The most important part of any survival philosophy or any survival plan is to be prepared. Without preparedness any survival plan or philosophy falls apart. You need to be prepared, having everything you need to survive in your possession before SHTF, because once it does you cant guarantee that you will have what you need.

So we all talk about the things we need to survive a zombie attack....guns, ammo, food, gear, but when we start making a list of what we have vs what we need, we often realize that we come up short. If you are like me and dont have most of gear ready for SHTF, or if you are a beginner and have little or nothing for survival; that list becomes very daunting. Where do you start?

This is where my survival philosophy begins:

Surviving a zombie attack is very similar to surviving any other disaster (except other disaster dont have creatures that are trying to eat you). It doesnt matter if its an earthquake, tornado, or the occasional zombie outbreak surviving them is the same. How are they the same? Well, in each and every scenario you have to provide FOR YOURSELF the same things: food, water, shelter, security, and creature comforts.

Any one of these things are something that most of us depend on another person or "the system" to provide for us.
Most, if not all, of us get our food from restuarants and grocery stores. Very few people today actually grow their own food, or hunt it. Once the zombies come, the machine will come to a screeching hault, and there wont be anyone growing food FOR YOU, delivering it to the store, and stocking the shelves so you can go buy it. Every large food store, such as Walmart and Kroger have what is called "just in time inventory". Which means that whatever they sell in a given day, an order is placed for those items and the next day replacement items arrive on the truck and the shelves are replenished. This happens everyday. If Walmart had a warehouse problem and the daily deliveries of inventory stopped, Walmart would only have a few days worth of food on their shelves. This is the same for every large chain store.





So what are you going to do about food once SHTF if walmarts shelves will be emptied quickly? Well, you need to be prepared. You need to have food stored, before SHTF and unprepared people rape the shelves till there is nothing left. Another great idea for preparing food is to learn how to grow your own food. Sure, once zombies start eating people, staying in your home will be tough. Maybe you dont plan to stay in your home, maybe you have a BOL selected. Learning how to grow food works the same anywhere. If you can grow food now, you can do the same once you get to your BOL. Have a years worth of food stored now, so you can survive long enough for a garden to start producing.

Food it the most important part of preparing for any disaster. Ask yourself a couple questions: how many times in your life have you had to use a weapon to defend you life? How many times have you had to eat to stay alive? Now you can see that having food to eat is more important that having dozens of weapons to defend your life. It is a better investment, and a wiser way to prep, buying food to store for a disaster than it is to buy dozens of weapons and ammunition. A weapon is a very important tool for survival, especially during a zombie apocalypse but we dont need dozens. Buy just one or two good weapons, train with them, store what ammunition you can afford, but dont let that override what you do to store food, because nomatter what happens you will always have to eat.

This is the most efficient way to prep because it puts your preps into perspective. Then you begin prepping in a way that provides you more things you need to survive and helps you to make sure that you dont have any gaps in your preps.