BrewerGeorge
Well-Known Member
It's that time again for me to start stocking away food for the winter.
Last weekend I bought another 50# bag of white rice from GFS for $20, replaced all my water (Walmart has 35 half-liter bottles for $2.88), bought and mylar bagged 20 lbs of pintos and 5 lbs of split peas. Still need a couple tubes of oatmeal (5# total) and probably going to get 5# of lentils as well. Added to what I had from last year, that brings me up to approximately 128 man-days of calories. Protein is a little low at 60g per day, and fat would be half that. That doesn't include anything in the pantry or fridge, or any venison (20# in the freezer) we could eat while we still had power. Oh, and maybe a weeks's worth of dehydrated stuff.
I'm seriously considering buying 50# of flour and 25# of sugar and bagging it up as well. I have the bags and O2 absorbers left over and that flour and sugar would only cost about $22 total.
Anybody else actively stockpile food?
Last weekend I bought another 50# bag of white rice from GFS for $20, replaced all my water (Walmart has 35 half-liter bottles for $2.88), bought and mylar bagged 20 lbs of pintos and 5 lbs of split peas. Still need a couple tubes of oatmeal (5# total) and probably going to get 5# of lentils as well. Added to what I had from last year, that brings me up to approximately 128 man-days of calories. Protein is a little low at 60g per day, and fat would be half that. That doesn't include anything in the pantry or fridge, or any venison (20# in the freezer) we could eat while we still had power. Oh, and maybe a weeks's worth of dehydrated stuff.
I'm seriously considering buying 50# of flour and 25# of sugar and bagging it up as well. I have the bags and O2 absorbers left over and that flour and sugar would only cost about $22 total.
Anybody else actively stockpile food?