I want to go grocery shopping but I look around and can't find anything that we need and really not to replace. We put two wild pigs and two deer in the freezer in addition to all we already have. We are eating out of the freezer, since I'm only eating animal products and DH really prefers just meat, we are in good shape.
20guage, the dollar tree has a chili that DH likes, he's not keen on any spices, so if you like spicer all you need to do is add spices to it. That same brand of chili (southgate) also has a beef stew that DH likes. It can be used as a base or eaten just like it is. At $1 a can I have close of 52 cans of each. He eats one or two and I replace with 4-6.
I've used all the TP I had stashed in my van or my pantry room, well I just took the last 24 pack out of the van, it was buried deep. However, I have many many packages stashed in my camper, in addition to the more than one year supply I put up over ten years ago, guess I need to use that first and package my extras from the camper like I have those packaged.
I did buy a 50# bag of dog food at walmart last week, nearly killed me to get it in truck, DH got it out. He said I could get dog food from the feed store when he buys his animal feed. So a couple more bags of 50 pounds should be enough for now. I need to buy more 5 gallon buckes and mylar bags to store some up for later.
I know I have a couple of years of food for DH and I but then I think about if my sons showed up with my grandchildren and then I think I need to store more. But what could I store long term that the picky eaters (all of them) would eat? I have wheat to grind to make baked flour products (I could probably make some kind of bread in a cast iron pot). I have many cookbooks to work from.
When I was preparing the ribs for DH's thanksgiving meal I had to trim off a lot of fat. I'd been wanting to render fat and I did in the crockpot and now I have almost a quart of pig lard to use for cooking.
Judy