re: So I watched the Julia Roberts Movie "Leave the World Behind" - MY TINFOIL HAT IS NOW ON

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Adopt the ages-old Boy Scout motto, and "Be Prepared".

It's actually very cheap and easy to store up rice and beans in fully sealed mylar bags with oxygen absorbers. Just buy a little at a time every time you go grocery shopping or have to stop by the grocery store mid-week because you ran out of milk. Then, store the Mylar bags in preferably airtight containers that protect from rodents and keep in a cool, dark place. Stuff lasts for 25+ years. I use Tidy Cats litter pails because they're rectangular in shape, stackable, and you can maximize storage space when compared to round buckets.

For water, have a means of setting up a long term purification system, and also short term. Life Straws work well. There's also currently a four-pack of Sawyer MINI water filters on Amazon for $65 that are good for purifying up to 100,000 gallons of water each.

To supplement that, if you have a green thumb and possess even the most rudimentary hunting, fishing and foraging skills, you can hunt/gather to add fillers to your most basic of rice/beans meals. Keep a large quantity of salt in storage as well, as it will be more valuable than gold in a long term SHTF situation. Avoid iodized salt, and instead choose something like Himalayan or sea salt.

Most canned foods, regardless of what the "best by" date says, also have a basically indefinite shelf life as well, as long as the cans are stored at room temperature or lower and not dented/damaged in any way. Turn a spare closet in your home into an extra pantry just for canned goods and mylar-sealed dry goods. Freeze-dried foods are expensive but also have a 25+ year shelf life if sealed properly. If you're O-T Ballin' and have the spare coin, invest in a Harvest Right freeze dryer, and you can freeze dry and package entire meals in a mylar bag, and then all you have to do is rehydrate them with hot water for an instant meal that tastes as good as the day you prepared it. It's also a very good idea to store envelopes of heirloom fruit and vegetable seeds for planting in the future.

Combine all this with plenty of ammo, and a heightened vigilance and sense of awareness of your surroundings, and you're off to a good start. It's best (especially if you live in an urban area) to have all the above items stored at a bugout location either on the fringes of civilization or in the middle of BFE.

Society and the US is not prepared for a grid crash or an EMP event... But you can be, with minimal effort and some studying.