3 Tips for Prepper Grocery Shopping #prepper #selfsufficient #urbanfarm

Hey there, welcome back. I'm Amy. If you're new to my channel, I have been talking about being self-sufficient lately and I have a whole bunch of content on seeking truth in your own life, finding truth in the world, and some of the current events that are going on. So if you like the content, thanks for being here. If you don't and you wonder how you possibly stumbled onto this channel, maybe you'll like the video. Stick around. Today I'm going to be sharing three tips for prepper grocery shopping. Now this is with the idea that, you know, at some point grocery shelves will be completely empty and what the heck do we do? Tip number one, buy enough for a 30-day supply. What do you buy? For me, I really try to eat healthy, make a lot of my own food, and so what I'm buying is a lot of the base materials for doing that. Maybe that's going to be the flour and sugar, syrup, honey, different grains, beans, like dried beans, dried herbs, all those kinds of things. And this is probably one of the times where I would say you have to shop in the middle of the grocery store. Typically, I would like to say don't shop in the middle of the grocery store because that's where all the pre-packaged food is and you really don't want to be eating that on a regular basis. But in this case, that's where you're going to find all of the things that are shelf stable. And when I say a 30-day supply, it's really just so that you don't have to worry about going to the grocery store for a 30-day period. I also kind of in my mind have about a six-month spread. So you don't want to buy a bunch of food that you won't ever eat and have it sitting in your basement untouched. So this is my storage shelf a year ago and I will tell you I have three teenagers so I have more convenience foods on here like mac and cheese. So tip number one is just buy enough for a 30-day supply but don't get too far ahead of yourself. So what I like to do is I like to buy extras of everything that I use like the peanut butter and the flour and sugar and mayonnaise and those kinds of things and then use it as sort of my back stock from my kitchen and sort of just have it there just in case. But every time I go to the grocery store I'm buying the mayonnaise if it's out from the fridge even if I have some in the basement. But after about six months if you have things that have been in your basement use them and then restock. So you have to kind of have like this six months cycle where you don't let things get too old. Now this is my shelf today. A year later I've actually gotten a plastic bin to keep some things in because I realized mice are occasionally in my basement and some of the things that we haven't eaten have gotten dusty. So I'm gonna make sure to put those in my food rotation and get them eaten. Other things we'll buy and refresh kind of as we eat them. My second tip is about water and other liquids. Now I did get a question directly about if I buy bottled water or if I stock up on water. As a general rule I don't buy bottled water so I'm not going to stock up on bottled water. What I do though is I buy milk and you ask why is that important? Because I use the empty milk jugs and rinse them out and store water in them. So again I have kind of a supply that I have water jugs in my basement that are filled up from my well in the house and I have water jugs in my garage that are filled up from my rainwater harvesting tanks. Now if you haven't seen my rainwater harvesting video I will link it above for you. I really love harvesting water and in permaculture that's one of the biggest concepts. If you do anything collect water. So I don't buy bottled water but I do have a supply on hand and I also have just a handheld Brita filter like water pitcher and that allows me to you know filter water if I need it. And on my list for this year for becoming more self-sufficient is to buy a Berkey water filter so I can actually drink rainwater that I've collected. I would probably drink it either way. I mean I feel like I have a pretty healthy immune system. I would probably feed it to my chickens my animals but it's nice to have that extra you know protection by filtering it through some kind of water filter the rainwater that is. I probably have at least 10 gallons of water in milk jugs in my basement. That's kind of at all times that I cycle them. I use them to water indoor plants occasionally and then I refill them. So you know you just don't want to get caught with a power outage when you you know can't um use your water or like I have a well that is actually got an electric pump so um I after a while I wouldn't be able to get water at all. So that's my tip for water. Definitely keep it stored in your home and I would say again a 30 day supply and that for me would be at least 30 gallons. I mean that's a bare minimum. It's just it's hard to tell how far you go on the spectrum of what is. Hopefully if you've got extra water you can trade it for some frozen food items that your neighbor might have stored in their freezer. So to wrap up tip number two have a supply of water and you can also have other shelf stable types of liquid. I wouldn't recommend you know buying a lot of like pop or juice but if it's not in the refrigerated section of the grocery store you can keep it for 30 days to six months. Like ginger ale you could buy a couple liters of ginger ale and though it's not water in the event of an emergency there are things that you can substitute for water. My third tip and also the things to absolutely avoid at all costs are buying things that you won't eat and letting them go to waste. So instead of buying something like the soup that I didn't end up eating and going to waste I would buy chicken stock or buy bouillon or just buy extra pasta, buy dried onions, buy the dried or shelf stable materials that I can use to make my soup in you know in my case. And don't forget to eat through those things that are on your basement shelf so that they don't spoil and go bad. But just replenishing with new items every couple of months to make sure that you have good food to eat in case something happens in the world and we can't get to the grocery stores or the grocery stores are empty when we get there. Thank you so much for watching. I hope that you enjoyed this video. I would love for you to you know leave me a comment, subscribe to the channel if you don't already, and have an amazing day. Bye for now!