25 Post SHTF Food Sources

When TSHTF, one of your top concerns will be finding enough food to sustain you until regular food distribution channels get back up and running. Here's where to find the food you need:

1. The food you have stored in your house.
2. The food you have stored in your car and other locations (ie: bug out shelter)
3. The food in your office.
4. The food in other offices in your building/neighborhood/city (bring a crowbar).
5. The food running around near your home (squirrel, possum, rabbits, etc).
6. The wild food you can gather (berries, cat tails, apples, nuts, etc).
7. The larger food in the forest (deer, elk, bear, etc).
8. Larger food on local ranches (pig, goat, cow, etc).
9. Food in water near your home (fish, shellfish, seaweed, etc).
10. Food on local farms (vegetables, grains, fruit, etc).
11. Food in grocery stores.
12. Food in warehouses/cold storage warehouses.
13. Food in institutions (ie: food banks, schools, hospitals, etc).
14. Food in local restaurants.
15. Food in vacation homes and homes where people have left.
16. Food in your yard (dandelions, vegetables and fruit you have grown, etc.).
17. Food on the way to its destination (shipping containers, refrigerated trucks, etc).
18. Food you can create (quick growing vegies and meat supplies).
19. Food provided by relief organizations.
20. Food that any other day you wouldn't consider food (rats, bugs, pigeon, etc).
21. Food you can have brought in (ie: a contact from an area not hit that could bring you supplies).
22. Food that others may overlook (honey from bees, maple syrup from trees, snakes, etc).
23. Food that takes concerted effort/materials/equipment to get (ie: whale, other deep sea fish, mountain goat, etc).
24. Food that freegans would love (search dumpsters, garbage cans, garbage dumps, etc).
25. Food that isn't people food (dog food, cat food, animal food stored in grain silos, etc).

Obviously most of these sources have drawbacks. Some sources may mean you need to break the law to get at it, some sources have a decided ick factor, and some sources mean you my end up fighting over it with others who are equally hungry. Also, once you acquire food from the aforementioned sources, you will need to hide it/guard it/protect it.