[Kartographer]

I often hear about people say. I'd prep, but I don't have the money. Well here's five things that are cheap, nutritious almost ever body likes and you can buy locally.

Add some dry rice and beans which are also cheap and easy to store you got a solid base to build your food preps on.

[Kartographer]

Preppers’ PING!!

[Leaning Right]

So the food stocks sit in a closet, expire, and have to be thrown out

IMHO, that's a mistake. Why throw out something that has potential value? I've read that undented canned food can last a decade or more. The expiration date is just a guess, there for legal reasons more than anything else.

If I'm wrong about this, I hope someone here on FR will correct me.

[basil]

What about powdered milk, flour, and shortening, as well as cornbread mix?

[basil]

Also, what about powdered eggs?

[maine-iac7]

I'd go for dried fruits over canned - much more fruit in much less space - easier to carry, if need be,

Unless it's wild rice, I'd go with quinoa/couscous

jars of Better Than Bullion brothes - chicken/beef. One small jar of this paste will give you gallons of soup broth.

Use that with dried soup vegetables - Bob's Red Mill - one bag will give you gallons of soup.

GREENS. (Green are just as vital as fruits for staying healthy) - spinach is the one vegetable that is more nutritious cooked than raw - and is PACKED with nutrition: High in Vit K - and all the regular vitamins; minerals include iron, magnesium, potassium, zinc, calcium etc -

VINEGER - raw (packed with minerals and good for gut health...to go on spinach.

I wouldn't worry too much about fruit juices - they are a lot of bulk and weight. Dried fruits is the way I'd go. You can't beat water for drinking. But if you don't have access to natural water - store SPRING water, NOT ‘purified’ water, which is filtered sewer water from large cities - and not everything is filtered out. Iodine - for water safety, if needed - and for cuts, scrapes

[Lurker]

When the SHTF I for one am not going to worry about partially hydrogenated oils in my peanut butter or trace amounts of mercury in the canned tuna.

I’ll buy what’s cheap and stack it deep. When I need it I’ll thank God for it.

[Stonewall Jackson]

If you have a bug-out bag, I’d recommend sticking a jar of peanut butter in it. It doesn’t take up a lot of space, doesn’t weigh too much, but is packed full of vitamins, calories, and fats that will be essential in the event of an unplanned (but hopefully prepared for) cross-country excursion.

[Joseph Harrolds]

I like MREs, myself. Fresh ones (that being a relative term) are pricey, though.

[Secret Agent Man]

Don’t throw out “expired” canned goods. If the cans are still sealed, they’ll be fine. They’ve found canned foods last far longer than the sell by dates with a little degradation in taste. Rotating is the thing to do but if they are in a cooler dryer place they can last decades.

[AZLiberty]

A big old can of pineapple juice exploded in my pantry last weekend. Took three days to get the sticky goo off everything.

[Smokin' Joe]

While not easy on a tight budget, we were ending up tossing too many old canned goods, so we bought one of these Shelf Reliance units.

It took a little time to set up and organize the pantry, but now we can see what we are using, replace the depleted stock, and rotate stock as we fill the rack.

They make smaller units, too.

It was interesting to see how our perceptions of what we had on hand varied from what we actually had once we got the rack set up and cleared the shelves and cupboards filling it.

Some things were in far shorter supply than we thought, some we had a lot more of than we believed.

[IDontLikeToPayTaxes]

Want something that taste a little better then MREs

I just can't take somebody seriously has the writing ability of a child and doesn't know the difference between "then" and "than."

[Lazamataz]

Thank you. I might live. Probably not, but maybe. You never know. Could be, but the odds are against it. Sometimes yes, sometimes no. Who can know for sure. But I will. Unless I don't. But then if I die, I won't be alive, so I won't die. Unless I do. It's a tossup. Sometimes you get the bear, sometimes the bear gets you. But I'll try. If I don't, I won't. You can't tell for sure. I might make it, or not. There's a chance. This can happen, unless I haven't a prayer. But if I do, then I will. But there's not the slightest hope. Yet I am sure I will make it. There's zero chance of that. But who can say? I can. I will make it. But maybe not.

Of this, I am 100% sure.

[Ladysmith]

yikes! My AVG just blocked a threat from that site: Exploit Rogue Scanner (type 1927).

[ctdonath2]

Costco has 50 pound bags of rice or bread flour for $17. Hat alone will keep an adult male going for a month. (Yes, nutrition is lacking but it will get you the calories needed to get nutrition.)

[little jeremiah]

I’ve been thinking of writing up a rather long vanity about prepping; I used to have a blog (it probably still exists somewhere, I should check) but just have not the time to add to it. A few people here (I think probably all on your list) wanted me to tell them when my blog was fixed up. I’ll ping you if I do this, I really want to (time is a problem) to just give my own ideas and experiences, some of which may help a few others.

Having been in the prepping mode pretty seriously for about 7 years (?) or so, I’ve learned a lot, and we are increasingly poorer and poorer to the point where we don’t have enough for property tax even if we don’t spend one more penny until November (when taxes are due). So I have a lot of experience at prepping and having no money.

I agree with the absolute necessity of rotating; but would add this - rather than buying what one normally eats and rotating, learn to eat very cheap long shelf life foods and then rotate. That way if income dwindles (or shuts off!) a person will not go into shock at having to eat “icky” food they’re not used to, or not have enough stocked up for hard times.

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