The NuManna Food Storage people are big fans of the books and sent the Team a family pack of freeze-dried food to try.

We loved it!  NuManna will be our long-term food out at the real cabin.  NuManna is legit.

There are a couple of things I really like about NuManna.  First, the food tastes spectacular.  Scotty was skeptical that freeze-dried food could taste like home-cooked; he was pleasantly surprised.

We loved the Mac n Cheese.  It tasted home cooked.  Oh, and when they say “six servings,” it’s actually six servings.

Second, NuManna is made with good ingredients.  No GMOs, MSG, corn syrup, or Aspartame.  You can tell that someone cooked up a good meal and then preserved it.

Third, the packages come in a really cool bucket.  It has a latch so you can easily get the packets out.  The buckets stack, which is key for filling up your bug out location with food that lasts at least 25 years.

Fourth, there is a great variety.  Here’s what’s in the Family Pack:

• Pasta Primavera
• Cheesy Potato Soup
• Rice Pilaf
• Sweet Habanero Chili
• Cheddar Broccoli Soup
• Pasta Alfredo
• Chili Mac
• Mac -n- Cheese
• Hearty Chicken Soup
• Enchilada Beans and Rice
• Italian Pasta with Marinara
• Mulitgrain Cereal
• Oatmeal w/ Brown Sugar
• Pancake Mix – you know how I love pancake mix!

Six, NuManna is a family business operated by Patriots.  These guys are one of us.

Here’s a final reason to love NuManna: they’ll send you a free sample so you can try it and decide if NuManna should be your longterm food.  Just click here and they’ll send you a free sample.

Give NuManna a try.

We have received several inquiries from audio book narrators.  We want to hear what you think about which one to pick.  We’ll end up picking up the one that works the best overall (voice, can meet deadlines, etc.) but we really want to hear what you think about each of them.

Below is a link to the work of each narrator who has contacted us.  I put them in order of them contacting us.

Go onto the Facebook post (click here for it) we have for narrator suggestions and let us know in the comments who you like and why.

Be sure and come back to this page periodically and listen to any new narrators who popped up here since the last time you visited the page.  We put the date they first appeared on here to help you know which ones you’ve already listened to.

Thanks, you guys.  We appreciate the help.  (Oh, and if you haven’t done an Amazon review yet of all seven books, please do.  Thanks.)

Here are the narrators:

• March 9, 2014
  • Brad Langer
  • Larry Terpening
  • Michael Noah Levine
  • Jim McCance
  • Jeffrey Kafer
• March 10, 2014
  • Chris Roman
  • Scott Clem
  • Kevin Pierce
  • Jay Mawhinney
  • Jack Chekijian
  • Paul Heitsch
  • John M. Perry
  • Gary Roelofs
  • Michael Rahhal
  • John Podulka
  • Eric G. Dove
  • Paul Christy
• March 11, 2014
  • Kevin Foley
  • Todd Lorenz
  • Zed Starkovich
  • Ry Welch
  • Michael Karl Orenstein
  • Dave Wright
  • Adrian Rosen
  • Andrew B. Wehrlen
• March 12, 2014
  • Nate Daniels
  • R.C. Bray
  • Tim Welch
  • Matthew Finch
• March 13, 2014
  • James Killavey
  • DJ Holte
  • Daniel Dorse
  • Sonny Dufault
  • Steven Roy Grimsley
  • Dave Johnson
  • Gabriel Vaughan
  • Don Hagen
  • David DeSantos
• March 14, 2014
  • Erik Sandoval
  • Joseph Morton
  • Guy Williams
• March 15, 2014
  • Frank B. Wright
  • Tom Zingarelli
  • Jeff Hays

Yes, this is us.  And, yes, a Hollywood dude (also a Patriot) is filming us.  And, yes, something big will be announced on March 20.  Stay tuned.

From left to right: “Scotty,” “Grant,” “Pow,” “Bobby,” and “Donnie.”  Not shown: “Wes.”

Share TheTeamVideo with everyone you can.  It’s OK.  Pow won’t shoot you in the face or anything.  Probably.

Do you ever wonder if you’re insane to be prepping?  I sure do.  I mean, I know the Collapse is coming but sometimes I think about the money and time I spend getting ready and I wonder.  Am I over reacting?  Am I over analytical.  Am I crazy?

Nope.

Today I felt validated.  I got to see that the time and money I spend is worth it.  I got a preview of what’s coming: being prepared when others aren’t.

It was just a little thing, but the principle is the same.  As soon as the Ukrainian president fled the country, I knew the Russians would invade.  I knew it wouldn’t be on a large scale, just something mild (but effective) like having Spetsnaz take over a Ukrainian provincial parliament building and then maybe some cyber attacks on the Ukrainian computer system.  Seriously, that’s what I thought would happen.

And it did. I knew that as soon as the Russians started doing this that one of the sanctions the US could impose would be banning imports of Russian ammunition.  This happened in 2008 when Russia invaded Georgia (the country not the state! – I don’t want to be accused of false rumors!).  5.45×39 ammunition, which is manufactured in Russia and comes in green “spam cans,” dried up in days.  I actually don’t know if Russian ammo imports were suspended in 2008, but I knew that the possibility of it would empty the shelves of 5.45.  And it happened back then.

So I knew 5.45 would dry up now given the Ukrainian situation.  I got a bunch of 5.45 last week.  Today I found out that the shelves are empty of spam cans of 5.45.  And this is at Surplus Ammo and Arms, the largest ammo retailer on the West Coast.

I felt validated.  I saw a threat, it played out exactly like my over reacting, over analytical, and crazy self thought it would.  I took action, and now I have stuff I need and others don’t.

This isn’t a “neener neener” story, this is saying that it feels great to be that “crazy” prepper, take action, and have stuff you need when others don’t.

I suspect I’ll be having this same feeling about all that food, those water barrels, all the radios, that generator, and all those medical supplies…