Excellent hi-effort post. I would add a few things. A 20-lb bag of flour, kept in airtight container, and a few cans of baking powder and a few packages of lard, will make a lot of food - biscuits, pancakes, etc. with very little cost. Rice+beans is a complete protein. Stock up on both (talking dried beans) they last forever. But be sure to stock up on chili powder and cumin to add some flavor to them in addition to salt and pepper.. If you have meat to add when preparing, so much the better, but they are fine with just the rice+beans and spices. Also canned tomatoes help with this - sliced, diced, crushed, paste, it doesn't matter. When you're really hungry, this will taste great. Have some big cans of cooking oil, esp if you plan on frying anything, but also for baking recipes etc. When Stalin starved the people to death, I read about a survivor who said they had no oil for cooking things in pans, and had to use dried weeds to separate the food from the hot dry skillet. I have three chest freezers for vegetables I grow all summer and for meats I buy a lot of on sale. Also lots of butter. A full chest freezer will keep food frozen for several days - even a week - without power. And in winter you can put the food outside if the elec goes out for so long that the food begins to thaw. The last item is really insane, but I have a couple 50-lb bags of dry feed corn. You have to cook it in water forever, and it doesn't have much flavor, but it is a last resort if you are literally starving to death and it's cheap. Doubt it has much nutritional value but like I said - if you are actually starving ... PS: we don't have Costco around here, so I don't know about them, but Sam's Club has the best deals on rice. I no longer belong, but when I did you could get 50-lb bags for something around $10 IIRC. Sure it's a bit more now, but I haven't found a better price anywhere. Walmart has 20-lb bags for $9 here.

Excellent hi-effort post. I would add a few things. A 20-lb bag of flour, kept in airtight container, and a few cans of baking powder and a few packages of lard, will make a lot of food - biscuits, pancakes, etc. with very little cost. Rice+beans is a complete protein. Stock up on both (talking dried beans) they last forever. But be sure to stock up on chili powder and cumin to add some flavor to them in addition to salt and pepper.. If you have meat to add when preparing, so much the better, but they are fine with just the rice+beans and spices. Also canned tomatoes help with this - sliced, diced, crushed, paste, it doesn't matter. When you're really hungry, this will taste great. Have some big cans of cooking oil, esp if you plan on frying anything, but also for baking recipes etc. When Stalin starved the people to death, I read about a survivor who said they had no oil for cooking things in pans, and had to use dried weeds to separate the food from the hot dry skillet. I have three chest freezers for vegetables I grow all summer and for meats I buy a lot of on sale. Also lots of butter. A full chest freezer will keep food frozen for several days - even a week - without power. And in winter you can put the food outside if the elec goes out for so long that the food begins to thaw. The last item is really insane, but I have a couple 50-lb bags of dry feed corn. You have to cook it in water forever, and it doesn't have much flavor, but it is a last resort if you are literally starving to death and it's cheap. Doubt it has much nutritional value but like I said - if you are actually starving ...

Excellent hi-effort post. I would add a few things. A 20-lb bag of flour, kept in airtight container, and a few cans of baking powder and a few packages of lard, will make a lot of food - biscuits, pancakes, etc. with very little cost. Rice+beans is a complete protein. Stock up on both (talking dried beans) they last forever. But be sure to stock up on chili powder and cumin to add some flavor to them in addition to salt and pepper.. If you have meat to add when preparing, so much the better, but they are fine with just the rice+beans and spices. Also canned tomatoes help with this - sliced, diced, crushed, paste, it doesn't matter. When you're really hungry, this will taste great. Have some big cans of cooking oil, esp if you plan on frying anything, but also for baking recipes etc. When Stalin starved the people to death, I read about a survivor who said they had no oil for cooking things in pans, and had to use dried weeds to separate the food from the hot dry skillet. I have three chest freezers for vegetables I grow all summer and for meats I buy a lot of on sale. Also lots of butter. A full chest freezer will keep food frozen for several days - even a week - without power. And in winter you can put it outside if the elec goes out.