Basic Foods...How Much To Stockpile For A Year
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- Basic Foods How Much Do We Need To Stockpile For A Year What are basic foods to keep you alive Powdered Milk amzn.to/300Vnvi Here are basic foods and recommendations for one year stockpile worth of food. Stack food now, stock up on basic foods, and plan to supplement with other foods in your prepper pantry or garden, and other foods in your stockpile.
One year of food, is it still possible to have basic foods for your prepper pantry? What are basic foods to store and stockpile, how much of each basic food should you store to have enough food to keep you alive if you have nothing else to eat? How to plan variety in a year's worth of food for your long term food storage prepper pantry stockpile with basic foods that are cheap and easy to store and prepare. Stored properly in airtight containers in a cool, dark, dry place, basic foods can last for years, some for decades.
How many pounds of each basic food should you store per person?
What are the best basic foods to stockpile?
What are the easiest ways to store foods for long term emergencies and SHTF?
You don't need a pandemic or apocalypse situation to need a supply of food in your prepper pantry stockpile. Prepare for many different emergency scenarios that happen to all of us. Decide what your risks are, and prepare for those emergency situations.
There are many reasons to store basic food and supplies. Have enough food on hand for everyday emergencies as well as a Doomsday Prepper food shortage as some forecast. Prepare for rising food prices, a coming food crisis and shortages. Food prices are increasing, we need to take food shortages seriously. Stock up on emergency meals.
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Basic Foods How Much Do We Need To Stockpile For A Year What are basic foods to keep you alive Powdered Milk amzn.to/300Vnvi Here are basic foods and recommendations for one year stockpile worth of food. Stack food now, stock up on basic foods, and plan to supplement with other foods in your prepper pantry or garden, and other foods in your stockpile.
Dear Granny, this topic recently came up in another group in which I participate. I eat a lot, and I mean a LOT, of rice!! So, using a calculator I researched individual Japanese rice consumption. The Japanese rank 5th on the table of highest rice consumption per person, averaging about 8 ounces raw, or two cups cooked per day. If rice was your only starch that comes to 61 pounds +/- per person a year. if it would make you feel more psychologically comfortable, you could round up to 70 pounds. If you eat 1 cup of regular (not instant) oats a day, you would want approximately 15 to 20 pounds, in storage. If you eat 1/4 pound of butter per week, then store 12 pounds of butter in your freezer. I never eat one whole (16 or 15.5 ounce) can of fruit or vegetables at one sitting. At most 1/2 a can. So 50 to 75 cans of assorted fruit and vegetables would be plenty. I could go on with more reasonable calculations for canned meats, flour, sugars, coffee, household goods, and so forth. A single person household, as me, could start from absolute scratch, even with today's prices, and fully stock a year's worth of food and household supplies for around $500 to $700, depending on where you live. That breaks down to $10.50 to $13.50 a week. And it wouldn't be all rice and beans. Thanks for your wonderful channel and your way of sharing good information in a calm, rational manner! ☺
I like the little red beans. Amazon had them 6.$ for 4 lbb. Now they are $10.
That’s an amazing cost savings! I don’t really believe that small dollar amount, yet I can make simple burritos for several of my lunches and use only 1 can of beans & 1 of meat. I can certainly envision pasta or rice dinners being equally as cost effective. 👍🏻👍🏻 Great post! Thanks for pointing out the cost savings.
What about keeping bulk products in a freezer in original packaging?
Hello AG, Condolences, it’s so good to get your content again…missed you.
Wouldn’t that be 182.5 lbs raw per year per person? I definitely could use more dried rice and other grains. It is nice to know that we have some amount to fall back onto but like many others we never really feel completely ready.
I am poor so for the last 4 years my grocery budget was $10 a week. I had to keep my food consumption to under $1 a day to make it work. By keeping my food consumption to under a $1 a day, it left $1 to $2 for extra food to store for my future self.
I started with the LaModerna pasta which is 48 cents a package on the international aisle at my area grocery stores. I purchased the one gallon food containers with lids at Dollar Tree. I built up my pasta stockpile with $1 a week in just a few months.
Next, I tried different low cost sauces for my pasta. I prefer Iberia basic tomato sauce which is generally around 50 cents a can. These days, I buy a case of 24 cans for $10.08 on Amazon.
One meal prep is half of a package of pasta with one can of sauce. One Meal Prep gets divided into 3 servings. So I would need 2 cans of sauce and one package of pasta each week. So that would mean 52 packages of pasta with 104 cans of basic tomato sauce. I have over 300 packages of assorted pasta with 96 cans of tomato sauce. I shorted the tomato sauce and have stored other varieties so I would not get bored with eating the same thing. And I do not plan on making pasta twice during any given week. Additionally, I could use the tomatoes sauce for other recipes.
Next, I started a bouillon cube collection. I filled a plastic container with bouillon cubes and powders and packets. Currently, I have 1483 in my bin. I need 1095 bouillon cubes for 3 years of making a batch of soup every day for lunch. I went a little overboard. I have assorted dehydrated vegetables and canned meats to add to my soup. I do not have soup every day. I did use 2 bouillon cubes for a rice dish because I wanted to do it.
I have the ingredients to make a batch of bread every week for over a year. That is pre-measured flour packets. But I also have assorted mixes. And I topped it off with 25 pounds of flour in a food grade bucket with gama lid. Once a month I make a batch of bread to practice and rotate supplies. I also replace it with more that I used. I want to get enough for over 2 years. For January I used 3 but added 18 back into my supply. As one bin of 18 is nearing the best by date. I know things last beyond the best by date but I try to keep up with rotating my food storage. I plan on emptying that bin and replacing them at a later date.
I have many other meals in my rotation. I am on bourbon chicken with rice as the next meal that needs to be cooked. Technically, each meal made according to recipes is 4 servings but since I need calories and add extra vegetables, I divide my meals into 3 portions. It gives me a little extra food so I do not go overboard and eat all three portions in one sitting. I got the bourbon sauce for $6 for a case of 12. So that is 50 cents for the sauce. The rice is $1 a bag but I only use 1/4 of it so that comes to 25 cents. The chicken was free through a trade. I add about 25 cents in dehydrated vegetables to it. So that comes to $1 for the Bourbon Chicken Meal which is about 33 cents a serving. So I keep Bourbon Chicken in my meal rotation because it is a low cost meal that I enjoy.
I have many other meals in my rotation that are not pasta and sauce or the soup so they are calculated as once a month meals. So I purchase a years worth of ingredients by the case after I use them all. I have 30 different extra dinner meals but as I only cook dinners twice a week the last longer. I try to get my ingredients in cases of 12 for convenience. It is part of my cushion. I know that each meal comes up for replenishing at different times so that I am only purchasing the ingredients for certain meals as part of my shopping plan. After I make the last Bourbon Chicken Meal today, Bourbon sauce goes on my grocery list to price shop for it. I have canned chicken. I have dehydrated vegetables. I have rice. I just need the sauce. If I cannot find a good deal on Bourbon sauce then I can go a different route so I do not sweat it.
Good job! You could start your own UA-cam channel for thrifty meals. 😊
Holly
Well done! I admire your dedication and your math skills!
Holly, you are amazing!!! Bless your heart. Wish I lived near you to help you. I know 2 income households families and ask them to pick up canned goods extra for their home, and I get comments, I wish I could afford to stock up....believe me the one income alone, they can more than afford to do it. Especially, with an Aldi few blocks away, no excuse. It's the mindset.
@@darlynns9997 Thanks. Something told me to stock up years ago. I make it work. In December 2021, I fell which meant loss of income and loss of trips to the grocery store. For much of 2022, I could not buy groceries but since I had a large stockpile I was good.
I top up my supplies when I can.
If I could do it on my small budget, y'all can do it as a well.
This just reminded me something we used to do back in the 80's: foil with a piece of cotton with alcohol. We'd set the alcohol on fire and close the (metalic) lid. The flame would burn the oxygen and make it safer to store beans for a longer time.
One thing people don't notice is that we SAVE a lot of money by stock piling foods because we pay current prices for food we'll consume in the future. It's a very effective way to fight inflation and it is even worth the energy spent with freezers if you keep expensive frozen items (and the rest in jars or dry/ed foods).
Freeze it as soon as you bring it home for a couple of weeks or outside in the winter in totes. Then bring it inside for storage in airtight containers. No bugs.
R u talking about flour ? Or rice and lentils etc or all of it ??? Ta
I live in desert, no storage room. They would explode if Ina an outside closet. Thought about a overhead air exchange for the closet. But those are expensive???
I just put a 25# bag of rice outside in a tote, great minds think alike !! It has been below zero here in Minnesota.
We live in northern Vermont so my suv is my freezer for processing flour and grains. I just leave it in the wayback for a month and then it’s bug free, plus it provides traction on icy roads!
It truly is hard to figure out what all I have and how long it will last. I've been "collecting " for about 2 years. Something to help with those grains is jar gravy. If meat is too expensive, buy gravy in jars or even packages. Thank you for this informative video!
I totally agree 👍
I found that its way cheaper just to buy a jar of a Base, either beef or chicken, to make a home made gravy. The way I prefer is to use a Rue, corn starch is ok, but Rue makes the gravy so much better.
I’ve tried dry packaged gravy, for about .85 on sale. They aren’t bad in a pinch. I add spices to them. Takes less space than a jar.
@@susanwoodcarver there are a couple YT ladies that have recipes for large quantities of homemade powdered gravy mix. Mary's kitchen & Suttons daze.
@@sillylilysallykaye4917 thank you. Will check them out!
I am enjoying beans at least once a week. Taking them out to soak is becoming a regular event! Had not "grown up" with much use of beans but really enjoy them! Thank you, AG!
Being whole food plant based we eat some type of beans on a daily basis and rice many times a week also.
Thanks for sharing!
Good video , I store everything in my kitchen daily use in glass jars. Never keep plastic or cardboard packaging it comes in . I am a widow so I keep flour, coffee, extra spices in the freezer . Have been 5 yrs everything stays fresh . I store extra milk and eggs in the freezer for myself . I crack eggs into silicone ice trays then in a freezer bag for baking or omelettes. I freeze milk in silicone ice trays then a freezer bag . Winter is cold I don’t always go to the store . I noticed organic milk last much longer . I put expiration dates on can goods to rotate better. I rotate my freezer by making freezer meals . Have a blessed day everyone .
Resourceful tips, thank you!
speaking of beans that's tomorrows dinner I'm raiding my bean stores I'm pulling out one of our faves the Cajun 15 bean soup i can't wait I love them throw in a canned ham chunked or a ham bone or a few bits of ham and its delicious and one bag gives my family 3 meals so we eat one I separate and freeze the other 2 for later can't beat that it only cost me about 6 dollars to make and tastes so good
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Quinoa is also a complete protein, along with buckwheat and I have put away both, along with what you showed. I also have some millet, oatmeal, barley and even a very little amount of amaranth, just to mix things up. You can add the smaller or cracked grains easily to canned vegetables and soups to make a more nutritious meal and to stretch out meat and vegetables. Plus, you can make rice, barley, and buckwheat as you do oatmeal, add milk or cream (dried or canned), then add fruit (dried) and/or sweetener. They are good with canned coconut milk.
I have many kinds of dried beans and legumes, but also canned beans. Crockpots are absolutely the best way to make these! Fantastic job, AG
I question myself and the amount all the time. I’ve learned to quickly restock what I use every month and add 1 thing every month. You’re awesome, AG
That's what I do too. Replace, and add 1 of something .
I love your common sense approach. I’m amazed that you or anyone can just so effortlessly articulate such great words of wisdom. I can’t but you say exactly what I think. Love your content
Wow, thank you!
Great advice, Alaska Granny! Thank you!
For your beans & lentils, you might see if you can sprout them, if so you might see about growing some as well as eating as sprouts.
Thank you, AG!
Quinoa is a complete protein
Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge on this good info. So helpful. 😊 thank you AG 😊🙏
Thank you, Granny. You always have great ideas!!
Great Information, thanks for sharing!
Great way to break things down. Thanks AG. Hope you are doing well
The numbers matter. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks AG
Great advice! Thank you AG.
Glad it was helpful!
I always bake my dry dog and cat food because they are frequently full of bugs right from the store. I freeze my dry goods before I store them to kill eggs.
Excellent video AG. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it.
Thank you so much for sharing ❤ Pray you’re doing well. Blessings to you my friend 😊
Thanks so much for sharing prayers and blessings.
this is how I store my grains,beans and other dry foods, smaller containers sized just for my use. I havea variety of canned foodsand spices and drink options including coffee and tea
Blessings AG! Thank you for sharing this video! A lot of great information for sure! Have a great weekend & God bless!
You are so welcome!
That is all good information. Two thousand calories per day for one year: 2000 x 365 = 730,000 calories for one adult for one year. Consider the number of calories in one pound of white rice or rolled oats or dry pasta or wheat grain. In perspective, 400 pounds of grain products in a year of long-term food storage for one adult is not all that much. Neither is the recommended 60 pounds of dried legumes for one adult for one year.
These basic dry foods, such as rolled oats, white rice, dry pasta, powdered milk and cane sugar pack a lot of calories into a small space, and they can easily store for 10 to 20 years when packaged correctly and kept in a cool, dry, vermin-fee pantry. Cans or jars of wet foods tend to take up a far more space to get the same number of calories as dry foods, will not keep nearly as long and have to be kept at temperatures above freezing. Check out the number of servings and calories per serving shown on the label of that can of whole kernel corn or English peas. Now look at the calories in a one-pound bag of popcorn kernels or a one-pound bag of split peas to put this in perspective and see how much space these two dry items take up in your pantry compared to the same amount of calories of the canned food versions.
Dehydrating fresh, canned or frozen vegetables and fruit will greatly reduce the amount of space needed for storing them and will increase how long they can be stored if packaged in heat-sealed Mylar along with one or two oxygen absorbers. If you use a dehydrator at home to build up a supply of vegetables and fruit, this can cost far less than buying #10 cans of freeze-dried or dehydrated veggies and fruit.
And dehydrating at home will give you a wider choice of veggies and fruit for your food storage. When was the last time you saw a #10 can of freeze-dried okra or hominy or summer squash or huckleberries or sliced oranges? Yet you can dehydrate these foods at home and put them in your food storage. You can do the same with kale leaves, shredded raw cabbage and collard greens and use in homemade soups or sauces for pasta.
Agree with everything you have said 💯. Planting a garden to grow your own food is far and away cheaper than buying from the store, and processing that at home, either dehydrated or canned, the food retains far more nutrients and is much cheaper.
Agree with you and my message to others is....
Y'all need to think beyond the list and in terms of meals. Think 400 pounds of grain as carbs. Too many carbs and not enough other vitamins and nutrients is not going to do your health any good.
I live alone. I think in terms of meals. In order to boost my calories, I add other ingredients to meals. Most of the recipes for meals that I make are 4 servings but I only divide my meals into 3 servings to get more calories.
Y'all need to also think about nutrition and diversify the foods that you store to eat a balanced diet. Add a few different drink mix powders for vitamin C and other nutrients. Some Nestle powdered drink mixes contain potassium iodine which would help your thyroid in the event of radiation exposure. Others contain electrolytes.
I have stored dehydrated fruit to add to things like oatmeal, cream of wheat, pancake batter or muffin batter. It adds calories and vitamins while allowing me to have variety in my diet. I have dehydrated banana chips which can be used to make banana paste or mashed banana as an egg substitute. I have freeze dried apples. I have dehydrated blueberries. I have fruit trees, plants and bushes so the dehydrated fruits are used to supplement the fresh fruit and frozen fruit that I stored. So I do not have as much in my food storage.
You have to store food other than 400 pounds of grains (CARBS). In protest to the CARB heavy food storage, I have over 400 cans and packages of shelf stable meat. I lost count but I have space for 150 cans / packages per shelf with some being smaller and others being larger. I have 4 shelves in my meat section. I have 2 full shelves (beef and pork) and 2 almost full shelves (chicken and seafood). I have a few gaps. I typically use one can or package of meat per prep. Normally, I prep 2 days a week. If I had to only use my food storage, that would mean 104 packages of shelf stable meat per year. So 416 is enough for 4 years. I am not counting the long term food storage. I am not counting the freezers that are on solar power with Generac backups to always keep them running. So I am good in the meat department.
I have a very small budget to work with and I still went a little overboard.
And I have not even covered dehydrated vegetables. Dehydrated vegetables take up less space than the canned vegetables and I find them easier to work into meals.
Instead of storing cartons of stock, I went with bouillon cubes as they take up less space. I have a bin that has 1483 bouillon cubes which is equivalent to over 300 cartons of stock. The bin takes up little space on a closet shelf. I would never have been able to store that much of I went with the cartons.
I do not have the knowledge or equipment to can things yet into jars.
@@Holly-ys1me It depends upon your situation. If you are feeding a multi-person household that includes hungry teenagers and you are on a tight budget and you are trying to stock up with long-lasting food for emergencies, you will need LOTS of complex carbohydrates, simple carbohydrates and dried legumes. At the other end of the spectrum, if you live alone and have plenty of discretionary funds, you can even continue with a KETO diet during a prolonged emergency by stocking up on plenty of the more expensive freeze-dried foods such as beef, poultry, cheese, scrambled egg mix and non-starchy veggies.
@@gonefishing3644 Hi Gone.
No she's right. It's why I advocate having a meal plan.
Whether a large or small family or single person, if you plan what you're eating each meal for a year then you can buy in accordingly.
It should be varied enough to avoid food boredom, but narrow enough for you to be able to track use by dates.
That's why I advocate canned meat and fish for protein, artificial sweeteners rather than sugar, instant coffee instead of coffee beans.
You'd also get a fair idea of what storage space you will need for it all.
@@Holly-ys1me Yes, treat idea. See my reply to Gonefishing.
Good morning! Thank you for your video! I store in glass jars too. Have a wonderful day!
Great video as always. Thanks AG! I also enjoy this community, the comments are always helpful.
Glad to hear it!
Very informative. Thank you.
Glad it was helpful!
Nice to get a yardstick measure on how much to store!
Hello Alaska granny from Michigan ☃️ Great information 🇺🇸
Another great and informative video.
Thanks for sharing. 🙏👏👍🌟💫⭐️✨❤️
Glad you enjoyed it!
Excellent, interesting .. I recently noticed potato chips in bags at store have a best by date of about two months or less, I also noticed vacuum sealed potato crisps sold in the little tubes have over a year of shelf life before they expire.
Good to know. Thank you
You can buy chips and vacuum seal them in jars. We tested this and they’ve been just fine at a year. Going to test 18 months, next month.
@@Nana9112go I have been experiminting with vacuum sealing cookies and crackers in jars. So far it has been a big success.
@@tennesseeterri I did that experiment as well. We opened a bottle of cookies from 2020 and it worked great. What failed was saltines. They only lasted about 18 months. The oil on them went ransid. It is fun to do experiments like that.
Thanks
Thank you for what your sharing, you are much appreciated!
I appreciate that!
Ty, great tips!
Glad it was helpful!
i have a spreadsheet for my freeze-dried foods, i track total calories but also categorize by type (proteins, starches, sugars, greens/fruits etc.) that works really well long term for me (and note to anyone reading this Mountain House online store has a sale for the next 2 days on #10 canned chicken for $52.99 which is a good price for MH, good time to stock up if you need to). The canned stuff we have is just stuff we eat on the regular so it can be rotated - i've learned a lot of good practical advice from you, much appreciated!
I have recently learned that you can sprout lentils. Going to try this soon.
Thank you! I so needed this info, we all do to know how much to stock pile for ea person for a year. Thank you for doing all the research & sharing it with us.
I also appreciate how you take the stress out of prepping by saying calmly, "Get an extra item or two each time you shop, just do what you can."
God bless you!!!!
Glad my video was helpful!
Hi beautiful AG! This is one of your best current videos. It’s full of down to earth common sense on what to store, how to store and different ideas for storage and rotation. Very practical for everyone! Stay safe and warm AG! ❤️
Thank you so much!
Good morning from Kentucky AG. Thank you for all of these reminders and yes slow and steady especially at todays prices. But I really just want to say I hope you're doing well and know you're are still in my thoughts and prayers. Love and hugs from afar sweet lady.
Thank you so much!
AG - ALWAYS the Voice of Reason in our current doom & gloom prepper world. I still find the guidelines for grains to be crazy generous at over 7.5 lbs per person, per week. Yet, you have a magic way of breaking it down into sensible variety. Your info is where I started my food storage about 15 months ago. Taking that grain variety and then planning what I would eat with each….sauces, canned meats, veggies and spices plus dehydrated onions and garlic 👍🏻👍🏻. Great planning tools, Dear AG. Just set some green lentils to soak for sprouts for my hens 🐓🐓. Thank you! ❤
Yes, I am amazed at the amount of food that is recommended for emergency stockpiles.
Always the voice of reason ….. love you Alaska Granny and love your videos. You are always so inspiring ❤️
Thank you so much!
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Good video , thanks for sharing , God bless !
Thanks for watching!
Wonderful advice ...I didn't know about kidney beans...I will get lentils and split peas xxx
Thank you 😊
You're welcome 😊
Could you do more meal ideas with the beans and lentils. Thank you
One year later, I discovered this precious video. Many thanks AG! I am taking stock of how far me and hubby and our dogs can go. Also our 3 employees. Many many thanks for this video. Warm greetings from South Africa ❤🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦
Hello Granny. From very cold in Maine. Thank you for letting us know HOW MUCH we need for a year.
You are so welcome.
I have moths real bad ! I have put moth balls around but it's hard to get rid of them . Great video thank you !
Great video as always Granny. It's just me and the grandkids on a limited income. We appreciate your tips and suggestions. It's always one step a time. May the good Lord watch over you and your family. Peace and Love.
Blessings to you and your family.
You got me wanting some Beans friend!!! 😆
Because of my food allergies, I get freeze dried from Thrive Life. Usually one ingredient & some salt. They have just added a few "pre-mixed" type foods, but I just got the chicken one to try on that.
You just add water to most of them, but the ones they list as "snackies" are freeze dried fruits that you can eat straight out of the package (live those).
I like this product so much that I "joined" to get my food at a discount on it - they also have a sale on 6 to 10 items about the third week of each month.
Just a suggestion for you. If you want my link let me know.
Yes..link please.
As a prepper I can't walk by a rice display without getting the "yips" I will often buy a small bag to stave off the shakes. I have been trying to diversify as best as I can. I try only to prep food that we eat. And I agree I put up many dinner size portions that allow for leftovers. I've put popcorn in mylar (no o2 absorbers) it will destroy the moisture that makes it pop, I've used year old kernels no problems. Thanks for the great reminder on diversified grains. Keep calm and prep on brothers and sisters.
Great suggestions, thanks.
Buy mylar bags from Amazon that come with oxygen absorbers. 15 5 gallon bags is $22. 120 bags in various sizes with O2 absorbers is also $22.
Thank you for the amount per person.
Definitely can't be of a keto mindset doing this stocking up! JS!
Stock up on the foods you care to eat, the keto mindset doesn't matter, you can still be a prepper. The focus is stockpiling foods you want.
Stock up on foods you care to eat. What will you do if you go to the store and the foods you care to eat are not available?
Thanks as always AG!!
Are quinoa and nonfat dry milk ok for oxygen removal storage?
God bless!!
Yes, I think they are.
A.G. great video i did some math i got about 2/3rds of the 400lbs of grains maybe closer to 400 lbs if i count the flour
Nice work!
@@AlaskaGranny Thanks Grams
When l was growing up my grandma and mom used barley and ground it up and made barley coffee when they ran out of regular coffee.They put real vanilla baking liquid vanilla in it and if the ones liked sugar they added sugar and half an half for creamer or evaporated milk or regular milk in it also.They used a coffee pot on the stove percolator kind.
Thanks for helping to educate us, how creative!
@@AlaskaGranny your welcome and hope this helps everyone who drinks coffee.lm an old Granny like my grandma was and mom and it has always stuck with me.🙂
A large part of what I call my 'doomsday' preps is TVP. Bob's Red Mill has 25 lb bags and can be purchased online, I got mine from a co. called Food Service Direct. They are expensive but cheaper than buying the smaller bags. TVP is a complete protein and can be that main ingredient in making fake meat meals.
Plus that co. has bulk dehydrated potatoes in various forms, slices, shreds and mashed. One pound of dehydrated potatoes makes 4 lbs of real potatoes. Personally I have spent $100's on single items, to just get stocked up, then move on to the next item on what I may feel is needed for a multi year famine to have enough food to last. Now if people can get a much cheaper bag of potatoes from the store, peal them and dehydrate them, then store them, thats great, but I am single and don't want the hassle or have the time.
Can you share an example of a dish that uses TVP? And how long can you store it?
@@sueh6287 There are several vegan dishes if you google TVP. Most make meatballs, tvp is basically tasteless, so adding it to a sauce is an option, I used to use taco seasoning with tvp, and it makes pretty good tasting fake taco meat. I am a big fan of vacuum sealing, but any kind of way of keeping the bag it comes in , in a cool , dry place should give it a nice long shelf life.
@@flowermage7299 Thanks! I'm going to give TVP a try.
We bought a lot of soya (textured protein) purchased at Hispanic market because my sister was vegan. It’s full of protein too. I cook mainly mexican dishes so soya is hydrated then it can be placed in dish towel to wring out the water but I use a french press (have different sizes purchased at thrift stores) as it is more effective. I sauté onions and add the soya. Add any seasonings you like and make tacos with it. They make great chicharrones (cracklings) by just frying till they are crispy. My very picky husband gave it a thumbs up too. I have it stored for the future as I’ll use meat for now.
@@cocacolafiesta Yes TVP is what Augasons fake canned beef and chicken is with just flavorings. I have done the same, just add taco seasoning and it tastes really good.
I like to put my dried beans in the crockpot. So delicious.
Sounds great!
I store extra rice and oats. I can make flour out of them in a pinch or to use them up if needed for rotation. I have printed off recipes for rice flour bread and oatmeal flour bread in case we lose power ever.
Great ideas!
A good rule of thumb is One Million calories per person per year. This will vary as to male or female, hard physical work, hunting fishing scavenging, age, etc etc etc. 1 million calories a year is roughly 2,700 daily calories.
You can make a spread sheet and enter all the foods you store as you go, enter the calories and such. You could do this on pencil & paper if you need.
I was told to freeze all my grains to kill off weevils n larva. 3 days. Than I let the moisture dry and mylar them. I have about 100 lbs of flour n sugar I need to mylar up for long storage. My prep room is held between 50 and 60 degrees.
I have started seeds for the garden. From seeds I saved last year. My pepper seeds didn't start so thinking the were sterile or I did something wrong when saving them??? I have 5 Roma tomato plants from a Roma I bought at the store. I washed the membrane off the seeds and planted them.
Great ideas. I have saved pepper seeds, and sometimes they just don't grow. I suppose that means the pepper was GMO.
Can you show us some recipes for using dry beans?
Here is a link to a video I made on how to cook black beans.
I make a pot of beans in my Instant Pot every week. We’ll have bean & bacon tacos for breakfast or bean chalupas for dinner. I make them extra spicy so we don’t need chili or salsa on top.
Yum!
had no idea about the toxins in red kidney beans. thnx
InstantPot or pressure cook those dried beans. Makes them ready in less than an hour!
On grains that is a hair over a pound of grain a day.( that includes making bread and pasta.)
Excellent information, right here.👍🤗
Aduki & Mung beans are quick cookers too, & sproutable.
I Love Lentils, & sprouted Green Lentils are nice & peppery, unlike the cooked ones.🤔
TFS AG, take care, & keep really busy everyone. ❤🙂🐶
Thanks for the tips!
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I eat oatmeal without cooking. If I have 1/2 cup of oatmeal I add 1/2 cup of water to it. I then add some fruit. I've used fresh and dry. You could also add nuts, sugar, brown sugar, etc.
2000 calories a day - and get your butt off of the couch.
Used and cleaned out liquor bottle work well to store dry foods.
Hmmm, you have a lot of used liquor bottles on hand? 👍😆
Haha!! Yes they do. I don’t drink, but collect from others. I not truthful what I’m using them for, I say I’m doing crafts. Then, I do a craft with some just to show bc people are curious, then the rest I use for food storage. Hahaha….
@@tradermunky1998 Sure, don't you?
@@cbass2755 It also helps to just be a hoarder. haha
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I live in a small trailer how do I stock pile future food? I can get some of my food supplies from a subscription online. I have a storage unit but it's 2 hours away would that even help? Thanks
Here is a link to a video I made that might give you ideas. ua-cam.com/video/xsZOPBLjFbg/v-deo.html
Thank you so much for the advice.I vacuum sealed white rice in 1lb- 5lb amounts but I didn't add oxygen absorbers to the bags before vacuum sealing them.Should I redo them with oxygen absorbers to better increase their longevity and reduce the chances of weevil growth?
Hi George.
Did you freeze, thaw, and re-freeze the rice?
If you cycled it through a couple of times before sealing then it should be fine, but if you use it as you need it now, you can replace the rice stores in future using the oxygen absorbers if you want.
Hope this helps.
@@dandycat2204 No.unfortunatly I did not freeze cycle my supplies b4 vacuum sealing them.Thank you for the advice. Will do it that way next time.
@@georgeinczauskis7871 Hi George.
Well, like I said, just use the rice up over the next few weeks or months, depending how much you eat.
You're not gonna lose anything that way.
All the best and stay safe.
Vacuum sealed rice is usually good for 5 -7 years if kept out of light & stored in moderate temperatures. I check them twice a year. Any that have lost their vacuum & are no longer like hard bricks, I move to the front for use. I have 2 totes of vacuum sealed staples like rice, pastas & beans that we are working through.
Anything you vacuum sealed that has oils/fats/sugars will last approximately 2-3 years. Things like powdered milk or mashed potato flakes that have butter or flavorings, sugary cereals are in this category.
For longer term storage I have recently ordered some of the Wallaby gusseted 1 gallon 7.5 mil mylar bags bundles that include oxygen absorbers and labels & begun filling them with dry staples, like rice, pastas, lentils, different dry beans, popcorn, oatmeal, shredded hashbrown potatoes. With oxygen absorbers, these should last 10 -20 years.
I am also putting some flour, sugar & powdered milk in the mylar bags, but not adding any oxygen absorbers as those will turn the flour, etc into hard bricks that will take a lot more effort to use. The powdered milk & flour should be good 4-7 years, sugar should last forever.
Hope that helps.
How much to stockpile? As much as you can!!!!
For some reason, maybe my well water, beans cooked on the stove never soften all the way for me; the only way I can get them soft is by using a pressure cooker (or Instant Pot).
Add about half a teaspoon of baking soda.
Hello AG…I saw your video about oxygen absorbers. You said never to use oxygen absorbers with nuts….I didn’t know this and put away a large amount of nuts with them back in 10/21. Are these Ok to eat or should I throw away?
400lbs of rice or grains per person per year is excessive when we currently consume less than 5lbs bc we eat low carb but splurge once a month. Still, even if we had to eat all the grains again, I think that is excessive per person. If SHTF happens, we will be conserving as much as possible. I have been storing grains for that situation & collecting containers for long term shelf life but haven't transferred my products yet. I need to spend at least 30 min per day on it so that it doesn't build up any worse, lol!
Many Blessings from Deborah in West Virginia!
Luckily, everybody has choices.
If you have an instant pot you can wash the dry beans and place them into the instant pot. In an hour they will be fine. No soaking necessary.
Thanks for sharing that tip.
I hope you are doing well dear
Yes, thank you!
Are those bags of beans 1 lb or 2 lb?
Can someone help me ? If I make a little cut in a cereal bag and then vacuum seal it with no oxygen absorber, how long would the shelf life be? Like Honeycombs or Corn Flakes?
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Hi alaska granny. You always give great advice. Thank you, you are a attractive looking lady. I wish I lived next door to you. 😁
Glad you find my videos useful.
I bought 2 bags of rice 20 lbs each
Should I take them out of the big bags and put it in food storage 5 gallon buckets?
You can pour them right into a food grade bucket. If you have mylar bags, you can pour them into that. I sometimes leave rice in the bags.
Beans beans the musical fruit the more you eat the more you toot 😂
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Can you boil popcorn????
I have seen people eat popped popcorn for breakfast with milk like a regular cereal
Are oats considered a grain?
Sorry- you did say oatmeal 😅
Yes, oats are grain. Oatmeal is oats.
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Don’t forget to check your $1.25 store for some of these items to.
if I can't get my meds for insulin and stains, I won't last a year . well, I have enough for awhile 😊
Medicines are a challenge. Keep prepping the best you can.
People look at it this way, if you eat just one can of beans a day, most are 14 ounces, you need 365 cans a year, know what I mean Vern?
Great strategy!