Grains To Stockpile Now Prepper Pantry Must Have Foods Grain Shortages Stock Up Now hi
it's AlaskaGranny Alaska Prepper are you working on your food storage and you're wondering
what area of food you might want to prep next well think about the area of grains there's
so much in the news about the price of fuel going up which means farmers can't work as well
there is shortage of fertilizer the grain harvest in ukraine and russia are severely threatened
and no longer available and many countries are simply not self-sustaining with their grains and
the countries who do have grain many of them are no longer exporting grains and countries who don't
have enough are not able to get the grains that they want not only is there a current shortage
but going forward it looks like it's going to be worse food shortages so many fewer crops are
being planted and they keep talking about all the problems with the weather and so it's a great time
to stock up on grains while they're still readily available grains affordable there are many ways to
purchase grains and many ways to store food there isn't one right grain or one right way to store
food it's choose the foods that you want and store food the best that you can the more air tight you
can store food grain in a cool dark dry place the longer they're going to last just do the best you
can if you don't have all the supplies maybe you can store food better later right now stock
up on grains food so that you'll have it a top grain that i like to store is oatmeal i like to
eat it for breakfast you don't even have to cook oatmeal you can soak oatmeal make overnight oats
you can grind oatmeal and make oat flour you can add oatmeal into meatloaf to extend it further
meal meat extender many ways that you can use oatmeal i like to buy oatmeal from mormon LDS
church food comes in a number 10 can it's sealed to last for 30 years and it's very top quality
i also buy 0atmeal in containers at the store and repackage oatmeal into jars because oatmeal needs
to be stored in an airtight container you can't continue to store oatmeal in the paper carton
because it's not only going to get stale but bugs can get in it rodents can chew on the package
things can spill and get into it so you want to store oatmeal into an airtight container
the next grain that i store the most is probably rice rice is one of the most versatile foods that
you can find rice is easy to prepare rice is eaten all over the world and when you combine
rice with beans you have a complete protein i have also purchased rice from the LDS or mormon church
rice comes in number 10 cans rice food already sealed to last for at least 30 years LDS foods are
very inexpensive they're top qualit it's not the only way you can buy rice but it's very convenient
and if you do want to buy the foods from the LDS church i'll put a link to the website down
below know when you're buying LDS food you're buying a box of six the price is for six of
number 10 cans not just one like you see when you go to other sites and other grocery stores
those prices are for per can the food on the LDS are for six cans i also buy rice in bags
store rice in jars i store rice in buckets i add oxygen absorbers and sometimes i use the foodsaver
jar lid attachment if you have food saver you can vacuum seal your jars another food i like to
buy in the number 10 cans is flour flour comes already sealed for a long lasting shelf life
i do buy bags of flour also but then you have to seal those up and sometimes it's harder
to get flour to seal up to last as long as flour already professionally prepared to last longer
and the lds flour is very good at the beginning of the pandemic when we couldn't get regular flour we
opened a can and it smelled a little like a tin can but we left it to air out for just a short
period of time and then it was just as nice as fresh flour if you can find flour that's already
stored to last that's the easiest way ever to make sure that you're going to have flour long lasting
i made a video about how much flour to store if you were going to be baking bread
i'll put a link to that video if you want to know how much flour you need to store
to bake your own bread emergencies if you can't get bread flour at the store
then you can watch that video and it can help teach you a little bit of that information
my next favorite grain is pasta noodles macaroni you can get pasta in all different shapes i buy
pasta and sometimes i seal pasta in a jar i use the foodsaver vacuum sealer or you can just
tighten the jar lid you don't have to do anything else to pasta you've sealed out the air
i've had pasta that i have stored that's lasted for decades and it's always been fine another way
I store pasta recently was i bought this banker's box at walmart and you can see it it has a latch
it's not completely airtight but the lid comes over about an inch and it helps keep the air out
and then i've been able to store lots of pasta in walmart bankers box
on top i have egg noodles because egg noodles are not going to last
long term so i put egg noodles on top so that i remember to use them sooner rather than later
egg noodles have eggs in them the eggs will spoil so you need to use your egg noodles within maybe a
year or two egg noodles not going to store as long as pasta i also purchased some bay leaves i need
to open bay leaves put them around in the flour the pastas the grains because bay leaves will
help repel bugs then i use the vacuum sealer to seal up the pasta i put it into the foodsaver bags
these are very sturdy bags they're airtight and i can put food saver bags pasta into plastic
tote so they're not going to get punctured or chewed on by anything the plastic tote container
is going to help pasta last longer just as if you put pasta into a five gallon bucket
except the long pastas don't fit in a five gallon bucket but pasta fit perfectly in here
get a variety of pasta shapes but pay attention to how much more space the shapes take
up than say just a spaghetti noodle i have two pounds of pasta spaghetti noodles in here
and this is one pound of penne you can see because of the shape of it it takes up far more space if
space is an issue for your food storage then try to get food that take up the least amount of space
i can load bags pasta in banker box push down the lid and seal it banker box going to help
my pasta food last longer i decided i like banker box so much I went back and bought a
few more bankers boxes i used them to store other foods like Knorr pasta and rice sides and some
Idahoan mashed potatoes bankers box has just been a really handy stackable space-saving airtight
container to store some of my extra grains food getting harder and harder to figure out where
to store food put everything it's harder to get some of the food storage supplies to store foods
another grain to think about store long term is barley barley is great you can add barley
into soups and stews you can cook barley serve it like a hot breakfast there's lots of things that
you can do with barley so if it's a grain that you like get barley and store it in an airtight
container popcorn popcorn is great you can grind popcorn if you want and make it into corn flour
you can make popcorn how easy is that it's a delicious easy way to have extra grain on
hand popcorn is going to last nearly forever you want to make sure that you store popcorn
correctly there's a little tiny drop of moisture inside each popcorn kernel when popcorn heats up
boom that's what makes it pop store your popcorn airtight so that that little kernel doesn't dry
up but if it does you can still grind popcorn and use it to make cornmeal quinoa is another great
grain to have on hand i just shoved the quinoa bag inside the jar it gives it an extra layer of
protection and then there's a lot of interesting information on quinoa bag so i wanted to be able
to read that and refer to it when i wanted to cook quinoa if gluten sensitivities are a concern for
your diet then you can look at Bob's Red Mill i picked up the one-on-one flour it's a gluten-free
flour replacement and the one-on-one gluten free flour you can use substituted exactly as is into
your recipes for banana bread or whatever you want to make you don't have to try to convert
recipe like many of the other types of gluten-free flours Bob's Red Mill one-on-one gluten free flour
measure it the same another item i like from Bob's Red Mill is the egg replacer it's not eggs it's
made out of potatoes tapioca and flour but you use it just like you would an egg you stir it
into your recipe to replace the actual farm eggs Bob's Red Mill egg replacer has been hard to find
when i originally bought it like at fred myers it was about 3.79 and now i can't find it in the
store and when i looked at Bob's Red Mill to order directly from them it was about
six dollars so i looked on amazon and it was nearly 10 dollars Bob's Red Mill egg replacer is a
great product for baking it has the equivalent of 34 eggs in it and if you can look around and find
it for around the 3.79 you should definitely pick it up you can't get 34 eggs for 3.79
the cost of eggs is just rising ridiculously and so that's another reason you might want to
have Bob's Red Mill egg replacer on hand to go with your other baking supplies
and if you're planning on baking with some of these grains make sure you stock up on baking
powder baking soda salt and yeast then you can also look at some of the products that
you would use that would be packages of foods that include grains that you enjoy eating if you
like grits get a box of them but don't store them in the box put grits into an airtight container
i store grits in a jar be sure you label whatever you put into a jar and that you
tape the directions on it if you want to be able to refer to it quickly when you pull it
out of your pantry you want to prepare it another cereal you might consider looking for if you like
it is cream of wheat if you like making pancakes it's great to have the just add water pancake mix
i usually buy the big bags pancake mix from Krusteaz i put Krusteaz pancake mix in an
airtight container i've also found pancake mix at Dollar Tree Dollar Tree pancake mixes are just the
right size that you can use them to bake a loaf of bread with a pancake mix a beer and some butter
you can make a nice full loaf of bread i'll put a link to that video in case you're wondering how to
make pancake mix into bread rice is great but you may not always have the time or maybe your power
goes out you can just boil a little bit of water and put it over Minute Rice and your food is ready
faster and you don't need as much power to get it cooking plus if you're going camping it's nice
to have Minute Rice along and you want to maybe make a campfire meal and you can add Minute Rice
into your foil packet meals think about foods like stovetop stuffing hamburger helper
that you would add other ingredients but they're full of grains to help make a bigger better meal i
also have some instant oatmeal packets i put those into an airtight container instant oatmeal packets
are great you can just pull one out add a little boiling water and it's ready to go oatmeal instant
oatmeal also nice if you're going camping or you want to put something in your Bug Out Bag look for
some of the easy to just add water or just barely any cooking or even just open and eat foods that
include grains it's very important that we keep prepping we keep gathering food for our long-term
prepper pantry food stockpile that you buy foods that you know how to use that you're willing to
eat then you need to prepare food rotate them and replace them if you don't have an ample supply of
foods right now when you go to the store if you buy one then instead buy two you have one that you
might want to use and one to put in your pantry then when you finish one then you buy another
one or if you want to build your stockpile you would buy two so then you're buying foods today
when they're probably going to cost less than in the future and so then you're stockpiling foods
and saving money because the foods that you're going to have in your pantry you can take and use
and then when you replace them that will probably be at a higher price so prepping is
really sensible not because we think it's SHTF or armageddon or the end of the world as we know it
we know that there are shortages we also know that there are winter storms
there are summer hurricanes and tornadoes there are times when we might get sick or we just
don't want to go to the store if you have a nice amount of food in your pantry you don't need to
go to the store if you don't want to or it isn't safe because of some crazy event that's going on
you have the choice to stay home enjoy your time with your family put a meal on the table and you
don't have the stress and the pressure of what am i going to make for dinner you're going to have
options prepping means preparing your family to have life run as smoothly as possible
we want every day to be the best it can be for ourselves and our family and having plenty of
food on hand is one way to make sure that that happens if you enjoyed my video i hope you'll
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