prepper pantry restocking fatigue prepping buy food SHTF hi it's AlaskaGranny Alaska Prepper are
you getting prepper pantry food storage restock fatigue do you keep seeing headlines and articles
like they just showed us what comes next it's worse than you think u.s marshals are raiding
farms my family isn't ready for anything like this don't wait for shtf stock up now mass starvation
you will die this isn't good i hardly even want to turn on my computer i like to glean information
that is helpful and i don't like the rhetoric of everyone being so alarmist when you hear
these types of headlines and this kind of news it's hard to keep motivated and to stay focused
but what we really need to do is keep our eye on the big picture we do know that bad times are here
we know prices are rising we know that gas prices are out of control businesses are still trying to
hire more people and a few of the people i know are working two and three jobs and they still
don't have the amount of money that they used to because things like food have increased in price
every month for the last 18 19 20 months the prices are going up inflation is out of control
and yes most of the grocery store shelves are full again but the prices are astronomical
how can we avoid this prepping fatigue well we need to keep restocking our food because
if these alarming headlines are true there's so many of them it's hard not to fall into the belief
that it is true we don't want to come to a point where one day we don't have enough food set aside
we can see that prices are going up dramatically what we could buy for 15 dollars a year ago is now
25 or 30 dollars in many places in many instances so it's important that we keep motivated we stay
focused we continue to stockpile the prepping supplies food things that we really need and being
a prepper and having a proper pantry means it's a working pantry it's not just a stockpile that
you're collecting baseball cards or beanie babies you need to be using rotating and replacing your
food you want your stockpile to grow but don't just buy food you have no intention of using
you want to have a full array of supplies of things that you actually are willing to use
and yes many of your food products can last far longer but don't just put things away for
30 years you're not going to be able to have canned foods for 30 years many of them will last
longer but you need to pay attention to the dates on the cans you can have problems with your cans
i placed a big order that i did a pickup at the grocery store and things are still not
exactly the way they were you could put it in your carpet then when you went to pick it up
they substituted things or they were just not available and so while i was not able to get a
lot of the things that i did want i was able to get some of the foods that i want going forward
to make sure that i have enough because the future is just uncertain there are a lot of things going
on in our country which makes me glad that i have food on hand i want to make sure that i do
so that i don't have to go to the store i don't have to rely on the supply chain for my day-to-day
meals while we all prefer to eat the freshest most delicious foods that isn't always possible
especially the way the economy is going a lot of the foods that we may have chosen in the past
are either not available or they're extremely expensive or you can only have a limited amount
so i've stockpiled up on things that i know i can use and make meals out of that keep my pantry full
i have a lot of canned beans soups granola bars chili tamales things i know how to make meals with
i was able to get a lot of pasta i was even able to get some whole wheat pasta but i was not able
to get jars of sauce and only very few cans of tomato products i like to stock up on the idahoan
dehydrated potatoes betty crocker muffin mixes in a pouch because you only need to add water one of
the ways that i like to make these muffins even better is to add a few frozen berries out of my
freezer i'll put a link if you want to know how i do that to make these muffins taste extra special
and more like homemade i'm guilty just as many other people are of finding some very outdated
pushed way in the back cans of food that were way way many years past their best buy sell by use by
day it isn't always an expiration date when we see the date on a package of food it can be but
the best values by sell by date is a guarantee from the manufacturer that the food will still be
the top quality it won't have deteriorated in any way and that's when you should eat it by that date
that doesn't mean that food is no longer safe or okay to eat it may mean that the product has
deteriorated some and maybe the quality isn't as fresh there are a few tips of what you want
to look for whenever you're opening food that is past its best buy use by sell by date you always
want to inspect the can or package any can of food that's bulging you need to throw it away
anything that looks like it's been leaking or if say a package of dried food looks like it's been
chewed on those foods should probably be discarded next you want to open the can make sure nothing
spurts if it spurts throw it away look it over does it look right does it smell right
is it still the same consistency if so it's probably safe to go ahead and try it there
are different ways to use your canned foods always be thinking about different ways you can use the
foods that you're purchasing so that you don't end up with just a random food you don't know
how to use it what it's for and it ends up being wasted here's another outdated can of green beans
i've opened cans of green beans before that were long passes sell by date and the beans looked blue
unfortunately i didn't take a picture of that so i can't share it with you today but let's go ahead
and see how these look the can looks fine nothing is bulging nothing looks like it's leaking it's
all intact and when you go to open the can nothing is spurting so i'm going to open it all the way
everything looks normal it smells good and it looks fine i'm going to drain the beans and
you can see there's still the crispness that you would have they haven't turned into mush
and they're not discolored in any way here's a can of expired corn the can looks fine
i don't see anything bulging leaking let's open it nothing is spurting smells good looks good i can
drain it off the corn has a nice firm texture it smells fine it looks good and it tastes fine too
the best strategy is to pay attention to the dates on your food so that you use them rotate them and
then replace them and the timeliness with their date don't buy foods you don't know how to cook
you don't want to eat and that no one really likes because it's a waste of your food storage dollars
spend your grocery dollars carefully on foods that you do know how to use your family is willing to
eat and then stock up on plenty so that you have enough going forward for a few weeks worth of food
a few months worth of food and as much food as you can safely store and use in a reasonable amount
of time if you see a food you're not sure if you would like buy one take it home and try it if you
like it you can always go back and get more but don't load up on foods you've never tried only to
find out that it's something that you don't care to eat that's a waste of your food storage space
and your dollars the last few months have been hard on so many of us trying to figure out what
to do next what's happening in the world where are we going what can we do to make sure that we
are as safe as possible and we provided the things that we need to for ourselves and our families
it only makes sense to be prepared and not scared these are all foods that we can eat whether the
world goes to a big happy peaceful place tomorrow or it doesn't plus we never know there's always
the old standard emergencies earthquakes tornadoes hurricanes winter storms power outages there's all
kinds of things that can still go wrong so having a nice supply of food on hand helps me make sure
that i'll have the things i need and i can make the best of whatever situation comes my way
and that's why i'm a prepper i want to be prepared to face an unknown future with the best of my
ability stock up while you can because we don't know what's coming but i'm sure we're in for some
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