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Top 100 Survival Foods At The Grocery Store
Now let’s get to the list. I divided it into the following categories: fruits and veggies, grains and starches, meat and protein, and miscellaneous foods.

Fruits and Veggies
Canned Fruits
Most fruits won’t last very long on their own, but canned fruits and vegetables should last for at least one to two years beyond the date on the can.

Applesauce
Mixed Fruit
Peaches
Pears
Pineapple
Dried Fruits
Dried fruits can still provide you with the same nutrients as other kinds of fruits. Raisins, in particular, are loaded to the brim with fiber, Vitamin C, iron, potassium, and protein. If possible, go with organic dried fruits.

Apricots
Banana Chips
Cranberries
Fruit Leathers
Mixed Fruit
Raisins
Canned Vegetables
Canned vegetables, on their own, admittedly don’t offer much as a survival food. But the idea is that they can serve as an addition to other kinds of meals.

Carrots
Corn
Green Beans
Mixed Vegetables
Peas
Spaghetti Sauce
Tomatoes
Grains and Starches

Cereals
Resist the temptation and to stockpile Cookie Crisp and Lucky Charms and try to focus on the healthier cereals such as Cheerios or Rasin Brain. You want to get plenty of fiber and nutrients.

Cereal
Flour
Flour is seriously one of the best survival foods because all you need to do is mix it with some salt, yeast, sugar, and water and you can make dough for bread, pizza, etc.

Flour is also very rich in fibers, minerals, and vitamins. In more ways than not, it really could be considered a ‘core’ food item to stockpile. By the way, be sure you get white flour as wheat and many other types of flour are usually only good for a few months.

Pancake Mix
Waffle Mix
White Flour
Pasta
Pasta is filled with tons of carbohydrates, it’s incredibly cheap, and it can be found at virtually any grocery store. To prepare it, all you need is some boiling water. Additionally, dried pasta will also last for years beyond the date stamped on the box or packaging.

So to put this into perspective: you could technically be enjoying spaghetti or mac and cheese for dinner during a major disaster scenario.

Fettuccine
Linguine
Macaroni
Ramen noodles
Spaghetti
Potatoes
Obviously, you can’t store regular potatoes for very long except for in a root cellar, but there are other options.

Hashbrown mix
Mashed potato mix
Rice
Here’s something that you undoubtedly expected to see on this list, but there’s a huge asterisk here: only buy white rice for survival and disaster preparedness and never brown rice.

Even though brown rice is technically more nutritious than white rice, it also has a much shorter shelf life and spoils more easily. White rice will last for years under ideal storage conditions, while brown rice will only last for a few months.

That’s also not to mention that white rice is very cost-efficient, and can be bought in bulk on the cheap.

White Rice
Other Grains
Although flour has a good shelf life under the right conditions, you’ll get a much longer shelf life out of grains like wheat. Here are a few suggestions.

Barley
Cornmeal
Grits
Kamut
Oats
Quinoa
Rye
Wheat
Of course, there are many other types of wheat such as buckwheat, couscous, spelt, and so forth. It depends on your preferences.

Meat and Protein
Beans (Canned and Dried*)
Along with rice, beans are considered to be a classic survival food. It’s not at all difficult to see why: beans are rich with proteins and nutrients, can be stored in bulk, have a shelf life of several years, and they can be bought very cheaply as well. In many ways, beans are a super food.

So why did I put an asterisk next to “dried”? Because although dried beans can last for an incredibly long time, they’re probably not worth the trouble in a survival scenario. Even after presoaking them, you have to cook them for at least an hour which is a huge waste of water and energy? You’re better off getting canned beans.

Black Beans
Baked Beans
Black-Eyed Peas
Garbanzo Beans
Kidney Beans
Lentils
Lima Beans
Pinto Beans
Beef Jerky
Jack Link’s
Canned Meat
Just as you should be stockpiling canned fruits and vegetables because they last longer on the shelf, so you should stockpile canned meats as well.

Granted, canned meat is not going to taste anywhere near as good as a homemade beef roast dinner or BBQ pork ribs or a roasted chicken. But it will give you the exact same amount of protein, and furthermore, it will last for years on the shelf.

Beans (Canned and Dried*)
Along with rice, beans are considered to be a classic survival food. It’s not at all difficult to see why: beans are rich with proteins and nutrients, can be stored in bulk, have a shelf life of several years, and they can be bought very cheaply as well. In many ways, beans are a super food.

So why did I put an asterisk next to “dried”? Because although dried beans can last for an incredibly long time, they’re probably not worth the trouble in a survival scenario. Even after presoaking them, you have to cook them for at least an hour which is a huge waste of water and energy? You’re better off getting canned beans.

Black Beans
Baked Beans
Black-Eyed Peas
Garbanzo Beans
Kidney Beans
Lentils
Lima Beans
Pinto Beans
Beef Jerky
Jack Link’s
Canned Meat
Just as you should be stockpiling canned fruits and vegetables because they last longer on the shelf, so you should stockpile canned meats as well.

Granted, canned meat is not going to taste anywhere near as good as a homemade beef roast dinner or BBQ pork ribs or a roasted chicken. But it will give you the exact same amount of protein, and furthermore, it will last for years on the shelf.

Canned Beef
Canned Chicken
Canned Tuna (in oil)
Spam
Vienna Sausages
Nuts/Seeds
Almonds
Mixed Nuts
Peanuts
Pecans
Sunflower Seeds
Walnuts
Nut Butters
Peanut butter is a particularly valuable food item to have on hand, especially if you have children. It is filled with fat, protein, and other nutrients, and kids love it.

That’s also not to mention that peanut butter will have a shelf life of several years past its stamped expiration date, which further aids in its value as a survival food item.

Almond Butter
Cashew Butter
Peanut Butter
Protein Bars
Some protein bars have a shelf life of several years, and they’re very convenient to pack. If you need to leave your house on an expedition or supply run, for instance, you can stuff a few bars in your backpack for a quick and easy meal that will also supply you with badly needed energy and nutrition.

That’s also not to mention that because protein bars are very small, they don’t take up much space, and you can literally have entire boxes filled up with them in your pantry.

Pure Protein Bars
Miscellaneous Foods
These things didn’t fit neatly in any other the other categories because most of them have foods from each one (for example, canned soup).

Condiments
Imagine eating a hamburger without ketchup and mustard. Or a place of pancakes without syrup. It should be obvious why condiments are so important. Don’t forget about them.

BBQ Sauce
Honey
Hot Sauce
Jam/Jelly
Ketchup
Mustard
Salad Dressing
Soy Sauce
Syrup
Drinks
During a long-term disaster, you are going to get sick of water very quickly. Keep your morale up by having some juice, Gatorade, or hot cocoa. Coffee will be particularly important if you’re hooked onit.

Coffee
Cocoa Mix
Gatorade Powder
Juice Mix
Protein Powder
Tea
Ingredients
A lot of your other foods will be useless if you don’t have salt, sugar, cooking oil, baking powder, and the many other ingredients that are important in so many recipes.

Baking Powder
Baking Soda
Cooking Oil
Ghee
Lard
Powdered Cheese
Powdered Eggs
Powdered Milk
Salt
Spices
Sugar
Vanilla Extract
Vinegar
Yeast
Instant Meals
Don’t feel like cooking? Just open up the can or container and start eating. Personally, I don’t mind eating Hormel canned soups at room temperate. They still taste great!

Canned Chili
Canned Soup
Hormel Meals
Snacks
As I’ve already mentioned, morale is important during a crisis, and things like cookies and hard candies make it much easier to stay positive.

Cookies
Crackers
Granolas
Hard Candies
Pickles
Popcorn
Tips On Storing Food
Food Storage Locations
In fact, the proper storage of food is really more important than the type of food or how much of it you store. Why? Because if you don’t store it properly, it will all go bad anyway, and you may as well not have stored anything.

View your food storage as an investment, and one that is arguably more valuable than any other investment you have made because you literally cannot live without it.

First, you need to find a good location for your food cache. Here are some important qualities that you will need to look for in a food storage location:

No direct sunlight
Room temperature (no greater than eighty degrees Fahrenheit, but less than seventy degrees will make your food last a lot longer)
Free of mold and pests
Free of moisture (no dripping water or humidity or moisture of any kind)
Based on the above criteria, you should have no difficulty in coming up with a few different places in your home to store your food.