5 Year Survival Food Supply: $7,000 and 2.5 MILLION Calories
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
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This is an overview of my long term food storage. My complete prepper pantry including my color coded food system using 5-7 gallon buckets. this is 2.5 million calories which if rationed can last 1 person 5 years. This presumes 500,000 calories per year or roughly 1400 calories per day which is enough to sustain life. Realistically this is a 2.5 Year supply. That is 1 million calories per year per person.
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Pretty impressive food supply. Dang I still dont have enough of food. Need to make another food haul soon. Thanks for showing how you organize your shelves. Helps out a lot.
So, with the different color buckets they obviously aren't all food grade. Is that OK because of the mylar bags? 🤔
@@jdlflagstone6980 did you even watch the video? He covered that several times...
@Surival Lilly, I saw your recent video. Luckily, they put out that forest fire while you were shopping.
@@jdlflagstone6980 There are colourful food grade buckets available.
@@kevinfreeman3098 comments before watching
We go the cheap route. 20 and 40lbs bag of Rice,beans,flour,sugar, and a distiller. Stored in 5 gallon bucket with sealing lid. You can literally feed your family for pennies for years.
I have started stockpiling cornflour to go with my rice and beans stocks. It's unbelievably easy to make corn tortillas and honestly, I don't think I will ever get tired of eating rice and beans with some dried herbs to season.
@@ValkyrieGothic I buy the 50lb bags of popcorn at Sam's club. Average's around $25.00 a bag.
It stores much better and taste much better .
You just gotta grind it up.
@@ValkyrieGothic I store in 1 gallon mylar bags with o2 absorbers in heavy duty stackable totes.
@@mikeconley9590 Ive never heard of sam's club. Not sure if we have it here in Australia but I will definitely take a look and give it try
@@ValkyrieGothic Sams club is a Walmart brand for bulk foods, so probably won’t be in Aus, do you have Costco? It’s basically the same. We’re supposed to be getting a Costco here in NZ sometime, which is why I’m thinking you probably have them in Aus? Good luck with your preps!
I want to thank you CP. I dropped a drug addiction and some other bad habits to better prepare myself for SHTF.
@joetothesanders People pay for fire insurance for a fire that may never happen... People pay for auto insurance for a wreck that may never happen... But then they get stupid and criticize people who prepare for hard times that will and do happen...
@@timscoviac Well said...
@joetothesanders Well stated. Prepping is wise.... I do not like insurance....
That is wonderful congradulations
@@jimd9339 I like insurance,but not insurance companies
After starting to test my food preps by eating only those items. It’s surprising how quickly you can get tired of the same 20 varieties of canned soups, beans, chili, cereal and powdered milk. Variety is one of the key points and I suggest living off your food preps for at least 2-3weeks as a test run.
on the other hand, from someone who has actually been in situation where food for scarse for prolonged time, having something is much much better then having nothing, even if it is just one type of food, one flavor, as surviving is the goal. I agree that diversity could be great, but things that add flavor usually do not last that long (most of them, but some lest really long, like salt, honey and similar, if storred properly). I agree with you that these types of food get old really quick, but they are for emergencies, where taste is privilidge :) especially goes for water :)
@@ivanangeli agreed, thanks for the input 🤝☮️
@@ivanangeli I agree. When I buy my next round of canned food, I will select more variety. Sorry you went through that hard time, I’m glad things are better 🤝☮️
Variety is not a key point. Fucking survivng is. There are people right now who don't even have half this variety OR water.
This is why you people are getting critized. You are prepping for an apocalypse but complain about eating the same thing for more then 2-3 weeks.
Valid point, and I think Ivan covered it all, but yeah, if you really were stuck in this situation even after 6 months that plain cup of oats with a little bit of salt and sugar for breakfast is still going to be infinitely more tasty than nothing or some moss :)
I was once an alcoholic and smoker. Not a day passed that I don’t drink 2-4 cans of beer… for 11 years. Then I watched CP one day… I was laughing at first.. but then it all made sense to me after 3 weeks of watching, I went cold turkey on my vices and decided to use beer money and cig money for prep money instead. Now I only have coffee problem but aside from that, I’m living clean.
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I'm very happy for your change of mind 👏
2-4 cans? I’d drink that prepping to start drinking lol 😂
I forgot the channel name was Canadian Prepper. I was concerned for a second 😭
@@Mackenzieadventures1 he’s talking about alcoholism, not drinking for fun and if he was drinking for fun I’d bet he’d have a higher tolerance than you
I often practice supply rationing. I set myself a month of where I will live off of my older supplies that need to be rotated and I practice healthy rationing. I believe it's a skill that should be experimented with to better understand your supplies as a whole and how long they can actually last you once everything has gone to hell. On top of that, it has helped me master some cooking recipes with only ingredients from my supply. I have gotten very creative with my meals and have a greater understanding of my supplies because of it.
Smart!
I tried to eat a can of fried Spam. It was so salty I threw it away. I suspect many will die of high blood pressure when they are forced to eat cheap food.
I have begun making portions smaller and I am only using half of the meat we use to use.
@@riverstorm8816 I use Spam sparingly because of this. I find it is best used in fried rice when cut into small squares. I add some of my dried spring onion to some of my dried egg powder and then add a tiny bit of water to rehydrate them, then I add the Spam and fry it up with some rice. With the spam in it you dont need to add salt. A can of spam will last a few days once opened so I use it over those days rather than in one sitting to avoid that salt overload.
This is something people dont think about and very important. Should be talked about more
I’ve been watching you for some time, you are one of the few people that make sense!!! Thank you and keep up the good work
You need to invite people on who can do canning, freezing, gardening long term, water Aquaponics, farming. Take it to the next pre apocalyptic level to get through the post apocalyptic event. You are the man Mr. CP
This Dude's the BOSS of all You tube Preppers , Namaste from India 🇮🇳
Hi again! This is video 4 for me. I was an archaeologist in the desert for a looooong time and we used dirt to wash our dishes. The dirt would absorb any grease, the little sand or small rocks would scrub off any stuck bits and then a cloth would get the dust. We didn't have access to hardly any water and this was a well learned trick. Loving your work so far! Thanks.
Having lived through a few "decent" earthquakes, I always shudder when I see preps in glass, or plastic that could easily fall off the shelves and smash on the floors. When I kept preps in the USA, I not only had the shelves fastened to the walls, and the shelves fastened to the frames, I had secure mesh across the shelves, AND had cardboard separators for the glass jars, and any potentially "delicate" items. It doesn't have to be an earthquake, it can be a gas explosion, tanks rumbling down streets, etc. or even some idiot banging into the garage with a car. Don't mind my paranoia.
Hmm, that's a good point, thank you for the advice. I don't think I'll have that problem with my setup, but it's absolutely something to keep in mind.
Your mind works like mine👈🤣 knowing too much can be very difficult
Not paranoid if it’s justified
Or even a tornado or a bomb. Great idea!
Oh god, something more to worry about! You have a very good point. I suppose that if everything is in bags inside the buckets, it will help too.
Consider adding Miso Paste and Dried Seaweed. Both have an indefinite shelf life and are naturally preserved. In medieval Japan warlords used these components to suppliment soldier's diet of steamed rice with protein, vitamins and microelements. Not to mention that miso soup with seaweed is tasty and healthy.
Good idea.
I don't think miso paste is indefinite as it ferments
@@kennethmcdonald9736 miso paste will only last 12 months at most. But dry kelp or dry sea weeds, they’re ideal for longest time. Also in Chinese medicine people used seaweed and kelp to boost their immunity. Salted lemons also last for very long time. Chinese used it for food recipes or for cold.
Actually Chinese cooking has a very long tradition of using dehydrated dry goods. I am not sure the exact shelf life of these things but I would say at least 5 years or more.
@@jiaunmew878 miso will last a long time if you have the right type. My parents have 7 year old miso, it goes dark & the taste mellows out.
The expiration date on canned foods is actually a "best by" date. canned food is consider safe for consumption almost forever. For example, a 118 year can of meat was in a museum, and it was opened and tested, it was safe to eat and still contained the essential vitamins.
My dehumidifier is full every single day. I am working on a containment system to collect the water for storage. If you can power your dehumidifier via solar during a grid down, unlimited water from the air might come in handy I guess?
CP did a video on this about a year ago. Used his portable solar panels, battery, and dehumidifier=unlimited water.
I fill 2 55gal drums with your method(dehumidifier) - I filter it after as I need water👍
Possibly 😂
Beware though that dehumidifiers produce water that doesn't have the standard dissolved minerals and such. Drinking it alone, for a period of time, is bad for your health. I'd recommend looking into it yourself though.
You should likely also have other alternatives for water procurement as well too though, in case one system fails or to make up for shortcomings like dehumidifier water.
EWwwww ewwww eewwwww.... I've never seen a dehumidifier that wasn't full of nasty, dude. I saved mine, when I had one, for the garden and for things like washing the car.
Thank you for the two great leads for long term food storage. You should sleep better at night knowing how many people you have helped to get better prepared! Great Job!
lol h at first in thought this was five years for a family. That’s still pretty impressive. Great work. I have a family of 8 and based out food storage on a 2000 Calorie diet per day per person. Flower, rice, and beens, pastas, sugars, canned tuna and chicken dries soup broth with a ton of fat content.
Thank you so much for mentioning the storage techniques as well. A lot of people overlook that and just store things in plastic baggies expecting it to last 25 years. In my opinion mylar bags inside plastic containers are the absolute best way to store as long as you have oxygen packs and moisture packs.
@Cups Yes. The point is to create an environment where life cannot take hold. Take one away and something may still be able to grow. Take both away and most bacteria harmful to people will never have a chance to propagate.
Continuing to love this channel, it's a big part of my survival education and every class counts.
I am not a prepper, but seeing this stockpile fills my primal heart with joy. This in my mind is true wealth, in particular, the honey I would go as far as to have my own bees to stockpile as honey will literally last a millenium.
For those who run dehumidifiers, make sure you pick up a float-switch pump. You can then put the dehumidifier anywhere and automatically pump the collected water either to a drain or sink in the good times, or a collection barrel in the bad times. They are cheap, reliable, and easy to set up.
Just make sure to add something like chlorine to it to keep it from growing mold. I ruined a dehumidifer once by forgetting to empty it for several days and it got moldy.
Can keep the water for plants or washing, just need to sterilize if using for washing. Tip: boiling your clothes is an old method used to clean; although it won’t necessarily be up to current standards however it will get the job done.
Often called a condensate pump.
@@josephinecunningham5998 I don't have a youtube channel (ok I do but not for even remotely normal people) but literally all humidifiers can either empty into a tank, or can have a garden hose attached. You can attach a small piece of garden hose from the dehumidifier directly to a condensation pump (which is a little shoebox-sized tank that sits on the ground right outside the dehumidifier) and then you run clear plastic tubing from the pump to whatever you want it to empty to.
I wish I could make a video for ya, but I can't.
Where can I find them?
I don't know why spam gets a bad rap, trust me when you're starving it will taste like a tbone steak.
Some just don't care for the taste and texture of Spam but would eat it if they were hungry enough of course.
I love spam. The flavored spam makes for a good variety. The less sodium spam cooked with different seasonings is also great.
@@bethholmes555 it's good sliced and fried and made into a sandwich.
I feel like that guy from Monty Python: "I like Spam." Good fried in sandwiches, mac n cheese, beans, etc.
Ahahahah 🥰
First thing I learned doing this was separating long term food storage from daily food storage. Actually got very annoying having to check the dates on everything, every so often.
Before storing anything, I write the date in black marker right on the front of the item so that I can see it at a glance. It eliminates that annoyance. 😉
@@saundrajohnson1571I do that too! Simple but common sense
The LDS folks have great on line resources for calculating out what and how much to store for a long term shortage.
As much as possible is really the only good answer, if you can save enough to help others then you will benefit from that.. and a large enough garden can make it doable. The first year you will rely heavily on your stored foods, each year after that it should be much less as you adapt to producing enough food. I mostly only store things I can't produce easily myself
It's really not complicated though. How many calories do you need in a day, roughly 2000-3000 x 365. Good blend of carbs fats and protein, it's painfully simple.
@@CanadianPrepper I like to make meals from my preps, measure what I use and how many people it feeds. If there is no garden produce we will get less calories and nutrition but we will survive. With sufficient garden produce we will eat like kings.
Focusing only on stocking up on food without focusing on sustainable production is simply buying you time.. but time for what?
Even an experienced prepper like yourself, Nate, will have a very steep learning curve with growing and raising food if you've never really done it before.. thats why I suggest everyone should grow a few different things at least, even if just one or two plants of each. Guaranteed you will fail a lot before you figure it out. Anyone will. But some experience in gardening could stretch that 5 year supply to 15 years and beyond fairly easily
Thanks for the great content. Been watching for years.
@@jdlflagstone6980 that's assuming we will have the water and climate to grow food when the time comes. Still, I've got enough seeds to turn my backyard into a corn field in case we do!
@@CanadianPrepper yes calories are king. But we all focus on calories and we need to be mindful for nutrition. Sprouting your beans magnifies the nutrition content (like 400% I think). Growing fresh vegetables is a great way to add nutrition. I dehydrated alot of vegetables only to learn that drying them kills alot of the nutrition, so I bought a freeze dryer & now I hope I get a good crop harvest from my garden or......😫
You found a subscriber. I appreciate your being down to earth and letting us know that this is 'your' implementation and not the only way to go. I look forward to viewing your other videos.
Ok that’s a great example of the ideal pantry , you got my sub with the coloured buckets 🧑🌾
"I don't know what the deal is with pickles but they seem to last a long, long time."
Pickling being an ancient preservation method still being used today. As a prepper you should be aware of how to pickle, it's a great way of preserving food and is very easy to do.
Loved when he talked about filling empty jars with a freeze-dryer, without considering pickeling which wouldn't require any power
Almost like he is trying to sell a bunch of 'survival' food and freeze dryers instead of actually learn/teach people about survival. No one talks about producing and preserving food, which is a much more important thing to be able to. Why? Because they can't sell that. Nearly all of this prepper BS is simply a way to extract money from people through fear. Kinda scummy imo
Your BF pickle is always limp
@@extraordinaaron There are a ton of people who preserve and can and produce on youtube who are also what people would call preppers. If you are looking for some channels like that try to look for homesteader title rather than prepper. Or just look for canning or preserving or even bread making. Then you will get a lot more recommendations for people who do those things. Rosered Homestead and Homestead Heart are two good ones. The first is a woman who has a science background and the second seems to have a very well rounded channel of self-sustaining living.
@@MariaMaria-sr8zg Yeah saying "no one" was hyperbolic, but youre just being pedantic. One of my favorites is Townsends. 18th century life in North America, great stuff.
Controlling humidity is very important. However, be mindful of the dehumidifier. It can increase the temperature of your storage area if you run it continually.
Would the food in mylar bags and buckets be ok in higher humidity or would condensation still be a problem, thats what I'm wondering.
For the sake of temperature I'd like to store the buckets in a root cellar but the humidity needs to be high for the farm produce 🤔
@@jdlflagstone6980 JDL, I do not know the answer to your question, and I do not want to mislead you. Perhaps someone else can chime in to provide an answer. What I will say, is that I try to keep my storage room bw 60 and 65 degrees, and 40-50% humidity. That includes the rotating pantry, and items in mylar bags. I have not had any issues over the last 8 years.
@@emmanuelrodriguez848 thanks. I'm off grid and my place gets hot in the summer and cold in rhe winter if I'm not home, cellar stays cool aĺl year tho. I'm sure it'll be fine, it's my best option I think 👍
True, I actually use mine to ensure the temp doesn't go below freezing in the winter in addition to dehumidifying. Surprising how much heat these things can kick out, might be a problem in a well insulated / sealed storage area.
If you can separate the dehumidifier from the main storage area and duct its air intake and exhaust you can avoid some heat buildup.
Last year in South Africa we had an insurrection in the province I live in - they targeted distribution networks, shutting down highways and roads to all towns, burnt shopping centers and warehouses. Within the space of two days the entire province ground to a halt, no one could travel anywhere. Shops that could be accessed locally either ran out overnight, or were looted out of everything. Fortunately it did not spread nationally, and was contained by armed citizenry that mobilized to defend their suburbs from attack. The police were totally overwhelmed and ineffective, and it took the army three days to deploy. By the end of the week order was restored, but it taught me a valuable lesson on how quickly one can be cut off and isolated from help or resupply.
I remember seeing the videos of that happening. Thanks for sharing. God bless.
Aren’t you glad that Mandela turned your country into a third world?
@@anglishbookcraft1516 Mandela just started the process, it's taken 27 years of communist and black nationalist policies, sprinkled with gross incompetence to mostly destroy the country. I have been continuously amazed at its resilience.
@@glenntungay5140 do you even know what communism is? And insurrection??? Lol the riots of 2021 were beacuse of failing capitalist system. Weird how when capitalism is failing the politically illiterate call it communism and btw Mandela was a capitalist. If you're looking for a communist look at Chris Hani
@@fregmnt communism is a form of state authoritarianism in which all wealth (ownership) and power (decision making) is centralized into the hands of a few elite, justified through the ideology of class warfare and equality. It uses social engineering, social welfare, total regulation of education and business and massive state employment to try bring about it's supposed utopian vision - but the result is always the same, oppression, poverty, misery and death.
I've had a freeze dryer for 3 years now. I use it mainly for meats and high protein content food. It paid for itself the first year. No regrets on the purchase.
which brand did you get?
@@tammybamba harvest right , medium size unit.
Well they are really expensive
So freeze drying is out for me
I looked up harvest one and just med size is almost 3000.00 ugh
@@evlainzizme4831 I used a home depot credit card. On purchases over 2k they offer 0% interest for 24 months. It was the only reason we were able to get one.
@@evlainzizme4831 plus , two family members went in on it.
Thank you for showing this! Right now I am in school and in an apartment but this shows my wife and me what our goal will be once we have the space and money to do more than our little food storage right now. I cant wait to see the freeze dryer video
Best pantry I've seen on youtube, inspiring!! Working to be able to reach that level of preparedness pantry-wise one day!
This is one of the best summaries of prepping for an extended grid down situation.
I hope he's got guns & ammo to protect it all...
Great preps. The quality of your channel has really exploded. I watched your channel a lot 3 years back and am now coming back. Amazing stuff. Making a couple purchases this week from the website. Thanks!
I have a basement that is partially finished, partially unfinished/storage. My dehumidifier runs 24/7 with a tube from the back of it right into my french drain/sump pump. Much easier than checking it daily!
Impressive stash. I`m not putting too much focus on prepping to this extent, I think its more important to gain nothing but the pure survival basics and the reason why I have that stance is because you can prep like this for years only for shit to hit the fan and then potentially have to leave your location. Learn to grow food, learn to pickle/ferment, learn to hunt and so on pure self sufficiency and self sustainability
True. Its probably better to be well balanced with everything
I 100% agree
Yup. All it takes is one bomb to wipe out that stash and then what do you do? 😢 I agree. Learn how to do things. Foraging is a good skill to learn too
I think it Depends Where you're at. I'm in an apartment in a city. So yeah when it goes down it's just gonna be my rifle my pony and me, but if I owned land and had the space I'd much rather hunker in.
How long does it take to grow food, especially in winter months? Just saying, have a home survival plan, even if you have to bug out you can take much of the ready to eat items with you.
This is actually ridiculously impressive. I am amazed and constantly wondering what you actually do for a living in order to gain ALL of these. Just out of curiosity. I would love to have all of this included in our prepping stuff. Really into this. This was a great video.
UA-cam videos 😂
Amazing… very good, I loved to stumble on your content, I'm going to write down a few things that of course I didn't add to my list and I'm getting organized, I'm starting late, but I'm very excited! thank you for your time
If I opened the Junk Food Bucket and found sesame snaps, I’d be pissed.
I’ve literally never heard of sesame snaps until now. Must be a northern thing?
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I wouldnt YUM honey covered seeds are so common throughout history and nuts too even to this day. Plus healthy as you can get dense energy stores forever. And it can be easily grown harvested made stored with very little issue/knowledge.
I like your system and the items you have stocked up with. Jars are a great way to show what you have in them. Thanks for your efforts.
This video ignites the prepper in me. Played a lot of post apocalyse survival games and watch many war documentaries and movies. Love the showcase video here.
These skills are worth more than all the basement prepper fads: growing, building, hunting, fishing, foraging.
Dont forget about cooking, need to be able to bake and preserve food, especially meats as they can kill you if eaten under cooked and won't store long unpreserved without a freezer.
Hunting / fishing, even growing is almost useless if you don't know how to prepare and preserve the food.
@@JoshDragRace0688 cooking is undoubtedly the most underrated skills most human don’t have. especially perseverance technique/knowledge
I'd suggest everyone grow a couple radishes , some kale , spinach etc just to collect seeds. They produce so many seeds(kales the best IMO) and use them to grow micro greens.
It can be done in buckets and micro greens are tasty.
I grow micro greens in mason jars. Broccoli sprouts are my favorite right now. I love radish so I may give that a try next
@@ValkyrieGothic the radish miro greens give a good spicy addition to a salad. The seed pods when green are a nice snack too.
@@ValkyrieGothic kohlrabi is another that produces as many seeds as kale and both grow year round here in Arkansas/Oklahoma. They taste better in cooler tens but I like them year round.
@@ValkyrieGothic , check out the book, “Year-Round Indoor Salad Gardening” by Peter Burke. He teaches you how to grow micro greens in little bread pans. Super easy! His method uses much less water than growing sprouts in jars and actually “greens up” the plants. No fancy equipment needed, either.
Some years back, a farmer neighbor of mine was combining alfalfa. I got about 15 or 20 pounds of clean seed from him and transferred them into several smaller vacuum sealed bags. They make tasty sprouts. Along with other seeds for sprouting. I, too, like the "bite" that a radish sprout has. Stay safe, and keep breathin'.
This is one SMART MAN, much respect 🙏
Some of us aren’t even prepared for the end of the month much less 25 years down the line 😂
Excellent presentation. Looking forward to a similar presentation on creating a five-year clothing closet. Boots, hats, gloves, clothes and mending supplies are important to support performing daily physical labor without the benefit of a neighborhood shoe repair shop or seamstress. For example, after having two pair of expensive hunting boots delaminate during wild boar hunts, I learned the value of recraftable/resolable footwear. (Duct tape helped me limp home.) Spare leather, vibram soles, glue, leather sewing tools and hardcopy how-to books are still affordable today. Maybe not so tomorrow when the lights go out.
Great set up!
One thing I'd look at is having access to the back of your shelf to make rotation of goods taken from the front and adding to the back
I've been watching 👀 this man for years he is my favorite. He is brilliant and thinks long-term, but sustainability as well! Many just stock and don't think health and so fort
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Truly incredible storage, man. So much great information in this one about keeping all this food long term. Really great system ✊
I shared my gluten free prepper pantry recently. The comments 😧 like “that’s years of food “ or “wow you can eat forever” I did the math like you said. It’s 6 nice full months at 2000 calories for my husband, 17-1800 for me. I have some comfort foods, but not many. We have a huge garden that hopefully we can use to supplement if needed a d stretch it out. Love your bucket system. We just started collecting Augson farms food.
Thanks
I currently eat one meal a day and have been for quite awhile . It's just me so i Do have a 2 year supply & still building.
I found that I didn't like eating that much in one meal, it felt uncomfortable.
I do alternate day fasting.
Either way, I think you can save quite a bit of money and put those savings into long-term food storage.
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Secret to avoid tummy aches on 1 meal a day is to eat very, very slowly, and small bites.
One meal a day or 3 the calorie management is the same
I appreciated this video. Learned a lot. Just wanted to say though, that as someone who has gone through some rough times. I see a lot of preppers put their nose up to the SPAM. In a survival situation many will not have as much or maybe nothing at all. When you are starving a can of Spam or Vienna sausages feels like you are eating a filet mignon. The purpose of these videos should be to educate and share experience not to judge. In a situation no one will be surviving in style with top grade foods or gadgets.
You’re absolutely correct! It’s not about eating and living like a king it’s about not starving!
If it gets so bad you have to eat Spam, trap some animals.
@@michaelrhodes6260 no animals roam the city streets where I live at. And the majority of cityslickers don't know to hunt.
Thank you CP! You always bring up some VERY great points!!
I find also equally important is to reduce your need for calories. Get over your food (and other substance) abuse and that's like the equivalent of having stockpiles but without the need for real estate. Plus, it's helpful whether or not a crisis ever comes.
When the crisis hit, you will have to consume more anyway. There is no way to reduce the calories consumption without reducing the usage. You can’t work efficiently for 8 hours if you only ate enough for 4, you will have to eat the rest later on or suffer health deficiency, which will limit your ability to work. The food storage meant to keep you going while building a new sustainable food source, not to help you last 5 years sitting still.
If you really just sitting there and try to wait it out, you will go insane from boredom and lack of social interaction faster than you can eat the storage.
Not sure if you’ve done a video on preserving seeds but if not could you do a short one touching base on it.
Dry them in a cool dark place with airflow. package them up in your mylar bags with other preps (beans rice ext), and then seal the bag, put it into 5gal buckets with a top to keep the pests away. Ya know Mice an what not, Bears if your up north, and make sure to store them in a cool, dark, dry, place.
I love your setup. in 10 years when i have a single family home I'd like to do a setup as nice as yours
Hi CP! New subscriber. I live in a small town in southern Ontario, and we are retired. We started prepping about 3 months ago, and have the basic equipment, and food supplies for a week or more. Each month I am adding a gadget, or food in my storage area, to spread the cost out. It's kind of fun!
Good afternoon. Hey, love the channel and I watch when I get a chance. I wanted to comment about your storage shelves. You'd mentioned that you prefer stacking vertically. That's great and I agree. I live in the SF Bay Area, so we do get tremors and earthquakes due to our proximity to fault lines. What I noticed is that you have nothing stopping your stacked goods from falling off of the shelves during an earthquakes. Maybe some shot-line/paracord or some sort of bar might be a good preventative measure to keep that from happening. Also, are those shelving units anchored either to the wall or the floor? Perhaps, you've covered this in a previous episode that I haven't seen yet. Just a tech-tip from earthquake country. Oh, another tech tip... always keep your shoes next to your bed. You don't want to walk on broken window glass looking for your shoes. Keep up the great work!
Good tip on earthquakes. They happen in unlikely places. In 2011, we felt an earthquake in DC that happened several hours away from us and it did do some damage. Then a few years ago in Miami , folks downtown felt shaking from an earthquake in the Caribbean.
This presentation of your skills impressed me. I will now study your channel because it showed me what i had in mind for a long time now. Thanks for the impressive insight.
There are two things that I would add to this survival pantry. Aluminum foil and saran wrap
Freeze dried veggies vits and min. Yes but they also add a ton of flavor and. A bit of variety. I lived thru 2 years of extreme poverty.... you would be surprised just how boring it is trying to eat a 40 pound bag of rice plain with no flavor added to spice it up...literally or figuratively. Anything to change it up a bit is a gift.
Thats why we have stock powder, and herbs and spices. We have bought jars of thai curry paste, chipotle paste, etc. We make our own tomato powder.
Yeah those guys only storing rice and beans are in for a tough time ...Give it a week or two and they will be fed up for sure ..lol
It has taken me 4 years to build enough food for 4 for 1 year. Even have to store a lot in a climate controlled storage unit, if not my furniture would have to be made up of 5 gallon buckets. It is surprising at amount of room it all takes.
Great advice on the cleanliness of your food pantry. I make sure to regularly clean out the inside of my food cupboards with a bleach kitchen spray. Pests dont like the smell, and there are no crumbs or food dust to attract rodents. You can package your food as well as you like, but rodents can chew through anything given enough time.
@@sarahstephens5966 or glass
The color coded 5 gallon buckets are a genius idea!
No selection of fine Scotch Malt Whisky, Port or Wine shown. The apocalypse is going to be awful.
That's on his other two 8'x3' shelves that he isn't showing.
Canada has legal weed, I think.
@@Oxnate then he NEEDS more black buckets......
@@Oxnate canada has the BEST legal cannabis.
@@Oxnate us canadians can legally grow 4 plants.
Watched this video to get psyched up for supply run to Home Depot & Walmart
Thanks, Canadian Prepper, you always do such an excellent job!
Holy cow. I'm busy trying to get my family up to a 3 month supply I cannot fathom 5 years of food. But if it takes a while to build then maybe those kids of mine might be out on there own.
Take your time..atleast you've got something..as long as you can cover the most usual and daily problems like power cuts,small storms etc then work your way upto end of the world😅
It’s a marathon, not a sprint. I have 6 months for 2 people.
Start small. I have a garden that I use to feed my family 80% of our food. I also have an independent source of water. I've had to live off the land (for 3 years) before, so every time you go to the store, buy one extra bag of rice or bag of beans. I learned to do everything (gardening, canning, water filtration) without electricity, but I just bought my first generator yesterday. My UA-cam channel even teaches how to make clothes without electricity. It's a simple matter of buying one extra bag of something every time you go to the store.
In the mean time you've got the ability to outlast a lot of major events. It's not always going to come down to "can you survive five years'? it'll be 'can you survive the first 5 weeks?'
Grains are cheap and they get the numbers up fairly quickly.
Damn so lucky to have that. I live chq to chq and raising kids. I can barely put food on the table alone prep. I'm gonna start small wish me luck...
i love how he has some stuff for bartering
Very impressed with your food storage. Made me feel good about my own. As a single senior, I find it challenging to guesstimate quantities I need to store. I have some dehydrated and freeze dried products but mostly have canned goods as I find that the smaller cans meet my needs better. I have a travel Berkey and will pick up another set of filters (thanks for the idea). Please keep up the good work.
@MBYahooo two years ago, a good friend lost power for five days. She came to my home and was able to have warm food and stay warm due to my planning. My mother was nearly killed in the 38 hurricane, my sister and her husband were rescued by the national guard on snow mobiles in the blizzard of 78. She said it would have been exciting if she weren’t so cold, hungry and thirsty. In that same blizzard I fed my family, a neighbors family and was able to help a third family. Prepping is not only for SHTF it provides a safety net and turns what could have been catastrophic into inconvenient learning experiences.
Fantastic ! 10 is better LOLOLOLOL. Sharing brings peace . Plant tree crops where ever you can . Peace out fellow earthlings
I had some of those XMRE brand ones when I was staying in the hospital for my wife when she was pregnant. During the pandemic Hysteria It was difficult to get myself food as much as I needed. I filled my sleeping bag up with several of them and they were really good. Hospitals kill my appetite too.
Awesome. Glad everything went well with your wife. I can only imagine how scary it was dealing with a pregnancy after the medical "professionals" collectively lose their mind.
@@DaveSmith-cp5kj ??
@@_wayward_494 During the pandemic some hospitals were throwing people out into the streets mid operation if they tested positive, (and to date none of the tests have ever been proven to have any accuracy at all). Famously one woman gave birth in the parking lot and I believe is currently suing the hospital after the hospital then sent her a huge bill.
Most Epic Pantry display on UA-cam!
I’ve seen another, but they are both “top shelf” lmao
@@hexzerone7034 who else has a nice one?
@@jonathand3613 it was a little while ago when I saw the video. Had all kinds of stuff. Special canned food dispenser set up, barrels with something in them but wouldn’t say, I’d guess bullets. Guy thought of everything. It was impressive.
Damn - my guy went off - Bravo man, from a fellow Canadian.
I have two Harvest Right freeze dryers running full time! Also can food and have prepped in the utmost manner. No need to go into more detail, but have all bases covered. Also acreage to plant all, harvest all game and protection. I love your channel. We could be friends!!
Hhaha we knew you had a little food stash going, appreciate the long awaited video
Looks beautiful! 😄 I really need to reorganize and add to my prepping pantry. Thanks for the video.
You can make a "Berkey" out of 5gal buckets and a $30 dome filter kit make specifically for water purification. I bought mine on eBay. I let you know how it goes. I figure if I never touch my blue barrels, I'll feel better.
I absolutely love Mountain House freeze dried food! They taste great and they're good quality.😋
P.S. The video featuring your jars of powdered food was very interesting👍
citric acid powder doesn't get talked about enough in food storage videos. It's versatile, can be used for seasoning, or a lemon juice substitution for canning or dehydrating and it can also be used to clean with. And it has a nice long shelf life.
Combining it with baking soda can substitute as yeast for baking.
Citric acid is an excellent source of vitamin C.
Yes. If you have an orchard then you need citric acid to help in processing fruit to preserve it. Because some types of fruits have to be sprayed or dipped with citric acid as they would oxidize during the dehydration process. I am still learning. I got 3 types of citric acid powders as I have fruit trees and plants. I can also use two of them to make vitamin C drinks.
I also have canisters of citric acid based drink mixes for extra vitamin C as well.
Be aware its not made from citrus or Vitamin C. It's made from Aspergillis Mold. The most common mold allergy.
@@redeemedbygrace9236 No, vitamin C is ascorbic acid, not citric acid...
Quick note on disposable plates: In the situation where water is at a premium and washing dishes like plates becomes a "lower priority", or is difficult while "out in the field". Stockpile both saran wrap, and tinfoil.
- Take a good solid camp plate.
- Wrap the plate with tinfoil.
- Wrap the plate with a layer of saran wrap.
- Wrap over the saran wrap with another layer of tinfoil to keep it clean.
Mealtime comes around.
- Take off top layer of tinfoil, set it aside.
- Place meal onto saran wrap, eat meal.
- Take dirty saran wrap off. Toss it. Put new layer of saran wrap on.
- Cover saran wrap with top layer of tinfoil.
- In the even the saran wrap ends up breaking or you carelessly cut through it with a knife, you have a layer of tinfoil underneath it. Every week or so (whenever it looks terribly dirty) you can refresh and renew your tinfoil.
If it becomes so terrible that the plate starts getting dirty, you can do a plate wash.
- Rolls of tinfoil are easy to store lots of, and has a whole lot of uses and lasts forever.
- Big industrial size rolls of saran cling wrap could potentially provide thousands of meals without ever having to wash the plate. Its a quick: Toss it - burn it, wrap it, cap it - ready to go for another meal.
I have used this "trick" multiple times when I was out camping. I just precut tinfoil that's larger than my plate and smaller than a large zip lock bag, and store several sheets inside. Bring a roll of saran wrap, wrap the plate before eating, and then when done toss the dirty saran into the campfire.
The reason I say use saran wrap for second layer above tinfoil is because of economics. Saran wrap is super cheap, you can get a whole lot of it on a bulk roll and it can provide thousands of meals a roll. Tinfoil is a bit more expensive, slightly more durable - and has a few other uses especially in a situation that you can't quickly replenish a supply if you've used it on dishes. So prolonging it's useful life and your stockpile by adding in saran wrap helps keep you from burning your way through your supply.
Ideally a water source can be located like rainwater and purified / boiled etc. for doing dishes. Avoiding the need to dip into "stored water" supplies. In the event of "limited water" trying to stretch it for use in cooking and drinking, this is one way to avoid having to use it directly to clean plates with.
Just buy 1 tin plate, it will be cheaper than the Saran wrap and aluminium foil, I guarantee it.
@@BarneyGumbl3 but you have go wash it.
@@_wayward_494 Better than dealing with infinity layers of tin foil and cling wrap. Eat, wipe the tin plate out with a wet wipe, repeat. I live off grid and this is how I live daily. Proper wash once a week, wipe with antibac wipe after meals.
Cast Iron cooking, burn and scrape off the waste. Also good call for the plate coverings.
I need to have the hubs watch this. He thinks we have a lot but I always tell him,”look at the calories “.
This guy is awesome… He literally bases his entire life on the movie Mad Max, lol keep up the good work pal 👍
No. Mad Max had guns.
Storage food for 5 years That's good to survive the next pandemic. good video, I'll going to subscribe.
That would be the great option to survive the next 4 years with his tarrifs.
I’m not a perfect pepper but I recommend taking everything like food or batteries or lights out of the boxes and putting them in plastic buckets. Cardboard sucks in condensation like no other. I would know because of my preppers closet. I keep it in a controlled room but yes without a humidifier it’s harsh. Also I understand that the humidifier helps but what about when the grid goes down? Switch out all your boxes for buckets.
I am worried about showing your rations. Very nice layout - neat and clean. God Bless.
@marthale7 No doubt... he strategizes for many situations.
I love the info that this gentleman has provided. That being said if the SHTF i would not want to be him. Everyone in that town is gonna come for what he has.
Try to buy smaller containers for things like peanut butter. After they're opened the spoilage clock is ticking.
Hi Nate,
Was wondering if you would revisit your video on 100 days of food for $100, would be interesting to see another take on storing food long term on a budget
Great video mate!!
I’m in Australia and it’s just as relevant here.
If I could give it a triple thumbs up, I would!
What on earth are you going to do for water down in Australia?
what about a crock for fermenting food, you can even ferment meats as well. I watch The Intuitive Body Foodie Network and she tells you how to ferment pretty much everything.. would be good when you open certain things or after growing foods
I ferment stuff from my garden all the time. Kimchi, sauerkraut, pickles, peppers, beets ect
It’s amazing and the Nutrition is unbelievable. They used to take barrels of kraut on ships in the colonial area because they knew it staved off scurvy. They didn’t know why or how but just that it did
I don’t have lots of vegetables but do have popcorn... so... yeah.
Popcorn is also exclusively in green buckets.
I have tons of popcorn. I even bought a non-electric popper! Mind you I eat popcorn maybe once a year but I bet it would become a staple in a shtf situation.
😂😂
wow talk about goals
We need more videos on de-escalation and diplomatic training and skills. You save a lot more resources and risk less if you reduce the possibility of a threat. I also think on the subject of the video to have something similar to "bait pack" for raiders and for trading. I think if one would have a 'known' supply to barter and needs be lose if it means surviving another day, week, month etc.
With all that food, you're going to need way more toilet paper..😂😂
You must be new. 😄 You don’t know how CP came to fame on the youtubez?
@@Chiburi no i dont tell me
@@theonewhomjesusloves7360 Check out his video about toilet paper tablets! 😄 It’s got 5.7 million views....!
@@Chiburi i have tons of those too
Whats wrong with a rag? Wash it in a creek, dry it in the sun. If you reckon it'll dirty your hands, don't worry. Tp will too. Use the shelf space for soap. That will keep your whole body clean.
Impressed by the logical mindset.
This is inspiring. I would think it would be best to store many small units instead of big buckets containing singular mylar bags. Once you open that bag, the whole thing is compromised and now on the clock. If it's in smaller bags, you only open what you're going to use within a reasonable short time, and the rest stays secure for the 25-30 years.
I think you can reseal the Mylar bags
You know a true Canadian when there's real maple syrup on the shelf. 🍁
Yo @Canadian Prepper Can we get a 2024 updated version of this video? Would be awesome to see what you added and if you have any other new tips. God bless brother. Keep fighting the good fight.
Frank's Red Hot is life. You can also turn that honey into mead, if the end is nigh and you want to get bombed as you go out...
Alcohol will be very valuable when shtf. People will give anything to feel normal even if only for one night.
@@TheXxxcodexxx normal? More like land of oblivion!
Also fermenting wood gets you methanol and that can bring old gas back to life or be used to make biodiesel with oil and Sodium methoxide(made with sodium and methanol). The biproduct is glycerin for soap, another product you can sell/trade.
I'd recommend that you put the sauces and canned tomatoes on a lower shelf, at least not have things stored in cardboard below it. I've had cans of tomatoes and some plastic jugs of sauces leak well before their best buy date, it's rare but I had a whole case of tomatoes that I purchased at one time all leak at the same time and it damaged items below it, so I try to keep those things on a low shelf now and keep anything packaged in cardboard on a higher shelf just in case.
Same thing happened to me with canned pineapple. So I'm freeze drying my pineapple as we speak and later all my tomatoes.