Canned Meat Stockpile Prepping Food Stockpile Types Of Canned Meat SHTF hi it's AlaskaGranny
Alaska Prepper I was inventorying my food storage stockpile I thought I would share with you the
types of canned meats you can include in your prepper Pantry meat food stockpile canned meat is
wonderful store it's already cooked you can just open canned meat and eat it canned meat provides
protein canned meats can last far longer than the date on the package canned meats generally have
two to four or five years beyond the date canned meats can last many years longer I have never had
a package of canned meat that has not been fine to eat after the expiration date we need to remember
those dates are Best Buy sell by use by and not expiration date it's not the same as on a carton
of milk milk is going to expire and not be any good to eat but meat and other canned foods are
still usually going to be fine but not always if you ever are wondering if your can of food
is still okay look it over is the lid intact does anything on the package look greasy spoiled does
it look off the um ends of the can should still be concave nothing should be bulging when you go to
open your can nothing should spurt it should all look and smell okay if it doesn't then you need
to throw it away it's not worth a couple dollars worth of food for you to become sick so I'm going
to start with my favorite types of canned meat and I'll just go through them and show you how
many different varieties there are and what you can get I like canned chicken I find it extremely
versatile I enjoy eating chicken I buy small cans chicken large cans chicken depending on the recipe
how much meat I want for me it's sensible to have large and small cans chicken if you have a large
family buy large cans meat if you always eat alone buy small cans meat once you open canned food you
need to have a way to refrigerate it in some situations you may not have that but in an
everyday basic meal planning it's certainly fine to buy small or large cans meat have extra meat to
put in refrigerator I like to open another can meat if I need one I like to buy canned
turkey canned turkey I don't have as much canned turkey but I enjoy it I can put canned turkey
together in crock pot make like thanksgiving turkey type dinner a can of turkey stuffing mix
that's an easy way to use canned turkey I like to have canned beef on hand I buy the Hereford brand
canned beef from Brazil it's top quality beef it already has gravy in it canned beef easy to pour
over noodles or mashed potatoes you're getting more than just a can of beef you're getting gravy
with it you can even stir in a little mustard give the sauce a different flavor there's lots
of ways to use a can of beef with gravy a canned meat that other people tell me they find in their
stores that I've never seen is the Keystone Meats I ordered Keystone ground beef from Amazon because
I could never ever find Keystone meat in a store anywhere where I shopped I was glad that I could
order a case Keystone ground beef from Amazon ground beef is extremely versatile to use in
recipes pick up Keystone canned ground beef if you don't can yourself corned beef is a delicious way
to have meat in your prepper Pantry Corned Beef comes with a key opener you need to make sure
the key can opener is intact when you buy canned corned beef because that's how you open the can I
made a video how to open can of corned beef I'll put a link to that video if you've never bought
canned corned beef before you may not be familiar with how to open can of corned beef if you're
going to slice corned beef for sandwiches put it in the refrigerator first there are a lot of ways
to crumble up corned beef put corned beef into recipes where you want ground beef but you don't
have any gives a little different flavor but it's still going to be satisfying maybe you like corned
beef hash if you haven't tried it in a while buy one and try it see if it's something that you like
sometimes we forget some of the other varieties of foods I like to go into the aisle in the store
that has the meat and I walk along and I look on them all over and figure out if there's anything
that looks nice and tasty and if I think I might like it or if I need more if I see something I've
never tried before I'll buy one take it home and try it if I like it I'll go back and get more
that's how I found pulled pork I found it at Walmart and I found it to be very tasty it
works great to make a pulled pork sandwich so pulled pork earned a spot in my prepper pantry
ham is another nice meat to have in your prepper Pantry I buy the small cans of ham because I like
to stir it into things like pasta salads you can also buy a larger ham like a Dak ham those can be
harder to find but if you keep looking and you want a larger package of ham you can look for
some of those in your store you can even find cans of bacon I bought these a few years ago and a year
or so ago I was going to make a video and open this up and show you what it was like and then I
went to order Replacements on Amazon and it was so ridiculously expensive that I thought no way
I'm not sharing this even with a video I'm putting this away for the real shtf when bacon is going
to be something that my family's craving and then I'll have several cans of Yoder's bacon you might
look for it maybe the price has gone down again I don't know but this is very tasty it's good it
comes like slices of bacon and they're wrapped in paper so when you open it you actually have
slices of bacon next think about all the different kinds of seafood that you can get I like to buy
tuna but be careful I recently bought this anklet tuna at Walmart because it was what they had and
when I opened it it was nasty stuff and then I was reading on the label it actually includes
soy so proceed with caution if you see something that you haven't shopped for before something you
haven't bought before check it out that's why you want to be cautious buy one and take it home and
try it I never had any brand of tuna that I bought it put things in it that were not tuna
and it's written so small on the label I didn't notice and you may not either crab meat is also
nice to find in a can crab meat has a distinctly different flavor than tuna and it can really be
delicious into things like Alfredo I like to buy clams clams are an easy way to make a clam pasta
you can stir it easily into some pasta and make a nice clam sauce so that's the favorite way that I
use a can of clams I used to be able to find cans of shrimp but they just don't seem to be available
anymore I don't know if you can still find shrimp let me know if shrimp is still available where
you live but it's not been available where I've been shopping for a very long time
maybe you like sardines some of them are imported and they're very expensive but you can pick them
up sometimes at the Dollar Tree where they used to only be a dollar and now I suppose they're
1.25 I've tried several different uh varieties of the sardines because some of them come with
tomato sauce some of them are in oil some of them are in mustard sauces and so try each one if you
like sardines if it's not something you like pass it by and choose a meat that you do like
I have Kipper snacks because someone in my family likes these it's not something that I even enjoy
the smell of but if somebody in my family wants to eat it and this would be a nice treasured meal
for them then I'm certainly going to have it in my stockpile next we can look at meats that are like
combo Meats they're a little bit of a mystery spam spam can be found just as regular spam I also have
bacon spam which is nice you can slice it very thin and fry it and it's almost like bacon you
can also find spam that is um Teriyaki flavor this turkey flavored that's some hot spicy seasoned
flavor they're all different kinds of spam and sometimes you can find them really available and
then other times you may only see plain old spam so if you want to try some of the varieties check
it out you may not particularly enjoy spam but maybe with some of the other flavorings and it'll
give you something to try I did make a video a few years ago on different ways to cook spam so I'll
put a link to that in case you're interested to try it out if you're a Spam lover look for lunch
and loaf it pretty much in my opinion tastes the same but you can save a few dollars on each can
not in a can but a convenient way to have meat if you want some for your bug out bag or for
some grab-and-go meals look for the pouches of meat you can find chicken tuna salmon spam and
probably other things I've tried some that had flavors in them and I didn't care for those at
all so I try to find the ones that are just the plain meat in them but they aren't going to last
as long simply because it's in a foil pouch it's not in a can it's not designed to withstand a
life because these can get punctured if you can't find the meats that you love look for foods that
contain the meats that you want maybe you want to find some taco complete this has spicy taco type
filling it includes me and you can do all kinds of different recipes with it I made a video about
different ways I use the taco complete and I'll put a link to that video if you're interested look
for other foods that include meat like chicken and dumplings how about Beefaroni or ravioli
how about a can of tamales you can find them with chicken or with beef look for a varieties of soups
that have meat in them such as chicken pot pie or chicken sausage gumbo it's harder to find sausage
in a can but that's one that has it and it's pretty flavorful if you enjoy eating sausage there
are many different soups that include beef you can choose a few of your favorites and add them in so
that you have some meat in an easy to open meal look for different brands of chili some of them
have beef some have turkey some have chicken and you can even find one with no beans and these are
great because they tend to have more meat in them and so they're great to get more meat in them you
can add your own beans and then you have a little bit more protein they're also great because you
can use them as a sauce over pasta Less meat in them but still has the flavor you might be craving
look for cans of sausage gravy how about cream of chicken soup or chicken broth you're going to be
getting the flavors of the meat that you want and you can mix them into the recipes when you can't
have the meat that you want not in a can but a way to have meat in a meal is to look for some
of the Hormel completes I've tried them with beef turkey and chicken and I find them all to be fine
of course some are going to be better than others it just depends on what your flavor palette is but
these are great for your bug out bag they're also great for grab-and-go meals or if you have a power
outage guess what you don't have to cook these either they're already completely cooked you're
supposed to heat them up in the microwave for one minute but if you couldn't you can still have this
also consider the number 10 cans they have options that include meat and army at the beginning of the
pandemic I ordered from augason farms some chicken and it was like sixty dollars for a can but I was
very concerned that we wouldn't be able to get enough food going forward I ordered one for my
daughter and one for myself hers arrived carefully mine came like three months late it was all dented
up and they wanted me to pay shipping on it which I refused it so you need to be careful because
when times become complicated like it did at the beginning of the pandemic overnight the food can
become harder to find more expensive and then we have more worry about our food supply going
forward so now is a good time to see what kind of things you would like to add the creamy chicken
and rice from Augason Farms is considered a super can because Augason Farms has three pouches of
eight servings each when you open Augason Farms you can take out one pouch you can use half
a pouch you can use the whole pouch and if you had a whole Army at your house I guess you could
prepare the whole entire can but it has options so that it's still going to stay freshly sealed
up depending and how many portions you would like to use you can tell I've had this one for a long
time because the Augason Farm labels don't look like this anymore but this is a chili mix and it
already has some meat in it and yes it's not the first ingredient but it has meat in it and it's
chili that can last for 30 years and so I don't have to worry when I run out of my little cans
of chili I'll still be able to make some in an apocalyptic shdf situation the reason I like the
number 10 cans like this is I don't know how much longer I'm going to live and if I put these away
and I never need them that's okay with me it was Insurance Lifestyle Insurance that I had food that
I need and if something does happen I cannot worry about having an additional supply of long-term
food storage that might be tasty besides just rice and beans plus this is still going to be fine if
something happens to me then my family can have it these are some of the options of meat that you can
have in your prepper Pantry stockpile be gathering foods that you know you like and then be rotating
them you need to keep track of the oldest should be on the front of the shelf and then the newer
should go in the back and as you use the ones in the front you push it forward and you replace it
so your prepper Pantry becomes a working Pantry you're working your way through it you're using
rotating and replacing and that's how you're going to have a successful food storage stockpile what's
missing out of my stockpile foods that I don't want to eat I do not care to eat Vienna sausages I
don't want to ever eat potted meat but I will also buy the little packages of crackers with chicken
the chicken's in like a little can it's not as long lasting of a can as some of these foods are
so you can find canned meat at your grocery store sometimes even at your drugstore you can order it
on Amazon and yeah we're never your shopping keep an eye out if you see something you think
you'd like get one and try it and then you'll at least be working your way into finding more foods
that can last longer that you might enjoy having for when times become who knows more complicated
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