What is the best food storage for a prepper?

Back in the day, it was common for people to purchase bulk grains like wheat or oats from a farmer at 90% less than the store and put the grain in a metal garbage can to keep the mice out.  This is still a cheap way to go if you are a good cook and have the time it takes to prepare your meals from scratch.  

Many people store TV Dinners by the hundreds in extra freezers that they hope to keep operating with solar panels, but this is not practical for the majority of us.  Army rations or MRE's (Meals Ready to Eat) are a good tasting meal, although they rarely fill you up so you have to eat more than one.  These meals come as entre only or with a complete meal including dessert.  They are packaged nicely and have a shelf life of decades, but are not very cheap.

Even Wal-Mart has gotten into the storage food business as Obama has virtually assured the destruction of our currency.  As the democrats destroy more and more jobs, millions of people are now dependent on the government.  The upside to this is you can buy very inexpensive food storage at Wal-Mart with food stamps.  I see people buying $500 worth of long term storage food at a time using EBT cards.  Since most people that receive food stamps do not need them, they can get free storage food at the expense of the taxpayer.  

SurvivalDealer.com does not accept food stamps, but they do accept PayPal which allows you to finance any order over $99.  The beauty of this is that you can purchase a full year supply of food for your family, or even a 90 day supply, and pay for it over time.  This way, when the shtf (sh*t hits the fan), you will already have your stash and won't have to risk your life fighting over the last few items in an empty store.  

Survivaldealer has a full line of MREs and dehydrated foods.  The most popular, least expensive, and highest quality of which is a full line of Wise Food Products as seen on the popular TV program "Preppers".  These fine products come in individually packaged meals in weekly, monthly, or annual containers.  You can get just meats, or vegetables, or desserts, or a combination of all of these.  

Survivaldealer is an authorized distributor and sells at the lowest allowable price.  Beware of vendors that are closing out or getting rid of old stock.  The fact is that any dealer that sells lower than survivaldealer.com is not a valid distributor and the merchandise may be defective, old, or even a scam.   

Building a 3 Month Supply using Case Lot Sales

Inevitably, each year in the weeks preceding the LDS General Conference sessions in April and October grocery stores in Utah begin their Case Lot sales. In case you aren’t familiar with the term, a Case Lot sale is a sale that allows you to purchase food (and other) items at a discount from a regular grocery store. The only catch is that you need to buy them a case at a time.

This can really help build of your emergency food supply quickly. Given that there are generally 12 to 24 cans or jars in a case, this is the perfect opportunity to scratch that Food Storage To-Do off your New Year’s Resolution list. As we have touted many, many times before, there are many reasons to have at a minimum a three-month supply of food you eat on a regular basis be it financial, natural disaster or otherwise.

Lucky for you (and all of us for that matter), our friends at Prepared LDS Family have updated their Case Lot spreadsheet. As always, we are greatly appreciative of the work and effort that went into this.

In addition to the spreadsheet will help you find the best deals this Case Lot season, there is also a 3 Month Supply post. This excellent resource details out what a basic 3 month supply for one person should consist of, then lists prices for items to fill that list along with the case lot costs for both Macey’s and Smith’s.

Many of the Bulk Food Suppliers on our Resources page also offer case lot sales during this same time period.

Go over and take a look!