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I also have stocked up a bit on the hot chocolate packets, but they won’t taste that great after the best by date, due to the milk.

For longer term storage I buy the unsweetened powdered baking cocoa. That can be used to make chocolate candy, hot chocolate, fudge, chocolate cake, frosting etc.

I have a number of recipes for homemade granola bars, and the ingredients to make them. I like these for prepping for the electric outages. Just open up and eat the peanut butter, granola bar and a little hot chocolate is kinda heavenly when the weather is cold, and you can’t cook for whatever reason.

I bought a coffee grinder on sale a few years back, and I use it to grind wheat from my garden to add to regular flour that I purchase in #10 cans by the case. I also have a hand mill that grinds even finer in case I want to increase the amount of whole wheat.

I save the clear plastic soda jugs for water. I use the milk jugs for disposable planters in the summer, and take what I can’t use to the recycling center. They will deteriorate fairly quickly if they are outdoors, so I only use them for stuff for about 6 months or so.

I am really bad about wanting to save stuff just in case I think of something I can do to repurpose it or something. Of course I even recycle my garbage-it goes into the compost pile to use next spring when the gardening season is about to start in earnest.LOL