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Today’s Challenge
Today, let’s add one week’s worth of dinners for your family to the stockpile.
This can be done in multiple ways, and we’ll talk about one cheap one and one more expensive one. These aren’t necessarily the healthiest meals on the planet but if things get really tough, you’ll be happy just to have a hot meal.
- If the budget is tight, grab 7 canned “meals” for each family member. This could be like Beefaroni, pork and beans, spaghetti, soup, or ravioli. You can get this conventional or organic. It will cost about $14 per person to put one week of conventional canned meals if you can’t find anything on sale, but sometimes you will be able to get these for as little as a buck per can. If things are really bad, you can eat these right out of the can without even heating them up. If you can’t get a week of food for everyone right now, add 7 cans per week until you have everybody covered.
- If your budget is higher, there’s an even easier way to add to the stockpile. Buy at least one emergency bucket of food and all you have to do is put them away with the seal intact. If they remain sealed, this food will last up to 20 years.
Every time you add a little bit more food to your stockpile, it adds just a little bit more security for your family. Every little bit that you stash away will see you through the more difficult times.
What will you add?
What food will you add to feed your family for a week? Do you have a favorite inexpensive prep? Share your ideas in the comments below.
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Right now, I am at the stage of having to eat through my stockpiles, both because I don’t have much grocery money, and because I have so many preps, it will make it a real challenge to move across country to a much smaller place next year. But there is still at least a couple years’ worth of the really long term stuff, and I’m working on the shorter term home and commercially canned options. In a true SHTF situation, I’m still set for quite a long time! And lacking money for additional preps (partly because I sank so much of my savings into preps a few years back!!) I am focusing on improving my foraging knowledge so I can cook and preserve more free food from my environment. I currently have about a 6 year supply of foraged wild blossom jelly!!
More or less the same here; cycling out supplies, not adding. Though nothing nearly as fancy as wild blossom jelly in stores.
If I were to add seven meals I’d have to check what’s on sale this week, not wild forage, though.
Well my budget is tight, ($24/week) I also buy half fresh and half canned, winter is knocking on the door I add stew, chili, pork & beans, soups, spam, canned fish depending on price and save a few cans for later.