Now is the time to start stocking up on food. You should focus on purchasing canned goods first. There is no need to go out and buy everything all at once, but you should deliberately by additional canned good items.

As you purchase canned goods, focus on things that will complete an entire meal. Purchase canned meats, and canned vegetables both.

Your goal should be to purchase at least six months worth of food and canned goods. Do not buy food that you or your family will not eat. Instead focus on the food that you will eat, and it is okay for you to start eating this as you buy it.

Where they apply, pay attention to expiration dates on the canned goods and organized your canned goods in a pantry so that you can identify those items that will need to be eaten first.

If you have experience in investing, you can look at your canned goods purchases as an investment in the future. In fact, the reason why you should buy canned goods over a period of time, as opposed to all at once, is for two reasons. For one reason, this will ensure that you have a wide range of products and canned goods for that will have differing expiration dates. You do not want to have all of your food go bad at the same time!

The second reason for purchasing canned goods over a period of time to prepare for the global depression involves investment concept known as dollar cost averaging. Essentially the idea is that you do not want to purchase something all at once, instead you purchase it over time and the average cost that you will pay for the items that you buy should ensure that you pay on average the best price available, as opposed to paying too much during a spike in prices.

There could also be a third reason.  We do not want to trigger a food panic.  Cover yourself gradually, but do not go crazy or over board. 

In our next article, we’ll talk about other food items that you will need to focus on next after you have your canned goods taken care of. We’ll give you two hits, gardening, fishing and hunting.

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