A Heads Up, Just My Opinion on Food and Supplies? Time To Stock Up? OP 🥫
Last edited Mon Apr 6, 2026, 03:05 PM - Edit history (1)
Daily Kos, April 6, 2026. Edit. (Some suggest asking your doctor for 3 month prescription refills in case of supply chain disruptions).
--------
I want to inform the readers here and this may just be my opinion, but I am going to try and stock up on some food necessities. Flour, vegetable oil, milk, eggs, cheap meat like Spam and any that is presently on sale. I feel with Trump’s newest insanity, the oil prices could definately impact transport of major food chain supplies. My Mom always told me that if you have flour and shortening, you would never go hungry. Biscuits and gravy can fill that empty spot.
Of course we need veggies and fruit and protein but we need to be prepared for Trump’s war on America and in my opinion that is what it is. Some younger folks have not learned how to can, well some older folks as well. As a precaution, freezing and canning food seems in order during this Trump nonsense.
I remember that my grandparents had a garden but always canned food at the cannery and sometimes at home. I remember a closet full of canned food with labels that my cousins and myself labeled with a stamp and sometimes written…Veg soup, Tomato soup and applesauce. I am sure we had more that that canned but I can still still rows and rows of canned food . My grandparents had enough food to take care of not only themselves but the extended family, immediate family and folks who showed up hungry. Every single Tuesday and Thursday my cousins and sisters and me helped out at the canning plant..that food supply carried us and others for years.
I think so many of us have lost the ability to make sure we can sustain without running to a local supermarket. I think it is better to be prepared than be caught without. If you have a garden, start picking and canning. If you don’t…pick up on sale items when you grocery shop now like canned tomatoes, canned potatoes, canned okra. I personally like all those things fresh but still want to stock up on the things that can pull together a nutritious meal. Flour, Shortening, eggs, milk….regular, canned (eagle brand) and powdered, canned vegetables,
Spam ( I don’t like Spam but it is useful), canned meats, bologna, Bread that can be frozen, Cornbread mix, Anything you can freeze if you have a freezer, Toss your change in a jar..It adds up over time.
Keep a back up of your back up supplies and keep them separate as not to be using from two or three different opened containers. onions, pasta or any noodles, I actually have no problem refrigerating flour, sugar and cornmeal on my backup and especially loaves of bread, Beans…Lots of dried beans…Pintos are full of protein. These are just some suggestions of how to take one less worry off your plate. No one should be hungry in this country as much money as those millionaires have horded. We cannot depend on the government to intervene in our necessities..
Now is the time to stock..Not when the grocery stores empty out. Buy bars of soap. Many bars of soap...
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/4/6/2376612/-A-heads-up-Just-my-opinion-on-food-and-supplies?
= new reply since forum marked as read
I finally learned how to do it all by myself last year. It's worth it if you have storage space. You can usually find most of the pots and jars at a thrift store, new lids are the part you have to get new.
Instructions can be found online. It does take time but if you have a couple other people, it can turn into a fun activity. I once lived in a neighborhood where a few households, all adults, would get together on Labor Day weekend and can bushels of tomatoes while having a weekend party with plenty of booze and whatever. We had a lot of fun, ended up with gallons of three products; salsa, tomato juice and whole tomatoes. We had a system for doling out the jars and returning them for the next year.
But now I live elsewhere but am over my fear of doing it alone, It pays off when there's not a lot of cash for groceries.
Dehydrating is a lot easier and the end result takes up less space.
