Americans need to learn to do everything that they can... and be willing to do anything that they can; to help keep their households going... so their households will thrive and survive during hard times, and even harder times that are coming.
Learn to bake brake bread.
Learn to cook more homemade recipes, cook all of your own meals at home.
Plant a garden, and keep growing a backyard garden, work buffer drops and plant multiple raised garden beds.
Seed save and keep buying seeds for gardens.
Work year round. Including try growing different veggies all year if you can,
Start and maintain a food pantry for your household.
Learn canning, and other skillsets.
Buy extra food items when you see them on sale, keep shopping sale items, keep building up your pantry folks.
We are not guaranteed anything in life folks, especially in gardening or in life in general.
Keep trying to stay as frugal as possible and stay out of debt.
Keep making improvements on your household... add more amendments to your soil so you can keep growing a garden.
Keep your fences in good shape, maintain your house as best as you can.
Keep your vehicles well maintained.
Have a bartering system set up with other locals so you can barter with each other, rather than spend on money. Bartering comes in handy when you all have different skillsets.
Start a compost pile and take care it, buy different composting bags of soil amendments at your local garden center/nurseries, buy used or new garden tools so you can maintain your gardens better.
Make sure you have enough blankets and buy them during the Summer so you have them for this coming Winter, buy clothing, towels, and bedding items as you see them on sale.
Really make your dollar stretch and work for your household.
Get your house and garage's organized, organize your sheds, get everything all in order... see what garden tools you have and make a list of items that you need to get.
Get everything organized folks.
Rotate your pantry items, keep them all well labeled and organized so you know what you have, and what you need to fill in on.
The more organized your household is, and the more prepared your household it, the better off your family will be as harder times approach us.
Maybe set aside some stuff for bartering, if your garden grows well, trade some of your veggies with some one who grew different veggies than you.
If you garden grew really well, and you want to help out a local senior citizen, give them some of your extra veggies to help them out some. Kindness goes a long way.
But remember to secure food from your gardens for your household first, because that is why you worked hard on your garden, to provide extra food for your household.
