SHTF SURVIVAL – FIRST 72 HOURS TO SEVERAL MONTHS
Your immediate focus is survival. Resources will be scarce, people will panic, and order will break down.
In order to address the nutritional aspect, we need to address the order of focus in a SHTF scenario.
Establish Immediate Security (First 24 Hours)
▢ Get out of danger – Avoid high-population areas, riots, and hostile zones.
▢ Secure shelter – Your home, a bug-out location, or a defensible spot.
▢ Assess weapons & defense – If SHTF, people get desperate. Arm yourself if needed.
First and only rule: Stay unseen, unheard, unnoticed.
Water Procurement (First 3 Days)
🚰 You die in 3 days without water.
▢ Store or find clean water – 1 gallon per person per day.
▢ Boil, filter, or purify any water from unknown sources.
▢ Rainwater collection & storage – Set up tarps, barrels, or containers. Learn DIY filtering and pivot towards reverse osmosis eventually
Food & Nutrition (First 1-2 Weeks)
🍲 Food shortage kicks in within days.
▢ Use perishable food first – Eat fridge & freezer food before it spoils save the seeds from all the fruits/veggies you eat and air dry them in a paper towel.
▢ Canned & dry goods – Beans, rice, oats, canned meats, peanut butter. LEARN TO CAN YOURSELF (cheap asf)
▢ Minimal cooking options – Use propane, wood, or solar ovens. Friction based fires if need be!
Power & Fuel (First 2-4 Weeks)
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⚡ The grid may fail. Prepare alternatives. Solarcucks win but you will get #Bandited
▢ Generators & solar panels – Have backups for minimal power needs. Don't turn on the generator inside.
▢ Stockpile fuel (gas, propane, alcohol, firewood).
▢ Batteries, flashlights, and rechargeable power banks. These won't last forever but are indispensable short term
Medical & Hygiene (always)
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💊 Hospitals won’t be an option, best you can hope for is doctor piccolo
▢ First aid kit – Painkillers, antibiotics, bandages, antiseptics. If you're diabetic you learn 2 synthesize or kill yourself, sorry.
▢ Sanitation – Human waste disposal, hygiene products, disinfectants.
▢ Basic herbal medicine & natural remedies – Learn 2 heal.
Security & Defense (First Month & Beyond)
🔫 Once law enforcement collapses, it's every man for himself.
▢ Fortify your home – Reinforce entry points, create safe rooms. ( Do NOT underestimate what hunger can do to a man)
▢ Weapons & defense – Firearms, melee weapons, traps.
▢ Stealth & deception – Don’t attract attention to your supplies.
After several months, (and) the world won’t return to normal. Governments may collapse, society may be gone, and you must rebuild - on your own if need be.
POST APOCALYPSE:
Long-Term Shelter & Community
🏠 Lone wolf survival is a death sentence. You need allies and make sure you have a list of friends ready to go.
▢ Find/build a secure homestead – Rural areas, abandoned buildings, caves.
▢ Create/join a small, trustworthy community – Safety in numbers.
▢ Establish roles & responsibilities – Defense, farming, medicine, scouting.
Sustainable Food & Water
🌱 You can’t rely on stockpiles forever. Grow food or die.
▢ Hunting, fishing, and trapping – Learn to process wild game.
▢ Farming & gardening – Potatoes, beans, corn, squash, medicinal herbs. (remember those seeds you saved?)
▢ Livestock – Chickens, rabbits, goats = food & barter value.
▢ Water wells & purification – Make water independence a priority.
Renewable Energy & Fuel
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🔋 Power grids will be long gone. Generate your own.
▢ Solar panels, wind turbines, water wheels – Off-grid energy.
▢ Biofuels & wood gasification – Convert organic material into fuel.
▢ Candle-making & oil lamps – Light sources when electricity fails.
Medicine & Health
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🏥 No hospitals. No pharmacies. You’re your own doctor. 99% of the world's diabetics just died.
▢ Grow medicinal plants – Aloe, yarrow, garlic, echinacea, willow bark.
▢ Learn field medicine – Suturing wounds, setting bones, herbal treatments.
▢ Hygiene & disease prevention – Cleanliness = survival.
Bartering & Economy
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💰 In a post-apocalyptic world, money is worthless. Skills and goods matter.
▢ High-value barter items – Ammo, antibiotics, alcohol, salt, seeds, tools.
▢ Learn valuable skills – Blacksmithing, carpentry, medical knowledge, mechanics.
▢ Trading & diplomacy – Avoid unnecessary conflicts, trade smart.
Security & Conflict
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⚔️ Hunger = Conflict Be ready.
▢ Perimeter defense – Traps, early warning systems, guard posts.
▢ Weapons & tactics – Guns, melee combat, stealth, guerrilla warfare.
▢ Form alliances – Stronger together, but be cautious of betrayal.