May 2024

Which canned foods should I get for my long-term stockpile? In an emergency situation, if you have food, you will be lucky.   Canned food might not be as tasty as you would like, but you will be glad to have it. This post focuses on our long-term stockpile.  For our long-term stockpile, we need […]

Which dried foods are good for our long-term stockpile? First of all, if I’m being totally upfront, dried foods can end up costing a lot of money.   If you start buying dried foods without a plan, there’s no end in sight.  There are so many different kinds of dried food that you can find

Which pasta and dry noodles are best for our long-term emergency stockpile? Pasta and noodles aren’t everybody’s absolute favorite, but most people like them.  Almost everyone can eat pasta and noodles without problems.  Even picky eaters like them well enough.  We don’t need to make homemade pasta and noodles from flour;  we can simply buy

Flour for our long-term emergency stockpile? There are many ways to use flour:  bread, pasta, noodles, cookies, crackers, cakes, cereals, etc.   But do you expect you’ll be able to bake any of these examples in an emergency? But if we find ourselves in a prolonged, long-term emergency, we might miss eating bread.  That’s why

Mochi for our long-term emergency stockpile. You may have seen mochi in the freezer section of your local grocery store.  Everybody here in the United States thinks mochi is a sweet dessert, like mochi ice cream or daifuku, which is filled with sweet bean paste.  For Japanese people, mochi has a long history, having been