>>79298
Starting off these days paycheck to paycheck would be very difficult and your options would be extremely limited. I would recommend you start with buying a couple of totes (to seal from vermin and bugs) and start stashing bags or bulk rice, spice, beans, peas, grits, pasta, powdered foods like mashed potatoe mix. Every so often start adding canned foods to your pantry and date them per purchase. Build a surplus. When you build your surplus in food, start focusing on building surplus elsewhere like extra underwear, extra shoes/boots, extra sanitation supplies, etc. Now do this year after year after year if you can financially manage it overtime. Just know, at some point, you will need firearms to protect it all when a crisis hits.