Prepping Essentials Level 1

The minimum you need to survive 1 month in isolation. This is your action list to source and secure in the location where you reside.

1. Community – Your first action is to find at least one or more like minded others in your local area (within 3km walking distance). Ideally if your freedom community has completed the first specialty tile called Contact & Connection Plan, you should already have an idea of who is local to your neighborhood. When you make those connections come to agreements on who’s home is the meeting point, farmiliarise yourself with walking there, have an agreed strategy for communications.

2. Water – Your second priority must be water. You can’t live without it so you need a combination of solutions to cater for your water needs. Our recommendation is that you should have 2L per day per person for 30 days plus 1L per day for cooking.

• For 1 person that’s 90L for 1 month (1P x 2L x 30 + 1 x 30)
• For 3 people that’s 300L for 1 month (3P x 3L x 30 + 1 x 30)

For solutions, you can buy 10L water containers from ALDI or more volume elsewhere just store it in a cool dark place.

You should also source good quality water filters and a container to catch/carry water from the rain or other sources. A funnel can be handy if refilling a water container for example.

Just make sure you have the water on hand ready to do as you don’t want to be searching for water in the first few days of chaos.

3. Food – Surviving on stored food for 1 month is quite bearable when using a range of canned, dry and similar food. However for longer periods you need more variety and fresh produce.

Solutions include – Pasta, Rice, Tinned Food, Jars, dehydrated food, salted food/meat, nuts, dried fruit, seeds, oils, pickled/marinated/fermented food if stored reasonably cool can last a while.

For quantities you need to be simply breaking down your meal numbers and quantities. 30 x Breakfast meals, 30 x Lunch and 30 Dinners, plus some snacks on the way through. The suggestions is you create a list of 1 to 30 for each meal. Then as you secure items, check off the number of days that will cover. For example a can of mixed beans and spam, tomato based sauce, packet of spaghetti pasta cooked up could last 3-4 meals for 1 person. So buy the items you need and cross off 3 to 4 days for lunch or dinner. Work your way through the count until it’s all crossed off.

4. Shelter/Protection – This step is to make sure you have the Clothes for warmth, protection, comfort, escape if needed. Consider extra warmth when sleeping such as extra blankets or a sleeping bag. If you’re stuck in a place with no heating it can get cold so you want to be able to stay warm.

5. Tools – Finally, you will need some tools to make sure you can operate whilst isolated at home. Heating solutions, Cooking equipment, Lighting (might be lamps, candles, don’t forget spare batteries), Power solutions such as generators/Solarpower, and remember cleaning agents for (washing body, clothes etc)

It may seem pressured but I started by picking up a few items on the list each time I went to the shops. In no time you’ll have started your prepping pile. Alternately, an intense weekend shop with a planned list of items and it could be completed within a day or 2.

Remember, the bulk buy Telegram community is coming online to help you source some of these products. Freedom Community Bulk Buy Telegram Group