best places to buy long term food storage emergency food stockpile prepping covid 19 coronavirus pandemic second wave reset prepper pantry food shortages
hi it's AlaskaGranny Alaska Prepper are you wondering where are the best
places to buy long-term food storage many of us go to the grocery store
we buy shelf stable pantry foods open and eat
foods easy to prepare packaged meals and have
a lot of easy to fix food combinations in our
pantry then maybe you've gone to the bulk food
aisle and you've purchased rice and beans oatmeal and package those
away in clean canning jars empty soda bottles
the recycling pete packages and maybe you've even filled a few buckets with rice and beans
yourself a lot of that long term food storage stockpiling and prepping can be a lot of hunting
gathering and a lot of work that we don't necessarily need to do
because you can buy foods that are already packaged
to last for 30 years I've bought a lot of the packaged
long-term food storage that comes in number 10 cans
it's an easy size to store to lift the number 10 cans are already packaged
to last for 30 years you can rotate them through your food
storage or set them aside and know that whatever happens sometime in the
next 30 years you have food that will still be good to
eat I think the very best place to buy
already pre-packaged 30-year food for long-term food storage
is at the Mormon church or the LDS church the Mormon church
sells the number 10 cans of food in six packs
boxes and they ship it directly to your house you don't have to be a member of
their church you can go online and order the foods
I bought six packs of food from the Mormon church
for 10 or 15 years and it's all been top quality when I first bought it they had
a very limited selection of types of foods
but it was free shipping and you still got a six pack of food
I recently ordered some more and it was three dollars shipping
for all of the packages I don't know where you're going to find someone that
will package things and ship it for that anywhere because shipping is extremely
expensive what's nice about the long-term food
from the LDS church is they even will ship to
Alaska because there are some food storage companies that
will only ship in the lower 48 states and there are some items just that you
want to buy even on amazon that are not eligible to
be shipped to Alaska so it's good to know
that these foods are available and can be shipped easily to your house
I've bought things foods like the flour the rice
oatmeal apple slices dehydrated refried beans spaghetti bites
all different kinds and I've opened a few of them to see what they're like and
they've been terrific in fact I was really glad that
I had ordered the flour because I had the flour for I think at
least 10 years and during this last winter there was no
flour in the store and I got out the flour opened it up
and it was perfectly fine when we first opened the can it smelled
a little like a tin can but we left it open let it air out
and then it was top quality great food flour
it and it worked perfectly let's look at the website and we'll go over
some of the long term food storage products that they have and you can see the availability LDS church Mormon food
just because it says it's out of stock now doesn't mean
that it will continue to be out of stock I keep checking back
and I've been able to continue to build my long term food storage stockpile
you can't buy just one can you have to buy a six pack
but if you look at them they're very reasonably priced for the huge amount of
food that you can get for your long-term food storage even if you could budget
for one six-pack per month and added it to
your long term food storage before you know it you'll have a bountiful amount of food
the next best place I like to go to buy long term food storage
is at walmart you used to be able in some of the walmarts to go
in and you could pick up the Augason Farms long term food storage
number 10 cans of food and they even had some pouches of food for a while
and some larger buckets I don't find those in the stores anymore but you can
still order the Augason Farms emergency long term food storage food on the walmart website online
and it can ship right to your home there were a few glitches with some of that
this last winter simply because there were glitches with
a lot of food shortages whether you were in the
grocery store or shopping online but these are also top quality foods
that I highly recommend they Augason Farms long term food storage emergency foods have a much greater selection of
foods than the LDS or the Mormon church and
their prices are pretty reasonable for the
what the quality of the food that you get
while Augason Farms have basic foods like rice and beans they also have
already pre-packaged mix-up meals and things dehydrated foods
Augason Farms has the pre-packaged buckets of long term food storage meals that you have several days worth of
dinners for a month things like that when my kids first went away to
university I sent them with a bucket of food so
that in an emergency they always had something
it took up almost no room in their closet and they had the emergency food
in case something happened who would have thought that our university
students this year would have been sent home from
the dorm or quarantined in their rooms so it's a
great idea no matter who you are or where you're going to be
to provide some emergency food so when you're ordering the buckets of long term food storage from Augason Farms some of them
might say 30 days of food or seven dinners
and seven lunches seven breakfast but you need to look carefully because some
of them are in a family size package of multiple
meals in a bag the ones that I was able to find for my children
had individual packets single serving sizes those are harder to find
but if you live alone you want to send something to your children
or are not sure that anytime you need an emergency meal
you want to open a package and have to make a large amount
it can be easier if you can find them with
individual smaller size packages of food within your emergency food meal bucket
of emergency food and just like the LDS or Mormon church
the supply varies so keep checking back next you can buy long-term food storage
on amazon amazon products might include things long term food storage meals foods
like the Augason Farms you can also find individual items that aren't from
necessarily a food storage company you can find
things foods like dehydrated peanut butter and that's very good to have because that
lasts a long time and it's really good but it's not necessarily from one of
these long-term food storage companies if you live in the lower 48 a good place
to buy emergency long-term food storage is
Emergency Essentials I have purchased their items when I've
been in the lower 48 but they won't ship to alaska but I have
been able to buy them and send them to family members that live in the lower 48
because I'm one of those grannies and a surprise
here are some prepping supplies and so far it's been well received
not everyone you're related to might appreciate getting an emergency
selection of food in the mail but luckily my family does so let's look
over the Emergency Essentials long term food storage they were completely out of stock on
almost everything this last winter at the beginning of
this covid 19 coronavirus pandemic you couldn't get anything from probably
from any of these companies but absolutely you could get nothing
from Emergency Essentials but a lot of their foods are coming back in stock
but just like the other long term food storage companies keep looking back if there's something that you want
it'll probably come back into stock or something new will pop up that you maybe
didn't know about or they didn't have on their website before Cabela's is a
great place to buy long-term emergency food storage
especially if you also like to do camping or backpacking
or you're putting away meals for one you can buy
the mountain house meals they have huge selections
of single serve dehydrated meals Alpine Aire dehydrated meals you just need to open the pouch add some
boiling water stir it around fold it back up and let
it steep and rehydrate and then your meal is prepared most of
the dehydrated meals for long term food storage at Cabela's are servings for one
Mountain House Alpine Aire dehydrated camping hiking backpacking emergency long term food storage meals
some of them now are available for two servings in case you're extra hungry or you want to share your meal
Cabela's have also started making cans of Mountain House food long term food storage emergency food in number 10 cans
and they also have multiple day packages the Mountain House meals are also
delicious I have eaten tons of their pouches from hunting and
camping trips and they are good so they're a little
more expensive than say having a box of top ramen of course but if you
can afford to get some top quality meals that might be something you even want to
have in your pantry Mountain House dehydrated meals Alpine Aire meals they're an option to put in your bug out
bag 72 hour kit get home bag evacuation kit but remember you still have to be able to boil water and add to that
Mountain House Alpineaire dehydrated meals they're absolutely great if you're going to go camping
hiking hunting camping backpacking they're dehydrated meals great for that one
long-term food storage company that I do not recommend is the Wise Foods ReadyWise I bought
their long term emergency foods before and tried them and they're really not
very tasty and some people in my family
absolutely would not eat it and they'll eat nearly anything
and they just weren't something that I wanted to count on having in an
emergency when there are so many other foods that are better tasting
you also need to pay attention to what the serving sizes are
and pay attention to the number of calories per day
your long-term food storage should be providing
2 000 2400 calories per day per person so pay attention to the actual calorie
count if you choose something that has 8 servings but only one thousand calories in the entire package
that's not even enough for one person for an entire day
to get the nutrition that they need and that certainly is not going to feed
eight people for one meal try giving yourself one of those little
packages of 90 calorie snacks and see if that's enough for you for a meal
and I think you'll decide that you need a lot more food than that
so these are my suggestions on best places to buy long-term
food storage foods whether you choose them in
number ten cans six packs of number ten cans
buckets of food or individual backpacking type meals
there's all kinds of variety there's all kinds of flavors
all different kinds of foods and then you don't have to worry about going to
the store bringing foods things home and figuring out
how am I going to store it to last because that can be a very huge expense
if you're needing to buy buckets lids jars
mylar bags oxygen absorbers that is a big bunch of
extra work and it can be very costly way to store your food for long term food storage you may not be saving
as much money as you think over buying food that's
already packaged to last
if you have a favorite place that you like to buy the
long-term emergency food storage leave it in the comments so we can all learn from each other
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