I can certify with my own experience that rice is a very complete source of nutrition. You can just hold on to rice many days with no problems. I was a political prisoner of the the Venezuelan dictatorship for more than 4 years. During that time I ate white rice with 0% salt for 20 consecutive days at breakfast, lunch and dinner. Rice does work. Thank you for the video.
Akl ELITE CORP - thank you,,, this is valuable, i will do that if i have to,,, prob good to have some fat with it. but even plain i get filled up and feel a nice full feeling,,,,
@@musicstudio102 Get both. The dry are cheaper but require water and cooking so you have to factor that in. You can eat beans right out of the can if you have to.
Yes...likely want some no-sodium salt too. You need potassium and there will not be many bananas around. Frankly I guess a good multivitamin would be among my choice of "condiments". I would add cumin, paprika, cayenne and some seeds for basil and cilantro too.
@@theoldguy9329 in my garden basil, dill, cilantro can be left to go to seed. You will get more seed than you can use in a season. I also allow some seed to fall to ground (in raised garden beds) and they all self sow when the conditions are right like clockwork. The seeds I use in greenhouses to force nature when the conditions aren't so right...
Hopefully everyone knows how to cook rice and beans. I use the pasta method to cook rice - no measuring of water - just throw it into a pot of water and drain when it is done to liking.
I met a woman who proudly said she’d never made pancakes before. If she’s never made a single pancake she’s probably never made tortillas, crepes, omelettes, quesadillas, etc., as those are pretty much the same in regards to cooking skills. Unbelievable. I remember cooking pancakes as a child cause I was hungry and there was nothing but flour and lard left in the cupboard sometimes!
Youre about the least important thing which is cooking. Lets face it if you have a fire you can cook. I dont cook but in a survival situation i can cook something by boiling or roasting. The real problem is getting the food especially after your stored food runs out. And the greatest problem is of course getting water to drink and hygine
Ive always been a decent cook. During the quarantine I mastered several traditional Mexican, Chinese and italian recipes. Gotta love youtube! Learning to can, its fun watching the shelves get full off my first gardens harvest!!
My father in law literally has a bucket full of soil he throws potatoes in, and they just grow. I'm still finding potatoes in my garden from the last neighbours and it's been over a year. Potatoes are the infinite food glitch 😂
@@mikel9567 It was due to reliance on a single cultivar vulnerable to potato blight. It's been a while. We've bred better plants and gotten better at horticulture since then. That's why we haven't had another potato famine.
As someone who has had to live off pretty scant funds for extended periods of time, I can attest that if you have enough dried beans, well-stored grains, canned veggies, and dried spices (including bullions), you can live off that for a VERY long time. Food bank pinto bean chili (which is pretty much a few cups of soaked and cooked dried pinto beans, a can of tomatoes or mild salsa, a diced sauteed onion and bell pepper, a ton of TVP, and some Dollar Tree spices) coupled with that box of corn bread made into muffins was pretty much my lunch and dinner every day of my junior year of university. Either a bowl of oatmeal with some dried fruit and roasted nuts or peanut butter on toast for breakfast, and I was eating for about $1-$2/day. Dried beans and rice also store really nicely in glass jars in your pantry (so does flour, so does cornmeal, so do oats, so do nuts & seeds, so do dried fruits, etc.). I got in the habit of using my $20/week grocery budget to get my groceries, my toiletries, food & litter for my cat, and I'd always buy one extra thing not on my list with whatever I had leftover (whether it was a can of tomatoes, or corn, or a bag of beans or box of bullion cubes, or package of pasta). Just one extra thing a week means at the end of the year, you have 52 food items in storage. Getting a side hustle like driving for Lyft or delivering for DoorDash (if you have a car), donating blood plasma for cash if you're able, even answering surveys online for gift cards adds up if you're not counting on that money.
None of that stuff is healthy. Get rid of your cat, and buy sardines, hamberger meat and a carton of eggs. Because eating all those toxic vegtables, grains and seeds are going to make you sick.
@@Matthias_Fischer I understand you. I am kidding. My metabolism is fast but its normal at 17 y. I eat lot of food per day but i can also eat almost nothing and work.
It's impressive to see how complex and in depth your analysis of what could be considered random thoughts of a crazy doomsday prepper have become over time. Your videos are so well thought out and well designed. Good job man.
This guy is low key funny. " Stock up on tuna yeah I know it's probably chock full of mercury but starvation will probably kill you long before mercury will."
This is just superb, I've been looking for "best canned foods to store for emergency" for a while now, and I think this has helped. Have you ever come across - Ponannah Unthinkable Prestige - (do a google search ) ? It is a great exclusive guide for discovering how to produce an amazing bug out plan for your survival without the hard work. Ive heard some extraordinary things about it and my mate got cool success with it.
Thanks for the list! I feel like a squirrel making food caches around the house. Got my oils, salt, honey and sugar, vinegar, and other baking/cooking staples. My next purchase is going to be a camp stove, propane, and adding to my water storage.
Just make a rocket stove and use sticks and twigs. I cooked on a small BBQ grill using sticks and wood. It had a dome cover and it did fine. Propane may not be available and it's expensive. And heavy to carry in a bug out situation.
@@cynthiaweathers6979 I love my rocket stove, but I am diversifying my cooking methods since I live in an area with a lot of people (who will probably try to have fires too) and limited seasoned wood resources past my woodpile. Also the camp stove is for indoor cooking. I have used a solar oven before but it wasn't my style, and I am learning to use charcoal and a Dutch oven for cooking.
I know right. Its a good feeling knowing you have some food that will sustain you for awhile. A very good feeling. I have bulk organic wheat berries. I grind my own grain and make my own bread.
Many dried beans can be sprouted indoors in 5-10 days. 2 tablespoons of beans can be grown into 1 to 1.5 lbs of fresh sprouts depending on how long you grow it. And you don't need to order expensive sprouting seeds; the cheap dried beans at the supermarket and an empty plastic bottle will do. Sprouted mung beans, adzuki, lentils, peas and sunflowers are especially easy to grow and quite delicious. Watch a few sprouting videos on YT to get the hang of it.
I have a whole forest, ponds, chickens, fungus. Plus dry pasta and rice. Plan on rabbits and ducks. Have a bow, shotgun and Rifle. Many many fishing supplies and a canoe.
I like these videos because Nate gives a ton of info without all the extra rambling that some channels include. Totally worth my time to watch this channel, thank you!
The fact that he will cut out even half a second in between sentences several times just to shave off a few more seconds for us is a testament to his thoughtfulness of saving time for us viewers.
Yep, they also probably have less mercury (larger fish that live longer have the most) and kippered snacks are some of the best, if not the best, tasting canned fish.
I have the basics so I thought I was set, but I watch a video on your preparation pantry and thought to myself, I want that and that and that. I realize I had mostly stuff to stay alive and nothing to enjoy while I’m alive so I had to make a new list. That new list end up taking two pages. I need delicious can foods and other food, that means buying expensive stuff, but now that I have survival foods, I can work on storing delicious food a little at a time. Many people only have enough money for purchasing a few extra stuff. So my advice is get the needs first and then get the wants.
@politicalprisoner2 ramen noodles dont last forever, been the test dummy for a few types of food. When it feels like a brick and not breaking up it's gone bad. Taste like blah, blahnik blah....
Canned tomato is acidic and will not last much past their date as they will eat the can making them taste metallic and breach the can, so go for jarred sauces for your pasta sauce. That plastic you see in some cans have a synthetic female hormone in them and will soy boy you as well as cause cancer. Lentil curries can spice things up on the cheep. You use bullion with them to stretch a can of meat. If you have a bland pallet then you probably will not like the high rated recipes. Bland version. You don't see much Burmese recipes because they are very conservative recipes. www.myrecipes.com/recipe/burmese-chicken-curry-with-yellow-lentils-kalapei-kyetharhin I just use angel hair pasta, but it is intended for Chinese egg noodles or rice. You can swap in green onions and red lentils work too.
@John Sargeant Out of all the responses,, i love what you said 'Proud"! of all my seeds. Im going to remember and it just Clicked to be excited is gonna help me. Honestly, i got a concussion,, have to start new with bottles or whatever will work,,, So much to do with a garden,, (and farm animals, and all of it, i dream of organized seeds. Bless you,
@US ARMY VET 11B 96-14 Dude,, try and chill,,,,, most preppers kind of know that you can't be a master gardener overnight,,,,im on my 30th year of gardening,, like driving a car you need experience anyways the rest is just like Chill about starving, man, we don't have to go freakin on people,, i do it sometimes, but try to check myself....... and yearh,, people need food preps.. Here in new england we have to have food stored for 6 months to get through the winter,,, So chill and have a smoke or drink or somerhing,,
Many thanks, been searching for "survival food guys" for a while now, and I think this has helped. Have you ever come across - Banevi Uncomplex Booster - (do a google search )? It is a great one of a kind product for discovering how to make the ultimate survival food without the normal expense. Ive heard some extraordinary things about it and my brother in law got great results with it.
Ask your local garden stores if they have out of date seeds and they will give them to you for free. Also you can use your library card at your local seed libraries and get free seeds.
You should make a video on e-bikes how they can be used in a grid down situation or shit hits the fan. You can solar charge them, excellent transportation
@@throughput6674 GG Fine. Mine has hybrid tyres and does great across grass, a little rougher on country rocky unsealed clay roads, but still works at speed. If you're doing mostly off road, just get a mountain bike version.
@@throughput6674 anything good quality usually isn't that affordable! Especially when it's a new tech. Affordable in my mind is something you don't have to replace in 2 years
@@throughput6674 There are e-bikes in all varieties like road bikes and mountain bikes and everything in between. Mountain bikes tend to be more expensive as they have more components like suspension systems, so they are not as widely known or available due to costs. If you plan to use an e-bike plan to have a small bike trailer as well. You do not want to have all your kit on the bike like a touring bike's bags as it makes maneuvering a pain on off road trails, and backpacks are not comfortable or safe for long term use on a bike as your shoulders will become painful swollen or worse in time. The trailer will massively increase your cargo capacity and safety, it also allows for a second or larger battery pack, and makes having a mobile solar system possible. Also some trailers designed for bikes can also function as a wheel barrow when not on the bike, say for collecting firewood or water for instance. What most people do not consider is that bikes and especially e-bikes require maintenance and parts, be prepared here as well. Tubes, tools, chain links, etc. This will add complexity to your choice of an e-bike as an escape vehicle. Though could be an excellent scavenger vehicle using a pickup or camper as a base vehicle to operate from.
I find your channel to be the most knowledgeable and helpful out of all of them. Thanks! Trying to prep w my non believer husband is frustrating but one day.. but thanks again your vids are so explanatory and detailed.
Comrade, yeast might be a good buy for the bitter end. The reason why wine maker's yeast is superior is that bread yeast typically yields a wine or beer of only 5 %. In a pinch bread can be thrown into wort. Takes longer to brew.
@Karl Schubert true. once wally world and the local liquor store go down, you could name your own price for a gatorade containers worth of hooch or warm beer.
Brewer's yeast, certainly. Learn to brew, too, because it doesn't last forever. Regular breadmaking yeast can be grown with some water, starch, and sugar.
I've listened to your post and totally agree. I myself have also put away spices- pepper, paprika ,caraway etc. As history reveals there was a time that spices were more valuable than gold and in some locations were used in place of currency, just a thought. Great work keep it up!
Was able to get 100 freeze dried ham steaks about 10 years ago for 100 dollars. Each one will season 2lbs of beans or greens living in the southern US have a long growing season always smart to store seeds as well.
Canadian Prepper, thanks for breaking down the per dollar calorie counts in some of the most popular survival foods. Definitely helps with prioritization of spending and helps to budget for the "per day" process of food storage. Great video!
After several months straight of nothing but MREs in the military I can attest to this one. The gum in military MREs is supposed to be there for this purpose. It fails to get the job done. Also no MRE ever has sufficient amount of toilet paper included either.
MREs have high calorie items so you can try to space them out for it to last longer. Plus when shtf and youre on the move, you will not have time to heat it. Just save the portable heater for a spicy makeshift smoke bomb *close quarters only*
*Nate has truly stepped up his research & analysis of as many different variables related to this topic & we are all spoiled just being able to soak it up!*
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I loved depression cooking with Aunt Clara, she was fun! I tried many of her recipes, the baked apples, eggs, potatoes & hotdogs, egg drop soup. Daily Bread, Really good to know.
I love her videos I've watched them all atlest twice now there's some good things on there like dandelion salads and stuff you can make from things you would never know.
Hello CP, May I add, beans at seven years of storage, harden. No amount of boiling, soaking, Pressure canning, will soften them to be eaten. However, mill them into bean flour, then add the bean flour into boiling water, makes very good "refried beans", very useable... I made tacos at a church function, by milling and boiling, every one was pleased...
I live near a major metropolitan city, and have heard many of people in my area say, "Oh, I'll just head for the hills, and live off the land." When I forward the numbers supplied by our state's division of wildlife of game, and fish populations, along with a conservative projection of the population (that when following the same plan) that would quickly deplete those resources, most realize how unrealistic their plan is.
It’s also great if you can have chickens so you get fresh eggs daily. Plus a rooster to get new baby chicks.. I get 14 eggs a day and I dehydrate them myself and freeze them also
Humans like to cheat and solar is the best cheat. Old-school gaming is a thing a a few watts can run a low power computer. Live SHTF in style if you can. You can even do VR with Oculus Quest and side loading. Watch a movie on a 100 foot screen.
Good you are no longer a slave, well done. I watch vids of vandwellers and full time RV'ers to see how they manage. Solar and lithium batteries make it possible imho. The only time solar would be useless for a long time would be if floating ash from huge volcanic eruptions blocked out the sun. Historically that has happened and changed the world. What would be a Plan B?
I know how to make rice taste great. It reminds me of the fella who did not like strawberries and was told that after the revolution he would like strawberries. Also there is the story of a Chinese emperor who had to flee with his retinue and he ate a small fish he had never eaten before and said it was delicious. When he regained his palace the cook prepared the same fish and he said it tasted horrible.
@@colleenkaralee2280 agree You hungry You eat Try to get some kind of Comfort Food if you can - it'll make the road a little easier . ❤🙏🕊to all y'all Keep calm And carry on. God bless all here
Edible plants book by geographic location can help too. Acorns are actually high in nutrients, but good luck fighting the squirrels ability to crack them open lol
Canadian prepper your videos are without a doubt the best prepper videos on RU-vid, I never thought about prepping until January 2021, and so with everything that's going on in the United States of America right now everyone needs to get ready, I live on a fixed income a little over 700.00 a month there's not much left after I pay my rent and bills but because of the Canadian Prepper I make sure that I buy something once a month that will help me out if needed...you don't have to be rich to start prepping commonsense and the Canadian prepper will help you prepare...so please friends get ready because everything that's happening in the world right now is and has to happen, so if you believe in Jesus and read your Bible then you know this is true...and if you are a non believer please read about the prophecies in the Bible start with Mathew read revelations I did ....So stay safe...Take care of your family...Don't turn on each other... Be kind to one another...Look out for your neighbors and friends...And most importantly pray, God will guide us...Thank you for reading my comment and may God bless you...
Here is a grid-down pasta salad made with a one-burner butane or propane stove. Ingredients: 1 or 2 cans oil-packed tuna, 1 small can sliced black olives drained, vinegar to taste, 1 package dry short pasta pieces (I like the multicolor rotini pasta), salt and Italian seasoning to taste. Instructions: Cook the pasta in water until al dente, drain and put into a large bowl. Flake the tuna, mix it and its oil with a little vinegar, salt and Italian seasonings. Add the tuna mixture and the olives to the pasta and toss until mixed. Serve and eat right away if you do not have refrigeration. Sprinkle each serving with some grated Parmesan cheese if you have any. Also good if topped with crumbled cooked bacon (really anything tastes better with bacon).
I'm just now able to comment, because a weather event called a Derecho unexpectedly developed on Monday Aug 10 in Iowa. It had 100+ mph winds for over an hour where I live in Central Iowa, and the level of destruction was unbelievable! I just got my power back a couple of hours ago on today Friday Aug 14. It's hot and humid here, so living with no power for 4 1/2 days was pretty miserable. But I think what happened is exactly why you should prep. We had no warning. If you don't know, a Derecho is an inland hurricane. We had at Cat3! I was driving around town running errands and was caught off guard. I took me an hour to get home. Trees toppled, power lines down....on every street. I had to back track and turn around go back...on and on until I finally made it home. This disaster is still ongoing. Many people are facing another week of no power because the destruction is statewide. Dinner Monday night was Chef Boyar Dee ravioli prepared on our gas grill outside. Tuesday - spent the morning driving around town trying to find ice., but I did get 40lbs on my 4th stop. I didnt eat all day until dinner....velveeta shells & cheese and canned BBQ Beef over some bread. Wednesday...ice search again....found it at an open grocery store, so I bought steak and grilled it for dinner....Thursday morning....had to take my husband for a post-op dr appt.....then ice search....made sandwiches....ate a lasagna that thawed from the freezer for dinner but not enjoyable because it hot and we were hot already.....finally power this morning. Almost total loss of fridge and freezer food. We need a generator. Anyway be prepared to make due for a day or two at least.
Glad you made it through. We had a power outage the other night. Everything was pitch back so light was the immediate need. We ran our generator, hooked up the fridge and a few lamps, and got the guns ready. Power came back on 1.5 hours later, so we didn’t suffer, but it was a good training event for the family
I experienced the Derecho also. A week without power and limited resources was a good trial run that showed me what I need. Gas sold out..now keep my tanks topped and containers full. All candles, tarps, tree removal tools, generators and campstoves sold out. I now have an ample supply of candles, lighters, flashlights and batteries, battery stick up lights, solar lights, extra tarps, homemade rocket stoves, lint balls and dry burn materials. Perhaps I'll buy extra chainsaw blades and oil considering it took months to cut up all those trees. Thank God we didn't go through that during winter!
That is the type of realistic event that we all should be prepped for and my 1st goal in prepping. Last winter's Texas event really brought that home for me. So many people came home after the power was restored to secondary damage from frozen and burts pipes. My initial goal is to be able to get by for a week with food and water plus auxiliary fuel enough to stay healthy and keep the house from freezing and then build upon that for larger events. Also keep in mind if you're on a municipal sewage system, that with a wide ranging power outage sewage may backup and your toilet won't work. Have the equipment on hand to block off sewage exits in your home that are at a low level such as basement stationary tubs, bath room facilities or Laundry drains to prevent sewage from coming in.
I've started dehydrating most of the eggs my hens lay daily. Last year I couldn't find enough ppl to give them away but this year, I'm storing them all. I spoon of dehydrated egg to 1 spoon of water will bring it back to as before it was dehydrated. I've got 12 quart jars full so far and sealed. I'm about to start putting them in mylar bags in 5 gallon buckets. Not just the eggs though. I'm making sure to dehydrate as much as I can so if the power grid goes down for any length of time we won't loose our food. I can't wait to get a freeze dryer. Grow and stock up folks.
@@coffeegirl6854 sorry, I never got a notification from this. I use the oven on the lowest setting and dry them. Stir them every now and then until they are hard and crunchy. After that , I use a coffee grinder to grind them into powder. Then I can them in mason jars and use a brake bleeder to pressure can them. Hope that helps you even though it's so late of a reply.
I don't know the calorie count, but dried kelp or wakame seaweed is very synergistically nutrient dense. We make a delicious broth from it (does not taste like the ocean) and we add some lemon juice to balance it out. We also cold brew organic alfalfa pellets which can be gotten at a local animal feed store - the roots go down deep and thus very nutrient dense. I love canned peas with Uncle Ben's original converted rice and some fat or oil added. Fat is very satiating and calorie dense and keeps the gall bladder ducts lubricated and moving (no stones).
@@lindalaws3857 We purchase at a great price two five gallon buckets of organic alfalfa pellets, normally used for animal feed, but since it is marked organic we deem it good enough for us too, and we cold brew it in distilled water for 24 hours or more in the fridge. It is very de-toxing and very strong taste, depending on how much you dilute it.
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My family in Vietnam used to eat only rice during hard time and some people in Vietnam only need rice to sustain their life. If anything, we Vietnamese are hard-core survivalists. We have every recipe for almost every animal from cows to even snakes and those recipes actually taste good. That is why the Vietcong could fight the US for years living in the jungle. If you want the safest place when SHTF, ready to move to Vietnam.
@@hotties3v3n The only meat I'll pass on in a survival situation is skunk. With the exception of the heart, skunk tastes like it smells. With everything else it is only a mater of knowing how to cook and flavor it. Snake is easy as it isn't a gamey meat. Mammals have that problem and adrenalin causes the taste, so go for the quick kill. If there is a lot of something then you eat it, and if there is little of it then you let it be until there is more of it.
CP, you're often stating "if properly stored." Can you make a video giving your tips for properly storing items that don't come durably pre-sealed such as rice, beans, flour, and powdered foods?
I thought we were talking about food that is nutritious, and would not make you physically ill. Not to mention how much you would expand eating those "day in, day out". LOL
I would recommend stocking up on himalayan pink salt and pottasium chloride powder so you can get the electrolytes you need if you are in a situation where food sources are low and you need to fast for a few days in between meals
Good info. Personally, I like having green bean coffee and roast it myself. Often I roast it on the woodstove in a covered cast iron skillet. Keeps for many years and nothing beats fresh roasted coffee.
I've said it before and I'll say it again!! Hardtack and Pemmican is the way to go for long term storage and you can do so many things with it. making your own is insanely cheap I wrap mine in 4 piece packets in foil then vacuum seal them. I'll be long dead before they even think of going bad. If anyone wants a good recipe I can post it. The pemmican I mold into muffin bar trays then wrap in foil and vacuum seal. If you have plenty of these two as well as rice and beans and dehydrated or freeze dried veges you will be living like a king!!
Rice, beans, cornmeal, salt, oats, and flour has always been my favorite. Unleavened bread is quick and easy to make and a better option than hardtack.
Being the widower of a southern gal I just want to know where grits stands on your list. She fed me this almost every morning and I really got used to it.
Here we are a year later. Distribution of goods are sitting in the ocean: hurricane Ida did her damage in southern US and East Coast. I'm in the American Midwest - Canadian Prepper way up north on the continent - but- your tips are so relevant and truly helpful. Thanks I am now ready to hunker down in a small apartment. SHHH.
I just use one of my waterproof compression/stuff sacks... I have all my clothing in it already and just take a shirt out, wrap it around and have a comfy pillow
I just bought 200lbs of rice and 50lbs of bread flour for $100 I feel pretty good about that and even better now that you said rice and flour were the best bang for your buck. I have 40 chickens so eggs and meat are no problem. I just need bulk food to keep from starving.
It is inconceivable how companies like Backpackers Pantry can have so much sodium in each of their products. You might as well just eat salt with a couple of rice kernels mixed in for flavor.
14:57 *Chipotle:* "The total for your burrito bowl comes to $9, please." *Grocery Store:* That will be 25 cents for the same amount, by the scoopful, unprepared. Cash or charge?
Been doing these things for a while,still learned many things from you,thanks for your time & caring! Those that repeat are waisting time,& energy!! Head down Eyes up! Always watching! Always sure of Your space! Stay safe! Be constant! Be sure! Continue for others! Thanks!!😄
I own a small Harvest Right freeze dryer with the oil free pump. I wish I had a bigger one. But good Lord, it takes SO long to process foods. An entire week processing back to back loads = maybe 4 days worth of food for someone being very conservative with their calories. I also have a pressure canner and an Excalibur dehydrator, but freeze dried has the best shelf life for sure.
Once in a while i sit my 2 boys down and we share a MRE they need to get use to it and im not throwing them away, and heck its different they like it knowing what its for.
As soon as I get my Harvest Right freeze dryer, I’m gonna be making my own MRE’s like a madwoman! I feel certain that in the long run, buying a Harvest Right will be much cheaper than buying commercially packed MRE’s. And mine would taste so much better.
the great thing about store bought bagged beans is they are both seeds and food. you can test viability by wetting a paper towel placing some beans on the towel fold it over and place them in a zip bag or plastic lidded tub, in a warm location. You will need to check them about 5-7 days later 14 at most. They should sprout.
@@colleenkaralee2280 same here - I'm almost completely self sufficient in summer (I buy in rice, oats, condiments and bananas, grow everything else I eat), but have never successfully grown anything in winter! Working on that this year to at least get some cabbages. It'll be the same for foraging - fine in summer if you know what you're doing and there aren't a million other people trying to do the same, but in winter it's another story.
I've been stocking up harvest to harvest the old fashioned but very delicious way - I can. As Lincoln once said, "We eat what we can, and what we can't, we can." Every Sept, I make gallons of lentil or vegetable or beef stew - making gallons is actually easy to do. I cut beef, veggies, and throw them together with barley, and let them cook till tender and thick. I add tomatoes for flavor, herbs, anything I feel like - even a tsp or two of mustard to give it a bit of a kick. Then I pressure can them in quarts. I have had jars two years old and in excellent quality when I finally break them open to heat up - and I heat them for 10 minutes to make sure I kill what potential botulism is in there - as you actually should do with supermarket food in cans, as well. * Dried beans can keep almost forever - they do get hard after several years and nearly impossible to cook till tender, but a little bit of baking soda, which you should also store, will break up the hardened fibers, and beans will cook deliciously and tenderly. You may add rice - i like to add barley - and throw in either fresh vegetables or you can can peas / carrots / celery / onions in quart jars to add to the beans later - OR, you can dry the peas/ carrots / onion and celery (I have a propane stove with a pilot light that never shuts off, so I can throw sheets of veggies to dry overnight - sometimes it takes 2 to get all the moisture out), then you can store those dried veggies in jars to be used when making stews or soups. There's no shelf life on the dried veggies and they take up much less room to store. * Also, dried bread, stored in metal cans, will plump to their "just pulled out of the oven" goodness when sprinkled with water and closed up in a paper bag and placed in a low oven to rehydrate. Or use them dry for dunking in your soups and stews, or for croutons. I like to add nutritional yeast and eggs to my homemade bread for extra protein. This bread, dried and stored, will give you an extra punch of protein when you need it. There's also canned bread supermarkets carry in the baked bean section. I actually love it. Slathered in honey, it's a real treat. * Corn starch and canned or powdered milk will be wonderful to make homemade pudding - either choc or van or blueberry or whatever your choice of flavor. Whisk a tablespoon of cornstarch to 2 cups of milk, bring to a boil till thickened, and pour over a handful of choc chips - when chips are softened, whisk them in the milk and you will have lovely choc. pudding - or if vanilla, just pour in a few teaspoons of vanilla extract. The kids will love it. *Having your own flower, sugar, salt, baking powder, baking soda and yeast is a must for bread or muffins or biscuits or pancakes on a cold winter morning. If yeast is hard to come by, as it was here last year, there are lots of YT videos that show you how to make your own sour dough starter, which is all the gold-miners had back in 1849 - the only thing is you have to keep feeding the sour dough starter, and if you forget, it dies. Sad. 😪 *If you have even an 1/8th of an acre of land, you can grow a year's supply of green beans, potatoes and winter squash - the last two are great storers for the winter and the green beans can be grown up on the fence (climbing variety) which leaves lots of room in the small plot of land for tomatoes and potatoes, which could be grown in plastic bins, but are best just tossed on the ground and covered with hay / straw - no digging - and for the size of land about 2 or 3 dining tables, you can get 50 lbs of potatoes to store for winter use. I did this last year. Amazing! Sweet potatoes, the same, even in cold climates. Thing is; grow only that which you love to eat and which will store without refrigeration (excepting green beans), especially if you are squished for room, and you will be shocked at how richly you can feed yourself and family. * If you can get your hands on an old fashioned treadle sewing machine, do it. A person who can sew will always have clothes. Learn the arts of knit and crochet, too. Make friends with someone who sells sheep or yak yarn - buying it will help out the both of you. ^ There's more, but this is not my video. Thank you, Nate, for doing what I don't - you are inspiring many people through your videos!!!.
Have you looked into pemmican? Indigenous peoples used it extensively and it has a long shelf life. People can make it themselves. I think it would be a good episode for you to do.
Yes, and Korean people know how to survive long hard winters with their kimchis and dried fish and seaweeds and rice and dried noodles. Good to check them out.
Off topic here, but I love the background music that you chose for your videos. When I hear the music that you chose it brings back memories from hearing it in videos from the past. Nostalgic!
Spices that double as medicinal are great. Garlic powder, cayenne pepper, oregano etc are all good examples. You can flavour your food or use as needed.
Another great thing to do with your stockpiles is actually to TEST it! Try living off only foods you actively stockpile for a month to see just how viable they are to actually last you through a survival situation. This is important because you don't want to be stuck with food you don't actually like, or food that doesn't agree with you that might give you digestion problems, promote allergies, or increase inflammation responses like irritable bowel syndrome. You also need to test just how well balanced it is. Are you getting enough protein, are you getting enough carbs? are you getting enough fats? Are you getting enough fibre? Are you getting enough micro nutrients to stave off disease? Are the foods your'e buying enough to keep you satiated so that you don't end up depleting them faster than planned? What different meals or dishes can you prepare by combining your ingredients so you don't get tired of eating the same things over and over? These are all things you're only going to know once you test your stock pile to really see where any holes in your stock pile planning might be.
Can I ask for your opinion? In the 1970s and 1980s, I did a lot of backpacking. A guy at my favorite army surplus, an avid survivalist, had told me that a good, lightweight, survival food was to pack m&ms with peanuts, and Slim Jims because in an emergency, they would supply you with all the necessary nutrients you would need to avoid starvation. Besides being lightweight, they also had an almost indefinite shelf life. Any feedback would be appreciated!
Great tips. I would add one thing that's not a food item but a general eating-related preparedness tip: get experience with short term fasting. For those short term emergency situations, you shouldn't necessarily need any food for the first few days. You can easily survive on just water. But it takes a little practice to get to that place where you can slip into a 1-5 day fast with ease. We're used to many small meals and snacks throughout the day. But that isn't necessary and some say that style of eating could even do harm. So start with intermittent fasting with a conservative fasting window. Then cautiously expand that window. Eventually try one meal a day, but mix it up with regular eating days, and then shoot for a 24-36 hour fasts. Then longer (but of course do your homework first.) Not making health claims (though I am a believer.) Just think it's a good preparedness tool. You shouldn't need snackies for a few days.
