I decided that I would store 50 pounds of food, every time the liberals in DC did something really stupid. I find I can't buy and pack food fast enough, because they are so stupid, so often!
I'm trying, but they are so deliberately stupid, so often that I'm a thousand pounds behind...and loosing ground!
I delivered 300 pounds last week:
Some off the shelf
Some dry goods:
Some say you can't use store bought food for prepping, but available food on the shelf is more important than being a home raised snob. These have to be frozen for 48 hours to kill any eggs they might contain, so I leave them for 72 to be sure. Each one contains about 6 pounds of dry goods. These are disbursed between beans of all types, rice, lentils of all types, quinoa of all types, and barley. They are taped before freezing, to avoid internal condensation when removed. Post processing, they are marked as frozen and sent to storage.
I'm dehydrating food, and storing them under vacuum:
Cherry tomatoes, cut in half; store well this way. I dry them until they are brittle, then vacuum pack them under extremely hard vacuum levels.
This is where I started:
I reinterate that they must be cut in order to dry well! They do take a little longer due to the water content, but this is four pounds of produce in a quart jar.
I have begun storing quantities of dried produce:
These are waiting shipment to the homestead for long term storage. Each quart holds about 5 pounds of produce, smaller vegetable pieces store better, so they are usually about 6 pounds.
I am trying to store more this way:
I'm just finishing the first layer of dehydrated storage that is 3 deep here. On the right side is one pressure canned jar, because the next bay over is pressure canned food.
This is the vacuum packaged off the shelf material:
This is brown sugar, TVP, freeze dried Alfredo, dry milk, etc. The vacuum packaging is newer to me, so this is also an area I'm concentrating on building up more stock.
I've purchased several dozen #10 cans of pancakes:
I'm still adding syrup but there are a dozen on the shelf already, and I plan to triple it soon. Spices and sauces are an inexpensive add to prepping supplies, that will help avoid menu exhaustion problems!
These pictures don't include the twenty plus gallon storage totes of supplies, as they are a little boring on pictures. Those hold about a hundred pounds each, but they are stacked three high in the north end of this travel trailer.
The bathroom is full of OTC medical supplies, and I'm adding to that weekly too. My primary medical is planned to be herbal, and raised on site. The seeds are here, but I can't plant it there now because the deer eat anything I plant. Once I'm there, I can run the deer off, and water the herbs too!
Keep on prepping, they aren't going to allow things to survive much longer!