FSK made an absolute worst case assumption about how I was going about what I call prepping. His style, worst case. No big deal, I wasn't offended.

I am "prepping" in the following ways- Making certain that our basic physical needs can be met:

- Know how: I can repair, build or jury rig a wide range of household needs. I do electrical and plumbing.

- Water: I've built a Berkey equivalent countertop water filter for potable water. (Much cheaper and uses ceramic filters which go sub micro level.) We in fact use it daily to make our own bottled water from the tap.

- Sewer - we're on a septic that runs by gravity. No issue.

- Cooking: I've accumulated firewood for splitting plus have cast iron dutch ovens as well as a small rocket stove. Also I have two butane stoves + 30 cans of butane. Plus random normal stuff like a gas grill and charcoal.

- Food production - we garden. I save seeds from favorite vegetables. I'm a crappy gardener but getting better.

- Prep food. Of COURSE you'll want the bags of rice, canned foods, beans, plus I pressure can so I can produce our own shelf stable preserved foods.

- Power: I just invested in an 1800w Bluetti power supply. (enough to run freezers to keep food safe) We have a generator I picked up on Woot.com quite cheaply. I just purchased 200w solar panels, cables, a charge controller, and a 1000w sine wave inverter. At worst I can run one of our cars to drive the inverter. I could use the solar to trickle charge the Bluetti or a smaller 500w power supply I got cheap last year, for small electronics or other low power needs.

- Comms: I have a collection of radios, such as a Baofeng two way transceiver (ham frequency capable - absurdly cheap, like $20 for their lowest radio which is quite nice.)

- Medical - we have stuff. No antibiotics or prescription supplies tho.

- Self defense is one big lack. I need to invest in some fire arms and ammo and take some classes at a gun range.

Aside from medical needs I believe we can last for many months just from supplies, and we can grow food as possible.

It's not just food that someone can steal from us, that is not what I meant by preps.

Of course our house could be ransacked so we lose some/all of these capabilities.