The nice thing about canned items is you usually don’t have to add a lot of water.
My husband and I have been prepping over the past 18 months or so. Our stock includes dry staples like flour, sugar, salt, coffee, spices, powdered milk, grains, cereals, peanut butter, vitamins, oils, etc. And, yes, peanut butter. I date everything with a sharpie as it comes in, and store what I consider to be “fragile packed” in pestproof bins.
My heirloom, organic tomatoes are starting to ripen, so I stocked up on canning supplies last week. I picked up a few hints from my grandmother before she passed, but this will be my first at canning ‘maters. Apple butter is on the list, too.
My 10+ year old van is hinting it would like to retire, and it’s replacement will run on flex fuel and eventually straight alcohol. We live in a farming community and my husband’s goal is getting us off the grid. It’s ambitoious, but a good one.
I have been “prepping” for well over a year. Like I said, I could probably list a million things. I have an old, cast iron potbelly woodburning stove just in case. I get a little amused by the people who can’t really afford it who are buying gold as fast a their little eyes can blink. What are you gonna do with it? You can’t eat it, drink it, or plant it. People laugh at me when I tell them to buy seeds and some chickens. Laugh all they want. Laugh until they die.