What would you have in a well stocked pantry?

[SnoopyCool]

Originally Posted by mom-from-missouri

I did some online searching around on stocking up on food. Somehow I ended up on a couple of LDS websites. What the heck is a person going to do with a barrell of wheat, unless they have poultry or cattle?

Why, you'll use your grinder to make flour, of course Kind of like the Little Red Hen, except the wheat is thrashed already (wheat berries).

[Judi Dial]

Hmm.

If I had everything I wanted in my pantry? The usual: flour, salt, and other baking supplies. Dried grains, veggies, herbs, & fruit. Various sugars: molasses, white, raw, etc. Beef (and other) jerky or dried meat, dried milk & eggs. I use some (but not many) canned foods, so canned tomatoes, creamed corn, some berries.

When we need our pantry we've usually lost power, so things requiring a lot of work to cook are not really practical.

JD

[SnoopyCool]

We are looking into a solar oven. We also have a hand-cranked wheat grinder. These measures seem extreme, but if indeed there is a need for such things, we are prepared.

[pamelad]

Soup, canned vegetables, sugar, flour, cooking oil, jello, canned meat (tuna & chicken), water, pasta, cereal, spices, rice, canned fruit, kids snacks,
chips and dip.

[whitestripe]

hmmm. i don't normally have a 'stocked' pantry as such - we live about two minutes from the supermarket and i share half a pantry with my flatmate, so there's not a lot of room.
however, at any given time i usually have:
white rice, brown rice, arborio rice, vermicelli rice noodles, flat rice noodles, rice paper, nori, tinned tomato, passata, cannellini beans, kidney beans, tacos, black tea, chair tea, peppermint tea, lentils, lasagna sheets, pasta, oats, plain wholemeal flour, self raising flour, spelt flour, rice flour, bi carb soda, vegetable oil, olive oil, desicated coconut, sultanas, dried apricots, almonds, tinned beetroot, tinned pineapple, tinned artichoke, mueslie bars for BF's lunch, homemade cookies, muesli, peanut butter, mineral water, juice, coke, ginger beer, rum, vodka, chambord, salt, pepper, ceyenne, paprika, cumin ground, cloves, turmeric, fennel seeds, caraway seeds, asefetida powder, marjoram, sage, thyme, rosemary, brown sugar, raw sugar, honey, tuna etc

[mom-from-missouri]

After surviving no power for a week last winter during an ice storm, I'd suggest some people may want to revamp their pantry. If you have a wood stove, fireplace or other way to cook without electric, I would (and did in mine) add a good supply of matches, and some canned foods I normally would not have, such as more soups and chilis. Also, if you don't have cast iron, I'd get a frying pan or dutch oven now. Revereware and Tfal don't do well in a fireplace.

[rob62521]

Originally Posted by mom-from-missouri

After surviving no power for a week last winter during an ice storm, I'd suggest some people may want to revamp their pantry. If you have a wood stove, fireplace or other way to cook without electric, I would (and did in mine) add a good supply of matches, and some canned foods I normally would not have, such as more soups and chilis. Also, if you don't have cast iron, I'd get a frying pan or dutch oven now. Revereware and Tfal don't do well in a fireplace.

Excellent tips Mom from Missouri...we had an ice storm a couple of years ago and didn't have power. I had a cast iron skillet I used in the fireplace to warm up some soups and also made "biscuits" with Bisquick and water. They weren't pretty, but they were hot on a very cold day!

[SnoopyCool]

I need a dutch oven that isn't enamel coated.