beans rice why stockpile now long term food storage food shortages rising prices covid 19 coronavirus pandemic second wave
hi it's AlaskaGranny Alaska Prepper have you been working
on your food storage long term short term food stockpile stocking up on shelf stable meals lots of canned foods
packaged foods things that you can open and eat or easily prepare a meal food
so that you can combine foods things together to make meals for your family
out of foods that you have in your pantry short term food storage or your long-term food storage
stockpile I was looking to add more beans and rice
to my long term food storage for extra long-term food storage stockpile
because beans and rice are very versatile they're inexpensive they're
easy to store for 30 years or more and rice and beans they're a great way to bulk up
your long term and short term food storage a great way to stretch the food your pantry items
is with rice and beans you can make a pot of rice a pot of beans
make that half of your day's calorie count and then
fill in your meals with the foods that you have on hand
you can add a can of meat you can open a can of vegetables
maybe some dried fruit and then you can have a variety of foods with enough
calories from food storage to bulk up your meals for not very much
more money here in Alaska we're experiencing a
reset or second wave covid 19 coronavirus pandemic where they've asked us to
stay home again quarantine shelter in place for four weeks in the month of August so
if cases of coronavirus are increasing here they probably are
or will in the areas where you live when you read in the news they're saying covid 19 coronavirus pandemic second wave
it's probably going to flare up all over the place dramatically
beginning in September which means they're going to be doing more
second wave lockdowns stay-at-home orders for the pandemic
and we don't really know what's coming so it's a good time to make sure that
you have enough food on hand when iI went online to shop for beans rice at walmart to order
rice and beans i was certainly surprised at some of the
things that I discovered first I clicked on rice that I purchased
before and you can see it says it's $ 8.48
for 20 pounds of rice then when I clicked on add it to my cart
guess what the price of rice is now eleven dollars then look at the details it says
rice is not available for delivery and rice it's not available for pickup
so basically rice is sold out it's not in stock so I looked at
well what other rice products are available
and I was certainly surprised when I saw the exorbitant
prices on other bags of rice I think the price of rice has grown up increased dramatically
so it seems like it's a great time to buy rice for long term food storage stockpile it
if you can find it not only has the price of rice gone up but when i found a smaller
bag of rice 10 pound bags i clicked on that limit
two you can only buy 20 pounds of rice however if you look at it it also says
rice it's not even available until august 17th which is a week away
so then i looked at beans the largest pinto beans i could find
were 8 pounds if pinto beans at $ 5.98 it's not available for pick up free not in stock
delivery by monday 17th that's a week away no beans in stock
so i started looking at some of the other prices of beans
and i was shocked to see how much the other
bags of beans cost
and if you look for example here's a
three pack of beans of 32 ounces which means it's only
six pounds limit one and then guess what it's not available for pickup not available sold out out of stock they can
only get it through shipping so this certainly indicates to
me that prices are rising foods are not in stock foods are in
shorter supply cost more and going forward it's going to be far
more expensive to stock up on beans rice for long term food storage with the options of beans rice that are available
beans and rice can be long term food storage stored in a 5 gallon bucket they can last for 30 years you can pour
them rice and beans directly into the 5 gallon bucket best ways how to store rice beans to last long term food storage you can place the bag of rice beans right into the
5 gallon bucket and put on the lid you could also pour it into a mylar bag
and seal it up with an oxygen absorber even if you can't find
mylar bags and oxygen absorbers you can probably find a 5 gallon bucket ask for
them at the grocery store look for them at the hardware store look
for best lids for 5 gallon buckets long term food storage lids that have the rubber gasket ring
that are going to seal the 5 gallon bucket of long term food storage to be airtight
moisture tight and then they're in a sturdy container of beans rice for long term food storage
safely stored away for many years to come
we always heard beans and rice rice and beans they're so cheap
but they don't seem to be that cheap anymore so if you don't have a great
stockpile of beans rice long term food storage now is a good time to get some
having enough food on hand to feed your family no matter the circumstances
are going to allow you to have the brightest future and the best outcome on every day to come
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