We have fruit trees and berry bushes, the produce of which ends up canned and jarred and dried. We bake our own bread and as such generally have about 30kg of w

We have fruit trees and berry bushes, the produce of which ends up canned and jarred and dried. We bake our own bread and as such generally have about 30kg of wheat flour in storage. In the barn there is about 100kg of oats, meant for horses but edible to humans. Add to that another 20-30kg of rice and pasta and we're set for carbohydrates. Cheese and eggs and (extruded) soy provide proteins (my wife is vegetarian so we generally don't eat meat, even though I'm the one mostly responsible for food preparation) but the forest is full of additional protein (deer, elk, boar, etc.) ready for the taking in case of emergency. Water comes from our own dug well which is not dependent on electricity. The house is heated using a wood-burning stove and a wood-burning cooking stove, also not dependent on electricity. If power fails - which it does quite often here in the Swedish woods - we can live more or less like we're used to. If the power failure lasts longer than a few days we'd have to empty the freezers (containing fish and some venison, vegetarian wife notwithstanding - Bambi got stuck in the fencing so what could we do?) and salt the contents. Yes, we have a 30kg bag of (road) salt handy for those occasions, it doubles as dishwasher salt. I don't consider what we do 'prepping', just common sense in that we reduce the amount of external dependencies to a minimum. Someone mentioned guns but failed to mention his domicile. I assume that to be the USA given the insistence on having such. Sweden also has a fairly high number of guns (a bit more than 30 per 100 inhabitants) but the USA is in another league (more than 110 per 100 inhabitants) [1]. Most guns in Sweden are hunting rifles, the number of hand guns is relatively small. A hunting rifle is good for hunting but not that useful for threatening a group of people as the first shot fired will most likely also be the last. In the USA the number of hand guns is a lot higher and with that it is more likely to be confronted by someone carrying such, possibly necessitating a defence against this threat. Having a gun is not the same as being able and willing to use a gun. Having a gun but not being willing or able to use it carries the potential of having said gun being used against you. In that case you'd be better of without one. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_number_of_guns_per_capita_by_country https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_number_of_guns_per_c...