The Savage Awakening (A preppers Perspective) Read Free Page B

animal traps, snares, baits, lures, fishing equipment, other sources of alternative energy and cooking or food production etc. Every item had its story and more than one practical use. It was a Dennis’s gold in more ways than one and he loved to explain why he had two food dehydrators or two bread makers to operate from several types of energy without getting technical. He wanted to reassure his mom but not overwhelm her in his little prepper Mecca he had created.
     
    “ You need to hurry up Dennis, you said you were going to visit Charles and Monica before 10 o’clock today.” Mom aka Mary to the rest of the world said snapping him back in reality.
     
    “ Your right, ok the most overlooked prep is drink mixes. This is the most essential calorie and vitamin augmentation we have. A 150 calories plus 100% vitamin C and some other vital vitamins means this is your juice with the meal in the morning.” Dennis said removing a can of orange flavored and a cab of apple flavored drink mix from the shelves. Follow me on this mom or it won’t make sense the way I designed these stores. This Mountain House 30 yr storage food is great stuff but it lacks calories, it lacks a lot of calories if you are doing anything more than sitting in a bunker waiting to be able to go out and see the sunshine someday.
     
    Read the labels and nutritional facts later but in meantime listen to me how I plan to over come this. You see this can of crackers? They call this pilot bread, really they are just big crackers Commercially available pilot bread is a significant source of food energy in a small, durable package. A store-bought 24-gram cracker can contain 100 calories (20 percent from fat), 2 grams of protein and practically no fiber. This Mountain House stuff is 50 calories. So a couple crackers with a meal and some of this flavored drink mix which contains 150 calories average ( orange, apple, tropical etc.) and you get 250 calories. Have that a couple times a day along with whatever else I have to spread on those crackers and you can damn near live on just that if you had too. Took me awhile to figure that drink mix that is high in vitamin c and minerals also contained significant calories and was a very significant part of my preps.
    “Don’t consider pilot bread as snack crackers either, look at them as iron rations. In the civil defense era they had barrels of survival biscuits and that and water was all you got for the two weeks they estimated you would be in the shelter. The ration was only 800 calories per person per day and during that time period the US had its national reserve of food like wheat and corn to feed everybody in America for two years, now we have no fallout shelters and maybe a week in reserve of food for only part of the expanded population of the Nation. I was wondering what China was up to last year when they tripled there imports of rice, them suckers were probably getting ready for something like this to happen. Damn come to think of it we were exporting the hell out grains to a lot of countries last year also, I wonder how much some of the countries of the world knew about some kind of a attack coming? Oh well enough about that, hell don’t get me going on conspiracy theories, I could talk about that all day.” Dennis said and started putting together a couple boxes of goods together for Monica and Charles who were now part of his “prepper tribe”.
    “ Monica and Charles were a detriment to his preps but a huge asset to his survivability.” Dennis knew and didn’t begrudge sharing with them at all, matter of fact he was glad he could share with someone. They all needed every bit of friendship and support they could get now. Monica and Charles didn’t have much money to prep and just had a meager collection of supplies put back, mainly in the form of beans and rice. This augmentation by Dennis would carry them a extra month and break up the monotony of their meals.
     
    “ Hey Mom, on that shelf in