Food storage list must haves

[VT-Chicklit]

I have:

Flour
Sugar (Brown and White)
Molasses and Cane Syrup
Dried Beans
Seasonings (to make beans taste good)
Rice (white long grain, arborio, jasmine)
Potato Flakes
Canned meats and fish
Dried Chipped Beef
Dried Milk
Canned Evaporated Milk
Oil, Crisco, Peanut Butter
Vinegar
Canned Beans
Boullion Cubes or Powder
Jello (for a sweet tooth)
Grains (Oatmeal, Cornmeal, Barley)
Canned Tomatoes and Sauces
Seeds to plant Veggies

 

[Mackay]

OK here's my list. Thought I should have a list for my own edification. I just don't know if this would get 4 people through 2 years though. So hard to figure out. If some one has comments on that they sure are welcome.:/

Rice:
Brown 25lbs in freezer
Basmati 50
plain white 25
(think I need 100 lbs more of rice)
Rolled Oats- bucket 25 lb
Corn Meal-bucket 38 lb
Red Beans-bucket 50 lb
Black Beans-bucket 45 lb
White Beans 65lbs
Lentals 60 lbs
Lima beans 10 lb
18 cans Canned Chicken
63 cans Tuna
8 jars mayo
15 cans various broths
Baking soda
Baking powder
20 lb sugar
Dry Yeast - in fridge
2 bottles mustard
6 bottle catsup
4 lg cans dried eggs
2 jars Mrs Renfros green chili
4 sm cans crisco
4 box cheesits.
4 lg cans hot chocolate mix
6 box rasins
4 cans pineapple
6 boxes of saltines
Black Tea 100bags 6 boxes
Coffee - 20 pounds
2 cans dried honey flakes
10 lbs liquid honey
Xylitol - 15 lbs.
8 5lb cans of flour ww and white flour
6 boxes cake mix
Dried Milk
1 case Canned evaporated milk
canned pumpkin- 2 lg cans (remember thanks giving!)
4 canned apples
2 cans blueberries for pie
4 jar apple sauce
30 spice mix packets to season beans and rice
dried onion soup 6 boxes with 2 packets each
4 lb sea salt
2 lb canning salt
canned cream soups, chicken, mushroom
4 Jars of Grape Seed Oil (stays good a long time)
10 Cans of Ravioli
10 cans of Chili (nortons etc)
10 boxes of pancake mix
5 lg boxes bisquick
8 bottles pancake syrup
60 pounds pasta, variety
2 cases small cans tomato sauce
12 lg cans diced tomatos
24 cans diced tomatoes with mexican or mediteranian style
10 cans green beans
2 cases canned corn
4 kingsize jars Adams peanut butter
6 jars berry preserves
2 cans dried banana slices
8 jars pesto sauce (ummm-good. from walmart)
Laundry soap ingredients, borax, fels napa, washing soda
Dish Soap
2 gallons white vinegar
1 gal apple cider vinegar
1 quart paul bragg vinegar
3 gal clorox
4 lemon or lime concentrate juice quirt bottles

A freezer full of meat - god only knows what!

about $150 veggie/bean seed for short growing season
stored in fridge

First Aide
Vitamin C - 1000 1000mg tablets
Grapefruit seed extract - 2 bottles
Oil of Oregano - 2 liquid ounces
empty gel caps - 500
Cipro - 6 days worth
Levaquin -500 mg 7 tabs
Levaquin - 500 mg 10 tabs (differerent bottle)
Ceftin 250mg 2 tabs
Clindaymicin 150 mg caps 26 caps.
amox. Tr-Potassium cl. 600-125 4 tablets
amoxicillin 500 mg 4 caps
MMS
Steri strips
Bacitracin
neosporin
This and that narcotics.
Benadryl 25 mg caps
Pseudaphed 24 hour release
Homeopathic Medicine Kit
1 pint Lugols iodine
Colloidal Silver maker
Nutrasilver 4 bottles
hydrogen peroxide 2 quarts
rubbing alcohol
Gentian Violet
Boric Acid
Epsom Salts 5 lbs
Castor oil
massage oil
general use lotion
Oxygen tanks filled for ozone machine
Heat pads
Ice packs


candles
3 space heaters electric
4 cords wood
propane 25 gallons

A bucket opener
a can opener
wood matches
paper plates
25 quart pressure canner
10 quart pressure cooker
Canning supplies

 

[TanksHill]

Please tell me you copy and pasted that list. Thats a ton of stuff. So tell me how did you manage all of the meds?

 

[Mackay]

Nope, I really got that stuff. It was kinda good to go through it last night to really think about it. I only started storing last September about when I joined this group and been working on it monthly.

Many of the meds we have just collected up over the years. Guess we haven't been too compliant with some of our prescriptions. Those antibiotics will keep forever if you keep them out of light and dry. A couple I picked up while in Mexico. If you go to Mexico that is the time to take your med list with you cause no RX is needed there except for narcotics. I got cipro on this last trip. Not a drug to take lightly but if you need it you need it.

Doxycycline is used for lyme and I think should really be taken if anyone gets a tick bite. By the time a lyme diagnosis can be made you are likely already in the chronic stage if you do have it, which is dam near incurable. This I learned this year though my tick bite experience which was kinda scary.. I don't want to be without this drug in the cabinet if the SHTF. We got lyme in our neck of the woods.

 

[Cybercat]

This item could be commented about on several different threads...

How much kitty litter do you think would be needed for one year for 5 cats? I'm scared to figure it out??!!!

 

[Homesteadmom]

2 ways to calculate that, figure
1 week litter x 52 = yrs supply.
or 1 month litter x 12 = yrs supply.

 

[dacjohns]

Make them outside cats and you won't need kitty litter.

 

[Sunny]

This item could be commented about on several different threads...

How much kitty litter do you think would be needed for one year for 5 cats? I'm scared to figure it out??!!!

I have heard of people using just dirt for their litter boxs.. Then when the cats are done with it.. They just have a place outside to dispose of it..

I have an outside cat.. Dont need kitty litter here.. Well actually he is an inside and outside cat.. He goes out with the dogs and comes back in when they are done.. And some times he just runs around outside hunting for awhile...

 

[justusnak]

OK, so I sat here and re read through all 11 pages. I wanted to make sure I wasnt going to double post something. One thing I havent seen on anyones list.....Aluminum foil. Believe it or not...it is a very versatile product..and when cooking outside it is very helpfull. Have a fuse go out, foil is good to use in an emergency. Cant get that radio to pick up a station ( if there is one working) Foil will help. You can use foil, and batteries to spark a fire. I am trying to get 4 or 5 rolls, every time I go to town. It wont go bad...and..might be a good barter tool later! And....dont forget the CLOROX bleach. When and if it gets bad...disease will be prominent. We will need to disinfect everything as often as possible. Tape...yes, Duct tape. Its very handy when those tarps tear, and you can't get another.

 

[Homesteadmom]

OK, so I sat here and re read through all 11 pages. I wanted to make sure I wasnt going to double post something. One thing I havent seen on anyones list.....Aluminum foil. Believe it or not...it is a very versatile product..and when cooking outside it is very helpfull. Have a fuse go out, foil is good to use in an emergency. Cant get that radio to pick up a station ( if there is one working) Foil will help. You can use foil, and batteries to spark a fire. I am trying to get 4 or 5 rolls, every time I go to town. It wont go bad...and..might be a good barter tool later! And....dont forget the CLOROX bleach. When and if it gets bad...disease will be prominent. We will need to disinfect everything as often as possible. Tape...yes, Duct tape. Its very handy when those tarps tear, and you can't get another.

I group foil with my plastic wrap & baggies in my mind at least. I don't use bleach at all, so I have a big spot for vinegar on my list(it disinfects just as well as bleach).