As mentioned, short term food stuffs in basement pantry. If you have pets do not forget them. We have a little pomchi, not a defense dog, but it will get your attention if something is going on, but little dogs equal little poop and little food. My daughter also loves him and he is good for her so hes part of the family.
As for the food stuffs, The big can rack in the middle of the 3rd photo is the built up one from "shelf reliance" in American Fork Utah. They do not sell it like this but you can buy the parts to build your own, after looking at their site just now, the prices are WAY up. Glad I got mine when I did, this rack is about 7 years old and is amazing. The width of these are fully adjustable. The top 5 racks are for the standard 14 oz can diameter or smaller. I have 30 rows of this size can, each row holds 17. I also have 4 rows of XS cans, These are your tomato paste or small sliced olives, or chilies or the like. There are 23-24 cans available in these rows. Campbell condensed soups are odd sized, they fit 20 per row. The bottom row is for your "medium sized" cans (like 30oz whole tomato size). I have cans ranging from the 50 oz pineapple juice to canned chicken, each row holds 11 cans, with 7 rows. The top shelf is super solid and its used for Peanut butter, salt, sugar, flour, etc. Just in cans on this rack there is the availability for 702 cans. It is typically 90% full, so its ALOT of food alone. There is typically 8 jars of Peanut butter on top which is a good dense calorie food. In cans I keep a few rows of chili (Stagg Country Sweet Pepper is my favorite), It also has canned coconut milk that improves rice ALOT and is used in sauces and has 2 rows. Canned pumpkin has 2 rows as well and I use it for soup, dessert, egg substitute, tomato sauce substitute (lasagna or baked ziti is amazing with pumpkin and spinach instead of tomato sauce) high in vitamin A and fiber. There are a metric ton of beans which fiber, amino acids, and are good, some varaites are black, kidney, refried pinto, refried black, maple baked, grilling beans- bourbon brown sugar, pork and beans, black eye peas with bacon, and bean and bacon campbells soup. There is also large cans of chicken (33 of them), as well as sweet potatoes which are also high in vitamin A. Fruits, veggies, etc round out the mix.
Off to either side are "cansolidator can racks" these are the deeper 16" versions (they do make a shallower version for home cupboards as well) on the metro racks. They are cheap and great for the just getting going in food storage. Also made by "shelf reliance" there are other similar manufactures but I liked these the best. Helps they are only 25 minutes away. They fit 10 standard cans, 7 medium cans, 11 condensed campbells soup cans, and 8 chunky soup cans per row. There are 196 cans in these. From whole chilis, tomatillos, canned meat, which can start a verde out nice. Enchilada sauce, more chili varieties, canned milks, base soups (cream of chicken and cream of mushroom) more veggies, processed cheese, and some fruit.
On the shelves are trays made of boxes holding pudding, gelatin, yeast (alot of yeast I bake tons), peanuts, jerky, packaged beans/ peas/ lentil/ rice, stocks, pickled veggies, pasta, noodles, pasta sauce, hot sauce, condiments, toppings, boxed milks, cocoa/ cider, about 70lbs of flour, about 20lbs of corn meal, a few specialty flours (tapioca, potato, and the like) oatmeal, apple sauce, dog treats, syrups, jams, salsa, cereal, and canned meats. This is where the inventory is nice and placing things by types in the trays.
I keep several juice varieties, water cases (at least 20), liquor (2 cases of bourbon alone... my drink of choice), wine, soda, flavored waters, and other things as well.
Add this to what you find in the average homes fridge, deep freezer, pantry, cupboards, and then the long term food stuff, its a crap ton of stuff, literally a TON. Just in rice I have 1400 lbs in buckets, there is also wheat, beans, lentils, split peas, sugar, honey, and slat. Then toss in a hundred cases of #10 cans to augment this. Its retarded, takes about an hour of work a week to maintain plan, and update. But Im not really sweating the small stuff.
Hope everyone has a safe week as depending on the outcome soon, there may be riots in a few areas, and likely war within the year.... Hope not but there is not really any other foreseeable outcome either way. Be safe, stay alert, and keep the powder dry friends.
