Grid Down Prepping Supplies Power Outages Load Shedding new prepping supplies grid down black out prepper pantry Meal Ideas hi it's AlaskaGranny Alaska Prepper
every day is a great day to add to your prepping supplies we have a
lot of covid pandemic infections going on in Alaska right now and the weather's turned cold
so it's still a great idea to shop on amazon I've been able to find food prepping supplies I want at
affordable prices I can add to my prepper pantry food storage stockpile and buy a few prepping
supplies let me show you what the newest additions are to my prepping stockpile the first thing i
bought was a box of the betty crocker bisquick complete buttermilk biscuits you only need to
add water and they're very delicious they're easy to make things that only need to add water are
perfect to have in your prepper pantry they come in mylar pouches that are easy to just grab one
and make it you don't need to open a whole big bin measure up a bunch of things if you don't
have a lot of time or just want something that's a quick grab and go that you can make a quick meal
these are great because you can serve biscuits with so many things you can put them with biscuits
and gravy you can use them with your eggs for breakfast and make little breakfast sandwiches
it's nice to have easy to make bread substitutes when you maybe don't have bread on hand but a
biscuit would be extra nice the pouches have a best buy use by sell by date of approximately
two years and i've had good luck storing these in a cool dark dry place the packages are nice
and then they have lasted a longer than the date on the package and so i feel confident that i can
store these for two three maybe even four years the best strategy though is to rotate your food
within the guidelines on the package for them to turn out the best lots of foods will be fine after
that but it's still a good idea to follow that guideline just so you can have the best outcome
so choose foods that you're willing to eat use them so that you're rotating them and then replace
them so you still have a fresh supply i ordered a box of the Knorr sides packaged noodle mixes
i discovered that i actually liked the Knorr sides creamy chicken and so it was easy to have a set of
these to put away in my prepper pantry you just add water to these also and you can have a quick
easy to make meal Knorr sides packaged noodles are something that it's simple to add a can of meat
or something else to it to make it an even more complete meal if you have a can of vegetables a
can of meat and a package of noodles you can have a complete filling meal for your family for very
little money Knorr sides noodles also have a best buy used by sell by date that's two years out and
that's always something that I'm concerned with when I order food from amazon that maybe it isn't
going to have the longest shelf life maybe that's why it's on sale we can't check that
and they're trying to clear out old stock but I have had good luck so far next I bought a pack of
the Starkist pink salmon the date on this is 11/ 24. so this has several years shelf life already
on it to guarantee to be fresh and canned meat is going to be something that lasts long past
that i've never had problems with canned meats becoming expired and that's something i can count
on lasting longer and other things like fruits not so much but canned meat starkist salmon absolutely
is a long lasting food that you can count on yes even in Alaska sometimes we need to
buy salmon maybe we didn't catch as much or it's nice to have pre-canned long-lasting
portion sizes that they're easy to add into your recipes you could add a can of Starkist salmon
into package of Knorr sides noodles or serve it with some Betty Crocker biscuit mix so these foods
can all work together if i need them to next i found some Progresso minestrone soup and you can
see it says sold as a set they were sold as six packs progresso soup it was only nine something
for six cans of progreso soup and i was highly suspicious i thought how can it be that cheap
when they're 3.50 or more a can where i live or where i've shopped recently i was very suspicious
so i thought well i almost didn't buy it but then i went back and then i thought what if it
is real and i can always send it back or i can put in a claim on amazon if it isn't
any good and i ordered it and it came all nicely packaged no problems and the date on the bottom
is july 2023 so these have almost two years of shelf life on these cans of Progresso soup
for just a little over a dollar a can which is a great buy on a chunky Progresso soup
cans of super great you can serve them as is and have a meal you can bulk them up serve them over
rice mashed potatoes plain noodles there's all different ways that you can combine a can of soup
to make a bigger fuller meal or to feed more people so think of it as if you have six cans
of soup you could have six meals right there just for one person and that's an easy way to
start adding to your canned food stockpile while i was visiting my daughter in the lower 48 i was
flabbergasted to see that several days while it was there the power went out for several hours at
a time no real reasoning of why that happened no advance notice plus she was without power for over
a week last february during a big ice storm and so power outages just seem to be things that are more
common it's something we need to prepare for it almost reminded me of my travels to South Africa
where they don't have enough electricity they do something called load shedding power outages where
they anticipate that the power will be off i think every day you can stay in the finest fancy homes
big fancy hotels and you're not immune to it the power goes up i wanted to be more aware of
how could i prepare for load shedding power outage type activities or events that could happen to me
and my family i ordered some additional insulated food containers back in the day when we carried
our lunch to school we used to carry drinks in a thermos sometimes you could take a hot meal in
a wide mouth thermos and you could have something like macaroni and cheese or soup or some spaghetti
something that was hot that you could put in your thermos these are great for a single serving
it has a little cup on the top that you can use for a drink if that's what you want this one
includes a spoon that folds up and fits right into the lid and then you can twist it off
fill it up and because it's a wide mouth you could even use your spoon to eat out of your thermos so
you could use these for a beverage or you could put something in it that had chunks like soup
and you would still be able to eat out of it because it has a nice wide mouth
so it's easy to serve out of it and then it's simple to clean because they're double
layered they're insulated and so they're going to keep food either hot or cold
depending on what you want so it even says on the label that it will keep food hot
for nine hours or keep food cold for 14 hours so the best way to keep your food hot would be to say
pour in some boiling water put the lid on and let the whole container get preheated then pour
that out and add in your piping hot ingredients that would be the ideal way to do it if you were
able to use extra hot water so that would be something that would be great with your soup
what if you wanted a package of noodles or you wanted a casserole or something bigger then i
found an insulated food container and this one's like a big insulated thermos bowl you pop open
the sides you've probably seen containers that do that and it has a little pressure lid here
that you would release the pressure that can build up when you have hot food in it and what's
nice about this also is that it has this very heavy duty rubbery divider so that you could
put it in here and you could divide up thermos food container dish if you wanted say meatloaf
and mashed potatoes or you wanted vegetables and quinoa you could keep the food separated or if you
wanted to just put in insulated casserole dish you can remove the divider and you can fill the whole
dish up so this might work for a bigger size meal that you wanted to say share with somebody
or just something that's not going to fit well into a round mouth thermos that's probably not
ideal to have a spaghetti and meatball lunch but this one would be and it would be the same
thing you could add hot water put the lid on and preheat it it's going to then pour that out and
then add your hot meal it's going to help it stay warmer longer and while the thermos is 16 ounces
this insulated dish is 33 ounces so it's going to hold twice as much food as the thermos
and remember it has the little red button because pressure can build up so you want
to release the pressure before you open the lid just so it doesn't splatter or burn you
next i bought an insulated thermal carafe you can heat up boiling water coffee or tea whatever your
drink of choice is and you can fill this up you just unscrew the lid add your hot drink
screw the lid back on and it's going to keep your drinks hot this is all stainless steel
double walled insulated thermal carafe this holds 68 ounces so that would be a lot of water
coffee or tea or whatever your beverage of choice is that you could have for your entire day if you
heated up water at the beginning of the day and then put on the lid you could have a hot beverage
all throughout the day whether you want to mix instant coffee a tea bag make some hot chocolate
instant apple cider there's all kinds of drinks that you could make just adding your hot water
that you have on hand on standby all day long i don't like to add mixed up beverages into these
like say coffee because then i think it always smells and everything then tastes like coffee
i don't want future drinks to always have the strong aroma or flavor of whatever the contents
were before plus i think if you just use hot water in these you don't need to worry about getting it
all clean inside you just need to be sure that you're sanitizing the outside the spout and the
handle the inside is still going to be clean for a long time because you're just adding hot water
so whether it's adding to your prepper pantry or adding to your prepping supplies
there's still time to get the things you need and prepare for the unexpected
we know there are challenges ahead if we try to imagine what are the problems i could face
and we select prepper pantry food and prepping supplies to help us meet those challenges
then we're going to be able to make the best of whatever comes our way
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