I reccomend making your own dehydrated and canned food, if you can. A lot of those brands out there are snake oil.

How?

man i just get cheap stuff thatll go far like big peanut butter jars, big bags of rice and beans, and instant potatoes ect. ive gotten some patriot supply things but wasnt impressed with how much i paid for pancake mix and other crap

get water filters too, allot easier than storing enough water for extended periods of time. i got a couple decent bug out bags ill post if i can figure out how to upload pics haha

ive got enough to feed my family of four for 2 monthes stuffed in one plastic bin that can fit in the bottom of your closet

@SPRTNWRRYR1974 Buy a dehydrator from your local store and a pressure canner as well. You can pick up jars for canning and pickling from your local grocery store

Googling this stuff still helps too.

open to suggestions or criticism, my bag contains:

3 knives, 1 loaded ar mag, a few vitamins, aluminum foil, life straw, freeze dried meal, 9 hour candle, cooking cup and small mil surp stove to cook with it

1 roll duct tape, 50 ft. paracord, 25 zip ties, multi tool, gloves, poncho, heat blanket, bug spray, tinder, compass, fish hook kit and 2 small spools of line

head light, 4 n95 masks, 1 roll t.p., safety glasses, thermals (live in wisconsin), 6 bic lighters, 1 wire saw, 2 bottles water, hand crank flash light and decent first aid kit

Awesome!

me and my dad are preppers, though he knows far more about it than i di

*do

he let me read this really cool survival book from sometime around the 70s

nice whats the name of it? my buddy got me a copy of the S.A.S. survival handbook last year ive been trying to read through that and remember somthing haha

I can't remember- ill have to ask him. It was basically about how to survive in suburban and urban enviroments

Im actually more in the bug-in catagory, already living in a remote village

I like the Idea of both and that's what I have

One to get home that is in my car and one in my closest

Same

I feel like this could be made into a parody of "The twelve days of Christmas" xd https://discord.com/channels/707691030748594288/728492542177312838/771420527805857802

@TrapaholicJones Hearing protection, water filter, maybe a local map and maybe another mag would be my recommendation... what's your weight at? 30 lbs-ish, looks like.

Having a folder for city stuff is nice too. I'd probably only have one large fixed for weight.

@TrapaholicJones why do you have a loaded ar mag when you didn't list an AR?

Its implied

@Luke14 cause smart people don't list their ARs online.

I'm from New Zealand and want to know what kind of weapon i can use instead of an AR because we are not allowed them. Any suggestions?

I wish I'd decided to prep before everything got this crazy.

I could possibly convince my brother to organize stuff but I don't know if he'd believe me (he's a Trump supporter, but I don't get along with him well).

@Luke14 I don't know what's legal where you are, or the specifics of the laws you have to deal with. However, in short, anything that is legal and you are comfortable using is better than nothing. Anything illegal and or you are NOT comfortable using is worse than nothing.

@Equalibrium good idea on hearing protection and i have a local map in my other bag in car just forgot about it in there, also have big 50 state map in car, i might shed that second fixed since i added the morakniv after it good idea cause im pushin closer to 40 lbs. and i actually made a bug out ammo box seperate so thats why only 1 in b.o.b. to save weight

up close knives can be deadlier than guns luke

What TrapaholicJones says is true, but:

Knife fighting is not a joke, and I do not recommend it to anyone who doesn't have the training required to do it safely.

Firearms are simple point and click adventures. Knives are high-speed chess, with less forgiving results.

Any tips on that and my current dilemma?

@SPRTNWRRYR1974 5 years plus of actuall hand to hand combat training for knive use in self-defense + knowledge of applicable laws.

Food stuffs, buy you a dehydrator and canner on amazon or elsewhere online.
Websearch on how to do it, and start preserving.

Where can I get said training?

will drop some links for food stuffs in a moment

You think I can pull it all before Tuesday? Also, if you suggest weapons, I am in a college dorm, so those are somewhat hard to access and conceal.