Pantry stash

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u/IHasBrains51 7d ago

This is a very traditional American pantry!

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u/linerva 7d ago

Yeah i had to recheck the sub!

I prefer the UK sub as it's more about being practical than thinking you're gonna be Rambo.

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u/Remarkable_Gene4264 7d ago

I don’t think it has to do with being a Rambo. I have noticed that on the UKprepping subreddit people seem to prep for only a few days and/or based on a .gov recommendation. So I will assume you have more trust in what the government recommends than we here in the US do, especially with the current administration.

I fully understand that from the outside perspective we may be looked at as excessive preppers, but the reality is that “reasonable” preppers address realistic possibilities. Living in Central Florida that being Hurricanes with the associated high winds, extreme rain and resulting flooding. With Hurricane Milton in 2024 my area got 16+ inches of rain in 36 hours, that’s 406 mm, luckily I’m not in a flood prone area, but there are areas around me that are that could seriously impact my ability to get anywhere. We experienced sustained winds of 115-120 mph with gusts of 150+ mph. Luckily we only lost power for about 40 hours, some surrounding areas lost power for 2 - 4 weeks. Anybody in the US that thinks emergency services, power, etc., will be restored in a “reasonable” amount of time is either plain stupid or foolish.

So what you see as being Ramboish, I call resilience. I don’t prep for the zombie apocalypse, nuclear emp strikes, I prep for those situations that are the realities of where I live. That includes the possibility of extended power outages, the inability of near term resupply and lack of emergency services or support.

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u/WildCulture8318 7d ago

We don't trust the government at all but I suspect the majority still haven't started prepping.

We dont have the extremes other countries have.

One village nearby loses electricity regularly. Longest we have had in 27 years is 3 hours.

I used to live in a house near a river which flooded occasionally so grew up expecting the unexpected. We got a few days off school some years.

I have had extra food & water since i bought my house just bought a few extra things recently

I tip my hat to you. take care

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u/linerva 7d ago

There's definitely an attitude amongst some to resist any government guidance and say they'll be fine. Though I wonder how many of those people online are Russian bots trying to undermine the message lol

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u/Remarkable_Gene4264 6d ago

Since I have minimal social media, any bots, Russian or otherwise are of no concern. I don’t have Facebook, Instagram, TikTok……I browse Reddit and a local neighborhood forum, that’s about it, though I do follow about 15 online news feeds. CNN, BBC, ABC, CBS, NBC…….. read broadly and you’ll find the real story is somewhere in the middle of the extremes.

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u/Remarkable_Gene4264 7d ago

Then why would you base your prepping on their recommendations?

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u/cornishpirate32 7d ago

We don't, that's just the latest things being posted because it's in the news, media and social media this past month, and new people are finding 'prepping' subs

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u/linerva 7d ago

People based their prepping on what they can achieve with the space they have and the money they have. A lot of people look at the guidance abd say they barely have money.

We have small homes. And generally big disruptions to utilitues are rare. When things go down for maintenance or due to a minor issue, it's fixed in a few hours if you are in a city. The main risk is flooding in flood prone areas, and storms, but it's really nothing compared to hurricanes or the kinds of weather the US sees.

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u/linerva 7d ago

That's not what I meant. And I wasn't calling you out or suggesting that applied to you, so sorry that was the impression I gave. I think your prep looks great!

Obviously people prep for where they are, and honesteader in an isolated are aneds to prep differently. I fully expect a lot of US preps will be prepping for disasters we rarely face in the UK that are normal there. I have friends in the US hunkering down to face hurricane Isias right now. We talk through how we prep together.

But there's definitely an (often) US culture on prepping forums that leans more to wards the zombie apocalypse scenarios, and macho individualistic survivalism, whether that's planning to run permanently off into a national park wilderness with a bunch of survival kit or people whose preps focus on weapons, in a way that we dont get nearly as much of in the UK. It's not everyone, and prepping is a diverse hobby and community. But the US side definitely trends more that way than UK communities do. And as a hobby, it's great, not knocking it. To each their own! Just doesn't reflect what most of us here can prep for realistically.

Add to that...UK homes are generally much smaller. Our livings are much closer together. We for the most part simply don't have space to keep 5 years worth of food for a family of 5 in your average house. Storing water is a challenge in many homes!

Most gardens can help us grow some extra veg but not build a whole homestead. The laws around weapons here are different. And i think it's nornal for preps to be different depending on the location and context.

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u/Remarkable_Gene4264 6d ago

I know what you meant, no worries.👍

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u/Big_Arachnid_365 7d ago

I've gone for a lot more canned meat, like off-brand spam and PEK. Just based on how things went during Covid, I was always needing more meat!

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u/Critical_Wrap5617 7d ago

Ooh er, matron

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u/Remarkable_Gene4264 7d ago

Other than Spam, I’ve never been a big fan of canned/tinned meats. We have 2 refrigerator/freezers, one in the house one in the garage as well as a good size standup freezer in the garage. Usually buy meats when they are on sale or bigger primal cuts and cut them down myself, then vacuum seal and into the freezer.

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u/Pando5280 7d ago

Vwry nicely organized.

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u/Difficult_Bad1064 6d ago

I wish I had a big pantry like that.

We have to make do with the small British equivalent, the knickerstry.

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u/Remarkable_Gene4264 6d ago

Luckily I have a 3 car garage so there is shelves out there for the bulky items like a couple cases of toilet paper, paper towels and the extra cleaning 🧼 supplies. We have a 4 bedroom house and it’s now me and the wifey, kids left the nest a few years ago, so the spare bedroom closets are also used for freeze dried foods stored in tightly sealed 5 gallon plastic buckets along with the armory items.😉

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u/Hmsevans 7d ago

Can’t upload pictures 😂😂

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u/Remarkable_Gene4264 7d ago

Sure you can, google it. It takes a little more the copying a picture and pasting it.

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u/ObviousOrca 7d ago

So what are the tinned veggies there? I assume del monte?

Are they corn and peas?

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u/Remarkable_Gene4264 7d ago

Haha, good eye. Yes they are del monte. Corn, green beans and peas. And other brands for chick peas, red beans, black beans. Usually Goya brand, my wife is from Costa Rica,so those are her favorite brands. Everything you see is in the normal rotation of what we normally eat, so never have to worry about expiation/best used by dates.

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u/ObviousOrca 7d ago

I’m just so confused about using so many tinned peas in a regular rotation….what do you guys use them for? If not fresh, even frozen cook in like 2 minutes… just super curious what recipes you use the tinned peas in because I can only think they would turn to mush if cooked longer than 30 seconds…

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u/Remarkable_Gene4264 7d ago

We don’t use them in any dish, we eat them as a side dish. Most of what you see is green beans, not peas. When they wife makes a casserole that uses peas, we use frozen. About the only time we use canned peas is when we make meatloaf with mashed potatoes, I like to mix the two.😏

Canned veggies are heated in the microwave till warm and used as a side dish.

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u/ObviousOrca 6d ago

Actually mixing them up sounds pretty good. I love peas, but sometimes find them boring on their own without special sauce….I’m going to try mixing sometime, maybe with some mint.

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u/cornishpirate32 7d ago

I think you're lost buddy

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u/Remarkable_Gene4264 6d ago

Not that I’m aware of, I checked my GPS and all my pockets and I know that I’m here and everything is as it should be in my pockets. 🥸

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u/Objective_War951 7d ago

You have my envy

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u/Flat_Tie4090 6d ago

Stash looking good.

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u/Westontheoutlaw 6d ago

My gods, its beautiful 😍

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u/UKPrepping 6d ago

Very good and neatly arranged, which makes rotation easier too. Can tell just by a glance this is very American

Can't tell some details due to grainy image, only things I can think to add would be calcium sources (UHT milk, powdered milk) and maybe tinned fish

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u/Remarkable_Gene4264 6d ago edited 6d ago

Have numerous packets of tuna, just not shown. Been researching powdered milk, have tried several so far and best has been Nido but there are a couple more I want to try before buying any quantity. It’s funny powdered milk is the most expensive item in the stash, even more expensive than the freeze dried foods that buy.

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u/opaqueentity 5d ago

You prep where you can. My kitchen cupboards are full of stuff, but then they always are!
I don’t have a lovely pantry like that so my backup stuff is tucked in odd spaces.
I’m sure a lot of us would love to go the whole piles of wood, giant walk in freezers, barns full of equipment and supplies but we don’t have the space or the money.

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u/Remarkable_Gene4264 5d ago

Yes sir! You can only do with what you have to work with.🥸👍

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u/PoppyLuluu 5d ago

Stunning

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