10 Best Survival Foods At Your Local Supermarket

Activist Post ^ | Oct 1, 2012

[MileHi]

Thanks, I’ll look.

[greeneyes]

Orrington Farms makes a powdered broth base with ham, beef,or chicken flavors, and it actually can last a long time without refrigeration.

[greeneyes]

Now, Now, bgill don't be so negative.LOL. It's never too late to learn to garden and better to start today and start practicing.

My granny lived on a farm and almost never went to the store all during my childhood. We had fresh milk, made our own butter and bread, and grew all our fruits and veggies. In addition we had a pig slaughtered, smoked, and made our own bacon.

Sure you want to have a sizable stash to last 6 months to a year, but eventually you will run out of that food. Then what? If it is a true Apocalypse, a little gardening skill is bound to come in handy.

Join the FR Weekly Garden Thread. If nothing else, you can learn a lot just by lurking. LOL.

[PA Engineer]

Thanks. Will check them out. Sometimes Yoder orders can take a while to fill.

There is one other source I use (non-meat) that I forgot to mention. Harmony House Foods provide great dehydrated foods. I use them for soups and other dishes and seem to have a very long shelf life when kept in a cool and dark location.

What motivated me to buy dehydrated was watching the real number of servings in canned vegetables diminishing over the past couple of years. Canned vegetables take up a lot of shelf space for calories and servings provided. Also, many store bought vegetables during the winter months had very poor quality and freshness.

The only item I had problems rehydrating were the peas.

The canned meats and dehydrated vegetables can be thrown together quickly for excellent soups and stews.

[greeneyes]

I always have at least a 6 month supply of coffee and coffee filters for a year. We have lots of chicory growing wild, so I will be able to dry and grind the roots to add to the coffee and make it last longer.

I raise rosa rugosa which has marble sized rose hips for rose hip tea which is very high in vitamin C. Don’t forget the dandelion greens-when they appear in the spring they have lots of vitamin c too.

[greeneyes]

Grinning from ear to ear: What fun. Hubby and his family used to pick peanuts and chop cotton when he was little to earn some extra money.

The kids love this kind of stuff, and have almost zero exposure to where food really comes from, and how to survive without a grocery store, unless someone in the family gardens and teaches them.

I learned a lot from my granny down on the farm. No running water or bathroom in the 3-room farmhouse. No washer and dryer. Icebox predated the refrigerator. No phone.

[greeneyes]

I thought everyone knew that beans were not a complete protein, but would be complete with rice. We learned that in 9th grade home economics class.

Also, quinoa is a grain that is considered a complete protein according to what I read. I am going to try growing some next summer.

[Twinkie]

I’m carrying around several pounds of “groceries on the hoof”. - That’s discouraging about the Big Mac. I wonder if Burger King Whoppers are like that; that’s where we eat a good bit of the time. yuk.

[Twinkie]

Urk! I just thought about this “fixed income” business if the SHTF; I’d be surprised if our fixed incomes continue under the SHTF conditions. So, I guess we’ll have to “root hog or die” in that case. :O)

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Nah...not me. I’ve never maintained a ping list.

[greeneyes]

Yep, That’s what I’ve been thinking too. Think it might be good to buy some silver - enough to pay taxes for the next 10 yrs or so would last till I die probably, and keep up with inflation. LOL

[greeneyes]

Anyone have ideas for storing cooking oils? Can you put veg. oil in the fridge or freezer? Seems to me it would slow down oxidation/extend shelf life. Anyone have experience with this?

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Seems reasonable. I have been busy buying up lots of Olive Oil, Peanut oil, Avocado Oil while it is still sold in glass containers. I have actually put Avocado oil and coconut oil in the refrigerator and it works ok.

My SHTF plan is to grow peanuts, and use peanut oil for cooking. Also goat milk for cheese and baking. Maybe even butter. I used to skim the cream off milk and make my own butter from cow’s milk. It’s worth a try for goat’s milk, but haven’t gotten around to that experiment yet.

[greeneyes]

Our Walmart will sell food grade buckets with lids for $1.00. If your buckets are not food grade, and you are concerned, just line the buckets with something, or wrap the product up.

For example, you could use seal a meal and just put your bag of flour (for example) in the bag, and vaccum seal it. Then stick the bags in the 5 gallon buckets. Label the buckets. Stack them floor to ceiling.

[greeneyes]

Yep, and that oatmeal can be ground into oat flour.

[greeneyes]

have a 55 gal. FOOD GRADE barrel attached to a diverter in a downspout to catch rainwater and a 100 gal.

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Assuming that water comes off the roof, are the shingles safe, or are you relying on the berkey to make the water pure from whatever chemicals come off the shingles?

[Marcella]

“Assuming that water comes off the roof, are the shingles safe, or are you relying on the berkey to make the water pure from whatever chemicals come off the shingles?”

Right now, the water is coming straight down the downspout, not being diverted. When it rained, I would let the water continue down the drain to wash off dirt/whatever from the roof, then move that part and the water would go in the barrel. I have a slate stone roof, not composition made with chemicals.

I would run the water through large coffee filters to remove any remaining dirt/particles, then put it through my Big Berkey.

[greeneyes]

We just have regular 30-year shingles. So I’m not sure how safe they are. We collect the water off the roof for watering flower beds and trees mostly during the dry season.

Just wondering if there was a way to make it potable.

[editor-surveyor]

But what if you’re not at home when it all comes down?

A small bottle in your pocket could be the difference!

[Marcella]

“We just have regular 30-year shingles. So I’m not sure how safe they are.”

As long as you let water run off for a bit to get the roof cleaned off well, I would do the same with that water as I’m doing with water off my roof.

[Marcella]

“But what if you’re not at home when it all comes down?”

I would have access to my car where there is a backpack with three days of sterile water in presealed pouches. I never go into the woods, so forget that scenario.