5 types of food must have prepper pantry stockpile prepping stockpile shopping hi
it's AlaskaGranny Alaska Prepper i'm out at Granny Camp which is my Alaska off-grid cabin
and it's a nice time to be alone in nature and with your thoughts i've been thinking about the
types of food storage preppers that i want to have in my prepping supplies and i thought i
would share with you what i think are the top five areas of food storage stockpile that you should be
concerned with the first type of food prepping stockpile stock up on the dry foods the longest
lasting foods you need to have things like rice and beans oatmeal pasta all of the different
kinds of foods that you can buy you can put them away in mylar bags they can last for 30 years you
can use mylar bags with oxygen absorbers you can use clean containers like jars with tight
fitting lids you can even vacuum seal things to last longer those kind of foods tend to be the
shtf the longest lasting food least expensive food but a lot of these foods will require some
amount of cooking preparation and you're going to require lots of water for preparation so of course
while we're discussing you need lots of food stockpile make sure that you have plenty of
stored water prepping supplies as well then you need a full pantry of things like canned foods
and packaged foods that you tear open and eat or maybe tear open and need
a little bit of preparation a slight cooking add a few other ingredients stir things together
to make some easy meals those would be the foods that you would probably go to first
on a daily basis to make foods for your family meals so have a wide variety everything from
beef stew chili chicken a la king canned food that you can heat up that would make a nice meal stir
together things like macaroni and cheese Knorr pasta sides there's things like pouch meals Hormel
Compleats they're already fully cooked you just can zap them in the microwave for 60 seconds or
if you can't heat up Hormel Compleats it doesn't matter they're fully cooked Hormel Compleats taste
better if they're heated up but it isn't necessary and so some of those types of already prepared
meals can also be great to put with your Bug Out Bag prepper pantry stockpile because in
a real emergency if you had to bug out you may not be able to do any kind of cooking and so you
want to have at least 72 hours worth of food that you could just tear open and eat everything from
crackers granola bars pouch meals fruit snacks they even now have yogurt that's
shelf stable in little squeeze pouches so have a variety of foods that are tear open and eat
that don't require any cooking and then just the common pantry foods that the everyday groceries
that we buy that we stick into our pantry make sure that you know what you're putting in your
pantry and you're keeping track of it buy foods that you know how to cook you're willing to eat
and then you need to pay attention and rotate those foods be using them on a regular basis
and then replacing them and whenever you buy more food you push the food on the back of the
shelf to the front and you put your new food in the back that's the only way you can maintain
your food stockpile but it's still going to be fresh you want to do it just like they do in the
grocery store first in first out you're rotating it through it it's a working pantry because you're
always working your way through making meals you don't necessarily use those foods on a daily basis
but you should at least be trying to rotate them on a weekly basis and if you're not willing to
do that then don't stock up on foods that you are not willing to rotate through and
use it's very wasteful to buy foods that you have no intention to ever eat you want to buy
foods and have an idea of how you would use them when you would use them and then make a point to
actually use them rotate them and replace them if you like if you don't like them anymore replace
them with something else but please don't just waste food next you want to make sure that you
have a nice variety of spices because even if you have only rice and beans with a variety of
spices you can turn your meals into different flavors so that it isn't like you ate the same
thing day after day just like you can have many types of beans you can have many types of spices
and then you have a variety in your meals even if they're just simple basic foods
i like to buy spices in small containers so that when i open them they're fresher than if i had
a gigantic container because i don't have a large family that i cook for anymore and so for me it's
better to have the smaller sizes i like to store them in a big bin and i keep it under one of the
beds in my home because i don't have a big giant pantry so i have to find places that i can store
food and hide it away and so my pantry can be in any little looking cranny you just never know
but that also makes it harder to keep track of what you have and make sure that you're rotating
it so be cognizant of the things that you buy pay attention to where they are and then try
to incorporate them into your regular meals so that you're rotating through those those foods
one of the things i've been trying lately is i put together like a box of food and i put it all for
one year 2023 2024 then i can put that box away in a nook and cranny and then i can get the whole
box out and add it into my working pantry to make sure that those foods get rotated
that seems to be working a little better for me than just putting
boxes of beans boxes of chili boxes of corn that's more complicated for me to then say use two out of
my pantry and then dig two out of my storage somewhere else and replace them and so then
i tend to lose track of how much i have and where it is so that's my new strategy is to put foods in
by the year and have a variety rather than just a whole say box of 12 of the exact same thing
we know that we need food and that shortages are here prices are rising and the future does like
a little gloom and doom it's important to realize that your food could run out so you want to have
some self-sustaining way to provide the food you need make sure that you have a stockpile of seeds
i've made a video before on how to make your own survival seed vault so that you can protect your
seeds to last longer i'll put a link to that video in case you're interested in how to store
your seeds to last the longest then no matter what your circumstances try to grow some food on your
own start now it's easier to grow it in the summer out of doors in your yard but everybody doesn't
have that ability i understand that many people live in high rise apartments they have no yard
everybody has at least a window you can put something in the window and then try to grow a
little something if you live in a studio apartment and you have one window no you can't grow enough
food to sustain your entire life but every little bit helps and the more that you do the better off
it is try growing at least some herbs maybe some greens in your window and see if it doesn't help
you feel more confident that you have learned new skills that help you be more self-sustaining
every little bit that we learn and do helps us to have more confidence that we can face
the challenges that lie ahead learn to preserve the foods that you have especially if you enjoy
gardening or you like to pick them up fresh in the grocery store or even from a farmer's market think
about the ingredients that allow you to preserve your food things like vinegar pectin salt sugar
lemon juice even garlic those ingredients can help foods last longer maybe you can pick up a book
about it or read some on the internet and at least become familiar with it so that you have an idea
that you may have the opportunity and then you'll have some idea of what to do then learn how to
preserve your food learn to dehydrate to can it to pickle it maybe you want to do some fermenting you
can learn how to freeze it learn how to smoke foods and maybe you even want to learn how to
use salt to preserve them then for me what's very important is to make sure that i have
the skills and the equipment so that i can hunt and fish because that's just part of my lifestyle
and it isn't for everyone but it is for many people then if you can go fishing and hunting
make sure that you understand how to preserve and protect that food so that it will last
you hear people say well in the apocalypse i'm just going to go out and hunt and catch everything
i need but if you have no idea say you get a deer if you have no idea how much meat is on it how
to harvest it and preserve it that is just want and waste if you don't understand how to do that
you don't ever want to be in a position that you are so desperate that you need to go out and hunt
for your food but you have no idea how to make that food safe to eat and how to make it last
if you're already into hunting and fishing you probably know a lot of that but if it's not
something you do on a regular basis you may really have no idea or if you've only gone hunting with
other people who took care of all of that part there is a whole lot of responsibility to know
it's not as easy as let's go harvest a moose you have to know what you're going to do next
just like when you catch a fish nobody talks about now we need to clean it now we have to
fillet it now we need to figure out how to freeze it or smoke it or there's a whole lot of work that
goes with all of that and the amounts of meat that you would need to preserve could be overwhelming
for a lot of people who've never been involved with that before so along with your food make
sure that you have plenty of water can openers ways to cook it on a portable stove your barbecue
camping stoves there's all kinds of ways that you can learn how to cook your food even if
it's just a foil wrapper on your barbecue or in your fire pit there are so many ways that
can help our lives be not only fun but can help them be better and help us survive and thrive
and that's what we want to do one of the things i've been doing while i'm out here at granny camp
is working with some of my calls practicing them because harvesting your own meat is a big part
of living in Alaska so i've been working with a few of my hunting wildlife calls
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different wildlife calls for different critters hunting different purposes
i've also made a video a few years ago on how to rattle antlers if you're looking for a way to
rattle in the big ones rattle antlers hunting moose deer i'll put a link to that video if
you're interested the most important information i wanted to share with you today is there are basic
categories of foods that you want to have in your prepper pantry food stockpile prepping supplies
so that you can take care of yourself and your family no matter what the future brings and if
nothing bad happens wouldn't that be wonderful and you still have all that food you can eat
because you're storing food that you're willing to eat so even if the price of gas goes to a dollar
the grocery stores become full you still have the ability to make meals out of the food that
you have in your home and you should be rotating it so that it still is good to eat now remember
dates on packages are best buy used by cell by not expired rotten by date so don't be afraid to
inspect the food that you've stored longer don't be afraid to inspect your food to make
sure it's still good to eat even if you think the date is past does the package look okay does
anything look bulging anything look greasy oily or weird if you open it does it spurt
does everything look okay smell okay if there's any reason that you're suspicious throw it away
but don't just read the date and throw it away lots of food is still good long after that date
but it's best if you rotate it within the guidelines on it for it to taste the best
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