Is 20lbs of various types of canned protein a good amount for #prepping or should I go for more?
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I suppose that depends on factors like how many people you'll feed, what their physical requirements will be, whether you'll barter some of the meat, and how portable you might need to be.
Pounds of food when prepping is useless.
First calculate calories needed for the time frame you're looking for. Next break that down into macros)(protein, fats, and carbs), chose which is most important to you and fulfill that. IE if you need 100g of protein daily and you're prepping for a month and canned tuna has 20 grams you need to get 150 cans.
Lastly, you should just learn to eat what you store and store what you eat. Copy canning is the best way to build up a reserve over the course of several months. Jack spirko has videos about it.
This was all my current inventory of store bought canned protein.
We can a mess load around here…
We just canned our first batch of chicken.
I have a surplus of copy canning going on as was looking into doing something different…
If that's the case, then my original point is the only thing that stands, pounds doesn't really matter. Calories/grams of protein would help the computation. 50grams of protein is a minimum for adults. I'm not sure on fat.
I must be missing something here cuz all I keep thinking now is I don’t have enuff fats…
We don’t tend to eat many carbs really…
But we have more then enough supplies to make all the bread we want…
I’m willing to guesstimate I have nearly a 3 month supply of food that’s canned (literally just the canned foods) before taking into consideration of what else is here
You probably don't have enough fats. Most don't if you have a freezer, you can get it and make lard or tallow. Super useful even from a non food perspective. But if you don't have a freezer, the only way to store enough fats is nuts or storing oil which I don't recommend as the ones that store for a long time are just industrial lubricants and the good ones like olive oil are really not good when stored long term.