Urgent Info

Warnings to Consider

Please think carefully about each of these warnings. They just may save your life!

Warning #1
There's a lot of sub-standard and old food available in the marketplace at this time. Some is 6 or 7-year old, leftover food from Y2K preparations. Some of the food is very low quality because some suppliers who are less than moral have discovered that the average person can't tell the difference between one dry carrot and another dry carrot. Many still have large leftover inventories from 1999. (It's certainly more profitable to unload $30,000 worth of six year old food. After all it has a 15 year shelf life.)

Warning #2
Carefully check any supplies that you purchased in 1999. During 1999 over 200 food supply companies popped up many were selling inferior grade food to say the least. You're betting your life on what the lowest bidder put in those cans.

Warning #3
Absolutely avoid premixed flour based recipes like pancake mix, muffin mix, bread mixes, any items containing flour and raising ingredients. The flour will go rancid and the raising ingredients will go flat. Premixed flour-based recipes will also have chemical reactions between ingredients. Shelf life is usually very, very short. The reason these are included in plans by suppliers is that they are very cheap and they can make a supply look like you are getting a tremendous amount of food.

Warning #4
Avoid suppliers that include large amounts of wheat and sugar in their supplies (units.) Don't be fooled into comparing weight and calorie count of food units with excessive amount of wheat and canned or bucketed sugar. Suppliers put wheat and sugar in food units in order to raise the calorie count and also the shipping weight of the unit to make you think you are getting more for your money. Don't buy more grains than you have fruits, vegetables, dairy products and sprouting seeds to balance in your diet. It's usually best to buy your wheat separately and never pay a supplier to sell you stored sugar. (Sugar is self storing. Buy your own.)

Warning #5
Never buy incomplete sections of food storage. For example, buying a lot of wheat. Second, buying grains and later some powered milk, etc.

A food supply is like baking a cake. You can put in the flour and the sugar and the raising ingredients, but if you can't afford the eggs, you have nothing. It's better to bake a smaller cake with all the ingredients.

Spend your available resources on a complete supply (balanced with fruits, vegetables, dairy products, grains and sprouting seeds), even if it will only feed your family for 3 months. Unless the supply is balance it just won't work.

Melvin has a two-year supply of wheat, beans, honey, milk and salt. John has a 3-month balanced supply of everything. Question: Who will last the longest in hard times? John has a sure 3 months. Melvin might not make it 3 days.

Warning #6
Buy enough food. Never rationalize what is enough based on your pocketbook. Think, study and plan!!! There are very few situations we are facing where a one-year supply would prove adequate. If we end up needing to be independent for three years, the poor guy that only has a one-year supply only prolonged his personal disaster. You can compare it to needing to make a phone call, but ending up standing in the phone booth all day long with 24 cents in your hand. Less than enough is no better than nothing.

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