Food Shortages Coming Fall Winter What Foods To Stockpile Now hi it's
AlaskaGranny Alaska Prepper you can certainly see that the sky is beautiful here in Alaska but the
seasons are changing and fall is coming it's a great time to be like the Bears get every last
meal in that you can and make sure that you have enough to see you through till next year
if you follow the news at all you realize that there are food shortages there have been many
reasons why there are not enough of certain types of foods in our world today one of the reasons is
an ongoing conflict with Russia that affects the wheat production and the availability that not
only has not as much been planted the Productions are lower and then you might say well I don't eat
wheat from Russia but guess what it affects you because all of the countries in the world
are intertwined as to where the food goes so whether you think you get it from some country
or not it affects what you will have available to you because if countries can't buy it from
who they used to get it from they will buy it from someone else and if you don't believe that the U.S
is selling off our resources to other countries you better think again so with export limits and
flooding in many countries do drought in others and even here in say California are you even aware
that they produce rice in California and they're having a huge drought and there isn't any water
and rice is a crop that requires lots of water the United States is saying that our wheat Harvest is
the worst it's been since 1962. and if you look at what the population was in 1962 and what it is
today we need to produce a lot more food drought also affects crops such as potatoes because if
they don't have the water they're not going to be able to produce the potato so the potato Harvest
is also way way down I found that the potatoes I was able to grow in my own garden this year were
distinctly subpar many of the plants either didn't grow or when a big wind came up it blew the plants
right off and broke them off at the ground and so the production has been very reduced from what I
would have expected considering I planted more rather than less but I ended up with
fewer potatoes we know that producers are having problems keeping up with the supply of cans and
jars that not only can they not get the packaging that they need but some of the yields of the crops
that go into those cans and jars are just not there this year we know that they have had lots
of farms laying fallow we know that there has been a very big uptick in the price of fuel and
that fertilizer has been unavailable all of these factors affect the food supply so what are some
foods that I'm stocking up on and recommending to you that you make sure you have enough going
forward I have five that I'm stockpiling and I'm recommending to you because the harvests are just
down shortages are real and many of the foods that you have in the store and on the shelf right now
were last year's crops which weren't exactly the greatest ever and this year they're even worse
and so you may not see that shortages are there today but you may find that the food is absolutely
not available come in the winter or springtime when all of the stored up foods and the small
amount that has been produced this year is then used up the first food that I'm stockpiling is
rice get white rice you can buy it one or two pounds at a time or get a giant bag you want
to get white rice rather than brown rice because brown rice has natural oils that will go rancid
then you want to store your rice in an airtight container then think about the other products
that you use that include rice maybe you like rice mixes get some of those they're easy to prepare
they're full of flavor and if basic rice is not available what do you think is going to happen
when you go and reach for your Rice-A-Roni your zatarans the rice dishes that you enjoy grabbing
out of your pantry adding water are doing a little bit of cooking you want to make sure that you have
plenty of those Foods too I take mixes like these and I seal them into airtight containers such as
canning jars to help them last longer in just a cardboard box it isn't going to last the longest
that it could because the air is drying it out and the little bugs and critters can get in and
chew on the box and get into and infest your food so you the better that you store your food the
longer that they'll last so if there's foods that you enjoy eating that include rice get some now
the next food to stockpile is flour and wheat products if you like to grind wheat or Sprout
wheat berries stockpile those I recently was able to buy some wheat berries from the LDS or
the Mormon church from their Cannery that you can order online I'll put a link to their store that
you can order online the long-term food storage from the LDS church comes in six number 10 cans
for the price you're getting a box of six of any of the items that they have available and they
have had shortages just like everyone else and so if you want to get a good deal on foods that
can last a long time then check out the foods from the LDS church it's already sealed up to
last for 30 years and so it's simple to buy it and set it aside and know that you have the food that
you need flower is hard to store for a long time the better that you store it the longer it will
last but know that you have to rotate flour it's not going to last forever it just isn't possible
it goes stale and sometimes you can open it up and you can smell it it doesn't smell very fresh
anymore and that's not the predicament you want to be in when there isn't any more to be had you
want to be stockpiling it and then rotating it so that you have as fresh a food as possible think
about the easy foods you have in your pantry that are made from flour and from wheat macaroni and
cheese beef or brownie ravioli soups and stews that have noodles or dumplings those are foods
that are also going to be affected by a lack of Wheat and flour you might say well I'm gluten free
so none of that applies to me but it absolutely does because if people go to the store and they
can't get the pasta that they want they're going to reach for the gluten-free varieties you may
think that those foods are reserved for you but they're not they're reserved for anyone that comes
to the store that chooses to buy them and so if people can't get what they want they're going to
get what they can and so the varieties that you want that are special to you should be something
you for sure have stockpiled in these hard times the next food in short supply is potatoes and
maybe you've been to the store and you either can't find fresh potatoes or they're not very
good quality and you will find that a lot of the potatoes that are in the stores now are
actually last year's Harvest they store them in big old sheds and then they pull them out as the
season goes along because potatoes may not even be harvested yet the potato Harvest is forecast
to be much lower than in years past so look for canned potatoes look for mashed potato mixes think
about potato soups and all of the hash browns the dehydrated and Frozen potatoes that you like make
sure that you have plenty of those so that you can feed your family the foods that you choose
so that you have what you want and the prices are going up and it only makes sense that as Things
become in shorter Supply the prices will continue to go up that's just the way the economy Works
supply and demand the more people that want it the less there is the price just goes up
potatoes are also in a mixed vegetable medley so look over all of the foods that would include
potatoes that you choose to eat and make sure that you have plenty of them the next Food Insurance
Supply is tomatoes not only are tomatoes harder to find but the packaging the cans and the jars are
what are most problematic for foods like tomatoes so if you use canned tomatoes get a nice stockpile
maybe you like to use tomato paste maybe you like tomato sauce salsa or even some pizza sauce these
are products that contain tomatoes that are going to be more expensive maybe not as available and
if there's special varieties that you like the variety might disappear that's something that
happened during the pandemic for example soup you could still get soup but instead of 158 varieties
there were maybe a dozen you couldn't get the varieties of the foods that you wanted and yet
the price was still going up for foods that we didn't want and yet we had to buy it if we wanted
to continue to add to our stockpile and have the foods that we wanted and that we needed so that
we can continue to feed our families and that's something to think about if it's something you
like and you want and you can see it get it now because there have been plenty of foods that I've
wanted over the last few years that are just not available anymore or when I do see them there's
only maybe one or two and so that's all that I can have and it's not a matter of not having the
money to buy it the items are not there but then it's becoming a matter of the price becomes to
the point of can I still afford it or not one of the ways that I preserve food is using my
dehydrator for example I dehydrated tomatoes and they're a great way to have them to last in the
pantry because fresh ones of course are nice but they aren't going to last forever so find ways to
make the foods that you can find last as long as possible whether it's Canning dehydrating freeze
drying just putting them in the freezer find a way to make the foods last as long as possible
another food to stockpile is corn maybe you like cans of corn you can have kernel corn cream corn
but think about all of the other products that are from corn cornbread cornmeal corn tortillas corn
chips look at some of your other products such as mixed vegetables have corn in them and some
of your soups like chicken quesadilla this has corn in it corn is also something that I bought
bags of frozen corn and put them in my dehydrator so that they'll last longer in the pantry then
I don't have to worry about taking up freezer space or if there's a power outage I won't lose
all of the food a lot of it will be in the pantry ready to last for a long time if you want to use
dehydrated vegetables you can drop them into soups and stews and they rehydrate while your meal is
cooking I also stocked up on Masa which is like a corn flour and I bought a tortilla maker so that I
can make my own tortillas so if it's some think that you're interested in doing make sure that
you have the supplies and then try it out see how easy or hard it is to make the things that
you want it can be challenging but if we learn to make meals out of the Basic Foods then we will be
able to have better future going forward guess we can have variety and we know that we'll be able to
utilize the things we have to keep our families fed there are a lot of foods that are still
available in the store these are the five that I am stockpiling right now to make sure that I have
plenty going forward there are still many many choices take an inventory of the foods that you
have in your pantry and how can you add to those to make it a bigger better stockpile also take
an inventory of the meals that you make what are the products that you use on a regular basis do
you have enough of those to last going forward if you make pasta once a week get some jars of pasta
and some pasta noodles then you'll be able to make that meal if you like to make soups and stews have
enough of the basics so that you can assemble those meals together whatever it is that you make
have more in your pantry so that you can reach and make a meal and keep going and that's how you can
have the best of every day when you just keep your routine going and then if problems arise whatever
they may be you're prepared to face it because you don't have the added challenge of an empty pantry
and hungry tummies you'll be able to just make the best of it no matter what and that's why we
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