these are some cheap healthy versatile foods that you should be keeping in your pantry
whether that's for an emergency or just to eat and save money first of all there's a few rules
that will make sure that all of your food lasts a lot longer first off make sure that you're
storing your food in a cold dark dry place it'll make everything last a lot longer secondly don't
fall for the dates that they put on stuff they'll put a best buy date on it and that generally just
means that that's at the peak of freshness or the most flavor it'll have you can still eat it after
that it just might not be as great but it's it's still going to be edible also the sell by date
is just a recommendation when to sell by not like it magically goes bad on that date so
be aware of that when you're looking at dates first things first is going to be oatmeal i eat
oatmeal pretty much every day we've been buying this in 50 pound bags and again if it's stored
correctly it can last easily a couple years we eat it every day it saves a lot of money to buy
in bulk but when you're doing this i would actually recommend buying organic oatmeal because
oats contain glyphosate which is a herbicide which has been linked to cancer so for me it's worth
paying a little bit more to have organic oats and it's still going to be like under 50 cents
a serving all right the second one hard red wheat this is not actually something we store because
a we don't do a lot of baking and bm gluten free so i can't actually have it but hard red wheat can
easily last 15 years to to way beyond that if it is stored correctly so it's like pretty much not
going to go bad however you are going to need a green meal so you can actually turn it into
flour since we don't do a lot of baking i just keep in a couple extra bags of gluten-free flour
around these last about two years but hard ready is gonna last forever next one salt specifically
i like pink himalayan sea salt because that's what we use on a daily basis it has more trace minerals
minimally processed so it's just going to be a little bit better for you also there are a
ton of uses for salt so it's definitely not a bad thing to buy in bulk it's pretty cheap again this
is going to pretty much last forever beans they're good for your heart and other stuff this should be
a staple that most people eat generally they are so good for you a lot of protein a lot of fiber
generally really cheap especially if you're doing dried beans we're still trying to figure out which
are our favorite ones we know we like great northern beans because we use those in chili and
a few other things that we cook all the time so we did get 30 pounds of those and it works out to
just like pennies per serving so wicked cheap you could also get things like lentils or split peas
black beans kidney beans whatever you want to do i would just recommend trying out a small bag first
before you go and buy 30 pounds of something because you might realize that you hate it i
would recommend starting with something small this was a buck 50. it has 13 servings in it so
i feel like 12 cents a serving you can find out if you like lentils or not and if you don't haven't
used them much you can also figure out how to cook them so beans should definitely be a staple
rice something that i didn't know till recently specifically white rice over brown rice now brown
rice will only last like six to nine months because it has a lot more natural oils in it
whereas white rice will last like like like again like almost forever really long time
plus this 20 pound bag of rice was like 13 and the bigger the bag the cheaper it's going to
be so for like 50 bucks you can have thousands of servings of rice so if you're looking for
something cheap for a just in case food you know you can't go wrong with like rice and beans really
like literally this might be cheaper than dirt like seriously this bag of dirt is more expensive
pasta pasta is going to last for a wicked long time guy you don't even know since i can't have
gluten we go with gluten free pasta but these have best buy dates on them for two years from
now so they easily last two three four years they have protein in them the ones specifically that
we get do have protein in them because they have lentils or chickpeas uh so i definitely recommend
so when they're on sale these are a great thing that we always have uh you know maybe a dozen
boxes extra of because like all of these foods they're going to be more expensive the longer
you wait with the crazy inflation we've got going on right now plus it can be a really good
healthy meal that's relatively cheap got a lot of protein in it you can't go wrong with pasta guy
puppet corn while this is not really as nutritious as a lot of the other stuff popcorn kind of
like the rice is just going to stay good for a wicked long time eventually they might not pop
and that's pretty much the only the bad thing that'll happen to them for the most part
they're also pretty cheap if you guys haven't tried it popcorn with nutritional yeast on it is
wicked good just amazing and a really healthy snack canned tuna these are not going to last
forever but they will last a really long time the date on these ones is three years from now
and that again is the best buy date so it's going to be good a lot longer than that if
you haven't tried it tuna nacho is really good there's a bunch of different things that you
can make with tuna pretty cheap easy to store good source of protein so you don't just have
beans as your source of protein i don't know i like a lot of protein so we usually have some of
these on hand whenever they're on sale a water filter i've decided i'm no longer repressing my
fake boston accent it's gonna happen uh we have a berkey water filter we use this every day that
the filters that come with it will last for six thousand gallons so for me meredith that's like
a couple years they are not a sponsor it's a little bit more of an upfront uh investment but
since we don't feel great about drinking our water from the tap this is something that was worth it
for us plus it's really important to have access to clean water and when you know that you can get
you know five ten thousand gallons from your berkey that can be a lot more efficient than
trying to store cases of water in your basement or something like that so i'd recommend a filter over
like actual cases water depending on where you live and if you have access to water that you can
actually filter of course you could also just get a life straw but that's that's not nearly as fun
by the way if you're enjoying this video don't forget to subscribe oils specifically coconut
oil this is one of the things that again is going to last like pretty much forever also has a ton of
benefits just a few of the possible benefits are controlling blood sugar reducing stress shiny hair
healthy skin preventing liver disease dental health weight loss just as we all know there's
just a million different ways that you can use coconut oil it's really good for you
however meredith's allergic to it so we don't really keep all that much on hand i can't use
it because she's allergic to it this whole thing so i do keep some extra virgin olive oil on hand
just because it's good to have some type of oil because you need it for a bunch of different
things and and i know we're going to go through it this just won't last as long as the coconut
oil and it doesn't have all the same benefits but it's still good to have on hand let's be honest
this is my sweeteners actually i'm not that much of a sweet guy since i gave up white sugar so we
actually keep maple syrup instead of white sugar because of the the negative effects of white sugar
we've pretty much given that up entirely and maple syrup can be really good to sweeten anything that
you're cooking oatmeal pancakes cookies whatever you're doing you can use maple syrup to make it
taste wicked good this is also going to last long long time so good thing to keep on hand and it's
also not getting cheaper everything's getting more expensive guys we also keep local honey on hand
this is a sweetener as well but it also has a million other different benefits you can use it
to clean and treat cuts so we've actually been doing that recently and it works really well
it can help treat acne if you have a sore throat you can have it that way you can put it on your
skin you can put it on your face like there's almost nothing you can't do with honey it is so
so good for you if stored correctly it shouldn't really go bad it might get these little crystally
things here but if you put that in uh just warm water it should melt down and kind of return to
a baseline so it should last a very very long time bacon soda again like dirt cheap will last
pretty much forever it just might lose some of its effects when you're baking so you might have
to use more or something like that but it also has a bunch of other uses you can use it for
toothpaste it's one of the main ingredients if you're trying to make your own toothpaste
generally we use it when our fridge starts smelling weird you can shove it in the back
of the fridge and then obviously use it for cooking and cleaning there's a bunch of things
that you can do with it so just keeping a few of these on hand is generally helpful
vinegar white vinegar like this is gonna last again forever there's so many things you can
do with this you can pickle stuff you can clean your windows just so many different uses and it's
generally pretty cheap another one i like to keep on hand is apple cider vinegar i have a little
bit of this every day just like a teaspoon or something with sparkling water it tastes amazing
we're just regular water i always get the one with the mother in it and i've also used this
just like treat acne it actually works pretty well for that you can just dab a little bit on
the outside of your skin and then also continue to drink some we use rice vinegar for cooking a lot
all these are going to last for a while and like i said there are just so many ways you can use
these vinegars not only for like consuming but also for cleaning and everything else under the
sun soy sauce if you have a bunch of rice and beans that you do eventually have to eat or
just want to eat it's good to have something to flavor those and soy sauce is going to last for
a really long time salty i unfortunately have to get the more expensive gluten-free ones that don't
really taste as good but they're going to last a long time and it's important to have things to
make all that eating of rice and beans and other stuff that you're going to eat taste a little bit
better protein powder now this is not going to last as long as most of the other stuff we've
talked about it can last a couple years depends on which type you get but if like us you have
smoothies regularly and you put a little bit of protein powder in them it can be good just to have
an extra bottle or two that you can keep on hand buy them when they're on sale stock up on a few
and then you know that you always have quite a few meals worth of protein so it's got 90 servings in
it you can probably live off of this for a week it could just be good to keep a couple extras on hand
herbs and spices now there are a bunch of different herbs out there that do
a bunch of different things for you everything from like chamomile which can help you sleep which
i absolutely hate the taste of so we don't keep that on hand or lemon balm which has a bunch of
different uses for teas and sore throats ginger is another great thing to keep on hand that will help
with nausea i personally haven't like ventured into buying these things directly have mostly in
tea form right now and we just drink these they only last a few years so not as long as it would
uh if actually like packaged correctly but that's just something i haven't gotten into yet one of my
favorite things to keep on hand is turmeric this is a mix of ginger turmeric and black pepper that
i have pretty much every day it's golden milk but turmeric has so many different benefits so many
different uses amazing and relatively cheap thing to have on hand you can just use it as a spice to
put in your food which is fine but there are also so many other benefits to this it can be used for
treating skin disorders for me it's really helped reduce inflammation and joint pain it can help
with allergies and infections liver disease arthritis depression just so many different
uses for tumeric when i'm not having golden milk i'll put a little bit in my smoothie like you
don't need a ton it's very good for you i would definitely recommend keeping it on hand i think
that's it this is obviously not an exhaustive list it's just stuff that we keep a little bit extra of
let me know which ones i missed down in the comments i'm still trying to learn more
about this as well and if you enjoyed this video don't forget to subscribe i'll see you next week