Prepper Pantry Haul Alaska Prices Carr's Safeway Adding To Food Stockpile Must Have
Prepping Supplies hi it's AlaskaGranny Alaska Prepper i've made another prepper pantry haul
this time i went to my local Carr's grocery store which is Safeway in Alaska and yes food prices
have gone up dramatically Carr's Safeway always been more expensive than shopping somewhere like
Walmart but really was phenomenally more expensive food i bought today than what i
bought on prepper pantry hauls food stockpiles in the past food prices are really going up
the Carr's Safeway store was nicely full the food now but food prices becoming almost unaffordable
do you remember when you could buy cans of Campbell's chunky soup for say three for five
dollars well each can of Campbell's chunky soup is now more than five dollars each so of course
i didn't buy any of those and thank you Lord i did stock up on Campbell's chunky soup before but
that's one of the reasons you want to build your prepper pantry food stockpile because yes food
is in shorter supply many places but with the food that is available is becoming so much more
expensive it's hard to afford to stock up on food and to just feed your family on an everyday basis
so foods you buy today are going to help you going forward because you're going to have those foods
at today's prices don't you wish you had food at last year's prices even then we thought they were
going up but now they're even more expensive foods that you bought say a year ago now you're able to
eat those that maybe you got the soup at three for five dollars aren't you glad you had them then and
so what if it goes to ten dollars a can campbell's chunky soup the price of food is going up faster
than inflation and so it just is a good investment to stock up food at today's prepper pantry prices
that makes food a good investment because food is going to keep outpacing how quickly things are
costing more and food is going to go up exponentially more so anyway besides the
bad news the prices are going up there are still things food that you can find at the store and
let me show you the things food that i bought and explained to you why i bought them i have
sourdough starter in fact he's been in my family for a few generations so his name is Doughan
sourdough starter is something that you can keep going in your kitchen counter and then you always
have sourdough that you can bake bread or make pancakes if you can't use sourdough right away
you can store it in your refrigerator and i've had sourdough that i stored extra in my refrigerator
for six months and when i got it out i added some more flour and water and he sprung right back to
life you can also dehydrate sourdough starter and i'll put a link to a video i made on how to
do that it's very simple and then the same thing you can put dehydrated sourdough away with your
spices your baking supplies in your prepper pantry and then when you want to start up
the sourdough again you can just add water and feed it and it'll spring to life again
i also recently bought Oster bread machine and i'm trying out baking sourdough in the bread machine
in order to keep the sourdough going i like to use organic whole wheat flour
flour has been extremely hard to find and whole wheat flour has been very much more difficult plus
this five pound bag whole wheat flour was almost ten dollars my experience is if you want to feed
your sourdough starter you need to start with organic whole wheat flour because you want flour
that's alive if you get all-purpose or bleached flour it's basically been neutralized it isn't
going to be alive anymore like natural flours and so this is what you need to really keep your
sourdough starter going i want to keep my flour fresh so i bought a Rubbermaid container that
hopefully flour will fit right into it and that'll keep the flour fresher longer
you don't want to ever store things like flour just in the bag because first of all they can
get contaminated with the weevils and weevils are something that are naturally occurring in
your flour so you want to try to avoid those hatching so one of the things you can do
is store the flour in your freezer for a few days and then let it come back to room temperature
and then put it into an airtight container so you can see this rubbermaid container is going to fit
nicely with my five pounds of whole wheat flour and speaking about ridiculous this container was
15 dollars but you need to store your food in an airtight container and it's better if you store
your food in the container that fits it so that you don't have just a little bit in the bottom and
that all this extra air in between you want the size of your container to fit the amount of food
just to keep less air in the container with your food so this is going to fit nicely i'm going
to pour flour out of the bag snap on the lid and store it in my pantry where it's cool dark and dry
finally more of the Idahoan baby red potatoes i like to store these in my prepper pantry because
you only add water and just stir Idahoan instant mashed potatoes they're ready to eat and they're
quite delicious i've also found that Idahoan instant mashed potatoes lasted several years
past the date on the package one thing i like to do is put Idahoan instant mashed potatoes into
say a five gallon bucket fill it up with all kinds of packaged foods like this
put on the lid and then they store extra airtight for several years they're not going to last
forever like say just potato flakes because they have other ingredients in them however
just potato flakes you have to add things like milk and butter and you may not always have that
so i prefer to have Idahoan mashed potatoes and to rotate them every few years just to make sure
that i still have potatoes that i actually like with the ingredients that go with it to make them
i bought one box of Idahoan cheesy scallop potato these were almost four dollars i know that you
can go somewhere like Dollar Tree and you can get boxes of scallop potatoes for a dollar 25
but this one was almost four dollars and so rather than get four i could only afford to get one on
this trip to the store my favorite crackers are Triscuits and i love Triscuits avocado cilantro
lime so i picked up two boxes these will last about 9 to 12 months on your prepper pantry shelf
don't try to store foods like crackers cookies and cereal long term it just isn't possible they're
going to go stale and the ingredients that have say oil in them are going to degrade over time so
buy as much as you can use within a few months to a year but then make sure that you're rotating and
eating those foods and replacing them if you don't plan to eat them then why are you storing them
i've been buying the big bags of banana chips at Walmart and they're really delicious so i was able
to pick up a smaller bag at the Carrs Safeway store these are more organic but they were also
like twice as expensive but i was glad to pick them up because you can't always get everything at
the cheapest price what you need to do is continue to buy the things that you need at the prices that
you can find them if it's still affordable and so sometimes we just have to grin and bear it and go
ahead and pay more if they're foods that we really want to have in our prepper pantry stockpile i
picked up more Treetop applesauce cups applesauce is something that i put together with my
DIY MRE's I've been rotating some DIY MREs because they've been a year or two in my bug
out bag and with my emergency meals and so this is going to be rotated into fresh food
that i put into some of the diy mre ready to go meal kits i normally buy the betty crocker
just add water muffin mixes but they didn't have any and so i did see this Value muffin mix which
i haven't ever tried before Value muffin mix was on sale for 75 cents and so while i was tempted to
get every single one of them simply because that was such a good price i wasn't sure that they were
going to be tasty so i only bought not one but two my rule usually is if you see something you think
you like buy one take it home and try it and if you like it you can always go back and get more
because say i had bought a dozen of these and then they aren't very good that would have been a lot
of wasted money that i could have saved to buy the products i actually do want when i find them again
but it was on sale so it was a good time to try it i bought six jars of the Tostitos cheesy dip
Tostitos cheese dip is turning out to be something that my family likes that i can
spoon it over foods like chili they like it if you can't always have the fresh cheese you want
Tostitos cheese dip is going to be a good option so i've tried Tostitos cheese dip over a few
recipes in the last week or two because i've had some that's been in my pantry for quite a while
and yes it was a success so i bought six more jars of Tostitos cheese dip is it going to last as long
as say powdered cheese no and it's spicier than just plain cheese but you want to be looking for
substitutes alternatives foods that you can still add into your pantry meals so that you
can go ahead and serve the foods that you want i'm putting together some of my pantry meals
that i put all together in a ziploc bag this is going to go in with the white bean chicken chili
because it's a cheese that i can have that can live in the pantry with the other ingredients
and then you just pull it out make your white bean chicken chili and you have the cheese
already with it if you don't have fresh cheese in your refrigerator or even stored in your freezer
then you still have something remember when you could get little cans of chicken for a dollar
those days seem to be over and yes these were more than three dollars each but i wanted to have
some small cans of chicken and lately i've been able to buy large cans chicken for a better deal
but i don't always want a big can of chicken and so since i've been rotating through some of my
canned meats this is going to be good addition to the stockpile and prices are just going up people
so stock up before it goes up more i bought some cans of chicken of the sea tuna packed in water
these were only like a dollar 25 or something and so these are still way more affordable than
the little cans of chicken that i've been able to find but it's nice to have variety i'm not a
fan of tuna but other people in my family are so they can have tuna and i can have chicken
i bought six of the La Victoria salsa verde which is the green hot sauce because this goes into the
packets to make the white bean chicken chili so i have six of these to go into those packets that
i'm going to put together of the chicken chili this is something that's been in short supply i
tried to order it online from walmart and they had none of any brand salsa verde and you couldn't get
it at all so when i saw La Victoria salsa verde in the store at Carrs which is Safeway then they
had six jars which is what i wanted so i went ahead and put all six of them into my cart
if you've not tried fruit salsas you need to try them because they're absolutely delicious
they're completely different than rad salsas because they're sweet they have the fruit in
them so i bought Newman's own pineapple salsa sometimes you can find salsa with mango and
those are even better and what i plan to do with this is i have a package of pork boneless
pork ribs and i'm going to pour this Newman s Own pineapple salsa over pork ribs in the crock
pot and it's going to be absolutely delicious you can serve it with rice and whatever side vegetable
you want is going to be delicious so Newman's Own pineapple salsa is one that i like to rotate
through my pantry when i see them i buy them you can't always find the fruited salsas and so it's a
great thing to pick up to add variety into your prepper pantry if you like that kind of thing
i bought six more cans of tomatoes and these are with onions celery and green peppers so
it's a little different i was actually looking for tomatoes that have basil and oregano that are more
italian style canned tomatoes but those don't seem to be available they did have canned tomatoes that
had jalapenos or something but that's too spicy i was looking canned tomatoes that was actually like
italian but actually had some of the italian spices in it because i have a recipe that i'm
going to be putting together these into prepper pantry meal bag which is an italian beans and rice
i have six of these so i can put them together into six of my italian beans and rice prepper
pantry meals i bought cans of beefaroni because i have an easy recipe that i make for beefaroni
chili that my family actually likes i made a big pot of Beefaroni chili recently we hadn't made it
in a while and everybody liked it and so i bought six Beefaroni to put together six beefaroni chili
meal packets to go in my prepper pantry stockpile so if there are meals that you like that you can
put together with ziploc bags or just stack the foods together in your pantry or have an idea
that you want one of these one of these one of these then make meal ideas when you're shopping
for food don't just pick up food randomly have an idea what you want to do with it so that the food
is useful to you once you get home in a video i made recently i had said that i bought a bunch
of pasta sauce and i said don't buy just pasta sauce if you don't have pasta because i'm thinking
if you go to your prepper pantry and say you don't have a large stockpile and you just have a few
things you don't have the meals together of what you're going to make and several people commented
it makes great soup which i make soup out of it too i was thinking of it as just the simplest
meals in your prepper pantry pasta and sauce that without the pasta your sauce isn't as useful
as it is with it but if you have ways that you put it together that's fantastic you don't have
to use these foods in just one way have ideas how you can use them because the more ways you figure
out how to use your food the more you're going to enjoy your meals and if you say you buy something
you don't really like like i don't really care for the beefaroni but when i make the beefaroni chili
it has enough other ingredients and flavors and spices that it's enjoyable everyone will eat it
that i've served it to and so that works great it makes a nice big pot of food kids like it and
even the adults that i've given it to they ate it without complaining maybe it wasn't their favorite
chili they ever had but it was enjoyable and having food is what really matters we want to make
sure that we have the foods that we can feed our family because every meal that you put away today
is a meal you prepare for the future it's a gift to future me that i have food for my family and
if i can put up one or two extra cans and then i know that i have one or two extra meals
in the future do you see how comforting that is that you don't have to worry that
you might be missing meals it's comforting to have that knowledge that you provided going forward
the future is uncertain no one really knows and we have been challenged beyond belief
in the last few years and it's just one thing after another just keeps dog piling
all of these crazy things in the world so we're not going to go to the store one day
and it's completely empty that does happen some places but it's not very likely to happen to
us but we may go to the store we can't afford to buy any of the things or the foods that we want
to buy are not available and so you have to pay an exorbitant amount for foods you didn't really want
so having enough food put away to begin with helps you deal with those kind of situations
that we're all facing more and more of these days leave us a comment if you have favorite prepper
pantry ingredients that you're stockpiling and maybe give us some tips on how you're using them
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