{"id":47662,"date":"2019-08-06T11:09:06","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T16:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47662"},"modified":"2019-08-06T11:09:09","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T16:09:09","slug":"heres-how-prepping-can-save-you-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47662","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s How Prepping Can SAVE You Money"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Here\u2019s How Prepping Can SAVE You Money<\/a> <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

One of the most common reasons that people give for not prepping is the cost involved.  People seem to have this mental image of a  bedroom or basement dedicated to being filled to the rafters with cans of Chef-Boy-Ardee.  They imagine someone going out and spending $5000 at a time for a year\u2019s worth of food.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fact is, a pantry is a work in progress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can save a fortune on your food budget by shopping carefully and in quantity.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A well-stocked food pantry is not just there in case of an epic disaster or TEOTWAWKI.  It can provide a cushion in the event of a job loss or personal economic downturn.  Not only that but as an investment, purchasing food at today\u2019s prices is a great hedge against tomorrow\u2019s increases.  The cost of food will only be going up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Take peanut butter, as an example: A few years ago, I purchased natural, no-stir peanut butter for $1.88 per jar when it was on sale.  A year later, that very same brand in the very same sized jar was $5.99 on sale<\/em> due to a poor peanut harvest.  That means that each jar of peanut butter on the shelves represented a savings of $4.11  \u2013 there is no other investment that gives you that kind of return.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before I even knew what prepping was, I had a well-stocked pantry.  When I was first married and had a newborn baby, I was struggling to put food on the table with our tiny grocery budget.  At the library, I stumbled upon a series of books by Amy Dacyczyn called \u201cThe Complete Tightwad Gazette<\/a>\u201c.  This fantastic series gave me a whole new perspective on grocery shopping, and is the shopping basic philosophy I adhere to still. (And I highly recommend the books \u2013 there are 3 or you can get one big compendium containing all 3 titles!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here\u2019s How Prepping Can SAVE You Money One of the most common reasons that people give for not prepping is the cost involved.  People seem to have this mental image of a  bedroom or basement dedicated to being filled to the rafters with cans of Chef-Boy-Ardee.  They imagine someone going out and spending $5000 at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7],"tags":[6156,26468,650,26467,5756],"class_list":["post-47662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-survival-2","tag-daisy-luther","tag-food-budget","tag-prepping","tag-saving-money","tag-the-organic-prepper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47663,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47662\/revisions\/47663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}