canned food used most popular top selling what canned foods to stockpile food storage hi it's
AlaskaGranny Alaska Prepper today I was reading an article which cited some information from the
canned food alliance what are the top canned foods that Americans buy and have in their pantries
at home I thought oh that'll be interesting it's probably easy I can go check check check
I have those canned foods and boy were my eyes open when I read this list because I thought
those aren't the foods that I stockpile so I thought it was interesting to compare
what the most popular canned foods are in America see if they're canned foods that you
have and maybe figure out if it's canned food something you want to add or if we can learn
from each other what are the most popular canned foods that we as preppers stockpile
so I'm going to read the canned foods from the bottom of the list till the number one
of most popular most used canned food top selling so we'll start off with Hunts tomato sauce Rotel
mild diced tomatoes with green chilies Ocean Spray jelly cranberry sauce Swanson's chicken
broth Bumble Bee solid white albacore tuna Bush's baked beans Chef Boyardee beefaroni
Campbell's Spaghettios with meatballs I haven't seen those in decades Manwich sauce my family
likes Manwich sauce you can make it not only with ground beef but you can use already cooked lentils
you can use one cup of lentils in place of one pound of meat Chicken of the Sea tuna Van Camps
pork and beans Chef Boyardee beef ravioli Del Monte kernel corn Del Monte green beans
Chef Boyardee spaghetti and meatballs I haven't seen that in a long long time generic kernel
corn Campbell's cream of chicken soup Campbell's tomato soup and Rotel diced tomatoes green chilies
this is the second time Rotel is on the list one is the regular and one is the mild Campbell's
chicken noodle soup this is the most shocking canned food number three is Armour Vienna sausages
Armour Vienna sausages I didn't think anybody really eats those and it says right on the can
that it's one of America's favorite foods I had no idea no one in my family has touched a Vienna
sausage in decades when I asked them if we should get one and try it again since it's so popular
it was an immediate thumbs down no the number two canned food Campbell's cream of mushroom soup
and number one is Starkist tuna now these are great foods lots of them you can use to enhance
recipes and make meals but I was surprised at how much tuna there was and only Vienna sausage
and no canned chicken no canned beef those are the canned meats that my family uses we don't
particularly like tuna I guess and so we don't use it very much but we do use a lot of canned
chicken and I also have a nice stockpile of canned beef because it's nice to have for
quick meals and for long-lasting food storage I do like that they have a nice variety of
full meals in a can such as Campbells Spaghettios Chef Boyardee beefaroni ravioli I haven't seen
most of those in the store lately and so my pantry tends to be full of the mini ravioli
I've been able to find them and one thing I like to do with them is bake them with cheese
or I stir them into a tomatoey vegetable soup and make a nice hearty meal that way
I couldn't find any of the other kinds of Chef Boyardee and so I did pick up a can of lasagna
because I thought well maybe that'll be okay and no absolutely not I do not recommend the lasagna
because it's just noodles floating around in sauce it doesn't have any kind of meat
no vegetables nothing that gives it any flavor texture or palatability so I'm going to have to
be on the lookout again for Beefaroni spaghetti and meatballs and Spaghettios I've not seen those
in the store and so I don't have any of those in my stockpile anymore I was surprised that they had
only one kind of beans it's good to have a nice selection of basic kinds of beans so that you
can make meals from your beans pinto beans kidney beans garbanzo beans black eyed peas have a nice
variety of basic beans that you can make into all different kinds of recipes I was surprised they
didn't have more foods like chili you can get all kinds of varieties of chili but there didn't seem
to even be one baked beans is a good canned food to have in your pantry and you can get all kinds
of different varieties of the baked beans to give different flavors simply by opening a can
maybe stirring it in with a few other ingredients and you can make flavorful meals my three go-to
vegetables are corn green beans and then the mixed vegetables I prefer to stockpile the chunky type
soups I try to get them with meat in them to have extra protein it's getting harder and harder to
find the chunky soups in any kind of a variety we used to be able to get all kinds of varieties
there were probably 40 different kinds of chunky soups and now the selection is extremely low it's
good to have tomato products everything from canned tomato sauce tomato paste diced tomatoes
get some cans of spaghetti sauce it's already made up then with a box of spaghetti noodles a can of
spaghetti sauce you can actually make a meal with just two items out of your prepper pantry there
weren't any canned fruits on this list I've had lots of problems with leaking and bulging fruits
and so I try to not have as many of those canned fruits and rotate those that's one of the foods
that I will buy in a number 10 can from somewhere like Augason Farms or the LDS Mormon church
because then you have freeze dried fruit that can store in your pantry for up to 25 or 30 years
if you realize you have cans with dents don't put them away in your deep food storage go ahead and
use them up because they're less likely to last long term just in case their seal has been damaged
pay attention to the best by use by sell by date I've had a lot of problem with canned foods like
fruits not lasting they've bulged and leaked and been spoiled but a lot of foods will last long
past that just don't count on it buy enough and then rotate them within that time frame so that
you don't end up with way too many that they've expired before you can rotate and replace them
if they're past the date it doesn't mean they're not any good you can go ahead check over the
package look to see if there's anything bulging leaking that looks off go ahead and open it make
sure nothing is spurting or smells weird look it over does it look okay smell okay give it a little
taste and if it passes all of those tests it's probably fine to go ahead and eat it if you have
any doubt at all throw it away there's no sense getting sick over a few dollars worth of food
leave a comment below of what are your favorite canned foods give us some ideas of other foods
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