Eating food is awesome. On the other hand, the starving people in those late-night world hunger commercials look like they’re having no fun at all.
The difference between the starving people in those commercials and you is that the public cares about them. If the shit hits the fan and the store shelves go bare, recording artists won’t hold a benefit concert to help feed you. Bono and Billie Eilish are going to have problems of their own. One Direction will be too busy eating the weakest member of the band to bring the world’s attention to your plight through song.
You got a teeny, tiny taste of running out of food last winter with the Great Coronavirus Shopping Spree of 2020, where you also learned the hard way that supermarkets have a lot less food on hand than you think.
However, despite all we’re going through right now, we still live in a country where you can have an entire deep-fried Holstein cow delivered to your door with the touch of an app. But as I vented and ranted about in this article, this is the first, and probably the last, disaster in history that will involve free-flowing booze, Netflix, and Chinese take-out.
You and your family won’t be as lucky the next time disaster knocks at your door. As I’ve said, the key to surviving and thriving when things go south is to have your supplies in place before disaster strikes.
You don’t have to break the bank and go all-out (remember my warning about spending like crazy out of fear); it can be as simple as buying a few extra items each supermarket visit and building up a surplus that makes you comfortable. In the next few posts, I’ll dish about the basics of food preparedness.