Mylar Bags Versus Vacuum Sealed Bags

never used any of this stuff, cant see the point, lot of faffing about .
as these seem to be only used for extra long term storage wouldnt we be growing all our own food by then? fresh food is always better to stored food, I've always considered stored food is only a stopgap until we could grow our own fresh food.

 

I think the stored food is good backup for the possibility of a crop (s) failure. Mother Nature can be a cruel B1tch. Bugs, blight, weather or other unexpected conditions can and have ruined many crops in the past. Having stored back up supplies, is always a nice prepping plan. Grow, when and what you can but stored food can help fill an empty belly.

 

one should always have stored food, even in the good times, things like Covid and the Ukraine war will disrupt the supply chain, many other things will too , dosent just need disease or conflict, especially in more rural areas like where I am that are at the end of the delivery chain for most things.

 

stored food to a prepper is but a stop gap, all food stores will expire at some point even if someone stores several years worth, especially post SHTF when it cannot be replaced, by the time it expires we should have all got our growing areas established and are looking forward to our own harvests if indeed havent already harvested our crops. anyone who thinks they can survive on stored food alone is a fool and will soon be a dead fool once TSHTF.

 

a lot, especially over here, are short term preppers, they store food for short term events ( a few weeks a month at most- they then consider that "job done") and dont consider anything long term, I have often been trolled by such people for my long term opinions and planning. ( the UK govt considers anything over 31 days as long term ).
for smaller groups, like family groups -which all UK ones fall into that category, smaller plots of land are all that are required, and these smaller plots are easier to hide .