Pantry Pack Prepping Foods To Stockpile DIY MRE no cook bug out bag food hi
it's AlaskaGranny Alaska Prepper i'm out at Granny Camp which is my Alaska off-grid cabin
it's just a little place that i like to come and spend a lot of time in the summer
one of the strategies i was thinking about for food stockpile prepping was the pantry packs
of food i thought not only would pantry packs of food be great for prepping you could have food set
aside grab and go you could put pantry packs of food into your own DIY MRE's i thought it would be
a great idea to bring some of pantry packs of food items out to Granny Camp you're okay you're okay
Teddy's still getting used to being out at Granny Camp he hasn't been out here in a long time and so
he's a little scared whenever he hears noises so i thought it would be a great idea to get some
of the pantry pack foods and keep them also at Granny Camp bug out location because should i get
stranded out here or i have unexpected visitors or i don't feel like cooking i have foods that are
easy to open and eat and they can last right on the shelf all summer long the
first category pantry packs of food is granola bars energy bars get whatever the kind you like
protein bars they come in all kinds of different varieties they come in all different flavors
you can find granola bars energy bars at different price points and everything from a box of generic
granola bars up to your most favorite Clif power energy bar you can have a supply that you want
buy them by the box and you have a pack of ready to go food that's already in a nice
package you can pull out pantry packs of food take however many you need spread them out with
your family or whatever find the pantry packs of food that you like the flavors that you enjoy
eating and those are the pantry packs of food you should buy i have had lots of good luck
with granola bars lasting past the date and Clif bars have been my favorite because i had some that
were quite a few years expired and they tasted just like they were fresh so i'm not afraid to
stock up on Clif granola bars it's still a good idea to rotate your food along the guidelines but
just because food's past the date doesn't mean your food is no longer good to eat anymore look
for the pantry packs the multi-packs of crackers with things like cheese or peanut butter in them
once again you have a bunch of food that you could scatter around into your Bug Out Bag your
picnic bag your kids lunches grab one when you're heading out for the day and then if you're delayed
for some reason and can't get to your meal you'll have something to eat i found pantry packs of nuts
you can buy pantry packs nuts they're already in individual packages inside the box they're easy to
hand out to portion out you can ration pantry packs of food if you need to in an emergency
situation and so it's nice to have the individual wrapped foods look for yogurt covered raisins if
that's something you like i do so it was nice to pick up this pantry pack yogurt raisins that has
six boxes six servings maybe you like fruit you can look for the little cups of fruit
that you just peel open the top and eat it you can also look for the ones they make for little
kids the go-go fruits my little grandchildren like to eat those and the littlest one is now
hanging on the refrigerator door saying go go go go she wants her applesauce and her yogurt pouches
they're easy to serve you don't have to be a child to want to eat GOGO squeeze pouches i enjoy eating
fig newtons i found a pantry pack fig newtons with 12 individually wrapped servings so this is great
to add to my collection of grab-and-go foods pantry packs look for individual size servings of
meat i found the Chicken of the Sea salmon which is my preferred meat in these little packages
you can also find Chicken of the Sea tuna you can even find Spam but look around for meat
flavors and varieties that you like a while back i bought some of the different flavors of tuna
and i tried some of them and some of them i just didn't care for it at all so don't load
up food if you're not sure if you'd like it find one or two that you think would be tasty
take it home and try it if you like it you can always go back and get more and if you don't then
you still have money left over to buy pantry packs of food that you do like better another strategy
to have grab and go meals in a pantry pack is the Hormel Compleats Saffron Road pouch entrees
that are already in pouches that you just need to heat up in the microwave for one minute or
60 seconds but you know what they're fully cooked you don't have to heat them up you can
tear them open and eat them if you don't have a way to heat them up you can still
have a nice filling meal these come in a lot of varieties but boy did i notice the prices are
going up on ready to eat pouch meals dramatically so if there's a variety that you know you like
and you want to have some extra meals on hand look for them and pick them up when you see
them i also like the Hormel Compleats Hormel Compleats come in different varieties they used
to have tastier varieties before the beginning of the pandemic and just like anything else
the price has gone up the variety has gone down and the limited availability makes it questionable
if you can even find some of the foods that you want i have been able to order Hormel Compleats in
multi-packs off of amazon and that's been a handy way to find Hormel Compleats that i like if you
haven't tried them look for them in the store and buy Hormel Compleats and try it you don't want to
buy a multi-pack to find out it's food you don't care to eat Hormel Compleats are great too because
they're already fully cooked you can heat them in the microwave for 60 seconds and then they're
heated up and they're better tasting but if you can't heat up Hormel Compleats it doesn't matter
you can still have a meal that's ready to go but just open Hormel Compleats and eat it
the nice thing about the Saffron Road pouches instead of the Hormel Compleats dishes is
you can put Saffron Road pouch meals in a pot with boiling water and allow it to heat up and
i haven't ever tried it with these and i don't think it would work as well as it does with these
i made a video on how i heated some of these with just a pot on a camping stove and i'll put
a link to that video in case you want to see the technique that worked for me not exactly
no cooking but practically if you can boil some water you can have some instant oatmeal you just
need a container that you can pour this into and add the boiling water and stir it around you'll
be able to eat it so if you think you might have some way to do some cooking have a few these kind
of options as well i also picked up a pantry pack of Kraft macaroni and cheese the one that i like
is Kraft Kraft mac and cheese are really getting expensive i was going to buy some of the little
microwavable cups but four packages of Kraft mac and cheese microwave cups with hardly any food
in them was more than five full sized boxes Kraft mac and cheese that you just need to boil longer
i just couldn't bring myself to spend the extra money just on the little cups if you really want
to only make part of Kraft mac and cheese you could put it in a bowl in a microwave
and just do it a little at a time stir it a little more and you could try making like half
of the box or a third of the box and make your own little microwavable cup in your own bowl i
have made Kraft mac and cheese many times without the butter or the milk and they're still fine
so don't worry about that if money is short and you can only get part of the foods that you want
get the varieties that are a fuller meal that can be more servings for more people don't just have
a pound of butter when you could have had boxes and boxes of macaroni and cheese
and you'll have a lot more food on hand so that you'll be able to feed yourself and your family
meals i take the pantry pack types of foods and i make my own DIY MRE's i put in the varieties i
put them together in a ziploc bag and then they can go into the Bug Out Bag the get home bag the
72 hour kit you can even have pantry packs of DIY MRE's on the shelf in the pantry and then
if you need a meal you can grab and go i'll put a link to the videos i made about how to make DIY
MRE's in case it's something you want to put together yourself it's as simple as get a ziploc
bag and take a few of these prepper pantry pack food items put in a napkin a spoon if you need it
and then you have some food that you can grab and go open and eat it and even if you're not
at home you can't boil water you're in your car there's all kinds of situations when just being
able to open something and eat it is going to help fill you nourish you and then allow you to figure
out what to do next so that you aren't worried about the hunger and how do i get something to eat
now you have something to eat and you can figure out all of the other things that go with so many
emergency situations something you need with all of these food items is water make sure you
have some grab and go water bottles fill them up yourself if you want to don't just have a giant
jug of water because if you need to take a DIY MRE grab some water bottles then you can head out in
a bug out situation or heading out to go camping and it isn't complicated because you have the food
and water that you need there are a lot of ways to prepare to have the food that you need start with
a full pantry start with a few emergency meals then as your pantry gets full have a stockpile
of the things that you use regularly then it's like you have your own warehouse or store you
have the food in your pantry in your kitchen you can go to your prepper pantry stockpile
and get more food then stock up on the longest lasting beans and rice the buckets of food that
can last for 30 years have some of that in your regular pantry too so that you become accustomed
to how to cook those foods and use them but have a huge supply of long lasting rice beans put away
for the unknown the future is uncertain and you want to make sure that you have the food that
you need no matter what the challenges that lie ahead leave a comment below what are your favorite
foods that you put in your pantry pack so that you have some grab and go food we can learn a
lot from each other to help us be better prepared going forward if you liked my video i hope you'll
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