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forever foods prepping hi it's AlaskaGranny Alaska Prepper today I wanted to share with you
some must must-have long lasting foods you might want to include in your prepper pantry
see if these are foods that you're interested in including in your prepper pantry and your
long-term food storage stockpile sometimes we're so busy planning on the rice the beans
the canned foods we forget some of the comfort or special items that we might want to include
in our prepper pantry the first food to think about is coffee if you enjoy having coffee then
you know the fresher the better and that coffee beans and ground coffee just don't last that long
if you really want to make sure that you're going to have coffee
no matter what the day brings then you need to get some instant coffee the instant coffee is
dehydrated freeze dried and it may not be the most flavorful delicious coffee you've ever had
no matter what the day brings if you have some instant coffee you'll be able to make yourself a
cup of coffee it's a great food to include in your camping gear as well as in your prepper pantry
I'm not a coffee drinker as much as I love tea and I have a nice stockpile of the tea that I enjoy
in canning jars I keep tea in glass mason canning jars airtight and they have lasted
for several years they taste just as delicious as when they're fresh if you enjoy having tea
make sure that you're storing it airtight and then keep tea like all your other foods in a cool dark
dry place for it to last the longest did you know popcorn is practically a forever food and popcorn
is something that's simple to make even over a campfire or a camping stove you could pop up
some popcorn if you wanted to you can also grind popcorn and use cornmeal for a simple flour there
are a lot of reasons you might want to include popcorn in your long-term food storage plan
chocolate is a food that lots of people just can't live without but we know that chocolate can't last
very long it has a lot of oil in it chocolate dries up it turns white chocolate melts we might
even have actually raided our chocolate stash a time or two but if you want the ability to have
some chocolate flavor in food storage Hershey's cocoa powder cocoa powder can live last store
many years in your prepper pantry cocoa powder is a way that you can include the deliciousness
of chocolate in many of your recipes if chocolate is something you adore put Hershey's cocoa powder
in your prepper pantry long term food storage stockpile sugar is really one of the basic foods
store sugar in an airtight container sugar can stay fresh and good to eat for decades
the problem with sugar is that we need to store it so it stays dry and even in a humid area it
can absorb the moisture so keep it as airtight as possible simply pour sugar into a jar and seal it
up can help sugar last for decades salt is a forever food and it's one of the original ways
that people used to have value and trade for salt in a modern world many of us are concerned that
there's too much salt in our diet salt is included in processed foods canned foods take out foods
restaurant meals there's lots of sodium in a lot of the foods that we eat and we're usually trying
to watch out that we're not getting too much salt but if you need to start preparing your basic
foods from the foods that you have on hand cooking your own foods and preserving them then you'll
need to have salt in prepper pantry food storage if you don't have any salt begin with some iodized
salt iodine is a basic nutrient that is vital to the health of your thyroid and in many countries
a lack of iodine is a real health problem we don't have that so much in the United States because of
the iodized salt that's readily available iodized salt may not last long term as well as plain salt
himalayan salts pickling salt because the iodine can deteriorate and change the salt
but if you don't have any salt in your prepper pantry add some iodized salt and then if you want
to have more add some plain salt and other types of varietal salts that are what you choose to use
in your cooking honey is a natural sweetener honey can last forever you want to make sure that
you get honey as close to the source as possible if you can get honey right from a farmer that's
great but if you can't just go ahead and get some at the grocery store if you can only find
honey in plastic containers you may want to consider repackaging honey into glass canning jars
just to help it stay away from the plastic but then you also risk that you need to make sure that
you put the jars away carefully where they're not going to get tipped over and broken if your honey
gets hard and crystallized don't worry it's still perfectly fine you can soak your jar of honey in
a container of warm water and then allow it to just warm up and the warmth of the water
that's surrounding honey then heating up the honey will help it dissolve back down to its liquid form
don't ever boil honey because that can destroy the medicinal properties that are naturally occurring
in honey and don't heat it in the microwave just put it into a bowl with warm water and then just
allow time to help it re-liquefy and become back to the beautiful syrupy honey that you're used to
you may not be a fan of alcohol but if you are make sure that you have some
food storage alcohol can last nearly forever if you can stay out of it also it might be something
that you can use for medicinal purposes or even bartering purposes in an emergency situation
is alcohol a necessity in your food storage no but for some people it might be so think about
what are your foods that you want to have and that's what you should have in your stockpile
think about these basic foods see if you've included them in your prepper pantry and your
long-term food storage stockpile and pick up one or two of them if you don't have them at this time
if there's any foods that you think we might have forgotten and you want to help us be aware make
sure we've included them leave it in the comments below so we can all help learn from each other
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