Death To Zombies

So, I gauged this for myself, atwo hundred pound man, and what I could eat and stay healthy for 9 weeks.  Now, under stress I would probably burn more calories but lets say that I might catch fish and shoot wildlife to make up for that.  My daily food list would look something like this:

1. 1c beans, dry
2. 2c cooked white rice
3. 1/4 loaf of whole wheat bread
4. 1c canned veggies
5. 2T peanut butter
6. 2T Fruit preserves(combine it with some bread and have a PB-N-J)
7. 3c UHT(Ultra High Temperature Milk)
8. 1 6.5 oz can of meat(tuna, spam, chicken, turkey, whatever)

These 8 simple staples are easy to store, inexpensive and tasty enough that you can stock up on then in one shopping spree or you can just pick up one item each paycheck and be stocked up in 2 months.  I stock up all sorts of other stuff to add variety, difference in vitamins and minerals, etc but this is the foundation for my food pantry. This list usually gives me 2100 calories and 115g of protein.

The expensive part of this is the canned meat.  And the UHT Milk can be a little hard to find.  But I think it’s well worth your time to set some food aside.

So the shopping list for one person would look like:

1. 25# beans, dry
2. 25# dry white rice
3. (yeast, 10# bag of whole wheat flour, 10# bag of white flour, 10# sugar)
4. 32 cans of veggies
5. 4 18oz jars of peanut butter
6. 8 9oz jars of  Fruit preserves(combine it with some bread and have a PB-N-J)
7. 47Quarts(16 gallons or 4 milk crates) UHT(Ultra High Temperature Milk)
8. 63 6.5 oz can of meat(tuna, spam, chicken, turkey, whatever)

If you’re doing planning like this, you know multiplication and I won’t waste time doing it for you.

You could go with dry milk or some ratio of dry milk:UHT if you’re tight on cash or don’t like the taste of UHT Milk.  Because with this amount of milk, you’re basically going to need to drink it all the time or it will spoil.  Alternatives could be something like a dairy goat, I guess.  I planned on stocking up some nesquick in order to help with the flavor.

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