I've stocked up on rice and beans, coffee, medicines, and even have some "25 year emergency food", but I'm looking for some dried veggies, fruits, nuts, etc.. I found some on this website, but didn't know if this was the best choice in terms of cost. https://www.redhillgeneralstore.com/Bulk-Foods.htm I also need a better alternative for animal feed (dogs/cats/chickens). Even my local feed supply has horrible prices now. (I might be too late on that!) Thanks everyone!
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I bought a really good, large dehydrator last year and dried all kinds of fruits and vegetables. The dried stuff you buy is ridiculously expensive. The one I got is the Magic Mill 10 tray food hydrator. I now now have many shelves of jars of carrots, apples, cabbage, tomatoes, oranges and lemons, green beans, onions, you name it.
I ordered nuts from www.anuts.com and was really pleased with the order.
I also got a good vacuum sealer to help extend the keep date of the nuts, flour, anything I can fit in the largest size sealer bags. Buy the rolls and cut your own to fit, it's cheaper.
Do you have a Rural King nearby? They are cheaper on feed than Tractor Supply or Southern States.
This is a place near me run by Mennonites that has fairly reasonable prices on all kinds of bulk items and they will do mail order. Worth the trip if Harrisonburg VA is within driving distance for you. http://www.grandmaspantryva.com/
They are great. You want it, they have bags of it. If you can get the the store, it's in a big indoor "farmer's market" with the neatest stores. One just carries canned goods, another has homemade baked goods in glass jars, another has nice quilts for a reasonable price.
Another place worth stopping out that way if they're open is the Green Valley Bookfair, just south of Harrisonburg. Super bargains on books.
Glad to help. Boy, I screwed up that post. It should be canned goods in jars. Not bread in jars. LOL
Just bought a BUNCH of nuts from anuts! Feeling much better about that. Thank you! Looking at dehydrators now since it's harvest time around here and I can get veggies pretty cheap and support the local farmers.
That's what I did. There's a local farm store that sells bushels of whatever is currently in season for cheaper. And we have a lot of orchards here - I did a ton of apples. BTW, check for local pick your own places if you have time. You can pick a bushel of apples or peaches in no time. Warning - I once picked a 5 gallon bucket of cherries, eyes bigger than my ability to pit cherries. Didn't have a pitter. I did a mountain of those things with a hairpin until I was ready to scream.
Make sure you get a dehydrator that's way bigger than what you think you'll need.
All great advice fren. Dehydrating applesauce makes pretty good fruit leather too.