Prepper Pupil’s 3-day Food Prep (Solo)

Prepper Pupil’s 3-day Food Prep (Solo)

This is the Prepper Pupil’s 3-day Food Prep, this bit is only the food part of what forms a 3-day survival cache but I will detail the rest in follow-up posts. A cache for 3 days would certainly depend on your favored foods but I urge you to set aside nutritional meals that do not need cooking. I, for one, like tuna and it is a dominant part of the protein that I would eat as part of my 3-day food preps. You can select the protein that you like and may even go vegetarian on it by storing tofu. Fresh fruits or veggies are not practical so preserved fruits and veggies are the only option. You can have canned, dehydrated, pickled or jammed variations and that should be a good source of much needed vitamins and minerals. The antioxidant and phytochemicals they contain can also be very helpful to the body as well. In times of a crisis, the body and mind need all the help they can get to function at its best condition to keep pushing on to survive. 

Nine meals or perhaps a bit more, just in case there is a need for extra strenuous or mentally taxing work that needs to be done. There may be a horrible disaster that you need to overcome after all. Here is the Prepper Pupil’s list of food for a solo 3-day prep:

6 cans of (150 grams) canned tuna
3 cans of (533 grams) canned soup (meat and veggie kind)
2 cans of (425 grams) canned mixed vegetables
1 can of (240 grams) canned corn
1 can of (227 grams) canned pineapple slices
1 can of (425 grams) canned fruit cocktail
1 can of (425 grams) canned peaches
1 can of (340 grams) canned butter

These are all canned products that anyone can pick up at the local supermarket but like I said these are the choice items that I like to eat so they reflect my preferences for food. In the same idea you should pick food you like and pick the type of storage medium you prefer. For example, some of these items can be found in mylar pouches which are lighter to carry just in case you need to keep on moving when you unearth your cache.

For the short term, I think a 3-day cache is something every family should consider having. It is a security blanket that should keep you well fed for a while until the crisis is over. The items are also ideal for a buried cache which should fit well enough in a small plastic drum. Keep one in your very own backyard or for those without a place to bury their cache they could just keep it in a secure or perhaps even secret place in the premises. 

This cache contains ample amounts of water to survive on but do include some water, about 3 gallons should cover it. Like I mentioned on Prepper Pupil Learns the Rule of Threes, we can live for about 3 weeks without food but only live long enough for 3 days without water. All this food would fall short of a good prep if water is not there too.

Keep this cache for 6 months or a year and replace with a new batch. You can then feed yourself with the canned goodies you dug up for the next 3 days. If you plan on storing the cache for a year or longer make sure the stuff does not go past the expiry dates or else you would have wasted some precious preps. Make sure to keep the cached food expiry dates fall on the same year and ideally on the same month and replace the cache 3 months or so before it reaches the expiry dates.

There are other things that I have included, as I mentioned earlier and the follow-ups should detail them all but this prepper pupil will give you one particular item that you may need - a can opener.

Prepper Pupil Becomes Conscious of Ancient Preppers

Prepper Pupil Becomes Conscious of Ancient Preppers

This prepper pupil becomes conscious of ancient preppers in his quest for preparedness. It is apparent that some people today are still totally in the dark about prepping. Some think preppers are something new. Some also believe the origins are in the latter half of the previous century (sometime in the 1960’s) but if you look back further in time you will find that humans have been preppers prior to even attaining the scientific classification as the species homo sapiens. 

In essence, one could think prepping is surviving and homo sapiens have certainly survived. Homo sapiens faced various dangers when they started out about 200,000 years ago. They have gone through natural disasters and battled the forces of nature but perhaps through prepping we are now here as their legacy.

Imagine if you will, our ancestors living in the harsh environment of the paleolithic period, they must have been reactionary beings who ate when they were hungry, sought natural shelter from the heat or cold and survived on instinct alone but that was eventually replaced with a proactive approach as they learned to stockpile food, build shelters and start to be masters of the environment they lived in.

We homo sapiens live by trial and error and often our thick skulls have made our evolution into enlightened beings a bit of a problem. 200.000 years on and we are finally here in the 21st century, the 3rd millenium of human existence may just be the century we evolve to the next level of humanity. The prepared will survive on and bring about the change. As a prepper pupil, I hope to learn even from ancient preppers, Certainly, their knowledge reaches us here in this century with the valuable information they have left us, a thoughtful gift to their children that this prepper pupil will incorporate in his preps.