1. Canned fruits, vegetables, meats, and soups
2. Dried legumes (beans, lentils, peas)
3. Crackers
4. Nuts
5. Pasta sauce
6. Peanut butter
7. Pasta
8. Flour (white, whole wheat)
9. Seasonings (vanilla, salt, pepper, paprika, cinnamon, pepper, taco seasoning, etc.)
10. Sugar
11. Bouillon cubes or granules (chicken, vegetable, beef)
12. Kitchen staples (baking soda, baking powder, yeast, vinegar)
13. Honey
14. Unsweetened cocoa powder
15. Jell-O or pudding mixes
16. Whole grains (barley, bulgur, cornmeal, couscous, oats, quinoa, rice, wheat berries)
17. Nonfat dried milk
18. Plant-based oil (corn oil, vegetable oil, coconut oil, olive oil)
19. Cereals
20. Seeds for eating and sprouting
21. Popcorn (not the microwavable kind)
22. Instant potato flakes Instant potato flakes
23. Packaged meals (macaroni and cheese, hamburger helper, Ramen noodles, etc.)
24. Purified drinking water
25. Fruit juices, teas, coffee, drink mixes
Wife says,
Chocolate. Real Chocolate. Lots of real chocolate.
Do you or anyone else on this thread have a source for a good long term storage Bouillon cube, freeze dried beef/chicken stock, or Beef/chicken/onion soup base with long shelf lives? Most everything I’ve seen doesn’t have much of a shelf life.
One thing I keep seeing missing is salt.
Salt is essential for survival and goes a LONG way to making anything taste better.
Add some multi-vitamin and mineral supplements.
Rolled oats are another good grain to keep on hand. They’re very high in minerals and are easy to cook and dress up so as not to be too boring.
You can put about ANYTHING in oatmeal.
Trust me on that one.
Good list...Why popcorn?...that is all I do not have.
No Spam?
For prepping it has always seemed to me that in general canned foods make considerably more sense than alternatives.
Many of the things on your list require water or fuel to prepare, or both.
Canned foods can be eaten, if need be, without either.
They are of course much heavier than some alternatives, but that doesn’t seem like much of a problem unless you’re planning to be mobile. They may also be a little bulkier in some cases.
THanks for the list! We have a lot of this on hand most of the time but not enough to get through a BIG blizzard (not half-baked ones like this year’s) or a long post-tornado power outage.
Yep ... gotta keep buying a little more a little at a time.