Fred Meyer Prepper Pantry Haul Alaska What Did I Buy Top Off Prepper Pantry strike Fred Meyer
stores Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Alaska hi it's AlaskaGranny Alaska Prepper maybe you saw my video
from a few days ago that Fred Meyers is going to be having a workers strike the warehouse workers
and truck drivers in the pacific northwest and Alaska are going to go on strike I went to the
store to top off prepper pantry what food was available and sadly many of the shelves were
half empty already with a strike looming on the horizon within a matter of a week I was
able to get a lot of foods to add to my prepper stockpile but then it's been weighing on me what
if this is one of those wake-up calls those last chance to be able to go and get some more food
before there are union strikes or shortages which can complicate everyday life I decided to go back
to Fred Meyers today stock up on more food top off my prepper pantry I've been working on making
shelf meals so I thought I have a list I would like to be able to find these foods if possible
and I was pleasantly surprised that the shelves were well stocked there were lots
of people shopping there was all kinds of food available and lots of the dates on the food
was 2023 and 2024. it made me feel so much better which is the whole point of being a prepper
is we have the food supplies things we need so we don't need to be afraid we can be prepared and not
scared sometimes it's hard to quiet that little voice in your head and that feeling in your heart
where you feel like maybe I need to get more and I finally feel like yes I have accomplished that for
now let me show you the latest foods I bought at Fred Meyers in Alaska to add to my prepper pantry
canned beans were in very short supply the other day and today there were all kinds of
canned beans and luckily the best by use by sell by expiration date is for December 2024.
these beans are going to be great in my long term food storage stockpile prepper pantry I
bought 12 cans of cannellini beans 12 cans of red kidney beans 12 cans of black beans and 12
cans of pinto beans I also have some ideas of how I want to set those aside to make the shelf meals
pantry meals for emergencies and maybe you've seen my video of how I put pantry foods together
so that I know I have meals i can grab and quickly make a meal out of my pantry
one of my pantry meals needs some spices and sometimes it's easier to just pick up the spice
pack so I bought ranch mix and taco mix I bought three of each because I'm going to be using these
to make three prepper pantry shelf meals I bought two bags of split peas I don't have as many split
peas as other beans and split peas are very simple to make fall is coming and it's so simple to make
a nice split pea soup in your crock pot I bought a couple of bags of extra large egg noodles these
are getting harder to find now when you're storing pasta noodles macaroni in your food storage
stockpile make sure that you understand that egg noodles do not last like regular pasta because it
has eggs in it egg noodles can last for quite a while but the other types of pasta can last
indefinitely so make sure you're rotating your egg noodles and don't buy more than you can reasonably
use up within a few years you don't want your food to become spoiled I like to use canola oil
it's been in short supply the price is going up so I bought two big bottles of it when I saw it today
I bought three small cans of canned carrots we're not big fans of carrots but it's nice to be able
to add a few carrots into a recipe price of food Alaska small can was 79 cents the large can was
say 95 cents so yes this isn't as good of a buy per ounce but if you're not going to use the whole
big can you may as well save your pennies and buy the smaller can and have the amount of food that
you need Libby's country sausage gravy is pretty good I haven't seen it in a while and I bought
three cans of it to add to my prepper pantry Libby's country sausage gravy is great to serve
with mashed potatoes or even over quick biscuits that you whip up and bake in your oven other day
I bought some hominy and I started thinking about all the different ways that I can use
hominy and so I went back and stocked up and got some more cans of hominy Fred Meyer only had very
few cans of the white hominy but they had quite a few of the yellow hominy and what was interesting
is the hominy cans are dated for 2024 so these are going to last for a long time in my prepper pantry
I saw six packs of canned chicken at a reasonable price I wasn't sure that I wanted to buy more
chicken then I saw canned chicken was dated 2024 these cans of chicken will last for at least 10
years canned meat can go way past the expiration date and still be good to eat so I bought 12 cans
of chicken when I prepare pasta dinner I usually prefer the Classico sauce that comes in a jar
but if I want to use a jar of sauce for a recipe to make something like a casserole or soup
it makes more sense to use a can of pasta sauce because this costs in Alaska a dollar thirty and
the Classico are pasta sauce costs about three dollars and fifty cents so I bought three of
these big cans of pasta sauce dated January 2023 there were very few cans of tomatoes I was only
able to buy four and they were only the regular just plain tomatoes none of the canned tomaotes
with any kind of spice flavoring or additions to them and these were 99 cents they had very few of
the Kroger brand canned tomatoes they had lots of other brands of tomatoes but those were all
a dollar ninety eight or two dollars 50 cents which was a dramatic increase from the store
brand which isn't available that's one of the things you need to think about grocery prices
are going up foods are harder to find will it become too expensive for you to buy some of the
food that you enjoy having so check out what the prices are and stock up on the foods that you want
while you can still get them at a price you're willing to pay Armour treet meat everyone says
it's just as good as Spam I haven't seen treet meat anywhere in the stores for a long long time
but I found it today they had about six cans treet meat I took three I'm going to do a
side by side with someone in my family and see if they can tell the difference between
treet ment and spam because they're someone who always saying I see spam in the pantry will you
make me some spam and it's like no that is for later you're going to eat what I made for dinner
just like a child some people sometimes they want what they want but that doesn't mean you can have
it now that's for another day the treet meat is dated 2023 but it's going to last a lot longer
than that in the pantry if I can keep people from snagging it I bought one can of corned beef it's
not something we eat all the time so I don't want a whole bunch of it but it was 3.99 a can for just
one can of corned beef hash which I thought was quite expensive considering half of it
is like potatoes I think the date says 2023 some of the best by use by sell by expiration dates on
these packages you almost need a detective kit to figure out what they actually say
they're moving the dates around they're putting them in the ripples of the can they're almost
like they're trying to disguise what it says so you don't really see what's going on it shouldn't
be that much harder to find and read the date on your foods than it was a year or two ago
the other day I bought a box of Quaker barley and I started thinking about different ways I like to
use barley I hadn't seen barley in a long time so I went back and bought more it was very hard to
find the barley I couldn't remember exactly where I had spotted it last time but it was way up on
the top shelf next to some fancy risottos and rices so if you're looking for barley look high
and low along where things like risottos and rice are I bought a few boxes of raisins I wondered why
they had them at two for three dollars price in Alaska then I realized because the date is 2021
but I went ahead and got a few boxes of raisins because dried fruit if you keep it airtight in
a cool dry dark place can still last for several years don't use oxygen absorbers with dried fruit
because it's not dry like wheat oatmeal beans and rice it still has way too much moisture for
oxygen absorbers oxygen absorbers remove far more oxygen than vacuum sealing and you risk
botulism growing inside of your food botulism can grow when there's an absence of air like
inside canned foods that it's not going to be that airtight if you vacuum seal it
it gets most of the air out but not as much as an oxygen absorber I was looking at cheerios and
see how it says 100 percent oats I thought maybe cheerios something I should try to
seal in a mylar bag would be some cereal we don't normally eat a lot of dry cereal around my house
but it's pantry food that is inexpensive long lasting and even if you don't have milk you can
just snack on dry cereal I looked at Cheerios the ingredient says it has other things in it
as well as oats because they only had the actual cheerios they didn't have a store brand available
I chose this bag of Malto Meal Scooters cheerios that yes it's honey nut but it doesn't have many
more ingredients than the cheerios and it was half the price to get this bag I'm going to put
this cereal away seal it in a mylar bag and see how it lasts and that's the thing some foods it's
good to experiment with and see how long they'll last and you may find that in five years it's
still perfectly fine and you're willing to eat it and in an emergency situation you may find
out even if it's stale you're willing to eat it anyway those are the items that I bought today at
Fred Meyers in Alaska to add to my prepper pantry long-term food storage stockpile keep buying food
stock up on foods your family will eat a little at a time get a variety of food put food away
and then rotate it your Prepper pantry should be a working pantry you need to be working your way
through it sometimes we're in the accumulation phase that we're stockpiling and getting more
and more but don't put food away forever you need to remember that these are foods you're willing to
eat and that you have ideas how you're going to use them if you enjoyed my video I hope you'll
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