My pantry has been pretty darn close to empty lately. Grocery prices have been so high that I haven't been able to swing anything additional each week except maybe a few cans of soup or a jar of spaghetti sauce. But I am getting edgier about the state of the world, and decided to just bite the bullet and drop some scratch on some canned goods.
My local Food Lion had store brand canned veggies on sale for 50 cents a can. Pretty good deal. Apparently, other stockpilers raided the shelves before me, because the selection was slim. But I did get about 30 cans of veggies, including peas, green beans and corn. They also had canned tomatoes on sale for 79 cents a can. I prefer to buy organic, but decided to buy 10 cans anyway. When shit+fan happens, I won't give a damn if my tomatoes are organic.
I hit the local dollar store, too, and bought a few boxes of wooden kitchen matches, plus four Catholic devotional candles. The nice thing about these candles are that they burn a long time, they're unscented, plus the tall glass makes them safe(r) around kids and pets. I wish I had bought more than four now, and may drop by the store the next time I'm running errands to pick up a few extra. I also grabbed some Liquid Bandage and a couple of tubes of crazy glue. Those kinds of things could be handy but scarce in the future.
Overall, I still feel very unprepared for any possible zombie invasions. Am I better prepared than many? Yes. But I definitely don't have everything I need to hunker down at home, keep my family fed and safe, and keep my homestead defended for an entire year. I need to try and remember to do this in little bits and pieces, since I just don't have the money to drop a big wad on everything I need.
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We are working on our pantry too. We have come a long way, but like you, we have a ways to go. As prices get higher it is getting harder to do. I find myself shopping sales too, like the 50 cent canned goods. The thing that really worries me is the meat. We are no where near being prepared as far as meat is concerned. Hopefully hunting season will be fruitful this year. (I didn't think I would ever say that, but now I'm hoping for it!)
Blessings,
Red
I'm with you. We coupon so that helps, but meat is also our concern. I just ran into our local Ingles and got some deals, but even then, with money tight it was a lot at once. I have to work harder at rotating what's in the freezer.
Do you coupon? that's the only way we have a stockpile.
Coming into fall, my pantry overflows at the moment, the meat freezer is very close to full, and so I will be needing to can alot of the coming meat yet to be butchered out. The garden has been good to us this year, as has the wild foraging, I am up over 500 jars of canning since spring, and we have a good while in the harvest to go, having said all that, I am stunned at the prices in the stores, uh, its aweful.. I only buy loss leaders.
I froze a lot of milk this year to get me though the dry out season, and I have one girl due in oct, so will have fresh milk in the house at that time, we will see if what I put away will hold me over or not.
Really like reading your blog, your sense of humar shows!
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