How to Start an Emergency Food Pantry on a Budget
Miranda from Flourishing Miranda and her husband have decided to build an emergency food pantry in their basement. In her latest video, she shares the best foods for an emergency pantry, as well as tips to build a beginner prepper pantry if you are on a budget. Let’s dive in!
When deciding on the food list, Miranda prioritized low-maintenance foods, but also ones she will be using in her daily life.
She has decided to rotate her pantry: instead of just keeping the same products in the basement until they expire, she has started an Excel sheet to keep track of the expiry dates of all her foods, and slowly use up each item and replace it with new ones.
Another consideration was buying things that would actually make a good meal, and that she would in fact grab in case of emergency.
Here is Miranda’s list: mixed vegetables (2), green beans (6), garbanzo beans (4), refried beans (4), kidney beans (2), Great Northern beans (2), pinto beans (6), chili beans in tomato sauce (4), black beans (2), diced tomatoes (2), peanut butter, whole oats, mashed potato flakes, lentils, mustard, dill relish, sweet relish, and rice.
Speaking of the food pantry budget, Miranda spent $71 on food for her pantry. However, if you are on a tighter budget, she recommends building up your emergency pantry gradually, spending only $5-10 a week, and focusing on the most bang for your buck items first.
At this pace, it would take you a month and a half to get to the amount of food that she has already stockpiled.
Emergency food pantry
Do you have any emergency pantry tips? Share in the comments!
For more shelf-stable meal ideas, discover these shelf-stable meal ideas or the best items to buy at Costco for emergency food storage.
To see more videos, check out the Flourishing Miranda YouTube channel.
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I also keep canned tuna fish, canned juices and boxed cereal, Oates and fire roasted tomatoes
When did you write this? $5 won't even buy a jar of Miracle Whip.