Posted on 10/14/2021 4:59:54 PM PDT by The Louiswu
Does anyone have a list or a link to a list of food and items to stock up to help us get thru the coming shortages? Thanks
You are 100 percent correct!
If you have pets - stock up on some extra food, treats and medicines for them too. Store it so no critters can get at it - maybe in big plastic sealable totes.
A plethora cynics on the forum. The Mormons have always had a lot of good material about this question. Catch up on some Mel Tappan stuff and learn more here as well: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/gospel-topics/food-storage?lang=eng
exactly.
I only use MRE’s for travel, such as camping, hunting or boating. MRE shelf life isn’t that long and cost higher compared to regular canned goods. I favor the #10 can freeze dried for long term storage.
I would say rechargeable batteries and a solar charger for them.
ATF. Alcohol, tobacco and firearms are commodities that always have street value.
I always thought stockings were more of a surprise gift. Santa could bring some life savers. I like the elf pez. That’s always fun. Yeh I go with candy for the stocking list.
That way you can trade them for the things you should have bought instead:)
“SPAM”
Oh yeah.... spam cans. Lots and lots of them. Wink, wink, nod.
*** Spaghetto’s lots of spaghettos. ***
The ones on the shelf now have a best by date of mid 2023.
Toilet paper, powdered milk, chicken broth you can use in all sorts of things, rice and red beans, flour, sugar, canned meat and vegetables, dried onions, etc. salt, plain oatmeal and wheat berries. Tea. Honey, it doesn’t spoil.
Learn to grow veggies in containers and then save the seeds.
Learn to make a sour dough starter, fed it and learn to make bread. You will find an excellent sour dough baking group on Facebook.
Water is the most important item. A healthy adult can go about about 3 weeks w/o food but only 3 days w/o water. Figure about 1 gallon per person in the household per day for drinking, cooking, and very light personal hygiene. This does not include water needed for flushing the toilet or bathing.
As for food, to keep things simple, I figure about 2000 calories per adult person in the household per day. Actual calorie intake needs very by age, sex, and amount of physical activity but that to figure that out would be too complicated.
Think of foods and meals you and others in your home like but keep it simple. Meals that can be prepared with items that don’t require refrigeration, much prep time or a wide variety of ingredients. Each recipe should provide enough food for 1 meal for each person in the home. Try to avoid leftovers as you may not be able to store it so adjust your recipes accordingly. Put together a folder or binder that contains the recipes for these meals.
Using your recipe book, then figure out a meal plan for however long you want to prep for. 3 days? 3 weeks? 3 months? Longer? This plan will show what you’ll make each day for breakfast, lunch and dinner and I’d also include snacks. Your meal plan should provide the daily caloric needs for each person in the home. Put this plan in your folder with the recipes.
With your recipe book and meal plan, you’ll be able to figure out what you need to stock and how much. Without a plan and recipe book, you’ll just be winging it and may run short of key ingredients like salt, condiments, water or foods.
Unless you have special dietary needs or restrictions, I wouldn’t worry about eating healthy as survival is the name of the game in a crisis situation. Many of the lunches in my meal plan for my wife and I is just Ramen Noodles topped with homemade kimchi, a pickled egg each and we split a can of fruit in heavy syrup. Excessive salt content for sure but we’ll not be going hungry. This is a lunch we really like but don’t eat it often because of the high calories and salt but in a crisis, we’ll have it often.
And don’t forget about pets, They need food and water too.
Finally, make sure you factor in how much water you’ll need for each meal just to make sure that your stock of a gallon per person per day is enough.
make sure you have water, flour, sugar, salt, lots of it, pasta, rice and other grains.....canned veggies and fruits....canned soups....
we have freezers with lots of meat, and a generator to run if need be....
but we also have canned salmon, tuna, chicken and yes spam and little canned hams too....
eggs...recently found out that you can water glass fresh farm eggs and they'll keep for many months ....the things you learn when you get to be 67....lol
some will experience food shortages but ALL of us will have food inflation....
speaking of recipes, if the power goes out, so do our computers and tvs....might be a good time to jot down some favorite recipes on an index card like we used to do....
Thanks to everyone for the suggestions and the info.
coal might be making a u-turn on appreciation...
No doubt
Hormel canned tamales. $1.76 A can. 😏
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