Shopping For Food, Hygiene And More For Long-Term Disaster Situations

The following video is an overview of the 15 video training series by Steven Harris to help you shop before any pandemic, natural disaster, or possible nasty long-term situation. He goes into stores available to most people around North America and shows you exactly why he bought – or didn’t buy – specific items.

Below is the transcript from the above video in case you prefer reading the information instead of listening to it:

Hi, Steve Harris, I’ll tell you a little secret and secret is I knew the pandemic was coming. I knew this in January, long before February definitely before everyone panicked in March and April that it was coming and I had to up my preparedness already had a year’s worth of stuff, but I need to really need to refresh it all. And I went out shopping and I went out kind of in a hurry to get stuff. And then I realized no one else is panicking. I was thinking it was moving faster than it was and it wasn’t so I started planning what I was going to go get and you see me do this. In these videos. You see me go out. I do three runs a Costco and I go it’s not that bad. Everything’s in stock. There’s no hurry. No one’s wearing masks. Yeah, believe me. This is when no one was even thinking about wearing mask. I found one guy you’ll see in the video wearing a mask. So I went out and I did scouting trips I scouted to Costco I scouted to Walmart. I scouted to all these I scouted to Tractor Supply. Yeah, Tractor Supply Store. You’ll see the food I get from Tractor Supply Store. You won’t believe it. This is how you feed your neighbors. So I went scouted and then I did big trip day one and big trip day two where I went out picked up everything you will see everything I looked at why I got it, why I didn’t get it, why I was right for me and why it might be right for you. Even though it was not right for me. I explained everything in detail. This is what I’m getting because I’m me. But if you got these circumstances, or you have children or whatever, this is what you might do to consider. That’s why you might consider this I go through everything. There’s 15 videos and they vary from between five minutes and 58 minutes each. The big trip day one is why go get everything is not the first day but the first day of going out and getting everything that I scouted that’s a 58 minute video. So I go over food, medicine, hygiene, other supplies. And the thing is I realized after I did all this, this is just not a pandemic shopping experience. This is anything pre disaster. You can take everything I taught you in this series of videos and you can apply it to the hurricane is four days out. Or there’s a blizzard coming they’re saying the blizzards coming in two days. We knew Texas was going to get that horrible, horrible blizzard. It was called a cat five equivalent Blizzard for Texas. And they started calling that four days before it hit game a stupid new Weather Channel is going like whoa Ice Road Truckers in the past have you oh no regret and you know, they’re not covering the stuff like other real weather people are. So if you’re watching that you’re not knowing it’s like I didn’t know it was four days away. We did. We told you so there’s a lot of stuff that you know is coming. The blizzard, the hurricane the storm. Right now we’re looking at, you know, potentially different waves of COVID and different things. It’s a long story. And there’s shortages and transportation issues. It’s like yeah, now’s the time to go shopping and buy it while you can get it before the shelves are empty again. And doesn’t matter what year you’re listening to me say this it’s like it can happen again it will happen again. So this is a pre disaster like I said I cover everything I even say hey, don’t forget the Feldman hygiene products. And I have one thing I keep on showing my cameras like why do these things keep on popping up in front of me. And it’s kind of like a running joke through the series so I mean, I really I to put some levity into the whole thing. And I saw people walking out with 65 inch TVs you know walking by it’s like hey you think yeah, how many meals do you think that TV will last you joking that you know I’ll probably trade the guy three days worth of food for his TV in about six weeks which is basically almost what happened. So I show you how to feed yourself I show you how to feed your neighbors and under See I got 100 800 pounds of corn for $105 and then I show you it’s like that’s what you can feed your neighbors with trust me it’s one of the most universal foods up there is you have no idea once you have me take your thinking all the way back to a level of grains as well as what you buy and you freeze and your store and everything else. Everything I’m giving this like common sense. Oh you should see the sheet see the lady talking to me. And all these you know this is before that was panic buying? I had a whole bunch of stuff and she goes, what to do and you’re planning a party I go no panic buying. She goes, but you got kickbacks. There I go. Yeah, she goes well you don’t panic pie cake makes I go I do. I go after we have, you know rice and beans and ham and, and stuff like that and some pudding. I like some dessert with after you know with my emergency food. She goes you get dessert with the emergency food I go if you do it right, you do. Remember the only easy day was the day after you met Harris. So anyways, yeah, it’s a it’s a roller coaster. I mean, it’s really you are there with me on adventure as I go. And I and it’s not like there’s a lot of me talking in here, either. There’s a few areas where we’re when I’m leaving the store, I’ll give you the one to grow on story about exactly how and why. But a lot of it is like, bam, I’m filming. This is what I’m looking at, this is how much it is, this is where I’m at. And this is why I’m looking at it. This is why I want it. This is why you might want it. This is why you might not want it. Or BAM I’m filming this, I’m not getting this because of me. But you might want it because of blah. And it’s really like bam, bam, bam, I mean, I’m just hitting you left and right, you actually might want to like you’re gonna find yourself going back to watching two different parts of this at different times. In fact, one of the things you can do is you might queue up all the videos, download them to your phone, you can download everything. And you just might listen to them as you’re like driving to work and back and doing errands and stuff. And it’s like, oh, Steve was talking about that great pancake mix that he was, oh, he was at Costco. Look at your phone. It’s like oh, and that is 45 minutes into okay, I know what video that the we get back home or you stop, you would then pull that back up on your phone, you see exactly what I was talking about. But you can get 85% of what I’m talking about by listening to me, especially are few seen at once, then you’re listening to me you’re getting that reinforcement, and it’s like I remember him showing that now I understand. So I mean, it’s five hours, but if I took my time and I explained everything, it would have been 15 hours. So it is fast paced. It really really really is fast paced, and it’s classic Harris, I mean, you’re gonna leave you’re just gonna be like, Neil after they put the probe into his neck. He goes Whoa, I know kung fu as like yeah, that’s what it’s gonna be like you’re jacking into the Harris matrix. And you’re getting this download of everything I did with 30 years of experience and knowledge. You I mean you get to be with me in like almost every store all these Costco Walmart Gordon foods, which is the restaurant supply place and then Tractor Supply and all the other stores I go to it’s like you’re right there with me. And I’m talking to you, I’m talking straight to you. You are absolutely going to love it. And again, a you can go do this right now it can be your hurricane food, it can be your winter Blizzard food. You can do this three months, you should do this three months a year before you run into anything. I talk about the shelf life and the uses and the alternative uses and everything else that you can do with everything that you can. Plus what is one food that you can buy with the least amount of money that gives you the most amount of calories that does not spoil. It’s in there. Let me tell you it’s delicious too. So anyways, that is the pre disaster and Pandemic local shopping video. And it was filmed during the pandemic but it could be anything pre disaster, not after the disaster hits. This is pre disaster and it’s local. So whether you want to buy it online on Amazon or whatever, it’s local. I know I don’t even show you freeze dried junk in this thing at all. I do talk about it but you know everything I’m talking about is get it now at your local store. This is it. So you will absolutely love this