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Food & Storage

The winter arithmetic

People × days × calories. Run it in October while there's still time to fix the gap, not in January when there isn't.

Result
Calories required
1,530,000 cal
2 adults + 2 children × 180 days.
The gap
1,530,000 cal
Gap in wheat, as one example
1,020 lb
About 22.7 five-gallon buckets.
Per person per day you have
0 cal

What this will not do

  • Calories are not nutrition. This tells you whether you'll have energy, not whether you'll be well. Fat, protein, and vitamin C in particular need planning separately — scurvy is a storage-diet disease, historically.
  • Run this in October. The gap is fixable in October with a grain order and a few more rows of storage crops. In January it is not fixable at all.
  • Count what you will actually eat. A year of wheat you don't know how to cook is not food, it's ballast — and appetite fatigue is real and underestimated.

The full build and the reasoning are in Chapter 38 of the guide.