Beans and rice are still reasonably priced at the grocery store and in good supply. Get more.
Get enough of everything to last for at least one year. Better yet, for two, three, or more. Buy seeds and find places to plant them next spring if you don't have property of your own. Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds is one of my sources: https://www.rareseeds.com/
These are all heirlooms, and saving seeds from year to year will cause the plants to eventually conform to the microclimate of my yard. I did buy a few oddities, such as nicotiana flowers and a couple of odd vegetable varieties that were unfamiliar to me.
Already do. We ate stuff my great-grandmother canned for a number of years after she died. We would grow a ton of stringbeans one year, can them, and then not have to grow them for 3 or 4 years.
Canned food from the store also lasts way past the best by date.
Canned food from the store also lasts way past the best by date.
It sure does, most people don't know that. But it doesn't last as long as glass jar canned food because tin cans are lined in bpa that breaks down, so acidic foods should be eaten asap and not long past their expiration date since they speed up the breaking down of the bpa. Home canned foods though can last many years. A skill everyone should start learning now if they haven't already.
Beans and rice are still reasonably priced at the grocery store and in good supply. Get more.
Get enough of everything to last for at least one year. Better yet, for two, three, or more. Buy seeds and find places to plant them next spring if you don't have property of your own. Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds is one of my sources: https://www.rareseeds.com/
Bought from them. Good outfit.
Huge order on the way right now for the coming spring.
These are all heirlooms, and saving seeds from year to year will cause the plants to eventually conform to the microclimate of my yard. I did buy a few oddities, such as nicotiana flowers and a couple of odd vegetable varieties that were unfamiliar to me.
And learn to can your food. Home canning preserves your food far longer than our gov claims.
Already do. We ate stuff my great-grandmother canned for a number of years after she died. We would grow a ton of stringbeans one year, can them, and then not have to grow them for 3 or 4 years.
Canned food from the store also lasts way past the best by date.
It sure does, most people don't know that. But it doesn't last as long as glass jar canned food because tin cans are lined in bpa that breaks down, so acidic foods should be eaten asap and not long past their expiration date since they speed up the breaking down of the bpa. Home canned foods though can last many years. A skill everyone should start learning now if they haven't already.