My grandparents lived through the depression..every single morning my grandma put beans on the stove first thing in the morning after soaking them. They cooked all day and was a mainstay on the table.
In Canada we used to have a hot breakfast cereal called Red River Cereal, it went out of business during the covid lockdowns. At the beginning of covid I stored a good amount of it in multiple large mason jars with an oxygen absorber and the air sucked out of it. I'm so happy that I did that because there's nothing on the market like Red River Cereal, and I have my own personal stockpile of it that will last me for years. ...I love being a prepper!
Thankyou posting this, I never knew I could put Jelly, hydration powders etc into mylar bags. This video was so helpful. Here in New Zealand people are still oblivious to what is coming so the more food I can put away and prepare for my family is so great and gives me peace of mind.
@@joannebrennan6198 Hi 🙋🏽♀️. I’m up in Auckland so you can probably understand why it’s not a worry for people around here 😢. We are def starting to see the food shortages though, good on you for getting prepared , it’s so much easier when you have others around you in the same mission, keep it up and stay safe.
you touched on an important concept. when storing food it should be food you are eating now. in a stressful time most likely with limited resources trying foods for the first time is not a good idea. My mantra is store what i eat now so that i can eat what i have stored later.
Recently added two 25-lb buckets of hard red wheat grain (40,800 calories per bucket) and one 20-lb. bucket of dried brown lentils (27,150 calories) to my long-term food storage for a total of an additional 108,750 calories. That is a lot of calories in just three buckets and stores in a small space. The wheat and lentils will be used as the basis for survival dinners supplemented with fat from bottles/jars of olive oil and coconut oil and the contents of #10 cans and Mylar pouches of freeze-dried beef, chicken, shredded cheese, powdered milk, tomato powder, powdered eggs, butter powder and assorted vegetables. Whole grains and dried legume seeds are the best complex carb foods I know to help me squeeze a lot of calories into a small storage space. Considering that a moderately active adult will need about 2000 calories per day or 730,000 calories per year, those buckets of grain and legumes will help our household reach that nutritional goal a lot better than just stocking up on regular canned goods from the supermarket. And we also store ascorbic acid powder to give us an inexpensive source of Vitamin C when our container garden is not producing fresh greens and cherry tomatoes. We can also sprout some of the wheat grain indoors during winter to provide another source of vitamins. Check out the low number of total calories in a can of condensed tomato soup or corned beef hash or pinto beans and consider how much temperature-controlled storage space you would need to store 730,000 calories of canned wet food. And that would be for just one adult or teen. And those canned goods cannot tolerate freezing temps, usually have low levels of vitamins and must be rotated/replaced a lot sooner than the dried grains and legumes that are packaged for long term storage. I know I can get at least 20 years of storage in a cool, dry, vermin-free pantry for my grains and legumes. Considering the pace of inflation, the basic long-term food storage in our pantry is better than having money in our bank account.
@DIY Prepper TV My Grandmother would make a drink from Jello for diarrhea. And she gave us orange flavored children's aspirin with no ill effects. For scrapes and wounds we used MercuroChrome and Iodine tincture. For sick stomachs you asked the pharmacist for Coca Cola Syrup.👌👍
Myself and one of my sons are huge fans of oatmeal, as well as oatmeal I keep raisins, dry banana slices and plenty of cinnamon. I've eaten oatmeal with fruit 4 mornings every week most of my adult life (I'm 64 now), I've never gotten tired of it, the other mornings I have grits usually with cheese, onion, garlic and also with sausage. I'm not telling anyone what to do just what works for me
I know u posted this awhile back but maybe you’ll get this notification. I’ve wondered about long term storage of raisins bc of moisture content. Maybe a canning jar?
You can add pureed lentils or other beans to oats with either pumpkin pie spice, or savory spices and it makes a complete meal with a few nuts or seeds.
One thing I found about instant potatoes is that they are good for use in soups. When I make soups during winter, using dehydrated veggies, throwing and an ounce or so of the potato flakes gives a little body to the broth. Not even enought to thicken it, just to get the broth from clear to more translucent. Boiling cornmeal sets it up, it's known as polenta. Add some spices or minced meats while cooking, slice it up when set and fry it.
I like to use a canning funnel when I fill my 1 gallon mylar bags. It holds the bag open perfectly and when used with bags with gussets they stand up for easy one person filling. 3 pounds of pasta fill a bag perfectly. Resealable bags help also. JR you probably know this. Thanks for all the inspiration!
great list, I was unsure about the gatorade and if I could store that powder. I need to transfer that this weekend. I stopped storing my pasta in mylar bags and started with mason jars and vacuum sealing them. I found too many times they would puncture tiny holes in the mylar, I only do the tiny ones now like pastina. With the flour, I keep them in the bags they came in, cut a slit for the 02 and put the whole thing inside the mylar, Keeps it from getting a metallic taste. thanks for you videos!!
Very important note about spices from a former cook, whole spices last longer than powdered spices. If you have an excess of jalapeños and carrots learn to pickle them and you'll be able to make bank in the apocalypse thanks to the Hispanic communities love of chiles curados (pickled peppers) fresh peppers will only last so long but pickled peppers will store for years.
Great video, JR! I have all those items well stocked, but always adding more. Oatmeal can be used for cookies, quinoa I add to soups, but my dog likes it added to her food. As a side note, to supplement my dog's food, I also make oatmeal, rice, and different vegetables. Saves money on her food, she eats healthy, and I'm cooking it for me anyway, so it works! Thanks as always for your information!
I also use oats in dog treats. Not only do my dogs like oatmeal, but my chickens love warm oatmeal. My rabbits like raw oatmeal, too. I made me a bowl of oatmeal for supper tonight! Thanks for the information about the Wallaby sealers, too! I have a hard time sealing mylar bags.
Wheat berries, millet, popcorn, and brown rice flour can be used to grow mushrooms on. Grow out a few quarts of mycelium and create some mushroom patches around your property.
If you plan on growing mushrooms you might also want to store a few wooden dowels. You cut them into little short pieces, soak them, inoculate them with mycelium and then hammer them into holes drilled in dead trees. After that the only career is making sure the plug is covered with wax and staying moist.
About the pasta, and needing a sauce.. my son doesn't like pasta sauce. So for him to eat pasta... I take some butter let in melt on the noodles, season with pepper, and garlic powder. Great alternative to the sauce.
Not a huge fan of quinoa, but I store a bunch in five gallon bags in buckets and totes in one gallon Mylar bags. Always a good idea to broaden what foods you store for long term.
When the end times arrive, the one thing I'm not including on my list of items to stockpile for edible items is cardboard boxes. When those cardboard boxes get wet, it's certainly going to spoil the contents. Give me just about any type of container other than cardboard boxes - preferably plastic. Definitely plastic bins instead. When matched up against cardboard, plastic definitely wins in the durability department. It's waterproof, and the best plastic bins create a watertight seal when closed.
You will need to buy the corn/bean auger for the Country Living Mill (and probably any other mill) in order to grind corn. Good video; thanks for the tips!
Great video JR! I’m feeling pretty good as I have what was listed here, thanks to you! God bless you & your family. Thank you for all you do to help us.🎃🎃
I did a temp job at a place that made 'industrial-level vacuum sealers'. You need an air compressor for it to work, but it was production-level quick. One design performed a "FOOD-GRADE NITROGEN FLUSH" in the bag to remove OXYGEN, before the product went in.
I absolutely agree 100% with your selections. Just remember to properly package each one to prevent waste and loss of those investments. In my preparedness planning, I have covered as many bases as I possibly can when it comes to nutrition and preparedness. Grains and rices are on the list. Brown rice is not as it is not a long term storage food. Wheat that is milled and unmilled is covered. Good luck!!
Right on time!🙂 lol. I just went looking today to my go to prepper channels to see recommendations and suggestions on some must haves to check for any holes in my preps. Do you have a good general “formula” to gauge just how much food you really have put away? Thanks! God bless and prep on peeps✌🏼
Thanks Cara! James Wesley Rawles’ book, “How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It” is a good reference for determining how much of each food category you should have.
@@diypreppertv Ok gotcha. I actually think that’s one of the books I put on my “must buy” list after purchasing a couple that you and some other Preppers had suggested. Thanks!
If you have special dietary restrictions you have to look out for yourself. You can't rely upon others to cater to one, when there could be hundreds or thousands who need help. As one who has celiac, I try to make sure that we have enough food stored for events. In a disaster, government agencies and voluntary relief groups are going to try to feed the people quick and easy meals. This is food that wouldn't work for me. A big spaghetti dinner with lots of bread would be cheap and easy for them to pull together to fill the bellies a neighborhood, but that won't work for me. Same with them serving up pancakes or donuts for breakfast with a big vat of chicken noodle soup for lunch. I could see the National Guard bringing in cases of MREs to distribute to get some some food to the stricken. Eating most MREs would make me worse off than not eating at all.
Possibly due to my well water I can never get beans totally cooked; yes, I've tried everything but they always remain partially hard and unpleasant to eat. I don't have that problem with lentils. I guess I'll just save my beans to grow and eat green.
Afaik that's an indication of acid. Have you tested the ph of your well water? Adding something basic to neutralize it might make your beans cook way better.
What's your advice for pre diabetics and diabetics in how to prep and prepare. I cannot have white rice, process foods, high carb foods ,high sugar foods including high sugar fruits and veggies. My Dr. Said it's better to eat fresh as much as possible and of more leafy greens . I struggle trying to keep pantry full when most has to be fresh leafy greens and squash. Whole wheat and sweet potatoes in moderation. I'm encouraged to only eat lean skinless chicken or poultry and wild seafood. But it can not be breaded etc .
As far as leafy greens go, you can grow at least small amounts indoors using an Aerogarden. They are basically a small self-contained hydroponic system and come in different sizes. I use mine for seed starting, but I think they do well with leafy greens. Can you have canned chicken?
Eating beans and rice for a long time will make you crazy. 😂😂😂😂 obviously you are not Cuban. I’m 58 and have been eating rice and beans with almost every meal for the past 50 years. 😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@femvetusa5263 😂😂 OK quick and easy one for cans of black beans first sauté some onions and green peppers, a teaspoon of garlic and some complete seasoning with a little bit of olive oil then throw the black beans in there and let it simmer along with water enough water to cover the black beans and they’ll taste amazing
thanks for the video! I am dialed in with rice, beans and pasta. Does the 2-5 year shelf life for flour apply to being vacum sealed, oxygen absorber and in mylar bag? May need to put new exp date on those bags.....is there any place to pull down a list of items with shelf life when stored - vacum sealed, oxygen absorber, mylar bag????
great video thanks. Hey I’m new to using myla bags and preserving foods. I was going to put the foods already wrapped into the myla bag. I have noticed you open the bag and put the food into myla bag. Is it best to do this as the original packet will have air in it. Glad I watched your video 😊
@@diypreppertv @Joanne Brennan Powders, coffee, nuts etc can also be stored in canning jars or repurposed jars and sealed with a Food Saver and their special FS sealer lids. Just have to remember that a FoodSaver will draw powder from the jar, so cover with a small piece of cloth or coffee filter to prevent that. OR those items can also be stored in canning jars with lids and vacuum sealed in a chamber attached to a brake bleeder pump. See Rain Country Homestead and search for her brake bleeder videos. I purchased one of the quart size chambers but haven’t used it as yet. Her husband also makes a gallon size chamber.
You can also use mason jars you'll need vacuum sealer attachment and vacum sealer check thift stores I find mason jars bought my vacum sealer and attachment there thift stores are a preppers paradise
@@sophiagrace8362 Yes, as I mentioned above, canning jars ARE mason jars. I do have a FoodSaver and it’s attachment. The brake bleeder manual pump is handy to have in the event we lose electricity, whereas the FoodSaver is electric.
I do not have money to buy those bags , I am extremely low income and lucky to get free 5 gallon buckets! How long can you store flour or corn meal in buckets and should I use bay leaves to keep bugs out of the flour?
If you are concerned with the bug eggs inside the flour already you can freeze them for 24 hours to kill the eggs. If you mean outside just use a 5 gallon bucket lid. Mice will be a problem still but bugs shouldn't get through. But double check me on that!
Did you rinse it like three times? Or soak it? You might want to read a little bit about how this takes away some of the bitter of the grain. It's very very good for you so reconsider if you can even mix it with stuff like in a salad or in spaghetti or something.
Quick question... I don't know alot about shelf life of different emergency preparedness foods...you mention here that the shelf life of flour (even in mylar) is about 5 years. So, why do companies like Auguson Farms say that their flour (in a mylar bag, in a bucket) has a shelf life up to 25 years? I am really trying to prep but sometimes conflicting statements leave me confused? So, what do you think of Auguson Farms claim on their flour as being up to 25 years?
Hi JR! Thank you for the video. I found it very helpful!! Would Lipton Diet Lemon Ice Tea (in a jar) be ok to store in a Mylar Bag with an oxygen absorber?? Then I can repurpose the jar. If not, what would you recommend to store this item? Thank you in advance. Also, from my understanding the Kelly Kettle is the only “rocket stove” allowing state parks & where you can’t use rocket stove. Please do your research.
@@sophiagrace8362 Thank you for responding! I’m hoping I can store the diet lemon ice tea in a Mylar Bag instead of a jar. I’m not sure if the acidic would would ruin the Mylar Bag. I’m looking at saving space & weight.
There are 30 million diabetics in this country. A large majority of long term preps are high carb and bad for diabetics. There is not much info on diabetic preps.
For diabetics with very poor insulin levels or no natural insulin production at all if you can't access insulin or metformin than your diet needs to be extremely low carb. High fat foods just don't keep as well. Maybe going carnivore would work if you dried meats?
I have only been able to find them on Amazon. #10 can by Auguson is around $90. Wally World also carries Mountain House scrambled eggs in their camping area. Approximately $10 for 2 servings. Hope this helps!
Hmmmm.... Have you tried cooking it in chicken broth? And adding some finely chopped onions, garlic, and a grated carrot? I also rinse my quinoa well before I cook it as it has a naturally occuring "waxy" coating on it that tastes very "bitter" and nasty (in my opinion). I also sometimes add a little curry powder to the broth and mix well before adding the rinsed quinoa. I hope this helps!
My grandparents lived through the depression..every single morning my grandma put beans on the stove first thing in the morning after soaking them. They cooked all day and was a mainstay on the table.
Sounds like Cuba and most of south Countries.....
In Canada we used to have a hot breakfast cereal called Red River Cereal, it went out of business during the covid lockdowns. At the beginning of covid I stored a good amount of it in multiple large mason jars with an oxygen absorber and the air sucked out of it. I'm so happy that I did that because there's nothing on the market like Red River Cereal, and I have my own personal stockpile of it that will last me for years.
...I love being a prepper!
I had a White Belt in Quinoa but then stopped training after an injury. 😂. Great video thank you.
Thankyou posting this, I never knew I could put Jelly, hydration powders etc into mylar bags. This video was so helpful. Here in New Zealand people are still oblivious to what is coming so the more food I can put away and prepare for my family is so great and gives me peace of mind.
Hello from Hamilton, myself and many friends are prepping, we're waking up slowly, hope not too slow for others to prep properly.
@@joannebrennan6198 Hi 🙋🏽♀️. I’m up in Auckland so you can probably understand why it’s not a worry for people around here 😢. We are def starting to see the food shortages though, good on you for getting prepared , it’s so much easier when you have others around you in the same mission, keep it up and stay safe.
Nelson here and have prepped..
Anyone here know where we can get mylar bags here in NZ?
@@suehowie152 use the code Blackfriday22
@@coreykyle21 Where Corey?
you touched on an important concept. when storing food it should be food you are eating now. in a stressful time most likely with limited resources trying foods for the first time is not a good idea. My mantra is store what i eat now so that i can eat what i have stored later.
Recently added two 25-lb buckets of hard red wheat grain (40,800 calories per bucket) and one 20-lb. bucket of dried brown lentils (27,150 calories) to my long-term food storage for a total of an additional 108,750 calories. That is a lot of calories in just three buckets and stores in a small space. The wheat and lentils will be used as the basis for survival dinners supplemented with fat from bottles/jars of olive oil and coconut oil and the contents of #10 cans and Mylar pouches of freeze-dried beef, chicken, shredded cheese, powdered milk, tomato powder, powdered eggs, butter powder and assorted vegetables.
Whole grains and dried legume seeds are the best complex carb foods I know to help me squeeze a lot of calories into a small storage space. Considering that a moderately active adult will need about 2000 calories per day or 730,000 calories per year, those buckets of grain and legumes will help our household reach that nutritional goal a lot better than just stocking up on regular canned goods from the supermarket. And we also store ascorbic acid powder to give us an inexpensive source of Vitamin C when our container garden is not producing fresh greens and cherry tomatoes. We can also sprout some of the wheat grain indoors during winter to provide another source of vitamins.
Check out the low number of total calories in a can of condensed tomato soup or corned beef hash or pinto beans and consider how much temperature-controlled storage space you would need to store 730,000 calories of canned wet food. And that would be for just one adult or teen. And those canned goods cannot tolerate freezing temps, usually have low levels of vitamins and must be rotated/replaced a lot sooner than the dried grains and legumes that are packaged for long term storage.
I know I can get at least 20 years of storage in a cool, dry, vermin-free pantry for my grains and legumes. Considering the pace of inflation, the basic long-term food storage in our pantry is better than having money in our bank account.
@DIY Prepper TV
My Grandmother would make a drink from Jello for diarrhea. And she gave us orange flavored children's aspirin with no ill effects. For scrapes and wounds we used MercuroChrome and Iodine tincture. For sick stomachs you asked the pharmacist for Coca Cola Syrup.👌👍
Myself and one of my sons are huge fans of oatmeal, as well as oatmeal I keep raisins, dry banana slices and plenty of cinnamon. I've eaten oatmeal with fruit 4 mornings every week most of my adult life (I'm 64 now), I've never gotten tired of it, the other mornings I have grits usually with cheese, onion, garlic and also with sausage. I'm not telling anyone what to do just what works for me
I store a large amount of grits many ways to use
Try a little thinly sliced jalapeno in those grits
I know u posted this awhile back but maybe you’ll get this notification. I’ve wondered about long term storage of raisins bc of moisture content. Maybe a canning jar?
You can add pureed lentils or other beans to oats with either pumpkin pie spice, or savory spices and it makes a complete meal with a few nuts or seeds.
Quinoa is considered a super food, a nutritionist I am friends with swears by it and I use it in place of rice most of the time.
Consider adding Carnation instant breakfast packs to your prep.along with protein powder .
One thing I found about instant potatoes is that they are good for use in soups. When I make soups during winter, using dehydrated veggies, throwing and an ounce or so of the potato flakes gives a little body to the broth. Not even enought to thicken it, just to get the broth from clear to more translucent. Boiling cornmeal sets it up, it's known as polenta. Add some spices or minced meats while cooking, slice it up when set and fry it.
I like to use a canning funnel when I fill my 1 gallon mylar bags. It holds the bag open perfectly and when used with bags with gussets they stand up for easy one person filling. 3 pounds of pasta fill a bag perfectly. Resealable bags help also. JR you probably know this. Thanks for all the inspiration!
great list, I was unsure about the gatorade and if I could store that powder. I need to transfer that this weekend. I stopped storing my pasta in mylar bags and started with mason jars and vacuum sealing them. I found too many times they would puncture tiny holes in the mylar, I only do the tiny ones now like pastina. With the flour, I keep them in the bags they came in, cut a slit for the 02 and put the whole thing inside the mylar, Keeps it from getting a metallic taste. thanks for you videos!!
Very important note about spices from a former cook, whole spices last longer than powdered spices.
If you have an excess of jalapeños and carrots learn to pickle them and you'll be able to make bank in the apocalypse thanks to the Hispanic communities love of chiles curados (pickled peppers) fresh peppers will only last so long but pickled peppers will store for years.
Great video, JR! I have all those items well stocked, but always adding more. Oatmeal can be used for cookies, quinoa I add to soups, but my dog likes it added to her food. As a side note, to supplement my dog's food, I also make oatmeal, rice, and different vegetables. Saves money on her food, she eats healthy, and I'm cooking it for me anyway, so it works! Thanks as always for your information!
Thanks Millie!
I also use oats in dog treats. Not only do my dogs like oatmeal, but my chickens love warm oatmeal. My rabbits like raw oatmeal, too. I made me a bowl of oatmeal for supper tonight! Thanks for the information about the Wallaby sealers, too! I have a hard time sealing mylar bags.
I really appreciated you showing how you stored (in mylar) the different items. Thanks, enjoyed your video.
Thanks JR appreciate your down to earth and friendly style and practical advice!!!!
Thank you Brian!
Just FYI .. the Walloby makes a great Christmas gift for preppers.
Wheat berries, millet, popcorn, and brown rice flour can be used to grow mushrooms on.
Grow out a few quarts of mycelium and create some mushroom patches around your property.
If you plan on growing mushrooms you might also want to store a few wooden dowels. You cut them into little short pieces, soak them, inoculate them with mycelium and then hammer them into holes drilled in dead trees. After that the only career is making sure the plug is covered with wax and staying moist.
About the pasta, and needing a sauce.. my son doesn't like pasta sauce. So for him to eat pasta... I take some butter let in melt on the noodles, season with pepper, and garlic powder. Great alternative to the sauce.
Some varieties of quinoa can taste soapy due to saponins contained in the outer shell. So always rinse thoroughly before cooking.
Not a huge fan of quinoa, but I store a bunch in five gallon bags in buckets and totes in one gallon Mylar bags. Always a good idea to broaden what foods you store for long term.
I store potato flakes however a lot of potato flakes need milk to prepare so powered milk should in your preps also.
Plus if you have emergency power and plan on running a bread machine most of those recipes use powdered milk too.
Hi from Australia, just came across your video, subscribed.
Thank you for subscribing!
I do love the masa, good video JR, folks best be preppin up. Bless ya`ll...
When the end times arrive, the one thing I'm not including on my list of items to stockpile for edible items is cardboard boxes. When those cardboard boxes get wet, it's certainly going to spoil the contents. Give me just about any type of container other than cardboard boxes - preferably plastic. Definitely plastic bins instead. When matched up against cardboard, plastic definitely wins in the durability department. It's waterproof, and the best plastic bins create a watertight seal when closed.
Thanks for reminding me JR , I dont wanna live in a world that doesnt have cornbread
Amen!
You will need to buy the corn/bean auger for the Country Living Mill (and probably any other mill) in order to grind corn. Good video; thanks for the tips!
Thanks for watching!
Beans & Rice make complete protein - ANY grain + Any Legume = Complete Protein. i.e. Peas and pasta - Corn and Beans ... etc
Hungry Jack has small boxes of dehydrated potatoes for hash browns. They are really good
Thanks for sharing!
Great video JR! I’m feeling pretty good as I have what was listed here, thanks to you! God bless you & your family. Thank you for all you do to help us.🎃🎃
Thanks for watching Mary Jo!
I did a temp job at a place that made 'industrial-level vacuum sealers'. You need an air compressor for it to work, but it was production-level quick. One design performed a "FOOD-GRADE NITROGEN FLUSH" in the bag to remove OXYGEN, before the product went in.
Nice
Add plain white or yellow grits to your storage items... it's a southern thing !!
I love cornmeal mush! It can be savory or sweet and don't forget grits...yummy with butter and pepper or mix a egg in.
Thank you for the video
I've stocked as much as I can afford.
I absolutely agree 100% with your selections. Just remember to properly package each one to prevent waste and loss of those investments.
In my preparedness planning, I have covered as many bases as I possibly can when it comes to nutrition and preparedness. Grains and rices are on the list. Brown rice is not as it is not a long term storage food. Wheat that is milled and unmilled is covered.
Good luck!!
Thank you!
Once you mentioned tortillas and salsa I knew I was following the rite preppers lol 😂
This was awesome ! Full of information and great ideas. I’m a new subscriber 😊 Thanks for sharing your knowledge !👍
Thanks for subbing!
@@diypreppertv
Will look for more of your videos now. I always read comments too and get even more ideas. 👍
I look forward to all your videos, thanks for taking time from your day to help the community.
Thank you!
Right on time!🙂 lol. I just went looking today to my go to prepper channels to see recommendations and suggestions on some must haves to check for any holes in my preps.
Do you have a good general “formula” to gauge just how much food you really have put away? Thanks!
God bless and prep on peeps✌🏼
Thanks Cara! James Wesley Rawles’ book, “How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It” is a good reference for determining how much of each food category you should have.
@@diypreppertv Ok gotcha. I actually think that’s one of the books I put on my “must buy” list after purchasing a couple that you and some other Preppers had suggested. Thanks!
great information, thank you.
very good list. thanks.🙂
You’re welcome! Thanks for watching and commenting Shawn!
If you have special dietary restrictions you have to look out for yourself. You can't rely upon others to cater to one, when there could be hundreds or thousands who need help. As one who has celiac, I try to make sure that we have enough food stored for events.
In a disaster, government agencies and voluntary relief groups are going to try to feed the people quick and easy meals. This is food that wouldn't work for me. A big spaghetti dinner with lots of bread would be cheap and easy for them to pull together to fill the bellies a neighborhood, but that won't work for me. Same with them serving up pancakes or donuts for breakfast with a big vat of chicken noodle soup for lunch.
I could see the National Guard bringing in cases of MREs to distribute to get some some food to the stricken. Eating most MREs would make me worse off than not eating at all.
I got a lot of oat groats. They last 20 years and you can boil them like rice.
Solid list I forgot about kenwa I actually love it
Very helpful video thanks 😉
You’re welcome! Thanks for watching!
I was waiting to see if you were going to say quinoa correctly 😁. You did great.
Thank you!
Oatmeal raisin cookies!🥰
Friend you forgot as well as many is electrolytes is very important for dehydration and this extremely important, it will be great to mention
Quinoa is a complete protein. Contains both branches of aminos
Grits
Great tips!
Possibly due to my well water I can never get beans totally cooked; yes, I've tried everything but they always remain partially hard and unpleasant to eat. I don't have that problem with lentils. I guess I'll just save my beans to grow and eat green.
Afaik that's an indication of acid. Have you tested the ph of your well water? Adding something basic to neutralize it might make your beans cook way better.
Where do purchase the Mylar bags?
What's your advice for pre diabetics and diabetics in how to prep and prepare. I cannot have white rice, process foods, high carb foods ,high sugar foods including high sugar fruits and veggies. My Dr. Said it's better to eat fresh as much as possible and of more leafy greens . I struggle trying to keep pantry full when most has to be fresh leafy greens and squash. Whole wheat and sweet potatoes in moderation. I'm encouraged to only eat lean skinless chicken or poultry and wild seafood. But it can not be breaded etc .
As far as leafy greens go, you can grow at least small amounts indoors using an Aerogarden. They are basically a small self-contained hydroponic system and come in different sizes. I use mine for seed starting, but I think they do well with leafy greens. Can you have canned chicken?
What are you pouring
the oatmeal, etc. in?
Thank you
I don't stock Corn Meal.
Eating beans and rice for a long time will make you crazy. 😂😂😂😂 obviously you are not Cuban. I’m 58 and have been eating rice and beans with almost every meal for the past 50 years. 😂😂😂😂😂😂
It's got all the carbs vitamins and protein that you need.
It would be wonderful if you could write some recipes
@@femvetusa5263 😂😂 OK quick and easy one for cans of black beans first sauté some onions and green peppers, a teaspoon of garlic and some complete seasoning with a little bit of olive oil then throw the black beans in there and let it simmer along with water enough water to cover the black beans and they’ll taste amazing
@@femvetusa5263 or you can you tube it. There are hundred for recipes for red black white and garbanzo beans
Every Sunday crock pot comes out...beans n rice.
Cornmeal goes RANCID!!!!!!Skip it
thanks for the video! I am dialed in with rice, beans and pasta. Does the 2-5 year shelf life for flour apply to being vacum sealed, oxygen absorber and in mylar bag? May need to put new exp date on those bags.....is there any place to pull down a list of items with shelf life when stored - vacum sealed, oxygen absorber, mylar bag????
My daughter likes quinoa but I think it’s disgusting. I agree that you should taste it before you buy a large amount.
great video thanks. Hey I’m new to using myla bags and preserving foods. I was going to put the foods already wrapped into the myla bag. I have noticed you open the bag and put the food into myla bag. Is it best to do this as the original packet will have air in it. Glad I watched your video 😊
For powdery stuff, I don’t think it matters too much. For some things it helps squeeze more air out before storage.
AJR looking forward to the content I'll come in again at the end lol
Thanks for watching!
I have old bags of nonfat powdered milk the bags are inflated as you described...could that be boch? Good video btw thank you
I’d get rid of them. Better safe than sorry.
For items such as milk powder and instant coffee, do they have to be opened and stored in mylar bags with OA as well or are they best left alone?
I would use Mylar and oxygen absorbers
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@Joanne Brennan
Powders, coffee, nuts etc can also be stored in canning jars or repurposed jars and sealed with a Food Saver and their special FS sealer lids. Just have to remember that a FoodSaver will draw powder from the jar, so cover with a small piece of cloth or coffee filter to prevent that. OR those items can also be stored in canning jars with lids and vacuum sealed in a chamber attached to a brake bleeder pump. See Rain Country Homestead and search for her brake bleeder videos. I purchased one of the quart size chambers but haven’t used it as yet. Her husband also makes a gallon size chamber.
You can also use mason jars you'll need vacuum sealer attachment and vacum sealer check thift stores I find mason jars bought my vacum sealer and attachment there thift stores are a preppers paradise
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Yes, as I mentioned above, canning jars ARE mason jars. I do have a FoodSaver and it’s attachment. The brake bleeder manual pump is handy to have in the event we lose electricity, whereas the FoodSaver is electric.
Just remember that you need to get GMO free grains, preferably organic aswell. Cos most grain is GMO.
I do not have money to buy those bags , I am extremely low income and lucky to get free 5 gallon buckets! How long can you store flour or corn meal in buckets and should I use bay leaves to keep bugs out of the flour?
If you are concerned with the bug eggs inside the flour already you can freeze them for 24 hours to kill the eggs. If you mean outside just use a 5 gallon bucket lid. Mice will be a problem still but bugs shouldn't get through. But double check me on that!
I do not like the flavor of quinoa by itself. I have had it in other things but it is not for me just eating that.
Did you rinse it like three times? Or soak it? You might want to read a little bit about how this takes away some of the bitter of the grain. It's very very good for you so reconsider if you can even mix it with stuff like in a salad or in spaghetti or something.
I also dry toast it before cooking it with beef or chicken stock in the rice cooker instead of water
Quick question... I don't know alot about shelf life of different emergency preparedness foods...you mention here that the shelf life of flour (even in mylar) is about 5 years.
So, why do companies like Auguson Farms say that their flour (in a mylar bag, in a bucket) has a shelf life up to 25 years?
I am really trying to prep but sometimes conflicting statements leave me confused?
So, what do you think of Auguson Farms claim on their flour as being up to 25 years?
They could be freeze dried I buy prepared mylar bags of flour they last 10 years
Hi JR! Thank you for the video. I found it very helpful!! Would Lipton Diet Lemon Ice Tea (in a jar) be ok to store in a Mylar Bag with an oxygen absorber?? Then I can repurpose the jar. If not, what would you recommend to store this item? Thank you in advance.
Also, from my understanding the Kelly Kettle is the only “rocket stove” allowing state parks & where you can’t use rocket stove. Please do your research.
I store all mine in a mason jar with oxygen asobers
@@sophiagrace8362 Thank you for responding! I’m hoping I can store the diet lemon ice tea in a Mylar Bag instead of a jar. I’m not sure if the acidic would would ruin the Mylar Bag. I’m looking at saving space & weight.
I tried quenwa or whatever it is. It was icky.
Coffee, cigarettes, toilet paper, wipes, tooth brushes, baking soda, all good items to barter with
There are 30 million diabetics in this country. A large majority of long term preps are high carb and bad for diabetics. There is not much info on diabetic preps.
For diabetics with very poor insulin levels or no natural insulin production at all if you can't access insulin or metformin than your diet needs to be extremely low carb. High fat foods just don't keep as well. Maybe going carnivore would work if you dried meats?
Are powdered eggs available for sale in retail stores?
I have only been able to find them on Amazon. #10 can by Auguson is around $90. Wally World also carries Mountain House scrambled eggs in their camping area. Approximately $10 for 2 servings. Hope this helps!
Thanks!
Surprise caned food is more watered dowowed
Your videos are encyclopedic 🤯
Do you have a gluten allergy?
Quinoa is disgusting and it takes a lot of liquid to cook in a time where water is important
@@SunsetGazing equates hard nasty unflavored quinoa
Hmmmm.... Have you tried cooking it in chicken broth? And adding some finely chopped onions, garlic, and a grated carrot? I also rinse my quinoa well before I cook it as it has a naturally occuring "waxy" coating on it that tastes very "bitter" and nasty (in my opinion). I also sometimes add a little curry powder to the broth and mix well before adding the rinsed quinoa. I hope this helps!
I'd rather spend my time watching these kinds of videos as opposed to the NUCLEAR WAR=== IT'S OVER
@@betterarmed Check out "Patrick Humphrey" his channel is all doom and gloom.
@@bigk2080 Yep, I left Nates channel a year ago. He had a great channel pre 2020.
quinon with brown sugar n butter
Wheatberries last forever in air tight containers....