One way I save money with my long-term food storage is my dehydrator.
5-Tray Excaliber Food Dehydrator
If you don't want to wait to get your food stores in, then a quick and easy way to ensure that your family will be fed in the coming food shortage is with freeze-dried foods. Mountain House Freeze-Dried Food
While you're getting your edibles in place, don't forget the water. You will need water for drinking, cooking and sanitation. Water Barrels and Storage
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A comprehensive list of how much food to store for disaster preparedness
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Here are some basics about how much food to have on hand in order to survive any type of wide-spread disaster or upheaval. First of all, you can simply order commercially-prepared long-term storage food that is already pre-measured and packaged by the number of people to be fed. However, if plucking down a few thousands dollars is beyond your means, then here is a list of some basic foods, most of which can be purchased from your local grocery store.
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How Much Food to Store
For one person for one year:
All of these items can be purchased at your regular grocery store, although some will need to be repackaged for long-term storage.
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- Barley: 50#
- Quinoa: 50#
- Beans (pinto, red, navy, black, white, lentils, split peas): 200#
- Rice (brown, white): 50#
- Corn (whole kernel): 25#
- Oatmeal: 25#
- Cornmeal: 25#
- Sugar (white, brown): 75#
- Powdered Milk: 50#
- Honey: 35#
- Iodized salt: 5#
- Cooking oil: 2 gal
- Shortening: 6#
- Flour: 25#
- Black pepper: 5#
- Baking soda: 10#
- Baking Powder: 5#
- Canned Yeast: 5#
- Minced onion: 10#
- Minced garlic: 5#
- Fruit preserves/jams/jellies: 6#
- Peanut butter: 5#
- Garlic powder: 2#
- Pasta boxed dinners (mac’n’cheese): 25 boxes
- Bouillon cubes: 50/person/year
- Vanilla extract: 3 oz/person/year
- Dried fruit (raisins, dates, prunes, figs, etc): 25#
- Coffee: 25#
- Tea (black, green, herb): 1000 bags/person/year
- Canned vegetables: 100 cans
- Canned fruit: 100 cans
- Canned meat (tuna, spam, chicken, meat spread): 75 cans
- Canned soup: 50 cans
- Canned milk: 25 cans
- Plain salt: 100# (useful for preserving, toothpaste, saline solution, throat gargle)
- Vinegar: 2 gal (preserving, cleaning and health)
These items are available from commercial providers of long-term storage, freeze-dried and dehydrated foods:
- Wheat (whole grain): 250#
- Dehydrated butter: 25#
- Dehydrated cheese: 25#
- Dried eggs: 150/person/year
- Dehydrated potatoes: 25#
- Multi-vitamin: 365 doses
 Some lists recommend alcohol. While I’m not endorsing their recommendations I can see some possible uses: hard liquor (20 fifths), as an antiseptic and crude anesthesia; vodka (4 fifths) for tinctures.
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