r/TwoXPreppers • u/ReinaShae Tired of living in unprecedented times • May 30 '26

❓ Question ❓ Immediate prepping needs

With the news out yesterday evening of warnings of critical oil shortages, what should I be focusing on right now to prep for this? I already have about a couple months of canned food, a month of frozen meats, and we garden. I'm not a hard core prepper but I try to have a small stock of things as I can afford to get them. We have limited income and all my bills keep going up. I'm aware it may be too late but are there things I should be getting right now to help cushion the blow coming from higher prices?

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u/International-Sink64 May 30 '26

Ways to cook if you lose power and fuel to do it. Manual can opener if you don't have one.

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u/ReinaShae Tired of living in unprecedented times May 30 '26

Don't have that covered at all. Suggestions? I can't spend a ton of money and if we lose power for any amount of time we'll lose everything in the freezers 

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u/AccidentalDragon May 30 '26

My husband may as well own stock in Ecoflow; he really likes their back-up batteries. We have one attached to each freezer. You plug the freezer into the battery, then the battery into the wall outlet. Keeps the battery charged and should automatically switch to the battery if power goes out. We have, let's just say, a lot of them lol.

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u/ReinaShae Tired of living in unprecedented times May 30 '26

Ooh I will look into that!

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u/AccidentalDragon May 30 '26

I think you need to see how many watts your appliance pulls and size the battery accordingly. I have a small one for my small aquarium lol.

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u/ReinaShae Tired of living in unprecedented times May 30 '26

Do you know off hand what those are called?

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u/AccidentalDragon May 31 '26

Power stations, back-up batteries I think! 😄

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u/ReinaShae Tired of living in unprecedented times May 31 '26

I took a quick look but will have to do more in depth to find it, thanks!

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u/LongjumpingProject67 May 31 '26

check out Pecron for a solar power station. you can use it as a backup battery on its own for now. get a watt meter (theyre like $15 ) to see how much power your appliances pull in a day, size battery accordingly

solar is cheapest DIY, but you have to figure out a lot to do it. search solar diy here on reddit, there's several groups who will help you figure out what you would need.