Posted on 04/03/2013 4:48:49 PM PDT by Kartographer
1. Canned fruits, vegetables, meats, and soups 2. Dried legumes (beans, lentils, peas) 3. Crackers 4. Nuts 5. Pasta sauce 6. Peanut butter 7. Pasta 8. Flour (white, whole wheat) 9. Seasonings (vanilla, salt, pepper, paprika, cinnamon, pepper, taco seasoning, etc.) 10. Sugar 11. Bouillon cubes or granules (chicken, vegetable, beef) 12. Kitchen staples (baking soda, baking powder, yeast, vinegar) 13. Honey 14. Unsweetened cocoa powder 15. Jell-O or pudding mixes 16. Whole grains (barley, bulgur, cornmeal, couscous, oats, quinoa, rice, wheat berries) 17. Nonfat dried milk 18. Plant-based oil (corn oil, vegetable oil, coconut oil, olive oil) 19. Cereals 20. Seeds for eating and sprouting 21. Popcorn (not the microwavable kind) 22. Instant potato flakes Instant potato flakes 23. Packaged meals (macaroni and cheese, hamburger helper, Ramen noodles, etc.) 24. Purified drinking water 25. Fruit juices, teas, coffee, drink mixes
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Rice.
I grow corn. No worries.
Spam and Dak Ham! Can’t believed I missed them!
Most important item: WATER
Start storing it now .. and don’t tell other people that’s you’re storing it, or where it is.
Don’t forget the can opener.
...dehydrated water pills is the ans to that...(grin)...
canned foods under cool and dry conditions last decades. army tests confirm it. flavor loss is not spoilage.
plastic bags and dessicant tabs.
Check, check, check, check and check. Except for the oils, I store shortening instead. And instead of cocoa I have a big container of hot chocolate mix, although that probably wouldn’t last as long on the shelf as the cocoa.
My pantry really has improved over this past winter, although I’ve been working on it. Oh, I need to get some potato flakes, but will probably look at canning them at the LDS cannery.
The next project to finish is our bug out bags. Silly me, I loaded up the medical supplies without cataloguing them first, so I have to re-do that. Hopefully will finish the project soon.
Water remains a concern. Probably have 75 gallons stored including the hot water heater. Better than nothing, for sure.
Speaking of case lots .. there’s a website called http://www.buythecase.com and I found a snack bar there from World Pantry. You get 30 in a case, and it costs about 26-28 dollars. They have no preservatives, wheat, gluten, no cholesterol, no trans fat; vegetarian. I buy 3 cases at a time, and I get free shipping.
My favorite is the Mariani Honey Bar with Cranberry, nuts (peanuts and almonds), raisens and dried apricots. YUM! It’s very satisfying and can be a substitute meal.
Also, Instant Beer, Evaporated Beer, Freeze Dried Beer, and BRDs.
Well, I wouldn't apply that to canned milk. I had some evap milk with "best by" dates of 09. I decided to open a can of it to check and it was BROWN. Didn't even look like milk. I tossed them out. Some other canned milk I have that are just over a year past best by date, looked fine. I kept that with big notes written on the labels to evaluate it before using. Probably a good practice with any long term stored canned food.
zactly. without it the rest ain’t worth a crap.
that might be an exception. but i don’t really think of that when i think of canned foods. i am thinking entree type items. anything canned and sealed today, canned food, should last decades as long as the seal is kept.
Salt. Not as a seasoning, but as a preservative. You need far more than what would be needed as a seasoning.
Oh and one other thing....I’ve been buying up left over holiday candy like Valentines hearts and jelly beans after they go on sale and storing it with my vacuum sealer. Should keep for quite a while I’d say and some candy would be a big mood lifter in a crisis.
/seriously! if we get to SHTF; you’ll be able to trade a jigger for most anything else you need!
; that and cigerettes..... and I don’t drink or smoke.
Good, I should have enough Plum Jam to last several years...or decades :)
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