[DelaWhere]

Are you prepared?

Really?

You say you bought one of those 3/4 ton 1 year supply for 2 packages like this:



OK,  Practice Time

What's for dinner.....

As you start prying open containers, searching for something to eat
you find...

2 Corn, Yellow (80#)
1 Great Northern Bean (42#)
1 Rye (42#)
1 Soybean (40#)
1 Millet (43#)
1 Honey (36#)
1 Oat Groat (40#)
1 Salt (50#)
And still 30 more sealed packages to open...

Hey, all this stuff sounded so good on their website - but what do I do with all of this?

Isn't dinner ready yet...

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Now, consider what it would be like fixing that dinner if you were using your everyday stockpile of food like:













Would certainly be faster - and probably tastier too.

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Or even better yet, if you had canned all your foods yourself -

Better choices - no additives - less salt - less sugar - better quality.

Take a look at these pantries:














The choice is yours....

Why not try a drill -

For dinner tomorrow fix your dinner from your emergency preparedness stock.  Then evaluate it!

Post a note to the group and let us know how you did...

[WestCoastGal]

OK whose pantry is that? I want to live there. :D

[Wneighbor]

Post a note to the group and let us know how you did...

You're on... LOL ... do I need to add that I just canned up some chili that was leftover from the Daytona 500 race feast?

[Wneighbor]

BTW - I ran on to 2 more fresh over-ripe cantaloupes today. LOL - more stuff to play with.

[nw_arizona_granny]

I don’t do much on the stove cooking, as I pass out and it could be a fire.

I use the crockpot and it is my storage food that i fix, I buy from Walton feed.com for every day use, not the planned set ups as I know what I will use.

LOL

And there is no soy in there.

I have regular canned foods and am loosing too many of them, they are bulging in a year or less.

There is no way that i will ever be able to can again, but that is one beautiful photo.

[Marmolade]

For dinner tomorrow fix your dinner from your emergency preparedness stock. Then evaluate it!

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Thanks, for posting this. (you can see how far behind I am with posts) I keep thinking I need to buy things I read about on here and other places, but then realize I wouldn’t know what to do with them. I have been stocking up on store items, but also wanted to get some bulk grains, etc. I realized I better experiment with some of this food now, or else I would find myself staring at it not knowing what to do with it. I am also going to try canning this summer. I have offered to help an elderly neighbor this summer so I can learn from her. The recipes and ideas on this thread are so valuable in learning how to prepare some of these different items. (Can you tell I grew up a city girl?)

I am thinking it would be good to have some of the bulk items, it would be less tempting for someone to take as they wouldn’t know what to do with it either. LOL