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Beans. Peanut butter. Buying meat and freeze it isn't non-perishable but will last over a year.

• ghaff 7y ago
  Admittedly not everyone has the freezer space, but there's really no good reason not to buy frozen or freezable food like meat, fish, vegetables, etc. if that's what one normally eats. You don't need to subsist on beans if you don't want to just because you're only getting groceries every couple of weeks.
  • SketchySeaBeast 7y ago
    That's really important to keep in mind for all this - while we should probably have a couple of cans of things kicking around, we can eat normally. At least where I was stores have returned to normal stock levels. If the power goes out for long enough that the meat goes bad in the freezer, we're now in Mad Max territory, and you can then break into your can supply and start to develop plans on rebuilding civilization.
    • ghaff 7y ago
      Even milk/cream last for 2 or 3 weeks unopened and butter/eggs even longer. I do have more or less my usual amount of beans, noodles, and rice in the house as well as canned goods. I'm not going to starve if my power goes out for a day or two--as happened to many people in the last bout of violent weather that swept through the eastern part of the US. But prepping for a month or more of no utilities--as some people were doing early on--and planting large gardens to ensure a food supply didn't make sense to me. If it makes them feel better, it's mostly harmless. But it's hard to see it being a rational response. I wouldn't really describe my local groceries as back to normal. I can't get everything on my shopping list. But there is absolutely no shortage of food, including fresh and frozen.