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25 Survival Foods You Forgot to Buy
1. Bouillon Cubes – extremely useful but I would buy loose in jars (cheaper) and not just in chicken or beef flavor add at least ham flavor too. If you need to stretch stews, soups and beans (and you may) bouillon will improve it. Also, if you need to use wild birds, squirrel or other meats unfamiliar to your family, bouillon add a familiar flavor. If you are making fried corn mush and want a meat flavor, substitute bouillon for salt.
2. Millet – easier to grow than wheat (gluten free too) and grows well on poor dry soils.
3. Kamut – the cultivar of wheat I grow and it makes acceptable bread and excellent pasta with a type of gluten easier to digest.
4. Vanilla Extract – good sweet vanilla flavoring to break food monotony extract is good but also comes as a powder.
5. Coconut Oil – I have found a shelf life of 10+ years myself and defiantly healthiest oil to cook with. Healing in itself but I use it as a base for my herbal ointments because it just stay good for years.
6. Ramen Noodles – Love them but they do not last forever spaghetti stores much better.
7. Honey – great stuff but expensive vs. sugar for sweetening but has many very good medical uses.
8. Cocoa Powder- coco butter free to last 30+ years. Chocolate is great to store if you have children or lots of woman folk.
9. Popcorn – make for a tasty, quick snack but it interbreeds with my flour corn all too easily so I store it.
10. Jello – Jello powder is just gelatin, sugar (or artificial sweetener) and artificial flavors. You might find that storing components unflavored gelatin, Kool-Aid and sugar might be more flexible.
11. Pudding Mixes – good comfort food. Again, instant pudding is gelatinized starch and flavoring
12. Taco Seasoning – good idea
13. Yeast – Capturing wild yeast makes good sourdough bread but for everything else you will want commercial yeast in storage and maiming a yeast starter and preserve that to stretch it out.
14. Powdered Milk – a necessity!
15. Powdered Eggs – most powdered eggs don’t taste very good,
16. Instant Coffee – shelf life of 30+ years, I know this for a fact for at least for freeze dries stored in a glass and steel jar.
17. Protein Bars – Special purpose and bug out bag use, IMO.
18. Canned Tuna – defiantly get oil not only for the calories but because datary fats will be in short supply.
19. Tang – I don’t know about Tang: ingredients: citric acid, sodium citrate, sucralose , gum arabic, contains less than 2% of natural and artificial flavor, sucrose acetate isobutyrate, yellow 5, yellow 6, sodium benzoate and potassium sorbate. Kool-Aid and a multivitamin might be cheaper.
20. Kool-Aid – Kool-Aid with a little sugar would be a nice break from plain water. Also enhances the color and taste appeal of homemade wine for trade.
21. Raisins –defiantly, but most are too moist to store really well long term. We re-dry them until they are crispy.
22. Maple Syrup –Good stuff but way too costly to store much; better to store maple flavored extract and white sugar, IMO.
23. Pancake Mix – Better to store components (flour, baking powder, salt, sugar, powdered milk, powdered raw eggs and coconut oil (butter substitute).
24. Canning and Pickling Salt –iodized salt can be used just fine but makes liquids look cloudy. Rather than canning and pickling, store flaked or kosher salt instead which is better for meat preservation and works for canning and pickling too.
25. Garbanzo Beans (chickpeas) – Are usually premium prices beans any dry bean will do the job.
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