Homestead

Stockpiling canned food does no good if you can't open it—keep two manual can openers with your stores, one in the kit and one in the kitchen. Test them on a can now; the cheap ones often skip or dull fast, and you don't want to discover that hungry in the dark.

Start one skill this season: a small garden bed, a batch of canned tomatoes, a bag of beans cooked from scratch. Self-reliance compounds.

Water first, always. A rain barrel plus a way to purify buys resilience no amount of canned food can.

Welcome to Homestead. Store what you actually eat, and eat what you store — rotate the pantry so nothing expires unused.