Joined: 22 Mar 2008 Posts: 117 Location: Kansas City, MO
Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 9:47 pm Post subject: Spring food storage update
As part of my efforts to get my family PAW-ready before I move off to med school, I've been trying to stock up. Last night, we took advantage of shop and save's "spend 50 get 10 discounted" thursdays that they do every once and a while and decided to update the food stocks. This was our first major shopping trip for emergency goods, and I think we did pretty good. There were some great deals -- we got a 24-box case of jiffy cornbread mix for 6 dollars! The storage is now up to this:
15 pounds shortgrain white rice (bought long before the panic)
10 pounds basmati rice (same)
3 pounds textured vegetable protien granules
12 pounds split red lentils
24 boxes jiffy cornbread mix
4 pounds pasta
2 pounds puffed corn
2 pounds puffed millet
6 pounds fun-size candy
12 pounds peanut butter
4 bottles chocolate syrup
2 large cans tomato soup
1 large can chicken noodle soup
3 pounds kosher salt (more is on the list)
2 canisters parmasean cheese
2 gallons soybean oil
As for raw calories, this will be enough to feed my 3 family members for 1.5-2 months if they can ration down to 1500 calories a day.
Everything is marked clearly with either expiration dates for perishables or "bought-on" dates for non-perishibles.
What do you guys recommend I add? I've been looking into canned vegetables, making a 5 gallon bucket of trail mix, and stocking up on salt and multivitamins.
I'm not much in favor of storing water dependent preps. I'm also of the "short term " SHTF school of preparedness,so I concentrate on canned goods packed in water. Trying to prepare for a TEOTWAWKI is expensive,frustrating,and ultimately impossible.So I keep a months worth of supplies and rotate those. That being said,have them lay in some non-water dependent foods!! _________________ "If this ain't a mess, it'l do 'till one shows up"
When there is a change in lifestyle, which can come in many forms, loss of a job, illness, rioting, natural disasters, depression, or other... the last thing I want to do is think!
I have found having a manual prepared with what I need to be doing helps.
This will include a menu. Planned meals laid out so all I have to do is follow my menu. This menu planning also helps in purchasing items for my pantry.
In an emergency, I am glued to the Television if I have power. A generator makes a whole lot of noise and I don't want to attract too much attention to myself. I may or may not have power to cook but do have a propane BBQ with a side burner that I can heat food on.
Having canned meals makes life easier to deal with. One thing you don't want to do is eat chili every day of the week. You need changes in flavors and textures.
The LDS suggest that a 3 month supply of easy to prepare foods also referred to as comfort foods be stored.
It takes me a few weeks to get into a new routine.
Joined: 22 Mar 2008 Posts: 117 Location: Kansas City, MO
Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 11:46 am Post subject:
Sorry, I forgot to update this. In response to goblin's advice, last august's lay-in was focused more on canned goods and things that are easier to prepare. I now have a nice cache of canned vegetables, soups, and meat (tuna and chicken, but I'm not much of a carnivore anyway) that only needs a can opener.
Also, my Indian friends (I'm in med school so I have a lot of them) have taught me how to cook Indian food. I can cook rice and lentils a hundred different ways, so appetite fatigue isn't so much of an issue. As for the lifestyle issue, I stored these foods because they're what I eat anyway. It wouldn't be such a shock to have to live off of them full time.
SaucyRose, I (and, I'm sure, many others) would love to hear about your short-term and long-term plans. If you have the time, I'm sure we could have a good discussion about them if you were to write a thread about them.
Joined: 22 Mar 2008 Posts: 117 Location: Kansas City, MO
Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 9:58 am Post subject:
Mmmm, naan and mango lassi...
Have you tried goat biryani? I (and, more importantly, my picky girlfriend) love it and I think the technique would fit rabbit and squirrel very well.
I have eaten dal for a couple days straight and never got tired of it. Just thinking about it now makes my mouth water. Too bad I left my masalas in KC.
Joined: 14 Apr 2009 Posts: 2 Location: Arizona, Metro Phoenix
Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2009 4:46 pm Post subject: Asian style food is best for when SHTF!!!
I currently have 300 lbs white rice short grain.
100 lbs basmati/jasmine rice
I prepared and stored 100 lbs sliced potatoes via a Foodsaver. Love the vacuum sealers
I make homemade loaves of bread out of spelt flour. 10 loaves. vacuumed and frozen like the potatoes.
200 lbs oats
20 3 liters of non caffeinated generic pop
20 2 liters of coke(love coke)
20 gallons of kimchi vacuum sealed and
300 lbs ground beef. I have 3 basset hounds and they are my babies. So I feed them homemade food. They love kimchi.
150 lbs spelt flour. I hate wheat. Wheat isnt good for you. Contributes to depression and sedentarism.
50 lbs rice flour
40 packages of pre packaged indian food. Its usually buy 1 get one free.
5 24 packs of coke. Their cans are useful for many things.
100 large industrial cans of veggies, sauces, olives
3 months worth of liquid vitamins.
Every flavor of hookah tobacco and several hookahs.
Laptop that runs on solar array and 2 terabytes worth of downloaded books and other media.
2 deep freezers that can run off of solar if need be.
I buy the meat from farmers and we butcher ourselves. Saves on processing. We tan the leather, use all the bones, eat all the meat. I have two sides of beef my wife is cutting and preparing for storage right now.
If teotwaki happens I will raid hi-health. Forget the supermarkets. They are poorly guarded by crappily trained staff.... otherwise I'll just go in and buy it lol
2 bushels frozen oysters and clams
100 lbs King crab legs
So, in short, we are set. We live this way everyday. Its the best way.
I buy in such large quantity that my monthly grocery bill is LESS than it would be just going to Frys or Safeway. I alwo buy it directly from the various places like US Foodservice, Sysco, Shamrock Foods, etc.
I bought the above for about 3500.00 bucks. did it all at once and got it over with. Was painful that week but now I think God I had the brains to be prepared. I could go for two years withut seeing the inside of a store.
Can you? If not, you arent prepared for teotwawki. or even when shtf.
During the week I do go shop. I believe it necessary to keep up the image of average for the neighbors. I go to farmers markets and Safeway and buy wine and fresh veggies. SOmetimes I go to Trader Joes.
I can so I have half pints of elderberry preserves to quarts of peaches, apricots, plums canned for eating out of the jar.
I can sauces, meat, and lots of vegetables. I also make relishes and pickles.
as to just one grain.. I have 2000 (1 ton) of wheat stored away... for the animals of course <wink> about 500 pounds of sugar but need more for canning.
I am prepared for a very very long time.
split pea soup.. let me grab a jar! I send jars of chili and soups with my husband to work.
we are on a 20 day planned menu, it repeats every 20 days but I also have meals for special occasions which extends my menu.
oh... my husband found several totes of Top Ramen noodles (144 pkgs of noodles per tote) for the kids that are gone with kid if their own... 12 years old.. and still good to eat! I wonder how long they can last before going bad? *shrug*
Joined: 14 Apr 2009 Posts: 2 Location: Arizona, Metro Phoenix
Posted: Tue May 05, 2009 10:15 am Post subject: Saucy...get rid of the ramen
Even if it were technically edible, its such a horrible thing for your body.
I know. We used to own an oriental grocery store.
When we did, we were never concerned about anything. We knew that the gates/ boarding the windows from the inside would keep people out.
We sold it though.
Ramen usually has MSG which is a sure heart-attack creator. If you have to, go ahead and eat it, but really is best for kindling!!!
Meanwhile way to go on the 2k of wheat. I don't eat it but then again I'm Asian so Rice and Spelt are far more tolerable. I like Oats. They are so good and the oils in Oats are a great mood enhancer. Staying positive is the best way to stay alive.
I definitely need to store up at least 2k pounds of Rice, Oats, etc. Would like to get to at least 1000 lbs beef and fish. maybe 1k combined of lamb/pork.
I want a farm so bad. That way I could just raise and slaughter and not pay upcharges for warehousing, slaughtering, etc.
I need to learn more about canning. and wine making. I can make a great hard lemonade and I love my singlemalts. but a still would be awesome.
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