🧂 Don’t Overlook Salt
Salt is one of the most overlooked — and neglected — items when it comes to preparedness.
Most people don’t realize how much salt they actually use in a week until they stop and think about it. It’s not just something you sprinkle on food for taste. Salt is essential to life. The sodium in salt is a vital electrolyte that helps regulate fluids in your body.
It’s also one of the hardest things to reproduce yourself. Most salt comes from deep underground mines. Sea salt can be made, but that’s not a simple backyard process for most people.
And from a preparedness standpoint, salt is critical for:
🥩 Preserving and curing meat
🧂 Food storage without refrigeration
🥒 Fermenting foods
💧 Electrolyte balance in hot or high-stress situations
A woodshed dries wood. Salt dries meat. Both are systems.
If refrigeration goes down long-term, salt becomes more than seasoning — it becomes survival infrastructure.
Take a look at what you have stored. You might want more than you think.
Let’s normalize stocking the basics.