This post will be about energy but not in the form of batteries or oil. This is more to do with personal energy. Energy in a survival situation is based on the amount of food input versus the amount of energy burned to acquire that food. If you burn more energy to acquire the food than you get from the food then you are losing energy and not gaining. It does not matter how much food you are eating if you are burning more to gather it than you are ingesting. Long term, this means that you are losing and that can only equate to dying in the long run.
All of this means that you will have to use brains, more than brawn, to acquire your food. Things like trapping, tracking, and other low-energy alternatives are vital to survive long term. What you see in the movies where they chase down some animal, for food, is a losing proposition UNLESS the animal is big enough to supply a number of meals. ALWAYS, your main thought should be how much energy you are going to gain versus how much energy it is going to cost you.
I guess we should get on to what food you should be building up for what we know is coming. In the movies we see lots of times when the hero has a small warehouse full of canned food prepared for the coming TEOTWAWKI. This is great if you intend to bunker down and have food, water, and a VERY secure location. This does NOT apply to the vast majority of people. It is almost never acceptable to bunker down unless you have an extremely well prepared bunker. This is not really applicable to anyone living in a city as cities are, decidedly, not secure. Even if you were to have the most secure apartment in the world, with food and water for 10 years, how secure is it when someone can set the building alight underneath you.
I suppose we really need to get into the whole question of where we can situate ourselves before we get into a modus operandi for survival including food. Therefore, I think that we should come back to food after we have discussed where we are going to be situated.
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