What do you stock up on for your pantry?

Like the title says.. What do you stock up on for your pantry? Where do you find your stock up items at? What time of year do you find which items at their best prices?

 

Sour Patch Kids

Must. Have. SPK's.

 

I don't really stock much in the pantry. Pasta, chocolate, broths, hot sauce.

 

Food. At the store. When it's on sale.

This is such an oddly generic tangent question for a truck forum, but ok.

 

Canned goods , dry goods , bottled water , toilet paper

 

Thank you for the replies ... and it is in the off topic / food talk section. I'm just starting out in the stocking up thing and looking for other points of view.

 

Capers, never want to run out of capers.

 

whole wheat pasta, chicken stock, arborio, cumin, anchovies, canned crushed tomatoes, canned escargot. Buy whenever I see it on sale.

 

Not sure I've ever had a caper ... or used them in a recipe

 

I'll prolly pass on the snails... and I assume you mean arborio rice?

 

Are the new Twinkies as post apocalyptic as the originals?

 

Lemon butter and capers on salmon, on eggs, on salads, on bagels.

Caper berries in martinis.

 

Now is this stocking the pantry for prepping, or for general use? If we're talking prepping, well that's a different story and I'm happy to share.

boullion
pasta
canned tuna/chicken
salt/pepper
dried rice
dried beans
condensed milk
canned vegetables
bottled water (some in pantry, but the bulk of it in garage or store room)

To me, food goes in the pantry and dry goods like paper products go in the store room or garage.

Costco does me pretty good for lots of this list, but always watch your local chain grocery store for deals on canned foods especially during Thanksgiving. Pick up a little extra here and there, and before a year you'll have a very large store of food.

Make protein your priority. It's the most expensive, but the most essential. Pastas and carb fillers will give you some energy and keep you full, but you'll deteriorate muscle and connective tissue without a good variety of protein.

 

Good topic, IMO.

I am thinking this should steer toward prepping.

What are items that have a long shelf life? Any can goods you recommend that have a long shelf life?

Uncooked raw rice and beans,
what else?

 

You can put any dried foods in gamma buckets and mylar and store them for 10 years. Get the little oxygen absorption packets, too.

Canned foods store for many years. So do "canned" foods stored properly in canning jars.

 

You people must have nice homes,I have no pantry!

 

I started out with the idea of general use but am learning a lot about prepping and am slowly adopting that mindset. I appreciate everyone sharing and I like the ideas of storing different things in different places. There is a lot to learn about prepping so as not to waste money on the wrong things

 

Rice, lentils, beans, broth, and veggies. I have flours and sugars for occasional baking.
My pantry is pretty bare. Most of my food is perishable.

 

Dried stuff is the easy part. It's the meats and meat proteins that are tough.

I look for Spam on sale, or other canned meats like chicken and tuna. Not a big canned beef fan. However, I found that Hormel's "Treet" is the generic of Spam, tastes just as good, and stacks just as easy but is 1/2 the price (about $1.25-$1.50 a can versus Spam's $2.50 per can average price). I tried some of the Treet this past weekend on a camping trip to start rotating stock and it sliced and fried up pretty darn tasty. It's going to be my new go-to camping breakfast meat.

WinCo is my favorite prepper food source, besides a few things from Costco here and there. WinCo has a great dried bulk section, and you can order it by the case and save about 10%. They also have buckets and gamma lids of various sizes, plus other canned dried foods like dried fruits in #10 cans for pretty cheap. They sell oxygen packs, too, if you are doing mylar bagging and food saving bags. Every time I swing by WinCo for regular foods, I always pick up a prep. It adds up pretty fast in the pantry if you do it that way. Little bits at a time make for lots of meals before you know it.