emergency stockpile what to buy now prepping for coming shortages
hi it's AlaskaGranny Alaska Prepper I've been working on my emergency stockpile and wondering
what to buy now I thought I would share with you some of the items that I chose
to buy and give you an explanation of why I want to buy these things and why
you might want to consider buying them also food is a key prepper prepping supply to have in
your emergency survival stockpile and you need to be taking an inventory of your stored food long term storage and pantry foods and making sure that you
have the food things that you need always be asking yourself what more could I do to be prepared for emergencies
what else would I need what would I not ever want to be without and that's how
you make a plan for what your emergency food and supplies prepping prepper stockpile should include there is no one right
plan one right food or one right suggestion or idea for how to grow your
food storage stock pile you have to decide what foods do you like what foods do you know
how to prepare and are you willing to eat and those are the foods that you
want to make sure you have plenty of for yourself and your family
due to the coronavirus and the Covid 19 pandemic have not been going to the
grocery store but I've been placing online grocery orders and going and picking up
at Walmart it hasn't been without problems though because food supplies things are just
not available they're not even on the shopping list or when you're
searching through the items that you can choose so many of them are out of stock
and it seemed like it was getting better for a while more foods were available but now I notice it it's
dramatically worse a lot of the items I may have chosen in the past don't even
come up on the search engine and then a lot of the food items are just out of stock
plus the prices are going up even when I was able to add things food items to my cart when I
got ready and I hit the checkout all of a sudden a bunch of them came up no
longer available which is extremely frustrating and then when I went to pick
up my food supply order grocery pick up at Walmart at the store more of the items were no longer available and had been left out
of my walmart online grocery order so I probably had 30% of the food grocery items that I wanted that I didn't
receive so that tells me there are still food shortages there's still some supply
chain problems and it's not something that I want to ignore
it's something I want to address we're in the best time of the year there's no
weather problems people supposedly are going back to work we're feeling better
states and cities we're opening up more things and yet the supply chain is still having some
glitches I asked the walmart grocery pici up clerk who brought the walmart online grocery pick up order things out to my car is there a
better day to come and she said no they just don't know yesterday they had two
trucks come in and they were expecting four more that never showed up so they
don't know when the trucks are coming they don't know when the resupply supplies are
there they don't know themselves what's going to be available until it appears
on the shelf these are the foods and other supplies that I chose at walmart online grocery pick up order so that I
have more of the things that I know I'm going to need going forward months from
now I don't know what the status will be of this covid 19 coronavirus pandemic quarantine lock down we don't know if things stores businesses
will be shut down again if the pandemic will come back up if stores will close
or just run out and so it's important that you ask yourself what do I have
what will I need and how can I get it and that's what I did I started with
some variety of grits which I usually have oatmeal but I decided grits would
be a nice change and you can store it so that it lasts quite a few years three
easy ways to serve grits are make your grits add some jam make creamy grits
with Nestle media crema it's canned cream it's table cream and so it can really make
the best-tasting grits if you cook them in the cream make cheesy grits by adding
a handful of shredded cheddar canned soups are great to have on hand I've
noticed that there isn't as much beef in the store so I stockpile specifically
beef flavored soups to make sure that I have some beef meat in my stockpile soups are
nice no matter the emergency you can pull off the lid and eat them out of the
can if you had to of course they're better heat it up but they're already
completely cooked and they'll last for a long time in your food pantry how to
make a quick meal with a can of soup get the Idaho
potatoes the mashed potatoes you only need water they're delicious and you
only need water so they're super convenient make up your mashed potatoes
and pour over it a heated up can of beef pot roast or
steak and potatoes what's a yummy way to serve the baked
potato with cheddar and bacon bits soup steamed some broccoli and pour the hot
steaming soup over your broccoli florets and it's like the reverse of when you
bake a potato and you put all the toppings on it you are making an
upside-down specialty baked potato meat has been in very short supply in the
stores and if you look at the news animals are being slaughtered but not
sent to market the carcasses are being wasted because of problems in the
economy or the shipping or they can't find workers I don't know there's lots
of different reasons so I stocked up on what I could get of canned meat I
could only get two cans of roast beef I could get no ham and I like the canned chicken
so I got lots of chicken I've got two sizes of canned chicken because sometimes you can use a
small can to make a small meal or a large can to make a large meal and the
canned meats last many years past their expiration their best buy sell buy date
because it's not really an expiration date it's a use by date so don't be
afraid to have a nice supply of meat in your food storage that has been one of
the food items that it has been the hardest to get during the last several
months how to use canned roast beef heat canned roast beef up with a can of portobello mushrooms
add some onions and some Nestle Media crema as your sour cream serve it over egg
noodles and you have a delicious stroganoff from your pantry I'll put a
link to a video I made on how to turn media crema into sour cream if you're
interested in that recipe an easy way to use a can of chicken add it with some
great northern beans a half a jar of green salsa warm it through top it with
cheese and you have a wonderful chicken chili I got some chicken
bouillon cubes and some lentils for my longer term food storage lentils are
high in protein fiber iron they're full of nutrients and they're simple to
prepare stored properly they can last for 30 years lentils are comparable to
stirring beans but there's no need to soak them add three cups of water with
one cup of lentils and you can cook them in 30 minutes you can make a quick
lentil curry cook a half a cup of lentils with a can of chicken broth and
add one tablespoon of curry powder lentils are nice for your long-term food
storage because they can last for up to 30 years if they're stored properly and
they're dense a pound of lentils takes up only about half as much space in your
pantry as a pound of beans so if food storage space is an issue you may want
to add some lentils to your food storage pantry both the lentils and the grits
are great for long-term food storage but you can't just leave them in the package
they're in I like to store them in clean canning jars and then there's three
different ways you can seal them for long term food storage number one you can just screw on the lid that
helps them last for several years what's better is if you have something like a
food saver with the jar attachment you put the jar attachment over your jar and
it sucks out all the air and they'll last for many years that way or you can
order oxygen absorbers online place one of those into each jar and screw down
the lid quickly and that will remove the oxygen stir it properly
things like lentils and grits and other dried foods can last for up to 30 years
my 5 pounds of lentils filled 6 pint sized canning jars with the wide mouth and when
you're storing dried food like this and you want to keep air out fill it to the
tippy-top you don't want to leave airspace at the top like you would if
you're canning wet canning because you don't need to allow air space for
expansion and you want to tap tap-tap to get down as far as you can come
compact it fill it to the rim because grits are made of corn and I've had
problems with weevils and bugs in corn meal corn products I'm going to put this in
the freezer for a few days and one of the recommendations with things like
grain is put them in the freezer for a few days
allow them to thaw out and then any unhatched insects may hatch then then
you freeze them again for a few more days and take them out so one of the
best ways to make sure you get rid of all of the little critters is to freeze
it thaw it freeze it again thaw it and then pack up your food in your jars or
your mylar bags if that's what you choose this is the time of year when
people are harvesting their gardens catching their fish and canning a lot of
produce and meats what's difficult this year is I've had a hard time finding new
canning jars so the only size I could get this year was this pint wide mouth canning jar
and I usually like the quart sized canning jars with the wide mouth and they've been impossible
to buy more of this year so if you see canning jars pick them up also
lids have been extremely hard to find I was able to get one pack of the wide
mouth lids and one pack of the regular mouth lids and those can store in your
pantry forever they're always available to use if you have them and you need to
store food I was able to get some Evolve bleach tablets which was a real find and they
are the Evolve bleach tablets original scent if you want a way to store bleach for not only purifying
water but disinfecting especially during this time of Covid 19 coronavirus pandemic when we're supposed
to disinfect everything look for the Evolve bleach tablets see how they are little
tablets you can drop one into the washing machine you can drop one into
your toilet bowl I like to place one in an empty spray bottle and fill it with
hot water and then I have a bleach disinfectant spray you can also drop one
or two into a bucket if you're going to mop or something like that Evolve bleach tablets they're not
actually designed to purify water it tells you not to but
I figure if I run out of clean drinking water in every other way I know how to
purify water evolve bleach tablets this is something I'm going to be glad to have on hand and for that
reason I never buy any kind of bleach that's scented because I don't want to
end up with lavender smelling water or clean burst of whatever that's not a
scent I would ever want to find in my drinking water those are the foods that
I'm adding to my food storage stockpile and how I plan to use some of them look
over your own food stockpile make sure you're storing enough food for a week
two weeks a month several months as much food as you can afford to store and as
much room as you have to rotate it successfully so that nothing goes to
waste then no matter what happens you'll be able to open your pantry and make a
meal for yourself and your family no matter what the circumstances are
stock up while things are still available it just makes sense to be a prepper
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