Stockpile These Items Before Panic Buying Begins Add To Prepper Pantry Food Stockpile Prepping Supplies hi it's AlaskaGranny Alaska Prepper
if you've been to the grocery store lately perhaps you've run into some more
waves of panic buying maybe you've noticed there's food shortages in the stores some of the shelves
are thin or bare empty shelves prices are higher and people seem to have another level of anxiety
and it hearkens back to the beginning of the pandemic when we weren't sure what was going
to happen and these have continued in waves of shortages waves of anxiety waves of bare shelves
and the prices going up someone once told me chaos is a ladder so you need to think about it as
it can keep going up but if you're aware of it you can try to bring yourself back down so you
can try to remain calm so what are some tips for surviving during panic buying well first of all
you want to go to the store with a list with an idea of what you want to get but also be flexible
if you can't get the things you want what can you find that might be an appropriate substitute you
also want to make sure that you have your budget in mind don't go into debt over prepping because
that just will create another level of chaos on your ladder you want to spend what you can afford
and don't panic so part of that is having a plan and a strategy when I went to the store the other
day it was so crowded and the lines were so long that I thought it would be a good strategy to shop
in pairs one person could hold the cart and get in line and the other person could go around gather
the things come back and put them in the cart and you're moving up through the store and you don't
have to maneuver your cart past all the other people but it isn't always possible to shop in
pairs but if you can see if that strategy might be something that could help you find the things you
need and get out of the store safely in less time when you go to the store anymore it's almost like
a hunt and gather you have to search and find the things that you want or an appropriate substitute
one of the items that i try to make sure i have plenty of is bottled water and if you don't have
plenty of that pick it up get some extra fill up an extra container but put away a little extra
then make sure you also have a way to purify water even if it's just a bottle of bleach
some way that you have a water filter or some water purification tablets a bottle of bleach
something that will help you purify water if you should in an emergency use up the water that you
have or the water coming into your house becomes contaminated then still be thinking of the basic
long-term foods maybe you can pick up a box of oatmeal a bag of rice a bag of beans you can
fill your own clean plastic containers you can put them into a clean canning jar you don't just
need to stock up on gigantic bags of beans rice oatmeal pasta and other long-term foods you can
still be gathering them a little at a time and sometimes when there's panic you may find that
some of those items in the small bags might still be available if you can't find the fresh produce
that you want look in the frozen and canned and then don't forget to look for dried fruit options
these are going to give you a nice long-term option that's going to last for quite a while
then if you should go to the canned foods make sure that you're getting a variety of foods that
can last for a long long time when i went to the store they actually had the cases of food
that they had just put out so i grabbed 12 cans of tomatoes and they're low salt which is nice
because so many of the canned foods have a lot of sodium in them and i also found 12 cans of ranch
flavored beans and these are nice variety because they already have a sauce in them and so you can
mix them up in different ways than just a plain old can of beans i think they're handy and i've
made a few different recipes with them and so i like them if you see a food that you've never
tried before though a good strategy is to just buy one and take it home and try it and if you
like it you can go back and get more because you don't want to end up with a large supply of food
that you don't like that's a waste of your food storage dollars and your storage space
look also for the longest lasting foods like from Augason Farms when i was in the Walmart they had
Augason Farms bell peppers and these are a very nice way to have vegetables that can live in your
pantry for many years you can open Augason Farms freeze dried and dehydrated foods use
them if you want once you open Augason Farms they only last about a year but if you keep it
unopened it has a 25 year shelf life so that you have food that you can count on
no matter what the future brings but remember you don't have to put these Augason Farms foods away
forever but you can and know that they will be there and they'll last always be adding to your
prepper pantry food stockpile because once you build it up if you should go to the store and
there are very few things available or very few things that are affordable you can just
be topping off food supply you can be adding a little more food it won't be a catastrophe
if you can't get everything on your list because you still have a buffer of food supplies at home
also be thinking about cleaning supplies do you need laundry soap do you have enough dish soap
do you have enough hand soap toothbrushes all of the hygiene supplies be adding to all the
different categories of prepping over time so that you're building up and rotating your supply
preserve whatever foods you can get sometimes you might find an abundance of something but you can't
use it all before it could spoil so maybe you can freeze it maybe you can dehydrate it maybe you can
can it or even ferment it think about the options with the foods that you have and think creatively
what can i do with this to make it last the longest so that i get the most use out of my
food then think about ways that you can grow some food everybody doesn't have a great big
yard or live on a homestead but you don't have to if you have a sunny window a patio a balcony
somewhere that you could grow a few things for yourself if you can find seeds get some you
can even find them at places like Dollar Tree four for a dollar and this is the time of year
when we want to find seeds because spring is here summer's coming that's when seeds are available if
you wait too long they may not be available or it may be too late in the year for you to grow
some things but you can always put some herbs in a little pot on your windowsill and herbs and spices
are going to help flavor your most basic foods so even if you only have beans and rice you can add
some of the fresh herbs out of your own little garden to add flavor and variety to your meals
you can also try sprouting some seeds you can have simple lid that goes right onto an empty canning
jar and you can sprout your seeds right in there i made a video on how to do that and i'll put a link
to it in case you want to learn how to sprout some of your food so that you can still provide
fresh food and variety to your family then keep a positive attitude think of life as challenges
not traumas don't think about this is the worst thing that happened to me today just think about
the successes what did i find what was i able to put away in my prepper pantry look at each day
as a challenge try to learn something new figure out how to use something a new and different way
because the more ways you learn to use the things that you have the more things you actually then
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