Well, I started gardening, got critters and stocked up on Staples at Walmart and Sam’s Club in bulk.salt, sugar, powdered creamer, coffee, tea, knorr rice and pasta sides, country time lemonade, very few canned items, mostly bags and boxes (lighter and burnable). Gaurds against bland food (per Selco) and bulk that we can build around and vary. I also bought seeds in bulk at rural stores to get what grows in my area. Not flush but steady buys. Chances are good that govt keeps water on. I have stocked up on digging tools and chopping tools, also on cotton balls,vpetroleum jelly jars, and bleach products since they are more shelf stable than bleach. Sanitation kill massively in the third world, as does infections from cuts. My dad’s family used white dog liquor tailings from moonshine for this in the great depression. Meat is a seasoning only, you need to stretch the utility of your critters, especially chickens and guinea hogs. Canning is essential, that’s where used bricks and scrap sheet metal for rocket stoves will make cooking less stressful an your split woodpile, you can use the leftover branch ends and twigs for that. Plus, booze is currency in bad times so learn how to distillery now and buy #50 bags of sweet feed now at country supply stores, that averages $8 and bread yeast is cheaper than that. Once again, rocket stoves are very useful. If you can’t afford a root celler, used trash cans, do ainage pipe and even 5 gallon buckets make good caches, if situated in a shady well drained spot and buried. I chop down saplings or transplant brambles over mine. That’s a fair bit of digging.
