What else to add to food stores.

Carbs are the most difficult thing to get from the environment.  Beans wheat are good to store.  Honey has indefinite shelf life.  Dried peas lentils, soup mix.


There are  a few ideas the list of things to store are never ending.   

Absolutely agree with this.

I would add that one of the most important things to add to your food prep is food prep knowledge and experience. So many people turn their noses up at tofu, but some of my favourite meals are tofu-based and that's because I've taken the time and effort to find ways to prepare it that I absolutely LOVE. Remember that it takes several times of eating a new food for your tastes to begin to adapt to it. 

Dried beans are extremely easy to store and can provide a good protein boost along with several micros that are really important (ie. calcium etc). It's very easy to make your own tofu. Crazy easy. You can make meringue with aqua faba, aka bean water. Black bean burgers can be downright drool-worthy if you smoke them or put liquid smoke in. I don't judge on smoke source. Chick peas are required for hommus. If you don't like homus, I don't think I can help you and you may need to be committed because you're a little insane.

Beans are probably one of the best prepper foods imo, because they're so flexible and easy to store. I can't keep a cow in a barrel in the garage and expect it to be ok in five or ten or more years time lol.

Flavourings.
Anything that helps you cope with boredom or yucky.

If you are addicted to teriyaki or just can't handle plain food, it helps the transition to have some long-life stores like that.

+1 on flavourings. Plenty of salt, pepper, stock cubes, ‘erbs and spices will make life more bearable. Better yet grown your own herbs and spices. They are easy and will save you a bucket load of cash if you cook with them regularly as opposed to buying them from he shops.

Stealth, those blackbean burgers sound pretty nice. The smoke flavours would be awesome.

I also keep almonds and cashews in bulk - some in the cupboard and some in the freezer. If you have power to run a blender it’s very easy to make almond milk, cashew cream, cheese substitutes, etc. Again, much easier to store than a cow. I know people make fun of almond milk, but if you don’t have dairy, you might welcome it. It doesn’t taste like dairy milk, and cashew cheese doesn’t taste anything like dairy cheese, but they are foods that can be used in the same way. Like instant coffee doesn’t taste like espresso, and cereal beverage doesn’t taste like either - they are different drinks that can be used in similar ways (although cereal bev if course doesn’t help with caffeine headaches!).

Of course nuts have lots of other benefits too.

What is its shelf life like?

The long life packs have a long best before date - a year or so. But if you’re thinking of getting a few, taste them first. The flavour of each brand is very different. Our preference is vitasoy, and I buy a lot when it’s reduced to $2 a carton.

Homemade almond milk is much nicer, it has an extremely short fridge life - a couple of days.

And I don’t just prefer homemade almond milk because I think all homemade is better. Almond milk really is good when homemade (nothing like dairy milk though!). I much prefer store bought soy milk - can’t seem to work out how to make it at home that tastes as good. But I could do it if needed, and you start with homemade soy milk to get tofu - which works beautifully.

One can never have too many recipe books - I reckon I've got close to 80.

i pulled the pin on wise foods, freeze dried buckets. Im working my through a few main meals this month and they are good.

25 year shelf life. I spent 18k on a pallet from the us, took 6 months to get here.