are grocery stores holding back food is food in
short supply running out of fresh foods prepping SHTF food shortages
hi it's AlaskaGranny Alaska Prepper have you thought about how long is the shelf life
on the foods that you've been buying in the store shouldn't it be fresh we've had a lot
of food shortages empty shelves foods that were not available they were backed up unavailable
who knows during the pandemic and all of a sudden we're finding food variety selections
are more readily available so shouldn't food be fresh shouldn't food shelf life be quite
extensive and long lasting well I have been finally finding packaged foods like muffin mixes
mashed potato mixes and Knorr noodle rice packets and I'm realizing when I look at
the best by use by sell by date there's not much shelf life left in the food there's barely a year
in some of them only a few months in others if the food is just finally being produced and shipped to
our stores shouldn't it have at least a year and a half or two years these type of foods usually have
an extended shelf life and suddenly we've waited and waited for food to be in stock available we
buy food maybe there's only a few months on freshness date where has this food been it can't
have just been produced were stores holding back how is it that the food I bought a year ago has
the same best buy sell by use by date as the food I just bought last week the new foods in the store
should not have the same expiration date for the same product as the food that I bought a year ago
yet it does I like to store these types of package foods into five gallon buckets I buy lots of them
multiples and I store them away they've had a reasonable shelf life so it's easy to stockpile
extra food packets put them away it doesn't mean they're necessarily spoiled or no longer good to
eat when they reach that date but part of the reason of stockpiling and setting food away
is that it can be left on the shelf for longer when we go shopping and we see foods that we
like for our prepper pantry and we haven't seen for a while it's easy to want to load up for your
prepper pantry long term food storage going forward have an additional supply of food for
extended length of time but when you start looking over the dates shouldn't it be food that's going
to last longer and I'm not finding that to be true so that's something I wanted to point out to you
see if the foods that you're buying still have the same date as the old supply that you bought
a long time ago a lot of these foods have the date in still 2021. we're at the end of 2021.
where is the 2022 where's the 2023 that's what we want to be buying and stockpiling
so that we can put it in the back of our stockpile and be rotating food when I was rotating the food
is when I realized that they have basically the same date and it isn't really helping to have
additional stock of foods with the same date on them which I found to be remarkable so I don't
know if that's something that you're seeing where you are or not look at the sell by use by best by
expiration date on your foods that you're buying now and see is it really out there long enough
is it longer than the food that you are rotating is it a date that's farther out there than foods
that you already have in your prepper pantry here are the Idahoan mashed potatoes that I bought I
was rotating them out of my bucket from 2020 2021 and the new stock is also 2021. here are
the Betty Crocker muffin mixes I have 2020 2021 and then I only have a very few for 2022. I bought
a bunch of Knorr rice and pasta sides but their expiration date is 2021 or very early in 2022.
where is the end of 22 and on to the beginning of 2023 that's what I think the dates should be
and the food that should be available for us to put in our stockpile I have these buckets
with the Knorr rice pasta sides the Betty Crocker muffin mixes and the Idahoan mashed potatoes that
I rotate once a year I got them out took out the old supply and I was ready to fill the buckets up
with the new food packages that I bought that were new when I realized that the dates aren't
really much longer than the food that I'm taking out so it's something to be aware of pay attention
to what the dates are on the food you are buying for long term food storage see if you're having
the same dilemma keep track of the dates on your food try to make sure that you're rotating food
and i don't know why it's harder to rotate it that the things are not being able to
first in first out that the dates should be longer by now on the foods that we're buying in the store
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