Prepping/stocking supplies

[Chic Rustler]

Hi all! My hubby and I are thinking and trying to stock up on things. But we are total newbies! Any advice on good food products to stock up on? We did see Keystone canned meat products and they looked good, thoughts?

look over the LDS website. they have guild lines for prepping and a food calculator thats very helpful

i would start by getting some mylar bags with O2 absorbers and start putting up pinto beans.
Then rice amd oatmeal. but be sure to freeze the rice and oats for a few days before packing

 

[Mini Horses]

Bay leaves help deter weevils. I always toss a couple in the container with the bag of flour. I lay them in cubbard shelves where any boxes of brownie mixes, oatmeal etc is kept.

 

[Trying2keepitReal]

Bay leaves help deter weevils. I always toss a couple in the container with the bag of flour. I lay them in cubbard shelves where any boxes of brownie mixes, oatmeal etc is kept.

I do this as well as freeze flour if I have room

 

[FarmerJamie]

Have been eating more out of the freezer the past two months, have made some space to enable a butcher shop run.

 

[Mini Horses]

Been eating from freezer and pantry for a while now. Have a lot more than one person needs! amazing what I bought at sales and glad I did! And my canning has proven it was worth the effort.

When you see the economy tank, you become appreciative of such efforts. It gives you peace of mind.

 

[Britesea]

Freeze flour, too. I've see weevils in flour more than anything else.

Freezing flour doesn't kill the eggs (that's how they survive winter, after all). It will kill the adults and newly hatched weevils though. I read that a good way to do it is to freeze for a couple weeks, then take the flour out and hold at room temp for a few weeks, then freeze again to catch the newly hatched ones. Bit of a hassle, but it works.

 

[Chic Rustler]

gardening is a great way to help everyone have some extra food. some people say they don't have the time, but it doesn't take a huge area to grow something and every little bit helps.

i have a feeling people are going to find time

 

[livinglandnz]

I view firewood as currency. Cooking/staying warm. Someone wants some then we can trade. I am clearing my land now of forestry pines so that I can build my cabin/workshop. I will be splitting and stacking about 5 seasons worth for future use.

 

[flowerbug]

i have a lot of beans and garden seeds, oatmeal and we usually have toilet paper for about a year. aside from the canned and frozen foods there isn't anything else i particularly stockpile.

do bookshelves full of books count? i have a fair number of those now and i barely touch most of them since i've already read them or they are references "Just In Case" of the Great Tacolips (what i call the apolcalypse because it's easier to spell and i don't have to care if i got it right or not).

we have lightbulbs up the wazoo because we have track lighting and i took advantage of an ultra cheap sale of LED bulbs to replace all of them. since we use them so rarely i could swap out one of those for one i use more often and would likely not even notice for months as i hardly ever use those or many others. they're there and useful but do not get used that often.

for fuel and oil, those happen at the gas station or the mechanic's place and i'm quite happy for them to keep them there until we need them. same for most other items. we just don't have the space for a lot of extra. if i get some things then i have to start thinking of what i have to get rid of.

rice, nope, i'm not much into rice, we have some on hand, but not normally nearly as much as oatmeal. and beans i probably have 100-200 x more beans than i have rice.

chocolate we do stock at a good amount. that's always useful in all sorts of ways from immediate food/fuel to cooking so many recipes.

instant coffee, sugar and flour fit in with the baking supplies, we normally keep those on hand in enough quantity that we can make a few thousand cookies or other things.

water.

worm bedding materials, i'm hoarding some bean pods right now until i can get them fed to the worms. they seem to like them better than shredded paper so i have been building up more paper shreddings the past few months. i'm mixing some of the paper in with the bean pods. just to get the worms at it. eventually they do break it all down.

 

[tortoise]

oh! I added whole milk powder and heavy cream powder to my pantry. It helps a lot when grocery trips are infrequent. I like cooking with heavy cream powder and it saves a fortune compared to buying fresh. I haven't bought fresh cream since.