I know ours doesn’t compare to a lot of you but with this and three freezers I think we meet the two weeks of food emergency guidelines of FEMA. Our grown up kids are always amazed by what we have. I think preparedness is a lost art for many of the younger generation. And yes I’m old but not from the depression era. Lol. Those people were really prepared all the time after they went through it. Let’s see those pantry 9or root cellar) pictures.

You are ready for a snow storm for sure. We could survive or a long time without getting any food also. A longgggggggggg time.

We like to stay stocked too. Dry goods are easy. Freezer stuff isn't too bad, as long as electric stays on. We have a generator but would eventually run out of gas.

The hard stuff is cans and bottles. We try to use the old stuff first but always end up going through the pantry a few times a year and throwing out a lot of expired stuff. Wish I had the room to set up shelves that we would stock from the back and use from the front.

i think we could go several months. un less the freezers go out. dont have enough lids to can all of it. i ordered 16 dozen lids a month ago. 8 small lids and 8 large lids. no clue where they are,

no pictures , mine is a mess and needs re-organization again.

we have a pantry I like to keep decently full and some freezers

Oil is one of the things people forget about the most , lots of cooking uses oil , people often forget to have a gallon or two on hand.

we shop every 2 weeks and like to have a months worth in reserves if my picky eaters would eat bean soup , stew and chilli we could go months.

TP shortage 1 caught me with the least TP I had had in a Decade that will not happen again.

when we were talking about infected cuts the other day here it reminded me about povidone-iodine so I picked some of that up at the pharmacy .

I keep a drawer in the dining room with all the medical stuff , benadryl , asprin , bandages , tums, .........

Yeah but oil is easy to get. You could always start cooking with coon grease if you had to . I've got a bunch of jars of bacon grease stored. I keep it for bear bait but its a handy backup for cooking too. I used to have a bucket of black bear fat but it went rancid before I rendered it.

I get the 3 gallon jugs of peanut oil never know when you need a beer batter fish fry

and stay a few liters ahead on olive oil.

I am going to pass on coon fat until I can't


a few years back we tried to just eat on what we had for a while , oil was the first thing we ran out of , we keep more on hand now.

just have to boil or roast or grill everything

That's nuthin.

I went thru a pantry this week and took out all the "best by (insert date)" but didn't throw anything out yet, as it isn't really expired. Just a suggestion.

I like to have back up propane too. Salt for preserving is often overlooked by people, even with no power salt will save lots of your food. I get mine cheap at the feed mill

Real preppers don't tell lol

Unless the cans are compromised, canned food lasts many decades. Taste, flavor and nutrition will fade over time but will be safe. I personally wouldn’t throw cans away unless they are not holding seal.

Acidic items like tomatoes are supposed to be harder on their cans over time, so rotating them is more important I guess.

Make sure to check them lids when you get them.We ordered a bunch of "BALL" lids,,and received Chinese knockoff crap lids.Called BALL,,and they said I am the eleventy billionth person to call them on this problem.They said DO NOT USE THEM.Called Amazon where we ordered them from and they made the distributer refund our money.They are slowly filtering back into the stores and I grab them when I see them.

I got lots of beans,bullets and bandaids.Bring it on.

Anyone that is interested,,THE BEST book on this topic is put out by the Mormons.Its called "The LDS Preparedness Manual".Believe me it covers EVERYTHING you need to be prepared.

A person could live a long time with the stuff that’s canned in my basement. If you get tired of vegetables and venison, there’s 28 five gallon buckets of honey downstairs too. About 1700 pounds of it.

OK this is not mine but I do like the idea to keep goods rotated

We have been preparing for this for years .