Emergency food and supplies- pantry stocked, never enough, freezer full. Went and shopped yesterday, case sale (lots of peanut butter, and soup).
Food preps- buy and make, trying to eat out only on weekends (after kids sports). Dinners are usually home cooked, and individual sizes are frozen.
Tools- Huge garage, with a twenty years of camping and work, NEEDS TO BE CLEANED UP..
I can tell you that Honeyville Farms freeze-dried garden peas are great. As a matter of fact, it's not easy to keep it on the shelf for SHTF times because they are great to eat by the handful.
We have a lot of canned food that we rotate as best as we can. We order from boxed.com.
No, the canned food won't last twenty-five years, but it comes with water so it doesn't need rehydrating.
I have bought from Perma Pak and Walton Foods. The only drawback to Perma Pak is that they come to your home and let you sample the product. Perma Pak is based on 2500 calories a day per person. I personally bought a years supply for 4 people. Then got my bulk from Walton
I do most of the packaging myself as far as dry goods are concerned. I have bought a few buckets of Mountain House, Augason Farms and such, but most I do myself.
LDS is a pretty friendly bunch. I have bought from them and I am not a member. Their products are high quality and extremely reasonable cost wise. I like their self-sufficient philosophy, but I’m not onboard with some of their other beliefs.
I only have enough room for about a 3 month supply so everything goes through rotation pretty quick. I just restock what I've used on a regular grocery shopping trip.
I wish I had something to offer for this section... but... my wife thinks my prepping is "hoarding". So, every week I typically discover that something of mine has been secretly discarded.... It's very disheartening.. But, I adapt. I've had to resort to purchasing 20lb bags of rice. We eat a lot of rice. So what I do is this: When she opens a 20lb bag of rice, I go buy a new one. This way, we always have at least 4 months worth of rice at any given time. Instead of stocking other food supplies, I've prioritized getting familiar with the local environment and wild edibles. This way, I can supplement our rice with local edibles if we need to. I've only been in El Paso for 5 months, but these are the things I've tried:
The prickly pear is by far the most prevalent and hearty wild edible in my area. It's a pain in the a$s to process, but it's worthwhile.
As for the tools, I get my antiques from thrift stores, pawn shops and flea markets. I get all my power tools from Lowes because they have 10% military discount and I get to park up front. Yeah... that's EXACTLY WHY I go to Lowes
Canners have noticed the difficulty in finding canning jars and lids of late, thanks to COVID-19 prepping. Well, looks like that situation just got a lot worse. This video explains it all from the 4 major producers of these supplies:
She mentioned it was bad for those who have not had the opportunity to stock up. Did they not have the same opportunities as each of us but chose not to?
my wife (through her business) has supplier contacts... just got our order of 12 boxes (144) Kerr regular mouth lids with rings delivered 20 min ago...
I am hoping to invest in a freeze dryer in the near future so can really store some of my own food options, the issue with the ones out there is many have high sodium probably due to ensure advertised shelf life.
I know what a freezer is, but what does "dryer" mean?
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