how to use canned ham prepper pantry food stockpile recipes easy shelf meals hi it's
AlaskaGranny Alaska Prepper do you ever look in your prepper pantry stockpile and you think
I've got all this food this is wonderful and then you ask yourself well what do I do with some of
the food I don't even remember why I bought some foods or how I plan to use food stockpile today
I was looking through my prepper pantry stockpile and I noticed that I have some small cans of ham
that I need to start thinking about rotating because your prepper pantry stockpile should
be a working Pantry you're working your way through pantry stored food you're using your
Foods rotating them and then replacing more food because foods not going to last forever the nice
thing about canned meat is canned meat will last for many years five eight years past the date on
it in general you want to make sure that you're inspecting stored cans meat food to make sure
that they're not bulging at all nothing is leaking nothing looks strange greasy on the outside and
then when you open canned food inspect make sure nothing ever spurts make sure everything smells
and food looks okay then it's probably fine to eat occasionally you will find cans food that aren't
any good anymore and those need to be thrown away don't risk getting sick over a dollar's worth of
food you need to throw out food that is no longer safe to eat it only makes sense so I came up with
a bunch of meal ideas shelf meals prepper pantry meals what you could make out of your prepper
Pantry stockpile that included a can of ham here are some meal ideas I put together how about
scrambled eggs with ham you just need eggs a can of ham maybe even a package of Buttermilk Biscuits
if you have cheese top it with that you can make it your own use pepper add whatever you like to
season up the way you might enjoy it how about a pasta salad with a can of ham it can be as simple
as a box of Suddenly Salad Suddenly Salad comes in different flavors you can even find Suddenly Salad
bacon flavor which might be extra good to add ham make sure that you have some mayonnaise if that's
called for in your recipe I like to take some of my dehydrated mixed vegetables add them into
the Suddenly Salad when I am boiling the noodles Suddenly Salad has a little bit of vegetables in
it already you can add more vegetables dehydrated vegetables tend to be small the same size as the
veggies in Suddenly Salad you get an extra helping of vegetables they're done around the same time I
like to store food better to last longer so I like to take foods like Suddenly Salad out of the box
I store it in a clean canning jar I include the directions the dressing packet I can put
it away in my prepper pantry stockpile and they last for several extra years doing them that way
how about Idahoan cheesy scalloped potatoes with ham and a side of mixed vegetables you can put
the ham into the potatoes while they're cooking or sprinkle ham over the top when you're done
the Idahoan cheesy scalloped potatoes are really delicious but you do need to make sure that you
have any extra required ingredients such as butter or milk which could come out of your prepper
pantry stockpile powdered milk and powdered butter I also like to take the Idahoan type potatoes out
and store them into a clean canning jar just like I do foods like Suddenly Salad look at some of
your longest lasting Foods Hursts 15 bean soup and a can of ham Hursts 15 bean soup already has
a packet of seasoning in the soup mix so that's one of the benefits of buying beans already mixed
up you don't have to figure anything else except add water and a little bit of ham if you like add
any ingredients that you like when you're spicing up soups to make them Delicious according to your
taste and flavors I made a video about how to make Hursts 15 bean soup crock pot I'll put a
link to that video if you're interested on how to cook a 15 bean soup in the crock pot
split pea soup is another great way to use up your can of ham grab a package of split peas to make
split pea soup in your crock pot I like to store my dried beans into clean jars you can recycle
jars if you have them make sure that you label what it is it is easy to actually get mixed up
on some of the foods that you store away if you don't quite remember what it is I like to also
take the directions and put it in the jar with it so that if someone else needs to make it they
have that information already there looking for a way to change up Kraft Mac and Cheese stir in
can of ham when you're stirring in the cheese sauce I like Kraft macaroni and cheese to me
it's worth it to spend a little extra because it tastes so much better and I've also found that
even if I don't have the milk and butter it still tastes fine because the cheesy powder is pretty
tasty Kraft macaroni and cheese is stockpile food I store in clean canning jars I've discovered I
could put two packages Kraft mac cheese into a jars I take a sandwich size Ziploc bag I pour
in the noodles I add the cheese sauce packet seal it up put it in the jar then take another
box Kraft mac cheese put it into a sandwich bag add that into the jar as well and there I
have two packs of Kraft macaroni and cheese set aside in my prepper pantry food stockpile that
can last for quite a few number of years I have made videos about expired macaroni
and cheese I'll put a link to one of those videos in case you want to check out can you
really eat expired or out of date macaroni and cheese in my experience is the answer is yes
make an easy variation on pozole a can of ham a can of pintos a can of hominy some spicy tomatoes
Jazz it up with chili powder garlic and onion you'll have a nice pozole soup stew type recipe
you could serve pozole with tortillas pour pozole over rice and it's really delicious
make a fun ham sandwich stir together some mayonnaise with your ham spread it on some
bread and top it with a pineapple slice and if you don't have bread mix up some Buttermilk Biscuits
a great thing to have on hand if you don't have bread is a package of pizza crust you can mix it
together shape it into a loaf and bake it and then you have a small serving of bread that would be
great to make with your sandwiches heat together a can of butter beans a can of smoked ham serve it
over cornbread it would be absolutely delicious ham quesadillas open and drain your ham black
beans and kernel corn stir it together then heat it together with some cheddar cheese inside your
tortilla for a wonderful quesadilla delicious make an easy jambalaya you can put together a
can of ham box of Zatarain's Jambalaya mix or if you don't have the jambalaya mix you can make your
own jambalaya stir together the ham with a can of diced tomatoes a can of chicken broth I like
to add a handful of my dehydrated peppers and onions that I dried in my Magic Mill dehydrator
some Cajun seasoning serve it with rice and you have a wonderful filling meal
here's a favorite from one of the AlaskaGranny community members somebody left a comment under
my butter bean video on how to make an easy ham and butter bean soup stir together the
butter beans the can of ham chicken broth and a small can of carrots how easy is that
how about an easy Hawaiian pizza you can have a package of pizza crust from your pantry a can of
tomato paste which I made a video on how you can easily make pizza sauce from a can of tomato paste
I'll put a link to that video just remember we usually like cheese with our pizza so you
probably need cheese in your refrigerator the very first time I ever heard about Hawaiian pizza and I
had some and I loved it I told my mother about it and she told me I made it up it must be from that
little hick town you live in it's good no power no time don't worry grab a box of crackers and
a can of ham open the can of ham serve it on the crackers and you have a quick and easy to go snack
there are a lot of ways to put prepper pantry food stockpile foods together with ham add or delete
or substitute according to your likes and dislikes and foods your family is willing to eat or not eat
remember the foods in your stockpile pantry are a working pantry you should be working through your
Foods then you should be rotating stored food and replacing food you want to keep building up your
food stockpile but don't just set it away forever because a lot of the Shelf stable Pantry Foods
don't last forever but they will last for a few years and you know what we aren't prepping for one
big shtf we're prepping to have smooth days for every day of our life we want to be able to come
home and get a meal together for our family we want to have enough to eat if there is snow storm
somebody is sick you run out of money you can't get to the store you want to be able to continue
to feed your family and then if some big horrible thing comes guess what you can still keep going
and the point is that you have the Basics and then you can figure out what to do next and that's very
comforting that's why I'm a prepper I want every day to be the best it can be leave us a comment
if there's some other foods that you put together with some of the foods in your pepper pantry and
leave us meal suggestions so we can rotate our food and keep having ideas on how to work our way
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