Thanks. We just put in a pretty good garden and still have canned goods from last year. Even if the economy doesn’t go south, the price of food is going up faster than salaries so we haven’t lost anything by putting away something for a rainy day.
With a “pretty good garden”, you need a dehydrator and canning supplies.
We have been putting in 300 lb seed tatoes for the last 10 years, grow all the carrots & brocculli we need too.
We have always had 2-3 year supply of food due to cost of flying it in. When road isn't washed out and open, we haul truck loads in. I have to keep flour in freezer come summer, but have no problems with can goods lasting 5-6 years, except for fruit like peaches. Alot of our meat is what the land & river provides, but I usually haul in 50 hams and cases of bacon, ect every other year.
We got in the habit of ordering 15 cases of one item every month, whatever is on super sale at Fred Meyer, span ak, or Sams. Usually weighs about 200 lb and costs maybe 75 bucks for shipping, but if I get tuna for 59 cents/can rather than 2 bucks at our local store, I'm good, got 750 cans a few months back.
I have over 100 big tasters choice coffee containers in basement, doesn't go bad, things like that what will really go up in price. Last month I got 15 cases of pie filling, enough for 200 pies. The post office lady laughed, but when she's eatin salmon 24/7, I'll be livin off cherry pie, ha ha. I might have a thousand bucks in shipping of canned goods I bought on sale, but probably 300 cases in basement; and I feel safe that I ain't going to die of starvation anytime soon, ha ha.
Now kids are off at school, we don't use nearly as much. My biggest problem is that it will go bad in about 10 years.
I can see it now, We'll burn the wooden bridges 50 miles down the road to our town to keep the Fairbanks ghouls out. Then the Indians who spend every last penny they get from govt on booze will be begging me for food and I'll be feeding them all I have, cause they are good sharing people themselves whatever little they have. Then every last one of them Indians will be crying the blues about being forced to eat dang White Man's Food. ha ha