![]() I think it’s a pain to store most pasta like spaghetti, linguini, and other stick-type pasta. Read the article below if you want to know why I don’t store it as a survival staple.Ĭheck out the Ready Squirrel article “Best Dried Beans For Long-term Storage.” #5 Dried Pastaĭried Pasta is a comfort food with a long shelf-life, but there are better options for long-term storage. The most nutritional bean for long-term storage is the soybean. Most of the beans in my long-term storage are black beans and pinto beans because they are readily available. They make an incredible entry as an inexpensive bedrock food for long-term survival, full of protein, calories, and carbohydrates.Įating with a complementary grain like white rice or wheat beans provides a complete amino acid.īeans can be boiled, baked, ground into flour, and added to soups or stews. Check out the Ready Squirrel article “Storing Wheat to Outlast You.” #4 Dried Beans (Top 4 cheap survival food)īeans are a powerhouse and should be included in every long-term emergency pantry. Learn how to store wheat for maximum shelf life. Use it for leavened and unleavened bread and other baked goods.īecause Red Wheat tastes wilder than white wheat, test it before storing it in bulk. Hard red wheat has more protein and tastes gamier than hard white wheat. To learn the best type of cheap wheat to store for long-term storage, check out the Ready Squirrel article “Best Wheat Berries for Long-term Storage.” #3 Hard Red Wheat Wheat has a lot of uses in the pantry: you can cook it whole and eat it like porridge, mill it into flour to make baked goods, or sprout wheat for micro-greens. In addition, wheat maintains a 30-year shelf-life until milled. Wheat berries provide whole grain flour, which is the most nutritious flour when processed. Whole wheat flour is the most nutritious and has a poor shelf-life, and white wheat is hyper-processed with a maximum shelf-life of 10 years. Store wheat and not flour if you have a choice. White wheat stored on the shelf life has a pretty long shelf-life but will likely contain hatch bug eggs.įor this reason, re-package wheat into oxygen-free storage for a 30-year shelf-life. Wheat is one of the oldest staples, first cultivated 11,000 years ago, and that’s a long time to prove yourself as survival food. Hard white wheat stored in long-term storage should be purchased as wheat berries because the husk has been removed, eliminating oils that reduce shelf-life. White wheat has the mildest flavor of hard wheat, so it is easier to transition from store-bought bread to homemade bread. Hard white wheat is high in gluten and can be used for leavened and unleavened bread. #2 Hard White Wheat (Top 4 cheap survival food) In reality, any white rice will do.Īvoid storing brown and other colored rice for long-term storage because the rice’s high lipid or fat content reduces the maximum shelf-life to about 18 months.ĭried white rice has a shelf life of 5 years if left inside the store packaging and 30 years plus if stored in an oxygen-free container. ![]() I primarily store long-grain white rice for long-term storage because it is the cheapest and most available in my area. Read the Ready Squirrel article “Mylar Bags For Food Storage: Beginners Guide.” Cheap Survival Foods (Top 20) #1 White Rice (Top 4 cheap survival food) Learn how to package these foods for long-term storage. I’m not the sharpest tool in the shed, and if I can do it, anyone can. Packaging food in Mylar is like having a food storage super-power. It is so easy, so effective, and so inexpensive. It had a kind of technical voodoo that seemed somehow above me.Īfter packaging food this way, I was a little embarrassed. ![]() When I started hoarding food for long-term survival, I was a little intimidated by packaging food with Mylar bags and oxygen absorbers. I have packaged 500lbs of wheat, white rice, and dried beans to keep foods from oxidizing and kill bugs, eggs, and pupae. Still, no other method is as inexpensive, effective, and quick as storing 100’s pounds of white rice, dried beans, and wheat inside food-grade plastic buckets lined with Mylar bags and treated with Oxygen absorbers. There are many ways to go about hoarding survival food. When packaged with Oxygen-free storage, most foods will store for 15 to 30 years. These survival foods are inexpensive, purchased in bulk, and have a proven track record of helping cultures survive thousands of years. ![]() What is Cheap Survival Food?Ĭheap Survival Food is dried staples such as hard grains, wheat, white rice, pasta, and beans. Our ancestors survived on dry staples, and you can survive on them too. When a post-apocalyptic event strikes, dry staple foods stored in oxygen-free containers are the cream of the crop. The cheap survival food is also the longest-lived and the most proven survival food a prepper can store.
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