Bulk rice and beans in vacuum-sealed bags, plus multivitamins. You won’t be having fun, but you’ll survive the year. It’s pretty easy to stockpile if you’re going to be eating those anyways. The main takeaway should be to buy non-perishables you normally consume in bulk when you think there is an elevated risk of nuclear war and draw down those provisions when you think the risk has passed. This means that the cost of preparing for nuclear war is the interest you would otherwise earn on <$500, which is pocket change per year. The needed storage space for a person-year of food and water is also under a cubic meter, so that shouldn’t be too much of a concern.
You mentioned a specific Amazon price point that I found surprisingly low and is cheap enough to meaningfully affect strategic plans. The cheapest pasta I’ve seen is on WebstaurantStore but the shipping doubles the cost to $2/lb approximately. Did you have a link for the $200/year product(s)?
These are a bit more than $1 per pound for Amazon and half that for the bulk supplier. Dried rice is around 3700 calories per kg, and even a fit adult male on bed rest only needs around 1500 a day (I think). So 300 pounds should be enough for a year. My math was a bit off since I confused pounds for kilograms initially, haha.
What’s the ~$200 food item you saw that would last a person a year, can you link?
(Edit: I see a 30-day container for about $200. It seems to me that $200 buys a month’s worth, not a year’s worth?)
Bulk rice and beans in vacuum-sealed bags, plus multivitamins. You won’t be having fun, but you’ll survive the year. It’s pretty easy to stockpile if you’re going to be eating those anyways. The main takeaway should be to buy non-perishables you normally consume in bulk when you think there is an elevated risk of nuclear war and draw down those provisions when you think the risk has passed. This means that the cost of preparing for nuclear war is the interest you would otherwise earn on <$500, which is pocket change per year. The needed storage space for a person-year of food and water is also under a cubic meter, so that shouldn’t be too much of a concern.
You mentioned a specific Amazon price point that I found surprisingly low and is cheap enough to meaningfully affect strategic plans. The cheapest pasta I’ve seen is on WebstaurantStore but the shipping doubles the cost to $2/lb approximately. Did you have a link for the $200/year product(s)?
https://www.amazon.com/Royal-Basmati-Rice-15-Pound-Bag/dp/B00I330QEQ
https://www.amazon.com/Dried-Navy-Small-White-Beans/dp/B00BXM6GFC
https://www.webstaurantstore.com/riceland-white-long-grain-rice-50-lb/112WHTLG50.html
These are a bit more than $1 per pound for Amazon and half that for the bulk supplier. Dried rice is around 3700 calories per kg, and even a fit adult male on bed rest only needs around 1500 a day (I think). So 300 pounds should be enough for a year. My math was a bit off since I confused pounds for kilograms initially, haha.