What should I stockpile for winter?
- Bottled water (at least one gallon per person per day, for at least three days)
- Canned goods, especially cozy, warming foods like soups and stews.
- Snack foods like chips, crackers and cookies in sealed packages.
- Cereal and granola.
- Anything jarred, from jellies to pickles to meats.
- Dried and canned beans – black beans, garbanzo, lentil, sprouted mung beans, kidney, white beans, pinto etc.
- Whole grains – brown rice, quinoa, millet, amaranth, wild rice, oats, etc (couscous, barley, bulgur, etc., if you aren't gluten-free)
- Beets: 4 to 6 months.
- Late cabbage: 5 to 6 months.
- Carrots: 7 to 9 months.
- Onions: 1 to 8 months.
- Potatoes: 5 to 10 months.
- Winter squash: 1 to 6 months.
- Sweet potatoes: 4 to 7 months.
- Green tomatoes, while ripening: 1 to 2 months.
Household items like toilet paper, paper towels, laundry detergent, and diapers are some great items to stockpile first because you know you'll use them, they tend to be more expensive, and there are frequent deals available.
- Peanut butter.
- Pasta.
- Canned tomatoes.
- Baking goods – flour, sugar, yeast, etc.
- Cooking oils.
- Canned vegetables and fruits.
- Applesauce.
- Drinking Water, about a 3-day supply.
- Trail Mix or Mixed Nuts.
- Cans of Soup.
- Peanut Butter, or your favorite nut or seed butter.
- Bread, Bagels, or English Muffins.
- Canned Beans, such as garbanzo and black beans.
- Dried Pasta.
- Favorite Snacks, such as chips, pretzels, and popcorn.
In the winter, it is especially important to eat foods that are high in energy--or calories. To get the most out of these calories, you should eat foods that have lots of fats and proteins for your body to store. Pemmican, sardines and hot chocolate are all good survival foods for winter.
- Pasta! All shapes—linguine, fettuccine, spaghetti, penne, and rigatoni are our faves. ...
- Other grains. ...
- Canned goods. ...
- Dry goods! ...
- Eggs. ...
- Dairy! ...
- Fresh vegetables that last: cabbage, cauliflower, potatoes and sweet potatoes last and last, so we're loading up. ...
- Frozen veggies.
It looks like food shortages have continued into 2022. This is what might be causing the issue. After some signs of a slow and cautious return to pre-pandemic normalcy last year, 2022 is looking remarkably like fall 2020—and that means supply issues at grocery stores.
Meat (especially beef and poultry), eggs, baby formula, canned goods, and paper goods are just some goods that got expensive or stocked out at some point.
What is the cheapest survival food?
- Dry beans and peas - Buy a dozen 2-lb 900g bags of assorted kidney beans, navy beans, black beans, spilt peas, lentils.
- White rice - buy half a dozen 5-lb. ...
- Flour - buy 8 5-lb. ...
- Pasta - buy half a dozen 2-lb.
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Choose foods that don't require refrigeration and are not high in salt. Your stockpile should also contain flashlights, a radio, manual can opener, batteries and copies of important documents. Depending on your family's needs, you may also need medical supplies, pet food, contact lens solution or diapers.
- Camping fuel to eat your food.
- Solar outdoor lights to see what you're doing when the sun goes down.
- Toilet paper.
- Advil.
- Paper plates (a game-changer when you've not got running water)
- Ready-to-eat canned meats, fruits, vegetables, and a manual can opener.
- Protein or fruit bars.
- Dry cereal or granola.
- Peanut butter or Almond butter.
- Dried fruit and nuts.
- Canned juices and bottled water.
- Non-perishable pasteurized milk.
- High-energy foods.
Grains and starches: Long-grain white rice, one or two other grains (such as quinoa or farro), dry pasta (one long, one short and chunky), plain bread crumbs, crackers, canned beans (white beans, black beans and-or chickpeas), dry lentils.
Cold storage keeps the temperature cool and the environment humid. Freezing is ideal for fresh vegetables, fruits and meat. It can extend the life of the food by up to a year, if packaged properly. Dehydration is an excellent option for drying herbs, fruit, vegetables and meat.
