basic foods to keep you alive 7 must have foods year supply stockpile hi
it's AlaskaGranny Alaska Prepper as Preppers we know we need to have a
well-stocked prepper Pantry food stockpile we need to have food that can last the longest so that we
can have food supplies we need if there's some big apocalyptic SHTF event which doesn't have to like
the end of the world as we know it it could just be a day-to-day emergency we need to get a meal
on the table for our family if you're looking at what is the absolute basic minimum that a person
would need for an entire year to have the most basic foods and enough to eat should look to the
literature from the LDS or the Mormon Church the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints they
have been the experts on long-term food storage since they came into being simply because in the
beginning the early days of their Church they had very hard times and very many people went
hungry so they took it as part of their mission statement I guess to make sure that everyone is
prepared for an uncertain future I'm not sure if that's exactly exactly the reason but there are
a lot of reasons why even today we would want to have food to make sure that we have enough so if
we look at what they claim is the amount of food that one adult would need to have enough food for
one year even if that is all you had then these are the basic things that they say you could have
to keep you alive and that's the whole point of having enough food is to Keep Us Alive is it going
to be the biggest best amount of food ever that you ever ate no but these are the absolute Basics
the minimum required so that you could survive and the first item is 400 pounds of grain and
you might think that's more than a pound of grain a day what am I even gonna do with all that where
am I going to store it but don't think about it as just you must have say wheat and you need
to be able to figure out how to crack the wheat and grind the wheat and turn it into bread look
at all the foods that are actually brains wheat flour oatmeal corn rice pastas quinoa those are
all types of foods you can have a variety so you don't just have 400 pounds of one food and you
don't know what exactly to even do with it and if there's some of those foods that you wouldn't eat
or you don't know how to use them learn how to use them or store what you do enjoy eating and you do
know how to cook I know for me in the early days when I wanted to really figure out what are the
basics what could I have so that I could make sure my family had enough and they used to say
you need 400 pounds of wheat well I don't want to figure out how to crack wheat grind wheat and bake
it into bread that to me is not a solution for how am I going to keep myself alive for a year
but I don't mind if I can have some flour some rice some oatmeal I could make rice and oatmeal
every day for the next year and be satisfied with that and not ever have to worry about cracking the
grain but it's all up to you and what you feel comfortable doing I have since added some wheat
into my long-term food storage stockpile but I'm kind of of the opinion like my son-in-law
is I hope my grandchildren throw it away when I die man it wasn't a big enough emergency that
I actually needed it which means life turned out great I like its attitude after grains you
want to have beans 60 pounds of beans now just like other foods that you can get from the LDS
church you can get beans that are already sealed up in a can you can buy them in they come in like
a box of six cans and they're not very expensive and they ship to your house for practically free
and so you can buy those that way so that you have a lot of beans you can buy big bags of
beans and fill them up into buckets yourself or even a little at a time buy a bag of beans
different types of beans there's all different kinds and don't forget split peas and lentils
are also beans because they give you the protein that you need find the beans that
you enjoy eating you know how to cook and you're willing to have in your prepper pantry and see
if you can get your stockpile up to 60 pounds of beans and remember the better you store your food
the longer it's going to last that's why it's nice when you can buy the food in the number 10
cans it's already sealed up you don't have to do anything you don't have to try to find mylar bags
oxygen absorbers buckets you don't have to do any of that you can buy the food already sealed up
and that can be comforting because then you know that it's going to last you can put it away set it
and forget it but then if you do want it it's in a small enough size container that you can
open it up and fill up your regular Pantry size canister and you can rotate that food that's one
of the things that I like about it I don't want to open up 50 pounds of something at a time to
put into my pantry so that I'm rotating and using the food I tend to find that the buckets that are
so huge that I put away I don't want to rotate them because they're just too big and cumbersome
and then I have to figure out what to do with all of that when you can just get one of the cans or
a smaller package that you stored yourself maybe even in a clean canning jar and you can put that
into your working Pantry so there are different ways to do it it doesn't have to be just in a
bucket or a can you can have your dried foods in formats that fit your desires and your needs
after the rice and beans you need to have powdered milk now 16 pounds is a lot of powdered milk if
you don't drink milk which I don't and I don't like powdered milk but I do like the Neato
fortificata so I found a powdered milk that I like that I'm willing to use and incorporate
into my recipes so that's the one that I choose this one doesn't last the longest haul like the
powdered non-fat dried melt that can last much longer because all of the fat is taken out of
it and the flavor too and this one I like it so I'm willing to rotate it more to make sure that
I still have enough milk on hand for my own needs and for those of my family so that's part of it
is you need to find the foods that you like that you're willing to eat and then you need to have
them in the amounts that are going to keep you satisfied that you have the foods that you need
after milk you need 10 quarts of oil I like olive oil and canola oil it's my choice I'm
going to choose to store the oils that I like to use and you should do the same thing then
you need to figure out that you have to rotate these faster though than 30 years you can't put
oil away and it'll last forever it's only going to last a few years and if you couldn't possibly use
eight quarts in a couple of years then don't store so much store the amount that you know you could
use it I'm not even sure what I would be supposed to do with eight quarts because I don't even know
what I would do with 400 pounds of some of this other food but I'm trying to figure it out and
that's one of the reasons why you need to look at what you like to eat and what makes sense for you
some of it doesn't make sense then that's not what you should do but this is still the basic plan of
what can you have that you could survive for an entire year if that's all you did have to eat next
you need 60 pounds of sugar or honey and think about it though maple syrup is also a forever
food and that's a sweetener so that's not on their list but it is an option for a sweetener that you
could put away forever now 60 pounds is a lot of sugar to put away but it's still inexpensive it's
something that you can buy just like I did in the number 10 cans from the LDS church or you
can buy it in a bag at the grocery store put it away a little at a time you can buy small bags
if you have a small amount of money store it into an airtight container and put on the lid
you could also store it into a big mylar bag and then seal it up and keep it in a bucket the sugar
and the Honey are forever Foods if they're stored properly and so that's comforting to know that if
you got those foods that you could put them away and they could last nearly forever then the last
food is salt eight pounds of salt and you might be saying that's not good for you you're not supposed
to have so much salt people have too much salt in their diet but if this is what your eating you're
not getting any of the processed foods that are already full of sodium you are going to be
cooking from scratch and so salt is nutritionally necessary for us to have a healthy body and so yes
you need to store some salt and it's very cheap so go ahead and get some I've also been to the Dollar
Tree and been able to find the pink Himalayan salt and I like that I found it for a dollar and that
to me is a great deal but also make sure that you have some iodized salt iodine is also a necessary
nutrient in your diet and if you're not eating Seafood then you need to be sure you're getting
that from some other source and so that's one reason that salt is iodized to help people stay
healthy without having to think about it then the last thing on the basic list of foods that'll keep
you alive for a year two weeks worth of water it's not practical to store a Year's worth of
water into the typical family's home but you can start off with the minimum of one gallon per day
per person and start with at least two weeks worth then you can put away your 14 gallons per
person but I wouldn't count on the one gallon of water helping you do more than prepare your food
to drink one gallon a day is not a reasonable amount to think that you could also have it
for cooking and cleaning that's going to be enough for some food preparation and for staying hydrated
yourself but if you're going to need other water for the typical daily things that we use water
for you're going to have to have more the good thing about needing water for flushing the toilet
rinsing out your clothes washing the dishes it doesn't have to be the perfectly clean drinking
water like we would need for cooking and drinking you can fill up some other containers and stir
them under your sink and then you have extra water if you need to rinse off a dish or clean something
up you'll have a little bit of extra water that's what I do I fill up leftover containers and I
place them under the sinks in my house so then if I need to pour some into the toilet or help
rinse something out in the sink I have extra water for some reason the water stops running
so it's hard to imagine having this much food and then that was my problem I wouldn't know
what to do with these Foods I had to make food storage work for me for foods that I knew how
to use that I could have on hand that I could feed my family if I needed to and that's where
I've gone to a lot of the pre-packaged Foods the canned foods that are in your pantry that you can
take at an open and eat because they can last a long time and then I don't have to try to figure
out what do I do with a barrel of wheat how am I going to make breakfast lunch and dinner and
maybe that works for you and you know how to make bread and pancakes and biscuits but that's not
something that I reasonably could accomplish or that I even want to do but I can reach in and get
some pancake mix some biscuit mixes some pilot bread crackers that'll last forever and lots of
rice and pasta and oatmeal because those are foods that I'm familiar with eating I know how to make
them quickly and easily and then I don't have to try to figure out a whole new lifestyle if
something happens I can continue to make meals from foods that are familiar and so that's how
you want to make food storage work for you it's your puzzle that you're putting together to meet
your needs there is no one right answer it's what works for you so think of it as completing the
pieces of your puzzle to put your food storage together so that it means the most makes the
most sense for you that's how I look at it so if you have any tips and tricks any suggestions
that we can learn about food storage leave it in the comments so that we can learn from each other
there's so much to know and it could be getting that there's less time to learn it but we still
want to try to do the best we can we want every day to be as smooth as possible that's why we're
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