Reloading The Stockpile

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Your typical grocery store only has enough food for 72 hours, if you are lucky enough to even get there in time before they shelves are picked bare. Don’t wait to start stocking up on storable food items.

The holidays are a time for cooking things that are otherwise not seen throughout the year. Stores tend to buy a major excess of the seasonal items that they are then stuck with unless they can offload them.

What may be bad for the stores is a windfall for the practical prepper.

The day after thanksgiving is a perfect time to start stocking up on some seasonal food items at majorly discounted rates

-Canned Pumpkin can last for between 2 and 5 years

-Cranberry sauce can last for 12-18 months

-Apple pie filling can last up to 3 years

-Pie Crusts can be frozen for up to a year

-Canned green beans can be kept for 2-5 years

-Boxed stuffing can be kept for up to 18 months

-Shelled Pecans can be frozen for up to 2 years

-Cream of mushroom and Cream of chicken soup can be stored up to 5 years

-Canned sweet potatoes can be stored up to 5 years

Taking advantage of a store’s excess holiday inventory doesn’t have to be limited to food.  Many paper goods and disposable dishware comes in a limited seasonal print that just doesn’t sell well outside a given holiday.

Also, be sure to keep an eye on sales of heavy duty foil roasting pans, pie pans, plastic forks, spoons, and knives.

Odds are the store will run into an excess inventory on these, and within a few weeks of the holidays will end up with some type of sale.  Check in at your local dollar stores for great deals on these items, as the ones that don’t sell in the big chains will tend to be purchased by the smaller dollar stores and sold at a discount there.

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   Janet

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   How wonderful, another perfect way of making the most of what you have.
   As a debt and credit counselor, my objective is to help people see the opportunities to leverage their current assets. Holiday specials are the easiest way to save. Most people see holiday shopping as a time to spend, but if they are looking toward securing their future, they will see that holidays as a time to take advantage of the merchant’s specials and stockpile necessities. After the holiday’s is another time to help the poor merchants clear their shelves. This article is a timely reminder of opportunities that we all can take advantage of. Thank you for sharing.

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     Judy

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     November is the month I wait for to buy certain stock items, both for the coming year & for stocking up. Evaporated milk has gotten more expensive but in November, one store puts it about 1/2 price for a week or 2 every November, along with chicken broth & other seasonal food items & staples.

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   Schneewitchen

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   Another overlooked item is fresh turkeys. After the holiday, your grocer will unload them at unbelievable prices. I bought 8 fresh turkeys a couple of years ago for .19 cents per pound. I seasoned and roasted 2 at a time and then processed them in canning jars in their own juice. We opened one to test and it’s like opening Thanksgiving all over again.Now our shelves have 1 quart jars of qwesome turkey for an emergency.

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     DZ

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     How long does it last? Needs to be frozen/refrigerated?
     dz

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   Conrad

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   My wife and I are on a limited income due to an accident she had six months ago, to day she has to walk with a walker and we also lost our Assistant
   Living Business, so now we go to a food bank once a week and pick up the large #10 cans for free and it was good to know how long a shelf life each “Food” can last, I have taken frozen Vegetables and dried them in a dehydrator ( 5lb. bag ) for 12 hours and 30 min. and you end up with one quart of dried food, drying food is a good way to go, I have dried 50lbs. of onions, 5lbs. of potatoes, mushrooms, carrots, strawberries, and also have made my own home made butter. Like the old saying, “Better a thousand times careful, than one time dead” You also might check on the web, the Latter Day Saints have a “GOOD” number of web sites that will help you stock up on food for one year, by saving a little bit here and their each week. Good Luck!!

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   John N. Smith

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   Hi,
   How long will a case of unopened bottled water last?

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     Joe

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     Commercially purified water will have a best buy date somewhere on the package but it should keep indefinitely. Just make sure that you store it in a cool dry place. Also if you drink it and it seems a bit off, pour the water into another container . This will aerate it and help improve the flavor

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   Evangeline Williams

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   Conrad, What a good idea. Had never thought of drying potatoes or onions. I will certainly try some of that. Just a while ago potatoes were very low here. Thank you. I make my own silver solution and have recentlt made about 2 gallons because my daughter is coming and I supply her. You would not believe what that did for her about 2 years ago when she got MRSA infection. Drs were setting up amputating her arm,instead she went back to work the next week with only a band aid on her arm.

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     susy b

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       Mike

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       Susy B,

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       Donna

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       Silver solution is good for bacterial infections. In the old days before refrigeration my great grandma put a silver dollar in her milk from the cow she had to prevent spoiling.You can get silver solution at emergency essentials or find ASAP 10 on the internet.

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         dodger

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