How Many 5 Gallon Buckets Of Rice For 1 Year Of Long Term Food Storage?

How Many 5 Gallon Buckets Of Rice For 1 Year Of Long Term Food Storage?
Prepping food for long term storage does not have to be difficult or expensive. And the 5 gallon bucket method is always a good way to go!

In this video, I present a years worth of food stored away in 5 gallon buckets that will last over 25 years for under $500. That's a big deal as having a one year supply of food put away for one person can really get you far into a SHTF scenario. Just a reminder, I am only discussing white rice in this video which would obviously lack some necessary nutrients your body would need over the course of a year. That being said, calorically, this would provide a single adult with 2000 calories per day for 380 days. Not too bad is it?

Here is a link to the Wallaby Goods 5 Gallon Mylar Kit discussed in the video. I highly recommend this kit for any other long term food storage needs you might have as well. Especially when used in conjunction with 5 gallon buckets!

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[MagicPrepper]

Hopefully this video gave everyone an obtainable goal for food storage. A year's supply of food sounds like it will be a lot of work and money until it's laid out in front of you. My goal was to make that goal seem more achievable to all of the new preppers out there! Did you find this information helpful?
Here is a link to the Wallaby Goods 5 Gallon Mylar Kit discussed in the video. I highly recommend this kit for any other long term food storage needs you might have as well. Especially when used in conjunction with 5 gallon buckets!

[perilousrange]

One of the best suggestions I'd ever heard on buckets came from James Yeager when staying in the Team Room... Short fill the rice / beans to 4 gallons. Then throw three "restaurant size" spice containers on top. Black Pepper, Salt, Minced Onions, Boullion Cubes, etc. That way, with each bucket of rice, you automatically have enough seasonings to actually eat it.

[mrjon]

One thing I love about Magic is that his videos are loud enough! I can hear him 😂

[Rick-SPLATman]

Well, it appears that I need to buy more buckets. I've never done the math but after watching this video I'm 14 buckets short for a family of 3. Thank you sir for producing this content. You are greatly appreciated.

[regulardude]

Beef or chicken flavored soup base powder, goes well with rice. And it's cheap. Throw a little deer or rabbit meat in there and you're eating pretty good. It's not a Saturday night at the ol Pizza Hut, but it's calories that will keep your family from starving.
Great video. Keep them coming!

[goodcitizen]

AWESOME! I love that you made this so visual. 19 buckets, 25 lbs of rice in each? For $491! Wow!
A similar stack of beans would be a great compliment.

[bully_hunter_]

Great to see Magic still dropping real prepper content. The war is irrelevant if youre prepping properly

[texasgalsprepping]

Best thing I’ve heard all day…. “I have an unhinged desire to fill empty buckets with more food”. Mine would be seeing meat, poultry, or pork on sale and I say to myself “I should get that, I can pressure can it.”

People could spend 40-60 for a Sam’s Club membership for a year and get a variety of foods that are shelf stable and of course I know you know that. I understand the simplicity of the rice. However, my grandpa ate nothing but rice for a year. He and the other men he was with were very malnourished and none of them ever wanted to see rice again. Ha! But they were happy to be alive so… Anyway great video. Thank you.

[dababycar]

Pretty cool to be able to visualize what what one year of food looks like

[DavidCarroll-tg]

How about half of that cache as BEANS and the other half rice. That would allow for spices to have their say in variety and taste: salt, pepper, garlic powder, onion powder, cumin, chili powder and paprika.

[JK-jfxq]

If you want to use a clothes iron to seal the filled 5 gal mylar bags, you can use a short piece of 2x4 as an "ironing board" to hold on the lip of the bucket as you iron.

[LadyTSurvival]

Remember, if your food is in a mylar bag or some other type of container inside the bucket. You don't have to have food grade quality buckets. I use cat litter buckets for a lot of stuff, I get them for free. Now that being said I don't put food in there straight as is. It's in vacuum sealed pouches or mylar bags or some other type of container that keeps it from coming into direct contact with the plastic. I have also discovered brining bags, so if you use metal buckets and you are going to use mylar line it with a trash bag or a brining bag before you put the mylar bag in there because two different types of metal will create a chemical reaction which will corrode the mylar bag. It's called electrolysis. So separate the mylar from the metal container with a plastic bag of some sort. Same goes if you're putting it in a metal trash can to keep mice out make sure that you line it with a good plastic liner before you put your bags of food inside the metal trash can. Brining bags are super cheap 25 of them for I think it was eight or nine dollars and they are food grade. Constantly check your supplies because mice can chew through buckets or totes. Don't forget to store things like sugar cornmeal flour cocoa etc because it gets really old eating rice and beans day in and day out and some nice cornbread would go really well with it. If you are storing wheat berries in mylar, that's great it's an ideal thing... But also store some flour that you don't have to grind up and prepare ahead of time because in tough times one or two less steps can make life a whole lot easier although I recommend that the bulk of your bread making supplies be wheat berries, but flour is good to have as it is ready to use same with cornmeal. Definitely stock up on all this favorite spices in sufficient quantities to spice up your food stores as well as enough to spice up anything you can add to your meals like wild edibles or game or garden produce.

And do be cognizant of the fact that you don't want to live exclusively off of your long-term food storage. You're going to want to forage or garden or raise food like eggs chicken rabbits etc to supplement it. Because if you want your food stores to last you need to seriously supplement what you have stored with what you can scavenge or grow.

[baejiaoflying]

Calculated this for me and my wife. Our rice portions are rounded up to 3 ounces per person, per meal so 12 ounces per day for us both so about 23pounds per month.

[skydivingcomrade]

I'm a big fan of this!! Plus buying the buckets will allow one to find the space to store it.

[C.Brown]

Thanks MP, appreciate you sharing this information with us.. And that's a lot of food for $500, put another $400-$500 in food to add to the rice.. A person could eat pretty good for a year. 👍🇺🇲 We need to pay attention and do everything we can to be a step ahead.

[dherbert]

Should target 3000 cal daily. There will be a lot of physical activity SHTF: foraging, patrolling, cutting wood, fortifying, etc.

Beyond grain MUST be FAT. Fat is much much more dense in calories and is an essential component for our diet. Will starve without it.

Cheese, Ghee, Oil, canned fish. 1lb block of cheddar is enough fat for family of 4 for 1 week.

[oaksparoakspar]

(1) If you are looking for a years worth of calories for the lowest price, you can't beat sugar. Obviously, you cannot just eat sugar for a year - but you can't really do that with white rice either, since it is honestly not that far from just being sugar itself. Sugars (white, brown, honey, corn syrup, maple syrup, etc) all last pretty much forever with little to no effort (just keep it dry) and in a high-calorie burn SHTF situation serve two functions. First, a cheap way of adding calories to your diet, and second, to flavor unpalatable food so that people will eat things with appetite (especially little ones who can be picky and don't understand the nature of a crisis).

(2) White rice is cheapest rice per calorie, parboiled has the best durability on the shelf and better nutrients, and brown doesn't keep so don't stockpile it past what you will eat pre-apoc within a year or two. Whether you go with white or parboiled, write the water to rice ratio and what you find to be a good serving size on EVERYTHING. Buckets, bag, etc - because you might not be the one cooking it even if you can trust your memory for the quantities. Remember that you never want to drain rice - better to eat it soggy than pour out the water.

(3) Pasta is another cheap and easy staple to keep back with a near limitless shelf life. Spaghetti is better than shapes (takes up less space), and the thinner the better (as it takes FAR less energy to cook angel hair than it does to cook thick spaghetti - several minutes of boiling time). Even if you don't have fuel issues (cooking over wood fires), it will take less water. You can also figure out the ratio to not have to drain pasta and even if you do drain it, do so into a soup stock - no reason to waste any starch calories.

(4) It is okay to be "too deep" into long storage carbs just so long as you don't mistake that for having a long term supply to live off of. Your food stockpile to live off of is only as deep as it provides you a diet you can truly live off of. At some point everyone has to consider supplementing from outside sources (gardens, hunting, fishing, livestock, etc). Even so, having a stockpile of rice, pasta, sugar, etc AFTER you have depleted your stockpile proper and are living from other sources is a great thing. Supplementing extra calories, especially in a bad year like a drought or due to an injury/illness, can absolutely be a lifesaver. After all things can hit the fan again even in the midst of a world that has already hit the fan. Reality has dysentery like that sometimes.

[justnana]

I love 5 gallon buckets but when I couldn't get them for awhile I found 2 5 gallon bags would fit in a large tote so I did some like that.

[MrLandphill]

i did some work for a Chinese restaurant a few months back I got 2 100 pound bags of rice as part of the payment. got many buckets filled with rice.

[sealed]

It also needs to be pointed out that you don't have to achieve a whole years worth of food as an immediate goal. If you're on a budget a few weeks worth of food might be the goal. This rice prep can be scaled down to any budget. A 10lb bag of rice is cheap and is a great start for those on a REALLY low budget