Cheap Long Lasting Foods Stockpile Now food shortages rising prices hi
it's AlaskaGranny Alaska Prepper are you concerned with inflation and the rising cost of food
are you worried that perhaps food won't be available or you can't afford food in the future
i like to gather news from several sources because i like to have my finger on the pulse of all the
different kinds of thought processes in America in my community and even throughout the world we
can't really understand the full grasp of what's going on if we only get our information from
one source whether you agree with the sources or not it can help you understand the whole process
and try to find what the truth is by looking at various news sources not just ones you agree with
but from all sides so that you get a deeper understanding of the complexities of our problems
i was surprised to find an article in the New York Times that i actually agreed with
inflation anger Americans are unhappy about the economy they report less confidence in it than
they did at the start of the covid pandemic when the unemployment rate was four times
as high as it is now their feelings towards the economy are almost as low as they were during the
depths of the great recession in 2008. how is this possible given that the unemployment rate is low
and the economy has rapidly grown over the past two years the culprit is what Americans
describe as one of the most important problems today high inflation inflation stands out from
other problems because it is so inescapable unlike unemployment it affects everyone people encounter
it every day when they go to the grocery store drive by a gas station or buy almost anything
well yes the unemployment rate is low because many people have given up looking for jobs or they've
done side hustles and they're not involved as they used to because the total amount of jobs
that people are working are not the same as they were the economy has grown well that would be big
businesses look at the stock market most of us are not involved in that portion of the economic
growth we're not seeing economic growth in our own bank accounts if we had to stay home and
weren't allowed to work many people ended up with no income and the stimulus checks weren't even a
drop in the bucket of the amount of money that people lost the businesses that close
it has been catastrophic in my opinion of what has happened to our economy there doesn't seem
to be an improvement going forward we can still see shortages we can see rising prices
i know the gas prices here where i live in Alaska went up 10 cents a week ago and this morning i
thought my tank is almost at half i'm going to stop in the gas station and i'm going to fill
it up to the top to make sure that i have enough gas i ran a few errands and when i was passing
that same gas station on the way home one hour later the price had increased 20 cents a gallon i
said thank you Lord for giving me the thought that i needed to fill up gas when i had the opportunity
and guess what i just saved several dollars just on that one gas fill up by filling it
up an hour before it went up 20 cents a gallon it's unbelievable it's very important that we
understand that prepping is lifestyle insurance we are trying to protect the lifestyle that we have
to have the future of our families be safe secure and provided for and so having a stockpile of food
can really help you meet those goals there are still cheap long-lasting foods that you can get
i'm going to share with you today the cheap long-lasting foods that are my choices that
i'm putting in my prepper pantry that are going to last the longest first of all most of these
foods would be dry foods and so you can get those foods and store them properly you can't just put
food on the shelf can't just hide food under the bed you need to store food properly so that food
is going to last the longest the more airtight you store food in a cool dark dry environment the
longer it's going to last and that's the whole point of having a prepper pantry is we want our
food to last so you may want to store food in five gallon buckets if you can get buckets free
do it i haven't been able to get buckets free in ages but you can still pick up buckets at some
stores hardware stores even at places like walmart you can look for five gallon buckets and look for
tight fitting lids and when you get the bucket lids look around the rim bucket lids need to
have a little rubber gasket and the rubber gasket helps it seal tighter so try to find lids with
the gaskets and sometimes even if you can't find them at the store where you can find buckets you
can find lids at another store and most of the buckets and lids are interchangeable but if you
can only find buckets at one store and lids with the gasket at another store likely they're going
to fit each other and that'll still work out so don't despair if you can't find them all together
keep looking you can also store food in mylar bags mylar bags are airtight sealed up to last
for a long long time i like the one gallon size mylar bags they have gusseted bottoms
and mylar bags have a zip lock top so you can zip this up it helps it to then be closed when you're
ready to seal it now if you have an oxygen absorber you can add that but if you don't
this will be okay until you can do more the better you store your food the longer it will last
i like gallon mylar bags because they're a smaller size that's the amount of food that
i might want to get out i don't have a huge family and so i want smaller sized mylar bags foods that
i could use the food before it would go stale then you can take an iron a flat iron and you
can seal these mylar bags completely across the top you can also store your cheap long
lasting dried food in jars you want to make sure that your jars are clean and dry
fill the jar with your dry food and then you can put on a lid and a ring and the jars of food could
sit in the pantry just like this but if you have an oxygen absorber drop that in food then put on
the lid or if you have a food saver and a vacuum sealer you could put the jar attachment lid on
here and vacuum out the air and stored food will last much longer that way the top ways to store
your cheap dry long lasting foods for the longest lasting would be with buckets mylar bags or jars
then what are my top choices cheap long lasting foods to stockpile the first food that i would
stockpile would be beans beans come in all different varieties you can buy beans in
small bags you can buy beans in huge bags it's up to you what you can afford and what you can even
find at the store the prices beans are going up but they can still be found and the bean varieties
are becoming more limited so keep your eye open whenever you go to the store walk down the bean
aisle and see if there's any beans that you want to add to stockpile if there are prices that you
can afford you can find pinto beans white beans black beans lima beans butter beans
all kinds of different beans you can also look for split peas and lentils because those are also
legumes and they're nice because you don't have to soak split peas lentils they don't take as long to
cook as dry beans you can put split peas lentils in water and cook them but it will take a while
all of these types of beans peas lentils can store for many years
in your prepper pantry stockpile airtight as possible if you have your beans and rice you
have a complete protein you could live on those you probably don't want to though but you could
the next food that i like is oatmeal i figure with beans rice and oatmeal i have breakfast lunch and
dinner no that's not all i want but i could have that and i could be able to survive not everyone
could but i think i could make a good go of it so that's part of it is having the mindset
that you are willing to survive and eat these foods don't store foods that you never want to eat
don't store foods that you haven't learned how to cook and prepare that's one reason to buy things
like beans in small packages you could cook them up in your crock pot and find out ways to
make them you'll see that it's not very difficult and you may even enjoy them after beans rice and
oatmeal i like pasta pasta is simple to store into jars i think it's harder to store pasta
into the mylar bags because when you put in an oxygen absorber pasta has all those little sharp
edges and they can actually poke a hole so my preferred method is to store pasta in jars i
also like to get the long straight pasta noodles because they take up far less room in the jars
you can break pasta in half stick pasta in the jar use your food saver or even just put on the
lid and pasta going to last forever i have stored pasta for decades and it was always fine but don't
store pasta just in the cardboard box on the shelf because that's not going to keep it safe
egg noodles are not the same as pasta because they have eggs in them foods that have high oil content
or other ingredients are not going to last and that would be also with brown rice brown rice has
oil so when you're storing rice choose the white rice the next cheap long-lasting food that i like
to store is sugar sugar just needs to be put in an airtight container you don't have to do anything
else to it just store it airtight and it'll last forever and what's versatile about white sugar is
if you want powdered sugar you can just whir sugar in the blender i'll put a link to a video on how
to turn your granulated sugar into powdered sugar you can also turn your white sugar into
brown sugar by simply adding molasses i'll put a link to a video on how to make brown sugar as well
so having white sugar long term prepper pantry stockpile can really be beneficial because you
need less ingredients to store and then it's very versatile the next cheap long lasting food would
be salt this salt is canning and pickling salt if you're planning on doing any canning pickling
preserving fermenting you want to have the proper salt you can also store table salts you can store
himalayan salts kosher salts look over the salts that you use and store them airtight
many people will tell you just store salt in its cardboard container i don't recommend that
because if you live in a humid area the humidity goes right through the cardboard into your salt
and it can turn it into a block and yeah you could chop it all apart and grind it up but i don't want
to do that i want to have my food ready to use i don't want to have it become a science experiment
i also helped clean out a pantry for someone who had just stored foods for decades and never
paid any attention to it and they had pantry bugs and they were into everything including
the salt it was disgusting every single thing in the pantry needed to be tossed
if you're a coffee drinker freeze-dried instant coffee can last nearly forever
it could seem to be a priceless ingredient in an emergency situation
instant coffee is also great to take camping because you just have this little jar
it's ready to go add some boiling water and you have your cup of coffee if that's what you like
there are also liquids that can last nearly forever but they're not as common as some of the
dry ingredients i like to store honey honey can solidify or crystallize but all you need to do is
take a pot of hot water never boiling and you want to place your container of honey in there
and just give it time and the heat will naturally help the honey liquefy again i'll put a link to a
video i made on how to decrystallize honey get your honey liquid again vinegar lasts forever
and it is one of the most versatile ingredients that you can have not only is vinegar good for
cooking pickling fermenting vinegar is good for cleaning you can clean drains with vinegar you can
clean spots out of the carpet with vinegar you can get rid of weeds with vinegar there's all kinds of
reasons why you would want to have white vinegar and it's still available but the price vinegar is
going up ridiculously my suggestion is to have several gallons of white vinegar in your prepper
pantry stockpile because you'll find so many uses for vinegar you'll be glad that you have it
all that dried food yes you better have water you're going to need water for soaking beans
cooking rice making oatmeal mixing up all of the different things you need plus you need water
just for drinking you also need some water for hygiene for cleaning up your dishes for
trying to flush a toilet if you still have the capability but remember if it comes to rationing
never ration water everybody needs to stay hydrated to stay healthy you can only live a few
days without water you can live many days without food you may not like it but you can live and so
you should have at least one gallon of water per person in your family for as many days as possible
have water barrels if you have room for them have five gallon containers if you can find a
nook or cranny and then also have some grab and go water in case you have to leave your home
and never say i won't leave my home because there are so many instances when you don't
have a choice if your house catches on fire if a tornado knocks it down if a hurricane is coming
an earthquake collapses it yes you would leave your home so then you want to have some water
that you could grab and go with your Bug Out Bag with your emergency gear make sure that you have
a plan to bug out leave your home never stay in your home simply because you have things there
you can replace all of your things but you can't replace your life and that should be the whole
point of prepping is we want to preserve our life we don't just want to preserve our things
there are other foods that can last a long time but these are my favorites so tell us in the
comments below what are your favorite foods that last long long time that are still pretty cheap
and affordable there are a lot of ways to prepare them a lot of ways to store them and it's a puzzle
that you can put together yourself with the foods that you want in the ways that you are able to
store them in the space that fits your home and so don't think of it as there's only one right answer
this is a puzzle each person's prepping puzzle is unique if you enjoyed my video i hope you'll
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