Prep Genrl I try to keep a year's worth of vitamins

nomifyle

nomifyle

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But I let myself run out of a couple of things I take regularly. B6, how could I ever let myself run out of that. I just ordered 6 bottles from Vitacost, their brand, free shipping if you spend $25 on their brand. Sometimes amazon is cheaper, and maybe even walmart.

God is good all the time

Judy
 
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xtreme_right

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nomifyle said:
But I let myself run out of a couple of things I take regularly. B6, how could I ever let myself run out of that. I just ordered 6 bottles from Vitacost, their brand, free shipping if you spend $25 on their brand. Sometimes amazon is cheaper, and maybe even walmart.

God is good all the time

Judy
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I keep looking for a better way to inventory/track everything. I think I have enough extra put back but occasionally find I don’t. I’ve tried putting everything in a spreadsheet but it doesn’t stay updated. I just add another one to my shopping list when I open something new.
 
nomifyle

nomifyle

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xtreme_right said:
I keep looking for a better way to inventory/track everything. I think I have enough extra put back but occasionally find I don’t. I’ve tried putting everything in a spreadsheet but it doesn’t stay updated. I just add another one to my shopping list when I open something new.
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That's a good idea about adding to shopping list when opening one.

God is good all the time

Judy
 
SouthernBreeze

SouthernBreeze

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I keep a year's supply, too. I also buy one to replace the one I've just opened. I just replaced a bottle of my eye vitamins (PreserVision), and will do the same with my Calcium and Vit. D when I go shopping next. I'm good for the time being on Turmeric/Curcumin.
 
nomifyle

nomifyle

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I've just ordered a new bottle of Curcumin 95 because I'm about to open a new bottle. And I also ordered another bottle of K2. I use the Jarrow brand of both of those.

I'm not familiar with eye vitamins, what do they do.

God is good all the time

Judy
 
SouthernBreeze

SouthernBreeze

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nomifyle said:
I've just ordered a new bottle of Curcumin 95 because I'm about to open a new bottle. And I also ordered another bottle of K2. I use the Jarrow brand of both of those.

I'm not familiar with eye vitamins, what do they do.

God is good all the time

Judy
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The PreserVision helps with the dryness in my eyes from Sjogren's Syndrome. It's also for my macular degeneration. My Opthalmologist put me on it, but it's OTC. I also use eye drops ( Refresh Mega-3 with flaxseed oil) throughout the day, and I do those the same way. When I open a new box, I buy a new box. I keep a year's supply of those on hand, too.
 
nomifyle

nomifyle

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SouthernBreeze said:
The PreserVision helps with the dryness in my eyes from Sjogren's Syndrome. It's also for my macular degeneration. My Opthalmologist put me on it, but it's OTC. I also use eye drops ( Refresh Mega-3 with flaxseed oil) throughout the day, and I do those the same way. When I open a new box, I buy a new box. I keep a year's supply of those on hand, too.
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Thanks, I don't think I need them, as I don't have eye issues, except I think I need glasses.

God is good all the time

Judy
 
OzRural

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I just eat healthy food and exercise. I think the whole vitamin thing is a total scam. people lived healthy lives without supplements for millennia and now everyone is stuffing themselves with them and they have never been sicker. 1+1=2
 
nomifyle

nomifyle

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OzRural said:
I just eat healthy food and exercise. I think the whole vitamin thing is a total scam. people lived healthy lives without supplements for millennia and now everyone is stuffing themselves with them and they have never been sicker. 1+1=2
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People died a lot younger in the past from things that supplements would have helped. And their diets were far from healthy. I have relatives that lived well into their 80's but they had a pot full of health issues that they had to take pills for.

Today it is possible to be healthy into old age, fortunately I'm healthy at 74, but I've watched the kind of foods that I eat all along and taken handsful of supplements off and on through the years. Staying away from processed foods goes a long way to being healthy, but its difficult to get all the nutrients from the foods that are available, hence, supplementing.

God is good all the time

Judy
 
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summerthyme

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OzRural said:
I just eat healthy food and exercise. I think the whole vitamin thing is a total scam. people lived healthy lives without supplements for millennia and now everyone is stuffing themselves with them and they have never been sicker. 1+1=2
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Most of the soil on the commercial farms is utterly depleted of nutrients and trace minerals. Most commercial fruit and vegetable varieties are bred for sugar content and shipability...

A daily multivitamin is cheap insurance to maintain minimum nutritional standards, but I'll absolutely agree it's not a substitute for eating healthy foods.

Summerthyme
 
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Hasher

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I try to eat as healthy as I can. With my job it is not always possible.

I keep vitamins on haNd for several reasons.

1. I keep them in a pill box in my travel bag. proper nutrition on the road is not always possible so when it isn’t I can open a compartment and pop a days worth. (Usually I take them throughout the day. There is also EmercenC in there because I can take vitamins and hydrate at the same time. And I like the taste).

2. I have them on hand for when I am starting to feel run down. While I try to eat healthy as I can this never hurts.

3. I have the same stuff as 1 above in my GHB because the food in there will get me home but it’s broad nutritional values leaves something to be desired so I want to be able to supplement my dietary intake while on the move.

4. Should the “reckoning/reset/shtf/whatever you want to call it” come to pass my Oreos storage will need to be augmented for nutritional value. It could be as simple as it’s winter and the only fresh stuff is what is foraged or sprouted or it could be that we are hunkered in the shelter and unable to garden for some reason. Beans and rice for example are allegedly a complete mean nutritionally. However this will not contain everything a human needs lien the various vitamins and trace minerals (I keep more than rice and beans but you get the idea) so again I want to be able to supplement things as needed.

For my extended group of like minded friends we all either keep a years worth or more or for the ones with less disposable income they are working in increasing what they have of this slowly month by month.

All the guns and gear in the world won’t save you if you are disabled because of poor nutrition.
 
rob0126

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Ive been reading an interesting book on maintaining nutrition in a shtf situation.(nuke attack mostly)

114 pages, 2.2MB pdf

Maintaining nutritional adequacy during a prolonged food crisis. [Basic foods for post-nuclear attack use] (Technical Report) | OSTI.GOV

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Scientific and Technical Information
www.osti.gov www.osti.gov

Book was written in 1979.

I highly recommend everyone read this book.

It could help you understand what your food preps value is, nutrition wise, and what the minimums are to survive without slowly starving.
It focuses on pregnant women, and young childrens nutritional needs.

excellent knowledge folks.
 
SouthernBreeze

SouthernBreeze

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I have to admit that I've let myself slip a bit in keeping up with my year's supply of vitamins and supplements. Today is shopping day, and I have all of them listed to resupply. Some of them I'll wait to get when at Sam's later in the week. Those bigger bottles from Sam's last me a long time. I've let my stash get down to about 6 months worth.
 
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Slydersan

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Babs said:
I keep a good 3 years of Magnesium. I would be down with severe migraines almost daily without it....wouldn't be able to function at all.
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Magnesium helps with leg cramps too, at least for me. Every time I stop taking it, after about 1 wk I start getting severe leg cramps in the middle of the night. It's recommended for heart health too. So yeah, it's on my "must have" list. But not the liquid/gelcap form, that doesn't "sit" well.
 
nomifyle

nomifyle

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Slydersan said:
Magnesium helps with leg cramps too, at least for me. Every time I stop taking it, after about 1 wk I start getting severe leg cramps in the middle of the night. It's recommended for heart health too. So yeah, it's on my "must have" list. But not the liquid/gelcap form, that doesn't "sit" well.
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Unfortunately it does not help my leg cramps, and I take it more than I take anything else.
 
pauldingbabe

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Have yall ever taken your magnesium as a spray that you use on your skin?

The absorption rate is better on your skin than if you let it go through the digestive process.

Just a FYI and my own experience.
 
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Slydersan

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I've heard of it, but never seen it or used it. (to be honest, I've never specifically looked for it in a store.)
 
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