Are you a Prepper if you store food, or are you Just Plain SENSIBLE?

(We say you are just full of Common Sense!)

Do you have Auto Insurance? Of course you do.  Health insurance? Most people do.  What about Food Insurance?  “Food Insurance”? you ask.  Yes!  Food Insurance!  And if not, why not??

The majority of people have, at most, 1-3 days of food in their cupboards/fridge because they stop off at the grocery store several times a week.  But now, no matter where you live in the US, you have most likely seen wicked bad hurricanes wipe out roadways, homes, businesses and the ability for those grocery stores to re-open or get re-supplied for weeks.  You’ve seen Snowmageddon in many places across the country.  And flooding, more flooding in more places than I can remember seeing.  And extended power outages.  And grocery store shelves empty of everything except the occasional jar of mustard or tin of anchovies (yum!)

So maybe you can see the sensibility of having a few extra cans of soup, and jars of peanut butter.  But what about food shortages that are non-nature related.  Do you follow world economics?  The Euro, the Yen, the not-so-almighty Dollar?  The relations between China and the US?  The US and the Middle East?  The US and terrorist factions around the world?  Did you see the rioting in Venezuela caused by hyperinflation making what little food was available be unaffordable for the common person?  Or non-existent?  Think hyperinflation can’t happen here in the good ol’ US of A? 

MAKING A COMPLETE PROTEIN WITH GRAINS & LEGUMES

 or, How to Get Enough Protein When You Can’t Get Meat

All proteins, no matter what food they come from, are made up of amino acids.  Amino acids are the building blocks of protein. And protein is what your body needs to build and maintain your body’s health. And when we think of Protein, we think of chicken, beef, turkey, pork, fish and eggs.

When you eat a T-bone steak or baked beans (or anything that contains any protein at all, even a tiny amount), your digestive system breaks the food down into amino acids that are absorbed into your blood stream. From there, the amino acids are used to build the proteins that make up your muscles, organs, your brain and lots of other tissues.

Your body can make many amino acids itself, but there are some amino acids that the human body can't manufacture.  These amino acids are called the essential amino acids because you have to actually eat foods that contain them.

A deficiency in any one of those 10 essential amino acids can cause the proteins in your muscle and other tissues to deteriorate, as your body seeks to obtain the necessary amino acid it’s missing by stealing it from your own body tissue.

These are the essential amino acids that your body can’t make on its own (so you must consume/eat them):