundreds of thousands of chickens. Supposedly, it is from a fear of avian bird flu, not necessarily as detected or observed, but from fear. One inspector said they were trying to get out ahead of a future outbreak. I personally think it is a forced shortage, not for reasons of bird and/or human health.
I agree. I was told by one farmer that the govt doesn't have to PROVE the farmer actually has avian...... I spoke to 2 difft farmers today and you can tell they are nervous.. about losing business, too high costs to actually make a profit.. one farmer i buy from just raised their eggs 3.00..for right now. the market was dead today and so were most of the stores ...... such a shame that millions are not awoke....
Your list is correct as well...plan on shortages of anything and everything! The video Identifies, Beef, Lettuce, Oranges and Citrus, Cereal and Feed Grains, Canned Anything, and Coffee!
Here's the 5 shortages: 1. Everything you want now 2. Everything you bought in the past 3. Everything you planned to buy in the future 4. Everything you need 5. Everything you don't need
@@teerich2011 you can grow lettuces in pots in a sunny window. Or by hydroponics. Yeah the bed one slipped by . Not sure where you shop but most stores discount ground beef just before its sell by date. I've got a good deal on some 5 lb rolls of it at Walmart.
I bought a can of coffee the other day (Folgers). The price didn't go up, but the weight of the can was reduced by more than an ounce. Inflation is hidden,
Leaf lettuce like butterhead/buttercrunch and romaine is simple to grow indoors under lights. I use the little tabletop hydro gardens. Folgers Instant coffee containers are a perfect fit for three inch net cups. Fill these cups with expanded clay beads, fill the container with nutrient/water solution up to the bottom 1/3rd of the net cup, put lettuce seeds in them, and keep beads moist until seeds begin growing and produce roots. After the plant uses most of the nutrient solution only refill container 1/3rd full each time to allow air roots to breathe. Put under lights or in a sunny window. Basil does great too.
Venison has replaced beef in our house. Plentiful lettuce from the Aerogardens. We don't drink coffee. Not worried about canned goods. Still haven't touched the grain buckets yet.
I just moved back the the US from Sicily where the vast majority of farmers allowed their oranges to rot on the vine and chose to not harvest the entire crop last year. They used covid as an excuse to this, but it make zero sense. I saw literally miles and miles of citrus fields just go to waste. This is a planned shortage.
image how many peeps went hungry. Guvment should have paid for the harvest of the crop and distribute to the less well off. Where's the compassion...and common sense?
Excellent video as always Kris. As a coffee lover I can say this: Real coffee beans and ground coffee have a limited life span of about 4-6 months in a bag, and they start to oxidise the second you open the packet.(plus the oils in the coffee do weird things) Personally I have drunk some pretty ancient fridge-stored coffee and it was certainly better than nothing, but real coffee, even unopened in the foil lined bags, doesnt last for that long. Real ground coffee sealed in metal cans, with foil lids, lasts a hell of a lot longer. I cant give an exact figure, and there is some debate about it losing its flavour, but if bagged ground coffee lasts 3-6 months in perfect order, I would assume well-stored canned coffee lasts for well over a year, probably for several years. Now here is where it gets strange..... Instant coffee potentially lasts for millennia .. not even kidding. Good quality, well made, and properly packaged, freeze dried instant coffee in cans, if kept below freezing point, will literally outlast our civilisation. Below freezing it becomes chemically and biologically inert, and it will not change state under any measurable metric that humans have thus developed. So if you are a coffee lover, coffee addict, or just someone who thinks it will be a good commodity, there are two lessons here. Any coffee packaged in metal cans lasts a very long time. Instant coffee packaged in metal cans can potentially last forever. As always, check the best before/sell by dates when you buy, and rifle to the back of the shelf to check the dates. If shelf stackers are doing their jobs, the short-dated stuff will be faced-out at the front, so NEVER buy the first item on the shelf. Always rummage to the back for the longest dated item even if that means weathering a few funny looks. Good luck to us all.
Would just like to correct you. Instant coffee is freeze-dried and will last indefinitely in the unopened jar. Once opened it will stand many months, possibly years, provided it is kept free of damp and contamination by bugs or fungus. It does not need freezing. I heartily recommend the Rich Roast blend available in Aldi and Lidl. Good deep flavour and a very low price. Hope this helps.
I briefly thought about prepping/storing coffee, but even as a lifelong coffee drinker I decided it's not worth it, I'll just do without. If SHTF I'm not gonna be working the desk job I have, that "requires" the coffee. I know I'll have headaches for a couple days, but oh well.
I store both good quality instant coffee and whole green coffee beans. Both last for decades. There are many videos on how to roast over a fire or stove, or even in a popcorn popper.
@@innercityprepper you can also prep caffeine pills. Those are great to have for times such as nighttime security detail and other situations you need to be able to stay awake for!
If/when SHTF be prepared for non preppers stealing from your garden. This year I'll be practicing some "stealth" gardening -- planting some low-growth things, such as squash, under & around trees/bushes where they can't be easily seen from the street.
Famines are not meant to be prepared for. They are mother natures way of thinning the herd to a more manageable and sustainable level until humans breed like flies again and wipe out every resource, species and ecosystem as they pollute the earth with toxins, sewage, garbage and biological waste. So the time to starve is near Thank God. The planet needs to wipe out the human plague unless nuclear war beats nature to the punch. This life is only worth living for the rich and super rich. The rest of us are just lucky to survive day by day. Or we could use the armies to wipe out millions and steal their land and resources as usual, so some of us can spread out like a virus and live a few more years.
@@ice9594 I have enough store bought and home canned food that I’m at least a couple years ahead so I’ll can what I get when I get it. I live in a small town 30 miles away from a bigger small town so the threat isn’t huge, I share my produce anyway so if someone steals food then I have to accept they needed it. And unless they ruin the plants more will grow and ripen, they can only take what’s ready 🤷🏼♀️ Blessings
Edit: as far as scarcity, the retail market for broiler chickens and feeder piglets had been brutal. I was hoping that covid spurned some temporary hobbyists and things would return to normal, but the wait times haven't improved. Since production is seasonal, not getting animals when we need them is very stressful. We have less than an acre so can not breed and therefore have to buy animals for finishing and it seems like we may need to put a lot more up front and have larger costs of production. Original comment: 100% in your analysis on how vulnerable we have made our food system. It's profit maximization that incentivizes growing one or two cultivars in monocrop. We need decentralized food production. Let the broad acre farms grow grains. Every community can and should be self sufficient in vegetables and fruits.
Have you considered one of the smaller breed pigs as far as breeding? Pot Belly pigs are popular as pets in the US, but they were originally bred specifically to raise on small plots of land for meat, and when not overfed produce a remarkably decent meat. KuneKunes are another breed although they will cost you more to purchase initially. Meat birds don't take up a lot of space, and can be raised in a chicken tractor. It will slow their growth time a bit, but you'll end up with healthier birds, and healthier meat in the end. Another option is purchasing one of the dual purpose chicken breeds and keeping some for eggs, and putting the rest in the freezer or jars ~ and if you have a broody hen, let her set those eggs and you'll have chicks to raise for both replacing hens or your meat supply. Two other options to consider are Muscovy ducks which produce a red meat that fills in for beef, and rabbits. Muscovy hens will also accept your chicken eggs to hatch out for you, whether or not you have a broody hen, and rabbits produce some of the best fertilizer your garden could get.
Not sure where you live but we are supplying many homesteaders and smaller ranches with piglets at all stages of development. Our issue here is the fact that SO many of our local processing plants do not offer pork processing that are USDA inspected. They only offer state inspected and custom exempt.
Lettuce is actually easy to grow. I grow various types of leaf lettuce all year in pots. Outside during the warm months, inside near a sunny window during the cold. I've purchased warning mats. Seeds will keep. Yes, the grow rate drops from year to year, but something is better than nothing. I buy seeds at the end of the season & grow the next. Don't forget flower seeds for the pollinators.
Thank you for the information about shortages. Just organized our freezer to see what we need. I've learned so much about prepping on your channel. Thank you for being here, and being a leader!
I grew up in remote Alaska, so being stocked was a way of life. Thank you CP! I have been able to stay ahead of crisis and smooth out the bumps in life. We are blessed to have the means to weather storms, but mostly that is because we are careful and mindful.
I lived in Alaska also and the people who have raised their own crop's and had to wait on thing's are most likely to get over the problem,s in life. Keep up living your life.
Chris, 1st, thank you so much for your channel. I have learned so much and I am grateful. 2nd, sugestion for future video, pet foods. Is the a shortage due to the can problem? I have observer that many cat foods are now in plastic containers, however, not seeing that in dog food. Would appreciate any insights you have. Again , thank you for all you do for us amateurs . I feel so much more secure after implementing your plans.
I’ve had cats for 50 years. Never seen a shortage of cat food in bags like now! 15 to 22 pound bags of cat food it’s really hard to find in some stores. Not necessarily an aluminum shortage problem
The realty is that we all can survive on less than we think. Looking at history with the Great Depression being a prime example, people made do with very little in terms of variety and staples. They had to get creative, and yes unfortunately sometimes do without, but they got through it. Prepping will certainly help but the bottom line is we don't necessarily NEED every item mentioned.
Coffee is one of those. If it comes to the wire, I'll give it up. I only have one cup in the morning anyway. Mostly cold drinks or various teas during the day.
We really like how your videos are calm and collected, as well as obviously informative and useful. Some other Prepper channels we watch can be panicky and conspiratorial. Thanks so much for your content.
My feed grain has doubled this past year. The feed prices have increased the price of my Heritage Hogs out of the average family's budget. My experience is the same all over the United States. Small farms will disappear long before the industrial sized Farms collapse.
Local pig farmers here are going to the carrot and watermelon farms and getting the “culls” by the trailer loads to feed their pigs to save on food bills. They can also go to the bread distributors and buy in bulk the out of date breads and pastries for the same purpose.
Chris, I'm not sure what the prices are now, but I would encourage your viewers to look into buying beef direct from a rancher. Granted, we live in south central Montana, and may have a distinct advantage here, but last spring we were able to secure a whole beef for less than $5/lb. That included every kind of cut you would want. The Rancher sent the beef to the butcher, butcher aged the beef, in the mean time the butcher called us to find out what kinds of cuts we wanted and gave us a pickup window. We ended up opting for lots of burger, stew meat, and roasts, but also plenty of steaks, prime rib, and whatever else sounded good. My husband had to drive to South Dakota to get it, but even with the cost of gas it was still far cheaper than store prices. The average packaged weight of a beef cow is 396 lb. If a couple of families went in together this would be totally doable for many people.
@@lunasgma7546 rest assured that will not stop individual ranchers from selling to people they know and already do business with. Ranchers understand their vital importance and will do what they need to do to maintain their way of life. The FDA is a joke.
Do we have a can recycling plant in the US. Do we manufacture cans for food in US. So many things could be done here again to make us self reliant. America was sold out to china for everything. Give incentives to bring it home or ban they CEO from EU and NATO.
I'm a grocery retail insider. Expect shortages on everything. Honestly right now the supply chain is so beyond messed up that english doesn't even have an adequate word for it. I'm seeing long term shortages from my suppliers on everything from toilet paper, paper plates, pet supplies, produce generally, even candy has been incredibly difficult to get in in consistent supply. Of course basics like rice, beans, pasta, and cereal are at critically low stock levels.
Built a contraption with grow light to place in garage. Use it for protecting more sensitive plants in winter, start seeds, and grow salad greens for variety.
Joined a mycological society and picked up a couple free mushroom blocks. Have them in a plastic tote in bathtub in guest bathroom....they are producing!! Whenever they are done, the blocks can be compost in my garden. Added bonus--- I also got a couple free fruiting trees to add to my backyard!! I highly recommend planning ahead!!!
what's causing the continuing supply chain issues? shouldn't covid etc be sorted by now? Where I am, it's just been a constant "out of stock" on a range of items everytime I shop & I think we've all just adapted to it now, stuff doesn't stay out of stock, comes & goes, so easy enough to buy around it, but it's just bizarre to me that it's still going on
@@debbieolin8153 re mushrooms, what you really want to get is a plastic tub with locking lid & then build glove holes & gloves into one side of it, giving you a box that you can work inside through the gloves, while it's fully sealed to outside air, otherwise known as a "glove box". Once you have that, the sky's the limit on mushrooms, try to get yourself some grain spawn, or if you can't, you'll need to make your own by dissecting sections from the inside of a mushroom, while inside that box & putting into agar to colonise & grow, then transfer that into pressure cooked grain & you'll end up with grain spawn. From that point, you just pressure cook up more grain every few weeks, put your old grain spawn container into the glove box, along with the new grain containers, close the box, hands into the gloves to work in it, keep a spray bottle of 10% bleach inside the box, spray it round in there (particularly on the containers where lids connect to body), wait 10 minutes till it's sterilised the box, then open the old grain spawn & transfer bits of it to the new containers of grain with a sterilised spoon, then close up all the containers, then open up the box & take your new grain spawn in growing out & put it wherever you keep your grain spawn growing (or leave in the box for storage till you're ready to use if you like, doesn't really matter). Once the grain spawn is mature/ready, pasteurise (soak in hot water for a few hours) your growing medium (I use sugarcane mulch, cause it's cheap & readily available), add the grain spawn, mix, then pack into mushroom grow bags or buckets & wait a few weeks for lots of mushrooms. I was getting over 1kg of mushrooms a day at my peak of doing this. Very easy to grow huge amounts of food with mushrooms! They love winter too, so I do it when my main garden goes largely dormant for winter. I found dry weight of sugarcane mulch would roughly equal the total weight of mushrooms I would get from that bag, ie hugely efficient in production! You can also easily grow mealworms or crickets in a garage too if you're willing to see them as a source of meat. If not, you could try rabbits or chickens in the garage, but insects are the easier option in a small space. Chickens & rabbits are viable in that space, for food production though, layer hens can be too loud in some settings, but meat chickens are lazy as & quiet, as are rabbits
Hello Kris and community. I stocked up on Coffee when it was $6.95 per pound. It is now a dollar more. I have the worse luck growing from seeds. I have different recipes for soil, have tried the prepackaged seed starter soil and many of my seeds don't grow. I bought A Vault from Seedsnow and think that may bee the problem. I also tend to over water. I am trying something new as of today. I bought lettuce with the roots still attached. This came in a clam-shell container. Last night I finished the green top and threw away the beautiful healthy root system. This morning, I pulled it out of the trash. I am going to plant it in a container and try to grow Bib Lettuce from the roots. Wish me luck.
It probably depends on your climate and soil, but in my garden, I do just that and eat the outer leaves as they grow until they are too bitter and are going to seed. Then let them ( and anything else that you eat, GO To SEED ),go to seed. Plants that seed themselves in you garden, undisturbed, reproduce at a much more prolific rate than if you buy seeds in a package. I have more lettuce than I can give away
It's already bad enuf! Got a gallon of milk, loaf of cheap bread and dozen eggs this morning. Eggs n milk were 6 bucks each and the bread I used to pay .99 cents for was 2.29. 15 bucks for 3 things I gotta have. Butter is over a dollar a stick. I used to get 4 sticks for under 3. Worlds gone mad
The talk of panic buying is so spot on, I never dreamed I would see some of the things I saw during Covid. I cannot image how it would be if something really bad happened.
Well, as long as there isn't a *shortage on toilet tissue* ... AGAIN. I don't have to eat red meat (and I *do not eat red meat* ), but I DO have to wipe my a$$.
I rarely shop at the grocery store but stopped in today to get some freezer bags... I was shocked... eggs $5.69/doz, whole chickens $1.39/ lb(on sale), onions $1.89/2lb bag.... I'm so glad I produce and preserve my own.
That’s cute , in Arizona we are paying around $7 for a dozen organic eggs , $7.50 for an 18 pack of Walmart eggs. Onions 3lb bag for $2.89 Milk $3.49 a gallon or nearly $8 for organic gallon. Also our fuel is way more expensive than just about everywhere other than California. Also there has been no drought in Arizona. We had a super wet spring , a giant monsoon that started in June it’s usually in late July , we got rain about 2/3 days a week during summer and several downpours for multiple hours. Flooding in both Phoenix and northern Az. This winter has also brought rain to Phx and Sbow to the high country. Last year was the first year my tomatoes ever got Blight. We usually are too dry for it to survive however I felt with it for months last summer.
Progresso and Campbell soup in cans has doubled in price at some stores in Los Angeles! So it is the container not the soup thats causing the increase! Time to recycle!!!
The most interesting thing about growing your own lettuce, once you harvest and clean off you will probably put it in a ziplock bag or something. It will last several weeks before starting to degrade. The stuff from the store lasts just a few days. Makes you wonder how long that lettuce has been in that bag in the store, I'd assume weeks.
True. I cut my romaine and pulled leaves off. I washed/rinsed then patted each leave dry with paper towels. I then layered in lock and lock bowl with a paper towel between leaves to absorb remaining moisture. Lasted a really long time.
@@tdog4240 The other thing, I had so much I was giving it to my buddy to feed his rabbits. Everyone should be growing their own lettuce. It's easy, lasts a long time and if you harvest correctly just a few plants will be enough!
Very true. I was eating cherry tomatoes in December that I had harvested in October with no special preservation beyond putting them in a paper bag. There were a couple of shriveled ones we had to sort out, but the majority were fine. Grocery store tomatoes are lucky if they last beyond 10 days.
I am well stocked with everything on this list except lettuce. It is sad seeing, especially old people, picking up stuff, especially in the meat section, looking at it and putting it back.
What irritates me is the producers are not making any more on their end and the consumers are paying more on their end so the problem is the middleman and the commodity markets. Anyone with money can buy a contract(s) to get their piece of the action. With the amount of money sloshing around the system Hedge Funds are able to leverage their funds to have an impact on the markets. I’m all for a Free Market System but not a Free For All Market System 😡
At my my wits end trying to figure this all out. After all their is only so much one can do. Especially seniors. There is only so much money and in our case very little room to store things. I pray things get better for this world.
I have always bought coffee at Costco. Before the Covid fiasco, I heard prices would be going up so I stocked up, paying $8.99 a can. I went to Costco last week and it was $15.99!!! I was so glad I had stocked up. Thanks for the video.
I did that with a LOT of different food items, personal care products, pet food, etc. Like you, everything I check prices on now has gone way, way up and the packages now are also smaller. So glad we stocked up when we did! 👍
Thank you for the info. I know it’s a useless wish, but what I wouldn,t give for five years ago prices. Here’s hoping our families can weather this problem. All of you, take care!
We went to a store that sells odd lots of food and other items. We found cereal and dried fruits much cheaper than Walmart or other chains. They don't have fresh or refrigerated foods. Many years ago, I'd go to freight salvage stores. We're near O'Hare airport. Tina, Al's wife
Coffee alternative - Chicory, a relative of the dandelion whose root is roasted and ground. Comes from the USA but the only product I found on shelves was an export from Asia. always gives me a chuckle when I see it. I am not worried by shortages as much as I am concerned with corporate price increases. More people suffer more financial stress and that leads to an increase in violence. Our system is oriented around hierarchy and competition rather than equality and cooperation. This causes humans who would otherwise be pretty cool to do bad towards one another. It is incumbent on all of us little people to turn things around or we will all suffer under the continued abuse by billionaires.
I know people would drink Postum instead of coffee. I tried it once and did not care for it. I think I’ll stockpile freeze dried coffee and green tea leaves.
If my family of 6 needed food and your family of two had enough to sustain yourselves, how much would you share with my family? Equity would say we split it 8 ways, we would get 3/4 of your food. Fair no? Equity yes.
Rose hips, especially from wild roses, are high in vitamin C. Try not to take all of them though, because they're an important source of winter food for birds and other critters.
Through gardening and fishing in our local river I hope my family can produce half of our normal food supply this summer. Lucky to be in a rural area where many neighbors keep chickens-I’d like to get a few hens myself. I also have been reading up on foraging common easy to find items like purslane and dandelion in summer and acorns for flour in the fall
We live in a semi rural area where lots of folks grow their own gardens and raise their own meat/eggs. I see egg signs up all the time driving through neighborhoods. I think that has helped with the supply here at our grocery stores, although I've seen empty shelves and the prices are crazy.
We should be buying cows from the farmers, so they don't go to packing plants, cut out all middlemen, buy local.. split with other buyers, then farmer gets more than he would from packers, but less we will pay per pound. Every neighborhood has a hunter that knows how to kill and process, give him extra.
I drank instant/freeze dried coffee when I lived in England for a year. It's an acquired taste but better than nothing. I've been stocking up a bottle here and there, doesn't hurt to have it for trading in the future.
Good video. At this point, I have a difficult time understanding why anyone with the space does not either have a garden or plans for one this spring. The same goes for keeping even a few hens, or raising other meat animals. I just discovered that I can even grow oranges, lemons, and other citrus in my zone ~ albeit in a hoop house ~ but I'm considering making space in the yard to give it a try. I'll probably add in some banana trees and might even give pineapple a try. What has been done to our food supply chain is criminal imo, but that doesn't mean I have to just accept it and do without many things.
@@pattiissa9035 We have a shallow well, a rain water cachement system with 500 gallons of storage capacity, a full drip irrigation system, and three separate filtering options for drinking water. We raise small livestock, so making sure we have water is a top priority. Water is life.
We have a shortage on our hands here & Walmart isn’t gonna help. We’ve got a shortage of men who do what they say, & say what they mean. Here in California we had a little storm & mutual assistance groups rapidly turned into every man for them self- some people are just play preppin- know who your real friends are-
because of the latest bird flu epidemic learning to pickle your eggs has never been a more important life skill. my 2023 goal is to make pemmican, pickle eggs and can veggies, and have a bag of rice lentils and beans ready.
I agree. Fertilizer shortages mean can’t grow grain. So either starve your cattle or butcher for market. And for all the other things I’ve seen I don’t believe in the avian flu. Nope, just don’t.
Pet foods for domestic animals. There major shortages in both dog and cat food and I am thankful I started prepping for my dogs and cats almost a year ago when supplies were still abundant and the prices were much lower. I buy in bulk in oder to get the best price possible.
Don't be picky. Buy what will feed you , not what you want. Price per protein, nutrition. Know your local ecosystem. Perslaine weed is the most nutritious plant on land.
Eggs in the UK is an issue. Rising feed prices and avian flu. Plus supermarkets paying poor prices to farmers. Causing farmers to produce less eggs or give up.
Our family is fairly well prepared. We buy a full beef locally (within 10 miles), raise 100 broilers a year, have a layer flock of about 25 and we just put Dorper sheep on property (4 breeding ewes and a ram) which should produce somewhere between 200-400 lbs of red meat a year. All in all we have about 1 year's worth of food put up in storage and freezers. Where we fall short is our ability to grow crops. We have a fairly large garden but we aren't producing much and we don't have seeds put up like I feel we should. This will be our focus this year to help round out our preps. Purchase some seeds and learn how to keep seed as well.
At the end of the season a lot of seed companies sell off their stick of the seeds in large grab bags. I ordered several from many different companies last year. I ended up with thousands of seeds and froze a large amount for future years. I have enough for many years of planting plus I save seeds from the very best plants and highest producing plants. I mark them with a little plastic stick for each fruit I pull off. Once the plant is dead I collect the seeds in the remaining fruit and mark it.
@@brucecranford0824 google something like "seed company grab bags" - it should bring up a number of companies that sell seed mixes and/or end of season sales -
@@TenSpeed2007 Oh yes. However our youngest daughter currently has a pet bunny so attempting to make her eat rabbit would probably traumatize her for life! 🤣🤣🤣
About coffee…when coffee goes through the process of decaffeination, that caffeine is captured and then is used to caffeinate other beverages like cola as well as to add to supplements and even medications like Excedrin or a prescription like Fioricet, which I use for migraines. So, the rising prices of coffee isn’t just about coffee but also any other products that benefit from the addition of caffeine.
I live in Australia. It's mid-summer here. We, too, will have many shortages in the upcoming autumn and winter seasons, this is mainly due to severe flooding in major food producing areas of the country. No one talks about it. It's a giant black hole of ignorance. As a home gardener who is just starting to 'bring in the harvest' from her first, small, domestic vegetable patch ever, I have realized just how much more I would need to actually grow to feed my family - (so far, I have 8 beans, some tomatoes, enough potatoes to make one mash, 2 cucumbers, 8 brown onions, some very sad looking radishes and 3 giant zucchinis! - not likely to feed us all for the winter!). In addition to all that Chris has shared, I think we should be thinking about producing our own food, (even if it is a little bit 'pathetic', like mine so far!). We need to stock up on fertilizers - (especially as there has been some major reductions in production this past year), get various types of composts & manure to improve the soil for growing our food, learn how to compost and get a workable system started, obtain heirloom seeds, (from which we can keep the seeds from what we grow each season and re-sow them each year), keep the seedling trays we buy from the stores to grow our heirloom seeds from scratch, learn natural ways to 'kill/deter' bugs (the bane of my life at the start of this sowing season! - copper tape around the raised beds worked wonders!), figuring out the best way to water all the veg patches. I'm currently learning about various ways to grow our food indoors if we have to (through colder weather - I'm anticipating the lack of lettuce in the stores and figuring out how I can grow my own through winter), and, finally, learn & do the various ways we can store what we grow - can, dehydrate, freeze. Today I grated the enormous zucchinis and put them in the freezer! I showed my husband my 'harvested bounty' and said 'well, that's not going to last us long!". This is prepping, - giving 'it' a go, trying new ways, learning, adjusting, anticipating, storing, getting ready...
Good job getting your garden started. I've always had a few plants going in summer but this past year i got a lot more serious about it. Overall a success, but learned many lessons. I think every year will get better as we learn and refine. Keep it up!
Of you wanna get ahead of any panic induced shortage of anything, start stocking up now. You'll also insulate yourself from inflation. Check for the longest due dates on food. If fuel prices are down a bit, get and fill a few fuel cans. Keep filling your vehicle while the price is down and use from 'same price fuel' when the prices go up. And refill it fuel cans when the prices drop again. Think about 1st aid, clothing and other daily necessities. Prices WILL go up again like they usually do, now's a good time to stock up and things like that when on sale. Should help your dollar go a little further.
I bought everything I needed for this springs garden last year. Also composting now over winter , and bought all my soil, seeds, fertilizer everything.
We don’t used much processed food, but we do used canned tomato soup. The small cans are in very short supply in our area. I have some large cans I purchased at a restaurant supply store, but traditional size cans for one or two people are frequently difficult to find. This year, I will be growing tomatoes in my small city yard, as well as purchasing from farmer’s markets. I don’t have much space for canning jars of tomatoes or anything else, but I can blanch and freeze them so we have a ready supply for sauces and soups. Thanks for the work you do. It helps all of us look ahead and plan for our families. We deeply appreciate the effort from you and your team!
I notice at ALDIs here in Dallas area eggs were down to $2.29 or so last week. Not bad. So maybe the shortage is easing. We never had a pet food shortage but then we are flexible on brand
The problem with our modern society is that most of us are city dwellers, which means we cannot produce our own food (Victory Garden). Except for a few rare plots of land or flat roofs adapted for this, we are more and more dependent on delivery from outside the cities, and now, from other regions, if not from other countries.
Indoor hydroponics, broccoli sprouts sunflower microgreens, I am growing microgreens and Kratky hydroponic vegetables to increase my food independence and eat more healthy food choices. I also have reduced my consumption of processed foods. I add moringa powder and turmeric to my lunch and dinner. I figure i can produce almost half my own food, imagine if everyone did this as well.
Honestly I live so much better on largely plant based. Cheaper and I feel healthier. Easier to store beans and lentils long term. In COVID while everyone else was panic buying I just went to my usual less popular aisle, and got what I always had.
The grain supply concerns me the most. Not only for bread and other recipes but also as an ingredient in my dogs and chickens food. I have 5 months supply for both the animals now and working on working up to a 12 month supply on hand
Be careful of the dry dog/cat food it can go rancid real easy, even in air sealed containers, and make the animals real sick. If it smells off dont feed it. Good luck
Arugula, easy to grow and quit good. 2 lemon trees growing in my dinning room, wife has them right in the sliding door window, plenty of sunlight not cold, along with parsley, rosemarie, lemon grass and some others. Coffee plenty of K cups but they will run out and I’ll be back to brewing. Good video Kris thank you
I have kept cattle for the past 30 years for two reasons. I had cattle as a kid and enjoy working with them. Second, It is a emergency food supply for my famly. Recently had a problem loading a young 9 month old bull for market..Answer? He was in three families freezers before midnight...steaks, stew bits, and roasts. Fixing to thin slice some steaks and make jerky..
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Leaf lettuce like butterhead/buttercrunch and romaine is simple to grow indoors under lights. I use the little tabletop hydro gardens. Folgers Instant coffee containers are a perfect fit for three inch net cups. Fill these cups with expanded clay beads, fill the container with nutrient/water solution up to the bottom 1/3rd of the net cup, put lettuce seeds in them, and keep beads moist until seeds begin growing and produce roots. After the plant uses most of the nutrient solution only refill container 1/3rd full each time to allow air roots to breathe. Put under lights or in a sunny window. Basil does great too.
Thanks for the free guide, sir. Been prepping c. 6 years. Still more to do. Starting a serious garden this year. B. in AZ
Hey in the near future could you do a video on armed cults in America and what to look for or how to prepare for those situations and maybe how they dress the states they live in and possibly give them a grade as far as how dangerous they are. Thx keep up the good work I really do appreciate it as well as many others
My brother in Arkansas lives and works in and around the chicken industry. He tells me that federal inspectors have been ordering the destruction of hundreds of thousands of chickens. Supposedly, it is from a fear of avian bird flu, not necessarily as detected or observed, but from fear. One inspector said they were trying to get out ahead of a future outbreak. I personally think it is a forced shortage, not for reasons of bird and/or human health.
It's a fake bird flu. The government want to kill all domestic animals to starve humanity. They want us to eat bugs.
Facts
Yes. If you have no birds you have no flu. Duh. :(
I seriously questioned my sanity last year when I got 10 chickens, but I’m really glad I did now!
I agree. I was told by one farmer that the govt doesn't have to PROVE the farmer actually has avian...... I spoke to 2 difft farmers today and you can tell they are nervous.. about losing business, too high costs to actually make a profit.. one farmer i buy from just raised their eggs 3.00..for right now.
the market was dead today and so were most of the stores ......
such a shame that millions are not awoke....
Fresh meat, fresh fruit, fresh vegetables, chicken eggs, butter, milk,
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Your list is correct as well...plan on shortages of anything and everything!
The video Identifies, Beef, Lettuce, Oranges and Citrus, Cereal and Feed Grains, Canned Anything, and Coffee!
Thank you
The coffee is not for my survival but for everyone else's. Lol
Absolutely
I have not had any caffeine in 1.5 years. Never going back. You don't need it!
@@AkiraSRT9 I already quit smoking, that's as far as I'm going!
😂😂😂Always said I could live without anything but coffee and TP. I'm an old soul whose been living that life long before covid and shortages.
i didn't stock up on beef; i just stopped eating it. Much easier.
Here's the 5 shortages:
1. Everything you want now
2. Everything you bought in the past
3. Everything you planned to buy in the future
4. Everything you need
5. Everything you don't need
🤣🤣🤣 sad but truth. But the biggest shortage no one talks about; time. Feel like there's not enough time.
that works on the lizard brains only
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Oh my, how right you are, Lost Beagle.
Just f die if it’s so bad
Rice, beans, noodles, tomatos.
More than 5 sortages:
4:24 Beef
5:42 Lettuce
6:37 Oranges and citrus
7:37 Cereal and feed grains
8:30 Canned anything
9:20 Coffee
fake shortages of coffee is reason to go full boogaloo
He stated early in the message he was repeating beef so the would be a bonus warning.
Unfortunately can't stock up on lettuce but sadly beef is even more expensive now than even a yr ago
@@teerich2011 you can grow lettuces in pots in a sunny window. Or by hydroponics. Yeah the bed one slipped by . Not sure where you shop but most stores discount ground beef just before its sell by date. I've got a good deal on some 5 lb rolls of it at Walmart.
I don't use any of it except an occasional burger and lettuce that I'll grow in my new greenhouse.
I bought a can of coffee the other day (Folgers). The price didn't go up, but the weight of the can was reduced by more than an ounce. Inflation is hidden,
The 5 Food Items in this video. 😃
1) Beef
2) Lettuce
3) Oranges and Citrus
4) Cereal and Feed Grains
5) Canned Anything
6) Coffee
1. Waffles
2. Pancakes
3. French Toast
4. Crepes
5. More Waffles
@@bikerjon8934 Breakfast sounds great. 😃
Leaf lettuce like butterhead/buttercrunch and romaine is simple to grow indoors under lights. I use the little tabletop hydro gardens. Folgers Instant coffee containers are a perfect fit for three inch net cups. Fill these cups with expanded clay beads, fill the container with nutrient/water solution up to the bottom 1/3rd of the net cup, put lettuce seeds in them, and keep beads moist until seeds begin growing and produce roots. After the plant uses most of the nutrient solution only refill container 1/3rd full each time to allow air roots to breathe. Put under lights or in a sunny window. Basil does great too.
Venison has replaced beef in our house. Plentiful lettuce from the Aerogardens. We don't drink coffee. Not worried about canned goods. Still haven't touched the grain buckets yet.
Thank you. My enquiring mind wanted to know but I have such a hard time listening to this guy! Thank you!
I just moved back the the US from Sicily where the vast majority of farmers allowed their oranges to rot on the vine and chose to not harvest the entire crop last year. They used covid as an excuse to this, but it make zero sense. I saw literally miles and miles of citrus fields just go to waste. This is a planned shortage.
Maybe paid to let them rot
Absolutely. (Planned)
They did that in the US to...they were paid by our government to let it rot.
image how many peeps went hungry. Guvment should have paid for the harvest of the crop and distribute to the less well off. Where's the compassion...and common sense?
@@bocadelcieloplaya3852 We have demonic jerks running the world. They have been very vocal about wanting to kill most of us off.
Excellent video as always Kris.
As a coffee lover I can say this:
Real coffee beans and ground coffee have a limited life span of about 4-6 months in a bag, and they start to oxidise the second you open the packet.(plus the oils in the coffee do weird things) Personally I have drunk some pretty ancient fridge-stored coffee and it was certainly better than nothing, but real coffee, even unopened in the foil lined bags, doesnt last for that long.
Real ground coffee sealed in metal cans, with foil lids, lasts a hell of a lot longer. I cant give an exact figure, and there is some debate about it losing its flavour, but if bagged ground coffee lasts 3-6 months in perfect order, I would assume well-stored canned coffee lasts for well over a year, probably for several years.
Now here is where it gets strange.....
Instant coffee potentially lasts for millennia .. not even kidding.
Good quality, well made, and properly packaged, freeze dried instant coffee in cans, if kept below freezing point, will literally outlast our civilisation. Below freezing it becomes chemically and biologically inert, and it will not change state under any measurable metric that humans have thus developed.
So if you are a coffee lover, coffee addict, or just someone who thinks it will be a good commodity, there are two lessons here.
Any coffee packaged in metal cans lasts a very long time.
Instant coffee packaged in metal cans can potentially last forever.
As always, check the best before/sell by dates when you buy, and rifle to the back of the shelf to check the dates. If shelf stackers are doing their jobs, the short-dated stuff will be faced-out at the front, so NEVER buy the first item on the shelf. Always rummage to the back for the longest dated item even if that means weathering a few funny looks.
Good luck to us all.
You can't find coffee in metal cans anymore.
Would just like to correct you.
Instant coffee is freeze-dried and will last indefinitely in the unopened jar.
Once opened it will stand many months, possibly years, provided it is kept free of damp and contamination by bugs or fungus.
It does not need freezing.
I heartily recommend the Rich Roast blend available in Aldi and Lidl.
Good deep flavour and a very low price.
Hope this helps.
I briefly thought about prepping/storing coffee, but even as a lifelong coffee drinker I decided it's not worth it, I'll just do without. If SHTF I'm not gonna be working the desk job I have, that "requires" the coffee. I know I'll have headaches for a couple days, but oh well.
I store both good quality instant coffee and whole green coffee beans. Both last for decades. There are many videos on how to roast over a fire or stove, or even in a popcorn popper.
@@innercityprepper you can also prep caffeine pills. Those are great to have for times such as nighttime security detail and other situations you need to be able to stay awake for!
I’m so glad I have A LOT of food stored and am a gardener !!!
Thanks for your hard work in warning people !!!
If/when SHTF be prepared for non preppers stealing from your garden. This year I'll be practicing some "stealth" gardening -- planting some low-growth things, such as squash, under & around trees/bushes where they can't be easily seen from the street.
Famines are not meant to be prepared for. They are mother natures way of thinning the herd to a more manageable and sustainable level until humans breed like flies again and wipe out every resource, species and ecosystem as they pollute the earth with toxins, sewage, garbage and biological waste. So the time to starve is near Thank God. The planet needs to wipe out the human plague unless nuclear war beats nature to the punch. This life is only worth living for the rich and super rich. The rest of us are just lucky to survive day by day. Or we could use the armies to wipe out millions and steal their land and resources as usual, so some of us can spread out like a virus and live a few more years.
@@ice9594 I have enough store bought and home canned food that I’m at least a couple years ahead so I’ll can what I get when I get it. I live in a small town 30 miles away from a bigger small town so the threat isn’t huge, I share my produce anyway so if someone steals food then I have to accept they needed it. And unless they ruin the plants more will grow and ripen, they can only take what’s ready 🤷🏼♀️
Blessings
@@ice9594 Malabar spinach looks like an ornamental plant but is actually healthy for you...
Edit: as far as scarcity, the retail market for broiler chickens and feeder piglets had been brutal. I was hoping that covid spurned some temporary hobbyists and things would return to normal, but the wait times haven't improved. Since production is seasonal, not getting animals when we need them is very stressful. We have less than an acre so can not breed and therefore have to buy animals for finishing and it seems like we may need to put a lot more up front and have larger costs of production.
Original comment: 100% in your analysis on how vulnerable we have made our food system. It's profit maximization that incentivizes growing one or two cultivars in monocrop. We need decentralized food production. Let the broad acre farms grow grains. Every community can and should be self sufficient in vegetables and fruits.
Have you considered one of the smaller breed pigs as far as breeding? Pot Belly pigs are popular as pets in the US, but they were originally bred specifically to raise on small plots of land for meat, and when not overfed produce a remarkably decent meat. KuneKunes are another breed although they will cost you more to purchase initially. Meat birds don't take up a lot of space, and can be raised in a chicken tractor. It will slow their growth time a bit, but you'll end up with healthier birds, and healthier meat in the end. Another option is purchasing one of the dual purpose chicken breeds and keeping some for eggs, and putting the rest in the freezer or jars ~ and if you have a broody hen, let her set those eggs and you'll have chicks to raise for both replacing hens or your meat supply. Two other options to consider are Muscovy ducks which produce a red meat that fills in for beef, and rabbits. Muscovy hens will also accept your chicken eggs to hatch out for you, whether or not you have a broody hen, and rabbits produce some of the best fertilizer your garden could get.
Not sure where you live but we are supplying many homesteaders and smaller ranches with piglets at all stages of development. Our issue here is the fact that SO many of our local processing plants do not offer pork processing that are USDA inspected. They only offer state inspected and custom exempt.
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Lettuce is actually easy to grow. I grow various types of leaf lettuce all year in pots. Outside during the warm months, inside near a sunny window during the cold.
I've purchased warning mats. Seeds will keep. Yes, the grow rate drops from year to year, but something is better than nothing. I buy seeds at the end of the season & grow the next. Don't forget flower seeds for the pollinators.
I don't grow lettuce, but I do grow dandelions. I use the whole plant including the root.
What types of lettuce do you recommend for pots or even inside under grow lights?
Thanks for the encouragement, I'm learning how to grow and not grow lettuce..haha
@@juliabrown5948 I'm growing leafy varieties. Not iceberg types.
and collard greens easy maintenance. grows into. tree and can feed many people
Thank you for the information about shortages. Just organized our freezer to see what we need. I've learned so much about prepping on your channel. Thank you for being here, and being a leader!
I grew up in remote Alaska, so being stocked was a way of life. Thank you CP! I have been able to stay ahead of crisis and smooth out the bumps in life. We are blessed to have the means to weather storms, but mostly that is because we are careful and mindful.
I lived in Alaska also and the people who have raised their own crop's and had to wait on thing's are most likely to get over the problem,s in life. Keep up living your life.
Chris, 1st, thank you so much for your channel. I have learned so much and I am grateful.
2nd, sugestion for future video, pet foods. Is the a shortage due to the can problem? I have observer that many cat foods are now in plastic containers, however, not seeing that in dog food. Would appreciate any insights you have. Again , thank you for all you do for us amateurs .
I feel so much more secure after implementing your plans.
Dog food is usually in the larger cans, not made from aluminum.
I’ve had cats for 50 years. Never seen a shortage of cat food in bags like now! 15 to 22 pound bags of cat food it’s really hard to find in some stores. Not necessarily an aluminum shortage problem
I was told by a pet food rep that pet food would go up 15-20% or more this year.
The realty is that we all can survive on less than we think. Looking at history with the Great Depression being a prime example, people made do with very little in terms of variety and staples. They had to get creative, and yes unfortunately sometimes do without, but they got through it. Prepping will certainly help but the bottom line is we don't necessarily NEED every item mentioned.
My husband had a friend who was in the Vietnam War working with the Vietnamese. He said you would be surprised at how little food you need to survive.
My husband had a friend who was in Vietnam working with
Coffee is one of those. If it comes to the wire, I'll give it up. I only have one cup in the morning anyway. Mostly cold drinks or various teas during the day.
We really like how your videos are calm and collected, as well as obviously informative and useful. Some other Prepper channels we watch can be panicky and conspiratorial. Thanks so much for your content.
I appreciate that!
Yes like Noah... Tell us calmly
Agreed, Calla!
I started watching around the time covid started. And the calm and collected way he states what's going is why. Thank you sir!
My feed grain has doubled this past year. The feed prices have increased the price of my Heritage Hogs out of the average family's budget. My experience is the same all over the United States. Small farms will disappear long before the industrial sized Farms collapse.
Whilemina Gates silently bought up over 80% of US FARMLAND DURING 2019. S(He) will cover your costs...
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Local pig farmers here are going to the carrot and watermelon farms and getting the “culls” by the trailer loads to feed their pigs to save on food bills. They can also go to the bread distributors and buy in bulk the out of date breads and pastries for the same purpose.
Chris, I'm not sure what the prices are now, but I would encourage your viewers to look into buying beef direct from a rancher. Granted, we live in south central Montana, and may have a distinct advantage here, but last spring we were able to secure a whole beef for less than $5/lb. That included every kind of cut you would want. The Rancher sent the beef to the butcher, butcher aged the beef, in the mean time the butcher called us to find out what kinds of cuts we wanted and gave us a pickup window. We ended up opting for lots of burger, stew meat, and roasts, but also plenty of steaks, prime rib, and whatever else sounded good. My husband had to drive to South Dakota to get it, but even with the cost of gas it was still far cheaper than store prices.
The average packaged weight of a beef cow is 396 lb. If a couple of families went in together this would be totally doable for many people.
Cameron here!
This a great idea but be assured the feds will allow this for a short while. The FDA will push for restrictions on private sales.
Beef on the hoof is less than the processing
@@lunasgma7546 rest assured that will not stop individual ranchers from selling to people they know and already do business with. Ranchers understand their vital importance and will do what they need to do to maintain their way of life. The FDA is a joke.
Do we have a can recycling plant in the US. Do we manufacture cans for food in US. So many things could be done here again to make us self reliant. America was sold out to china for everything. Give incentives to bring it home or ban they CEO from EU and NATO.
I was good with everything until you said coffee.
We are now facing a crisis of epic proportion!
Could a global economic and agricultural crisis be a population control thing?
I'm a grocery retail insider. Expect shortages on everything. Honestly right now the supply chain is so beyond messed up that english doesn't even have an adequate word for it. I'm seeing long term shortages from my suppliers on everything from toilet paper, paper plates, pet supplies, produce generally, even candy has been incredibly difficult to get in in consistent supply. Of course basics like rice, beans, pasta, and cereal are at critically low stock levels.
Built a contraption with grow light to place in garage. Use it for protecting more sensitive plants in winter, start seeds, and grow salad greens for variety.
Joined a mycological society and picked up a couple free mushroom blocks. Have them in a plastic tote in bathtub in guest bathroom....they are producing!! Whenever they are done, the blocks can be compost in my garden. Added bonus--- I also got a couple free fruiting trees to add to my backyard!! I highly recommend planning ahead!!!
FUBAR. Edit - Fu**ed Up Beyond All Recognition. I'm surprised more of you didn't get it.
what's causing the continuing supply chain issues? shouldn't covid etc be sorted by now? Where I am, it's just been a constant "out of stock" on a range of items everytime I shop & I think we've all just adapted to it now, stuff doesn't stay out of stock, comes & goes, so easy enough to buy around it, but it's just bizarre to me that it's still going on
@@debbieolin8153 re mushrooms, what you really want to get is a plastic tub with locking lid & then build glove holes & gloves into one side of it, giving you a box that you can work inside through the gloves, while it's fully sealed to outside air, otherwise known as a "glove box".
Once you have that, the sky's the limit on mushrooms, try to get yourself some grain spawn, or if you can't, you'll need to make your own by dissecting sections from the inside of a mushroom, while inside that box & putting into agar to colonise & grow, then transfer that into pressure cooked grain & you'll end up with grain spawn.
From that point, you just pressure cook up more grain every few weeks, put your old grain spawn container into the glove box, along with the new grain containers, close the box, hands into the gloves to work in it, keep a spray bottle of 10% bleach inside the box, spray it round in there (particularly on the containers where lids connect to body), wait 10 minutes till it's sterilised the box, then open the old grain spawn & transfer bits of it to the new containers of grain with a sterilised spoon, then close up all the containers, then open up the box & take your new grain spawn in growing out & put it wherever you keep your grain spawn growing (or leave in the box for storage till you're ready to use if you like, doesn't really matter).
Once the grain spawn is mature/ready, pasteurise (soak in hot water for a few hours) your growing medium (I use sugarcane mulch, cause it's cheap & readily available), add the grain spawn, mix, then pack into mushroom grow bags or buckets & wait a few weeks for lots of mushrooms. I was getting over 1kg of mushrooms a day at my peak of doing this. Very easy to grow huge amounts of food with mushrooms! They love winter too, so I do it when my main garden goes largely dormant for winter. I found dry weight of sugarcane mulch would roughly equal the total weight of mushrooms I would get from that bag, ie hugely efficient in production!
You can also easily grow mealworms or crickets in a garage too if you're willing to see them as a source of meat. If not, you could try rabbits or chickens in the garage, but insects are the easier option in a small space. Chickens & rabbits are viable in that space, for food production though, layer hens can be too loud in some settings, but meat chickens are lazy as & quiet, as are rabbits
Hello Kris and community. I stocked up on Coffee when it was $6.95 per pound. It is now a dollar more. I have the worse luck growing from seeds. I have different recipes for soil, have tried the prepackaged seed starter soil and many of my seeds don't grow. I bought A Vault from Seedsnow and think that may bee the problem. I also tend to over water.
I am trying something new as of today. I bought lettuce with the roots still attached. This came in a clam-shell container. Last night I finished the green top and threw away the beautiful healthy root system. This morning, I pulled it out of the trash. I am going to plant it in a container and try to grow Bib Lettuce from the roots. Wish me luck.
It probably depends on your climate and soil, but in my garden, I do just that and eat the outer leaves as they grow until they are too bitter and are going to seed. Then let them ( and anything else that you eat, GO To SEED ),go to seed. Plants that seed themselves in you garden, undisturbed, reproduce at a much more prolific rate than if you buy seeds in a package. I have more lettuce than I can give away
i just plant mine right in the dirt nothing special
Should I enjoy my daily eggs or pay the light bill?? 🤔🥺
It hurts my heart to see factory farming. I gladly pay too much for meat that's grown without these practices.
I’d give you more thumbs up, if i could. It should hurt ALL our hearts! (vegetarian, here)
I wish canned goods did not have the pop-top lids. I feel the slightest bump will break the seal.
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I always think it’s for the benefit of homeless people. We have lots in California.
Easy open cans are not what you should be stocking up with. Like you mentioned, they don't hold their seal as well.
It's already bad enuf! Got a gallon of milk, loaf of cheap bread and dozen eggs this morning. Eggs n milk were 6 bucks each and the bread I used to pay .99 cents for was 2.29. 15 bucks for 3 things I gotta have. Butter is over a dollar a stick. I used to get 4 sticks for under 3. Worlds gone mad
A shortage of common sense appears to be getting worse.
The talk of panic buying is so spot on, I never dreamed I would see some of the things I saw during Covid. I cannot image how it would be if something really bad happened.
It looks like the TP shortage is starting again.
If you don't think the deliberate demolition of the World economy is bad & that sudden death is normal... We should talk.
@@kimgordon3695I’m with ya, Kim -
Well, as long as there isn't a *shortage on toilet tissue* ... AGAIN. I don't have to eat red meat (and I *do not eat red meat* ), but I DO have to wipe my a$$.
Just stock up on Beans, Beer and Bullets.
I rarely shop at the grocery store but stopped in today to get some freezer bags... I was shocked... eggs $5.69/doz, whole chickens $1.39/ lb(on sale), onions $1.89/2lb bag.... I'm so glad I produce and preserve my own.
I got a whole pheasant for £3 today. It was £5 for 2 pheasant. Eggs in supermarket are 15 for £1.70.
That’s cute , in Arizona we are paying around $7 for a dozen organic eggs , $7.50 for an 18 pack of Walmart eggs. Onions 3lb bag for $2.89
Milk $3.49 a gallon or nearly $8 for organic gallon.
Also our fuel is way more expensive than just about everywhere other than California.
Also there has been no drought in Arizona. We had a super wet spring , a giant monsoon that started in June it’s usually in late July , we got rain about 2/3 days a week during summer and several downpours for multiple hours. Flooding in both Phoenix and northern Az. This winter has also brought rain to Phx and Sbow to the high country. Last year was the first year my tomatoes ever got Blight. We usually are too dry for it to survive however I felt with it for months last summer.
Today at my grocery store 1 dozen eggs $9, whole chicken on sale $1.99/lb, etc. I quit buying eggs.
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Eggs are 1.30 a dozen in my area
Been cheap for months
Heads up: flour is once again absent from the shelves in Germany. I have regular intel up on YT. Keep prepping guys 👍 🙏 ✝️
Thanks GP! Your videos are always informative and helpful!
@@lauradimama9794 Cheers Laura 👍
@@germanprepper21 Cheers! Always great to hear from you! I hope you and your family are doing well! 🙏🏻😊
Thanks GP I look forward to your next Video!
@@reneec9947 Cheers Renee 👍
Progresso and Campbell soup in cans has doubled in price at some stores in Los Angeles! So it is the container not the soup thats causing the increase! Time to recycle!!!
Thank you for keeping us updated on everything ☺️🤠
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he's not pushing salt pork as much as we need it. "everything" indeed
The most interesting thing about growing your own lettuce, once you harvest and clean off you will probably put it in a ziplock bag or something. It will last several weeks before starting to degrade. The stuff from the store lasts just a few days. Makes you wonder how long that lettuce has been in that bag in the store, I'd assume weeks.
True. I cut my romaine and pulled leaves off. I washed/rinsed then patted each leave dry with paper towels. I then layered in lock and lock bowl with a paper towel between leaves to absorb remaining moisture. Lasted a really long time.
@@tdog4240 The other thing, I had so much I was giving it to my buddy to feed his rabbits. Everyone should be growing their own lettuce. It's easy, lasts a long time and if you harvest correctly just a few plants will be enough!
Our local small farm tells people to leave the roots on lettuce and put in a cup or glass to store it.
@@happycook6737 when I harvest leaf lettuce I just cut it with scissors. It grows back to be cut again and again.
Very true. I was eating cherry tomatoes in December that I had harvested in October with no special preservation beyond putting them in a paper bag. There were a couple of shriveled ones we had to sort out, but the majority were fine. Grocery store tomatoes are lucky if they last beyond 10 days.
You better start using that talent God gave you,,,,start sowing seeds for food
My dad always said the world runs on coffee and diesel fuel...
I am well stocked with everything on this list except lettuce. It is sad seeing, especially old people, picking up stuff, especially in the meat section, looking at it and putting it back.
What irritates me is the producers are not making any more on their end and the consumers are paying more on their end so the problem is the middleman and the commodity markets. Anyone with money can buy a contract(s) to get their piece of the action. With the amount of money sloshing around the system Hedge Funds are able to leverage their funds to have an impact on the markets. I’m all for a Free Market System but not a Free For All Market System 😡
Grocery store 9:45 am today: product pulled forward on shelves to conceal empty areas, pasta specifically.
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That’s been going on for months.
At my my wits end trying to figure this all out. After all their is only so much one can do. Especially seniors. There is only so much money and in our case very little room to store things. I pray things get better for this world.
Front loading the shelves
Canned veg $1 store brand. Canned pineapple $2. Cranberry sauce 14 oz. $3
I have always bought coffee at Costco. Before the Covid fiasco, I heard prices would be going up so I stocked up, paying $8.99 a can. I went to Costco last week and it was $15.99!!! I was so glad I had stocked up. Thanks for the video.
I did that with a LOT of different food items, personal care products, pet food, etc. Like you, everything I check prices on now has gone way, way up and the packages now are also smaller. So glad we stocked up when we did! 👍
Thank you for the info. I know it’s a useless wish, but what I wouldn,t give for five years ago prices. Here’s hoping our families can weather this problem. All of you, take care!
And remember we’re still in the good times 5 years from now you’ll look back at this and wish you had these prices
Yeah. I miss the 80s prices. I could get low cost food to make meals.
@@freedomfighter1861 sadly, that’s probably true.
@@Holly-ys1me It’s a bit scary to know where this all going.
Try to look at it this way, you now have time to stock up on today's cheap prices compared to how much it will cost 5 years from now. 🤗
I wish ALL Prepper Channels..would apply this logic. Great Video.
We went to a store that sells odd lots of food and other items. We found cereal and dried fruits much cheaper than Walmart or other chains. They don't have
fresh or refrigerated foods. Many years ago, I'd go to freight salvage stores. We're near O'Hare airport. Tina, Al's wife
Most vegetables and canned foods, not drinks, are packed in steel cans. Drinks are in aluminum
Coffee alternative - Chicory, a relative of the dandelion whose root is roasted and ground. Comes from the USA but the only product I found on shelves was an export from Asia. always gives me a chuckle when I see it.
I am not worried by shortages as much as I am concerned with corporate price increases. More people suffer more financial stress and that leads to an increase in violence. Our system is oriented around hierarchy and competition rather than equality and cooperation. This causes humans who would otherwise be pretty cool to do bad towards one another. It is incumbent on all of us little people to turn things around or we will all suffer under the continued abuse by billionaires.
I know people would drink Postum instead of coffee. I tried it once and did not care for it. I think I’ll stockpile freeze dried coffee and green tea leaves.
If my family of 6 needed food and your family of two had enough to sustain yourselves, how much would you share with my family? Equity would say we split it 8 ways, we would get 3/4 of your food. Fair no? Equity yes.
@@bravotwozero535 I’ve tried Postum, terrible, tried chicory terrible, tea not so terrible. We have tea in our SHTF stockpile.
@@stanwolenski9541 what does Chicory taste like? It grows everywhere on the side of the road nearby, so this summer I may try some if it’s worth it
@@hollyrue9001 Nothing I can compare it to, maybe dried dandelion? I really don’t eat dried wild leaves, just terrible is my description.
Look into alternative sources of citrus, scurvy is a real thing..
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Rose hips, especially from wild roses, are high in vitamin C. Try not to take all of them though, because they're an important source of winter food for birds and other critters.
Through gardening and fishing in our local river I hope my family can produce half of our normal food supply this summer. Lucky to be in a rural area where many neighbors keep chickens-I’d like to get a few hens myself. I also have been reading up on foraging common easy to find items like purslane and dandelion in summer and acorns for flour in the fall
I have a pond full of catfish, so fishing is easy. I can drink all the beer I want since I don't have to drive. LOL
We live in a semi rural area where lots of folks grow their own gardens and raise their own meat/eggs. I see egg signs up all the time driving through neighborhoods. I think that has helped with the supply here at our grocery stores, although I've seen empty shelves and the prices are crazy.
We should be buying cows from the farmers, so they don't go to packing plants, cut out all middlemen, buy local.. split with other buyers, then farmer gets more than he would from packers, but less we will pay per pound.
Every neighborhood has a hunter that knows how to kill and process, give him extra.
Have you noticed the processing cost.
@@fredsmith9570 process your own meat..it's easy
I drank instant/freeze dried coffee when I lived in England for a year. It's an acquired taste but better than nothing. I've been stocking up a bottle here and there, doesn't hurt to have it for trading in the future.
Good video. At this point, I have a difficult time understanding why anyone with the space does not either have a garden or plans for one this spring. The same goes for keeping even a few hens, or raising other meat animals. I just discovered that I can even grow oranges, lemons, and other citrus in my zone ~ albeit in a hoop house ~ but I'm considering making space in the yard to give it a try. I'll probably add in some banana trees and might even give pineapple a try. What has been done to our food supply chain is criminal imo, but that doesn't mean I have to just accept it and do without many things.
WATER MAY NOT BE AVAILABLE FOR YOUR PRECIOUS GARDEN …..
@@pattiissa9035 We have a shallow well, a rain water cachement system with 500 gallons of storage capacity, a full drip irrigation system, and three separate filtering options for drinking water. We raise small livestock, so making sure we have water is a top priority. Water is life.
@@pattiissa9035 Not out west. I live where a creek meets a river in the most water filled state in the US. Where you live is a prep
Have had too much rain some years. Hard to garden in mud. Limited funds and health making it more difficult.
@@Messymy try raised beds, the rain will drain out...
Thank you, Kris. So appreciate your calm response to a serious supply issue.
Now is not the time to be calm. That is what the statists are counting on.
You didn't mention the effect that quantitative easing (printing money out of thin air) has on inflation.
Major reason for shortages a Bu8ffoon in the OVAL OFFICE
We have a shortage on our hands here & Walmart isn’t gonna help. We’ve got a shortage of men who do what they say, & say what they mean. Here in California we had a little storm & mutual assistance groups rapidly turned into every man for them self- some people are just play preppin- know who your real friends are-
I have begun to put together backpacks for our cars. Thank you for this information.
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because of the latest bird flu epidemic learning to pickle your eggs has never been a more important life skill.
my 2023 goal is to make pemmican,
pickle eggs and can veggies,
and have a bag of rice lentils and beans ready.
Look in to glass eggs. You use pickling lime and they last upwards of 6 months
Coffee?!? Now we throwing hands
Meat
Champagne
Lettuce
Canned items including soda
Beer
Sunflower and palm oil.
Bread/wheat
Oranges and orange juice
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Tomato’s and tomato products
Um this is 8
Also Medications are starting to be short it been two months since I can not find a medication I take.
Our government is causing all these shortages, problems ect.
I agree. Fertilizer shortages mean can’t grow grain. So either starve your cattle or butcher for market. And for all the other things I’ve seen I don’t believe in the avian flu. Nope, just don’t.
and yet if you actually watch the video, that is exactly what Kris did NOT say.
Pet foods for domestic animals. There major shortages in both dog and cat food and I am thankful I started prepping for my dogs and cats almost a year ago when supplies were still abundant and the prices were much lower. I buy in bulk in oder to get the best price possible.
Don't be picky. Buy what will feed you , not what you want. Price per protein, nutrition. Know your local ecosystem. Perslaine weed is the most nutritious plant on land.
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Cover basic medicine.. children's Tylenol, guafenicin. , Cold medicine. ECT..
Good scotch is disappearing pretty fast around Maryland.
Save some for the rest of us will you? Price is heading up fast too. Cheers!
Honestly when there comes a shortage of cigarettes I'll presume it like a month away from full collapse.
@@aprilcapps4564 they take away drugs and alcohol from people in prison but not cigarettes. Ever wonder why?
Eggs in the UK is an issue. Rising feed prices and avian flu. Plus supermarkets paying poor prices to farmers. Causing farmers to produce less eggs or give up.
First time in 10 thousand years. Why did you OBEY?
You need coffee so the people you live with can survive! LOL
Our family is fairly well prepared. We buy a full beef locally (within 10 miles), raise 100 broilers a year, have a layer flock of about 25 and we just put Dorper sheep on property (4 breeding ewes and a ram) which should produce somewhere between 200-400 lbs of red meat a year. All in all we have about 1 year's worth of food put up in storage and freezers. Where we fall short is our ability to grow crops. We have a fairly large garden but we aren't producing much and we don't have seeds put up like I feel we should. This will be our focus this year to help round out our preps. Purchase some seeds and learn how to keep seed as well.
At the end of the season a lot of seed companies sell off their stick of the seeds in large grab bags. I ordered several from many different companies last year. I ended up with thousands of seeds and froze a large amount for future years. I have enough for many years of planting plus I save seeds from the very best plants and highest producing plants. I mark them with a little plastic stick for each fruit I pull off. Once the plant is dead I collect the seeds in the remaining fruit and mark it.
@@flagbabygirl Wow. What companies do this?
@@brucecranford0824 google something like "seed company grab bags" - it should bring up a number of companies that sell seed mixes and/or end of season sales -
Have you thought about adding rabbit to your food? In just 8 weeks you can have broilers.
@@TenSpeed2007 Oh yes. However our youngest daughter currently has a pet bunny so attempting to make her eat rabbit would probably traumatize her for life! 🤣🤣🤣
About coffee…when coffee goes through the process of decaffeination, that caffeine is captured and then is used to caffeinate other beverages like cola as well as to add to supplements and even medications like Excedrin or a prescription like Fioricet, which I use for migraines. So, the rising prices of coffee isn’t just about coffee but also any other products that benefit from the addition of caffeine.
I live in Australia. It's mid-summer here. We, too, will have many shortages in the upcoming autumn and winter seasons, this is mainly due to severe flooding in major food producing areas of the country. No one talks about it. It's a giant black hole of ignorance.
As a home gardener who is just starting to 'bring in the harvest' from her first, small, domestic vegetable patch ever, I have realized just how much more I would need to actually grow to feed my family - (so far, I have 8 beans, some tomatoes, enough potatoes to make one mash, 2 cucumbers, 8 brown onions, some very sad looking radishes and 3 giant zucchinis! - not likely to feed us all for the winter!). In addition to all that Chris has shared, I think we should be thinking about producing our own food, (even if it is a little bit 'pathetic', like mine so far!). We need to stock up on fertilizers - (especially as there has been some major reductions in production this past year), get various types of composts & manure to improve the soil for growing our food, learn how to compost and get a workable system started, obtain heirloom seeds, (from which we can keep the seeds from what we grow each season and re-sow them each year), keep the seedling trays we buy from the stores to grow our heirloom seeds from scratch, learn natural ways to 'kill/deter' bugs (the bane of my life at the start of this sowing season! - copper tape around the raised beds worked wonders!), figuring out the best way to water all the veg patches. I'm currently learning about various ways to grow our food indoors if we have to (through colder weather - I'm anticipating the lack of lettuce in the stores and figuring out how I can grow my own through winter), and, finally, learn & do the various ways we can store what we grow - can, dehydrate, freeze. Today I grated the enormous zucchinis and put them in the freezer! I showed my husband my 'harvested bounty' and said 'well, that's not going to last us long!". This is prepping, - giving 'it' a go, trying new ways, learning, adjusting, anticipating, storing, getting ready...
Good job getting your garden started. I've always had a few plants going in summer but this past year i got a lot more serious about it. Overall a success, but learned many lessons. I think every year will get better as we learn and refine. Keep it up!
You have encouraged me....
Of you wanna get ahead of any panic induced shortage of anything, start stocking up now. You'll also insulate yourself from inflation.
Check for the longest due dates on food.
If fuel prices are down a bit, get and fill a few fuel cans. Keep filling your vehicle while the price is down and use from 'same price fuel' when the prices go up. And refill it fuel cans when the prices drop again.
Think about 1st aid, clothing and other daily necessities. Prices WILL go up again like they usually do, now's a good time to stock up and things like that when on sale. Should help your dollar go a little further.
As you said coffee would this also affect cacao as the countries growing one usually grows the other.
There are some issues already happening with cacao. Also, with tea. Weather is one factor. Floods vs. droughts.
Cat Food is Got way high and hard to Get in South Georgia $30.00 A box and We Buy two Boxes A Week !
I bought everything I needed for this springs garden last year. Also composting now over winter , and bought all my soil, seeds, fertilizer everything.
Plastic, Aluminum has been in our daily diet for along time now!!
We don’t used much processed food, but we do used canned tomato soup. The small cans are in very short supply in our area. I have some large cans I purchased at a restaurant supply store, but traditional size cans for one or two people are frequently difficult to find. This year, I will be growing tomatoes in my small city yard, as well as purchasing from farmer’s markets. I don’t have much space for canning jars of tomatoes or anything else, but I can blanch and freeze them so we have a ready supply for sauces and soups. Thanks for the work you do. It helps all of us look ahead and plan for our families. We deeply appreciate the effort from you and your team!
There are great Campbell's tomato soup clone recipes free online. Taste ends up better to me. Loads cheaper. Uses tomato paste.
Major shortage of patience and intelligence for 2023...
Hi from Syracuse NY brother and thank you for sharing this facts and truth about what is happening
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I notice at ALDIs here in Dallas area eggs were down to $2.29 or so last week. Not bad. So maybe the shortage is easing.
We never had a pet food shortage but then we are flexible on brand
It's not wiped out, it is all by design.
The problem with our modern society is that most of us are city dwellers, which means we cannot produce our own food (Victory Garden). Except for a few rare plots of land or flat roofs adapted for this, we are more and more dependent on delivery from outside the cities, and now, from other regions, if not from other countries.
That is a personal choice to die at the whim of evil people. I have no sympathy when there are thousands of years of lessons that say DO NOT DO THAT
Indoor hydroponics, broccoli sprouts sunflower microgreens, I am growing microgreens and Kratky hydroponic vegetables to increase my food independence and eat more healthy food choices. I also have reduced my consumption of processed foods. I add moringa powder and turmeric to my lunch and dinner. I figure i can produce almost half my own food, imagine if everyone did this as well.
@@bocadelcieloplaya3852 It's amazing what you can grow in a 4x4 tent with hydroponics. I have 5 of them at my place.
I bet there will still be an abundance of puberty blocker medication.
It's not food, but don't forget about stocking up on a$$ wipe again.
Thank you, Kris. Helpful suggestions. On a plant-based diet keeps my costs down.
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Honestly I live so much better on largely plant based. Cheaper and I feel healthier. Easier to store beans and lentils long term. In COVID while everyone else was panic buying I just went to my usual less popular aisle, and got what I always had.
The grain supply concerns me the most. Not only for bread and other recipes but also as an ingredient in my dogs and chickens food. I have 5 months supply for both the animals now and working on working up to a 12 month supply on hand
Be careful of the dry dog/cat food it can go rancid real easy, even in air sealed containers, and make the animals real sick. If it smells off dont feed it. Good luck
I would expect ammunition to become scarce and for prices to skyrocket at some point.
Are you short of ammo
The main shortage I'm seeing right now is a winning lottery ticket so I can afford to go to the supermarket and buy the stuff that I need! Yikes!
Thank you.
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I am watching this video on 3/28/23. 2.5 months after the video was published. my question: did these prophecies happened?
Never do.
Arugula, easy to grow and quit good. 2 lemon trees growing in my dinning room, wife has them right in the sliding door window, plenty of sunlight not cold, along with parsley, rosemarie, lemon grass and some others. Coffee plenty of K cups but they will run out and I’ll be back to brewing. Good video Kris thank you
I have kept cattle for the past 30 years for two reasons. I had cattle as a kid and enjoy working with them. Second, It is a emergency food supply for my famly. Recently had a problem loading a young 9 month old bull for market..Answer? He was in three families freezers before midnight...steaks, stew bits, and roasts. Fixing to thin slice some steaks and make jerky..
THE FOOD WE HAD IN THE FIFTIES AND SIXTIES WAS NOT GOOD OR GOOD FOR US