Rationing Food After A Complete Collapse

[u/Virtual-Feature-9747]

As someone who does not do "hungry" very well, I'm wondering about the ability to successfully ration food after a complete collapse. Could be sheltering in place after any catastrophe where supply chains have been completely broken and society has collapsed. But let's say you have a large stockpile of food and let's even say you're able to keep it hidden/safe. You need to make it last long enough to ride out the storm, outlast the masses as they die off, and/or get crops in the ground then harvest them.

Questions for the group:

Do you have a strategy for rationing food? If so what is it? How many calories per day? What does that look like in terms of rice and beans or whatever?

Do you have the discipline to be hungry and/or calorie deficient when you still have months of food stores?

Or is it more important to maintain health, energy, and morale while you have food on hand?

Concerns out of scope for this discussion: community, sharing, raiding, defending against raiders, hunting/fishing/gardening, etc. Let's just focus on the long term (12 months) management of a food stockpile internally please!

[u/Wickerpoodia]

Quick tip. Everyone thinks when things get bad they will just eat a lot of rice and beans.. the average person in the US doesn't eat enough beans regularly and changing your diet to eating beans heavily is going to give you digestive problems. Start incorporating beans more regularly into your diet now.

[u/MrHmuriy → u/Wickerpoodia]

If before cooking beans, you soak them for a day or better even two, and change the water several times, then there will be no big problems with digestion even for those who have never consumed beans before