Category: Food Storage

Emergency Essentials – Storing Rice

How to Store White Rice– Rice can be purchased in large sacks (20-50 lbs.) but it is best stored in smaller more manageable portions. If you are using your rice regularly, zip lock bags stored in a dark dry place should be enough to keep your rice edible for 4 years. (Barring critter invasion) If you are …

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Emergency Essentials- Brown Rice or White Rice?

Rice in Your Prepper Pantry… When someone says, “You should stockpile rice in your Prepper pantry”, what comes immediately to mind? White rice…Brown Rice…Wild Rice? Do you have any idea how much you need? How to store the rice? How long rice will last in storage? Let me try to clear up some questions, and get you set …

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Storing Oatmeal – Ideas and Recipes

Why Store Oatmeal? Anyone who stockpiles or stores food should have Oatmeal, and not just for breakfast. -Oatmeal makes a filling meal to start your day. It can even be prepared with little or no energy in a Dutch Oven or Wonderbag should the power go out. -Oatmeal can be used to stretch ground meat. -Oatmeal …

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Storing Oatmeal

Prepper Food Storage Ideas Who would have thought that there is so much information about Oatmeal? When we were kids, it just appeared at the breakfast table on cold mornings. I loved eating it with milk and brown sugar (I admit sometimes a little too much brown sugar). It turns out that Oatmeal is a healthy, reasonably inexpensive, …

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Prepper Pantry Preparedness

Prepper Pantry Preparedness

The Ultimate Pantry Storing food means different things to different people. Ultimately, the way we store our food, and what we choose to store, is based on who we are. If you are a hard core Prepper, you may have a Bunker Pantry loaded with foods that allow for long term survival without bringing in …

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