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25 Must Have Survival Foods: Put Them In Your Pantry Now

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Stock up on the following items today to get your prepper pantry ready for the next extended emergency:
 
1. Canned fruits, vegetables, meats, and soups
2. Dried legumes (beans, lentils, peas)
3. Crackers
4. Nuts
5. Pasta sauce
6. Peanut butter
7. Pasta
8. Flour (white, whole wheat)
9. Seasonings (vanilla, salt, pepper, paprika, cinnamon, pepper, taco seasoning, etc.)
10. Sugar
11. Bouillon cubes or granules (chicken, vegetable, beef)
12. Kitchen staples (baking soda, baking powder, yeast, vinegar)
13. Honey
14. Unsweetened cocoa powder
15. Jell-O or pudding mixes
16. Whole grains (barley, bulgur, cornmeal, couscous, oats, quinoa, rice, wheat berries)
17. Nonfat dried milk
18. Plant-based oil (corn oil, vegetable oil, coconut oil, olive oil)
19. Cereals
20. Seeds for eating and sprouting
21. Popcorn (not the microwavable kind)
22. Instant potato flakes Instant potato flakes
23. Packaged meals (macaroni and cheese, hamburger helper, Ramen noodles, etc.)
24. Purified drinking water
25. Fruit juices, teas, coffee, drink mixes
 

Use this list as a starting point on beginning or extending your preparedness pantry- and don’t feel handcuffed to only stocking up on these items. Always keep your family’s food preferences and dietary needs in mind when investing in your food supply. It would be extremely advantageous to have a two week supply (at a minimum) of these shelf stable food items on hand to care for your family. To see how much your family would needclick here.

Take any advice you ever get, it may come in handy someday. -Mort



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    • morris adams

      the only thing i hate about these lists is it assumes you can cook! yeah i got propane cooking stuff but i assure you my concern is not to use my valuable fuel to bake a cake! as awesome as that would be, it is not a survival necessity. i have 12 of these items right now. guess which ones i don’t have, yep, i don’t have number 12 and number 2. look, everything in a can is cooked. EVERYTHING. as awful as a can of asparagus and butter beans are, if they’re in a can you can eat it. good luck with your dried pintos! I’m just saying. i get it, but don’t waste your efforts on ”need to cook” stuff. you better assume you won’t have running water or electricity. seriously, spaghetti-o’s are awesome and you don’t gotta beat your kids to make them eat it.
      in defense of the list, i have lots of rice.

      • marksamanda

        @Mr. Adams you are hundred percent right about can food already being cooked. In the preper world there are very different ideas of what it will take to survive based on what each individual feels they are preparing for. Yes there will be times that a can of spaghetti-o’s will save the day due to lack of being able to cook a meal. Your method of only socking things already made is a good one for a single man who plans on eating cold soup the rest of his life. In the history of man kind the ability to start a fire and cook a meal has been essential to the very core of staying alive dried foods have also been. In every nation across the planet consuming dried and preserved foods by cooking them have kept people alive for as long as we have been walking up right. And using wood as a source to cook food has been around way longer than your canister of propane. Having canned foods is a very good idea but the practicality of living of of them is not. Does anyone know how many cans of canned food it would take to keep a family of four alive for one year? Man I would hate to have to relocate that food supply in a bug out.

      • dj

        Dried beans and such take an astronomical amount of energy to make it edible. IMO not a real good choice for most.

    • marksamanda

      I’v seen so many of these list and can’t believe how silly some of them are getting. When the need for you to use your survival foods arises making jello should not be part of your survival technique. The things I would cross off of this list is jello, cocoa powder, cereals, and packaged meals except for the ramen noodles. I would also suggest not to waist money on juices or drink mixes. Coffee can come in handy but should only be used to help with those on watch and all your tea’s that you stock should have medicinal purposes. Buying lost of dried herbs in bulk instead of things like taco seasoning will give you the freedom to make more things with your supplies. I buy very little supplies in a already prepared form instead of buying a pasta sauce already made I buy canned tomatoes and sauces along with my dried herbs I can make a pasta sauce for a fraction of what the jar of pasta sauce cost and I can also use those same cans of tomatoes for a very wide range of different meals verses the pasta sauce. Having already prepared meals will only come in handy when little time is available for preparing a meal. After the initial crisis having something to fill your time like cooking meals from scratch will be a blessing. I also suggest finding a cook book that walks you through cooking from scratch very early century cook books are amazing for this since they didn’t have canned foods back then or store bought chicken. Most American woman today would be stumped if you handed her a freshly killed animal to prepare for a meal the proper cleaning and preparation can mean the difference between a camp full of people with food poisoning or a camp full of satisfied full bellies. I would add dried fruit and meat to the list having things like curing salt is also a good idea canning supplies for future preservation of food supplies is essential for long term survival. When your eating a hearty bowl of soup instead of a silly bowl of jello you can close your eyes and send me a silent thank you.

      • morris adams

        After the initial crisis — that’s my concern. i intend to bug in for a month. if i do not leave my house for one month ”they” will have to assume nobody’s home (i hope!). i have no expectations of running water or electricity. should it last a year, then no, i will not have enough spaghetti-o’s, that’s for sure. the bottom line is, if you live a regular, not a TV prepper, life, then we cannot be fully prepared. like the old joke about the 2 guys confronted by a lion and one takes off and the other says you can’t outrun a lion, he said i just have to outrun you! you know the joke. that’s all i want to do, is outrun those around me. the long drawn out ugly pieces will fall where they may. by the time we are in a lean-to cooking a squirrel over an open fire,,, no one will have spaghetti-o’s….. DAMMITT, that’s gonna suck! and yeah, u got me, i am a single man. thank god for that when shtf!

    • HardCase

      Each have our different needs in times of crisis. These lists, at best are a starting point as to what our needs and preferences might be.

      For me I have found that buying most food pre canned while on sale and with bonus cards is the most logical. The food in the grocery store will be the freshest and will have a longer time before the best if used by date. I looked at the popular salvage grocery stores for bargains, but, the cost / life span is not that good of a buy.

      I don’t buy the grocery store items if they wont store long term. Powdered eggs, powered butter, powdered WHOLE milk, cheese, etc. I buy from prepper supply sources.

      One cost cutting item that I buy bulk and repackage is rolled oats. I buy these from a farm / seed supply store locally. It is April 2013 and I am paying $20.00 for a 50 pound bag. What is the difference between what this is and the Quaker Quick Oats? They are not instant or quick cooking. to make them quick cooking, run them through a food processor and chop them up a bit.

      I have 3 different bug out locations picked. Depending on weather, availability to get there,etc. My concern is where and how to stash food ECONOMICALLY at these sites. Mini storage facilities come to mind, however, the heat in the summer would ruin most of the food in one summer.

    • Anonymous

      Salt?

    • Room With a View

      Don’t knock the jello – does anyone remember on the survivor series how much effort went into the challenge in order to win a bit of chocolate. Even if there is such a drastic turn of events that we would actually have to live like this, a little bit of sweet goes a long way to lifting spirits and giving joy. Realistically, you need refrigeration to make it properly, but a spoon full of sugar helps the medicine go down. Have a selection of different spices to make variety in an otherwise bland meal. Thankyou for posting this, it’s a starting point for the beginner. You should add bleach (household, unscented) for water purification as well. Also, some sawdust in case you need to start a fire in the rain when everything is wet. I have heard of people collecting sticks to add to their food because they were starving, not that I am advocating that. A psycological placebo is all that it is, could get you over the line. But when you are desperate, you are desperate. Let’s hope that it will never come to this. Finally, trust in God, your heavenly Father, he is able to supernaturally fill your stomach and provide in surprising ways. He is able to miracuously multiply your provisions – remember Jesus with the loaves and the fishes.

    • stompk

      Flour, sugar, salt, yeast and water, learn how to make bread…

      When your hungry, there is nothing as filling and satisfying as a
      fresh loaf of bread..

      It has taken me a couple of years to learn how to make (consistantly) a
      good loaf of bread.

    • Anonymous

      One World Whey 5lb. containers (vanilla, choc, strawberry
      Hemp Protein
      Organic Maple Syrup
      Beyond Tangy Tangerine
      beeswax candles
      seasoned cord wood
      http://www.zerowater.com the best inexpensive water filter (creates zero water), comes with a TDS meter and stock up on filters!!!
      nature’s all organic non GMO freeze dried fruit
      organic powdered goats milk, or organic rice milk powder…

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