The Best Canned Food To Store As Survival Food

One type of Canned Food stands out above all the others as a Survival Food to store in your Prepper Pantry.
Which one is it? Canned Meat, Canned Fish, Canned Fruit, Canned Vegetables, Canned Beans, One Pot Meals in a can, or something else?

[WolfQuantum]

I gotta share an old experience with Beenie Weenies. Back in the mid-70s I shared a crappy apartment with another fellow. We both worked at the same place. The heat worked a few days for the winter of 76 in southern Ohio. We got paid weekly but would run out of food (and money) by Wed night or mid-Thursday. We would take bottles (2 cent deposit) and what literal change we might have to get something to eat. If it wasn't ketchup or mayonnaise sandwiches, it was usually a few cans of Beenie Weenies. Eaten cold because we didn't have propane for the stove. The fridge didn't work either. So after a winter of way too many cold BWs I moved on.

Years later I'm going through Army Basic Training. C-Rats were still the thing. We head out early in the morning for our 12-mile road march. We stop for breakfast and the DIs plop down a few cases of C-Rats. I was excited because I would finally get to try Cs. We couldn't choose and had to take what was handed to us. What did I find when I opened the box? Freaking cold Beenie Weenies!

[SoCalRvca]

You made me realize I need more one pot meals. I have a lot of the individual ingredient types but, less of the one pot meals. I'm changing up my grocery list for the next trip.
I always enjoy your videos. Thank you!

[richardelliott]

When researching beans for my prepper pantry, I was quite pleased to discover that a single can of baked beans perfectly satisfied me as a meal! I prefer mine with a line or two of yellow mustard mixed in. Their flavor can easily be enhanced to suit your pallette with routine spices...

[eduardodiaz]

God Bless you Brother 🇺🇲 for getting us ready, GOD BLESS AMERICA 🇺🇸👍

[carollawrence]

This is one of the better Prepper shows. I thought I had a lot of knowledge about food, but have learned a lot. Keep up the good work.

[ikemontel]

Beans in conjunction with rice are the saving grace of many low income communities and nations.

[dlessard]

“Dump” recipes are a good idea. One pot meals with a few different cans dumped together maybe including rice or beans. Tends to make enough for a family.

[honestabe]

Anything you can eat cold! Beany Weenies, Tuna, the pouch rice with beans, certain Campbell Soups, Crackers, Green Beans, Corn, Small Fruit Cups and Cans, Raisins. Stock and rotate. Oh yeah, TP!!

[dalepres]

My wife and I are retired and empty nesters. Our kids are a couple hours away in different directions so we may have them in an emergency but probably not - especially the one daughter who is married to a rancher. For us two, though, we were both raised eating canned goods - not as preppers but just how our families ate. We know how to make a lot of meals by just combining cans. Chili is just a can of red beans, a can of Wolf's chili without beans, and a can of diced tomatoes. It doesn't need any flavorings or spices.

We make bread and went for many years with never buying a store bread, making our own buns, sandwich loaves, everything. I had an injury to my neck and can't do the bread as much but that will eventually pass and we'll get back to baking. I have sourdough that is 3 years old right now and we'll keep using that as well as yeast breads.

Always get your fruits with heavy syrup. If you don't need the sugar, pour it off, but having it available might be important.

We do love the hearty soups and eat them regularly.

Over all, what we have always known, always done, is eat what you buy and buy what you eat. I ate a lot of canned pastas as a kid but my wife never did so I keep just a few cans of that because I have to eat them alone. Most things we both eat so we can make better use of the cans when we open them. Consider that, things like our chili that takes 3 cans to make the meal, today we get two good meals out of it. If we knew we couldn't get more food but we had electricity, we would stretch that easily to three meals, but in the worst case, no refrigeration, we're opening three cans to make just one meal. That's just the way of it.

I don't do facebook but it would be great to share recipes with other people using canned foods and other types that are typically stored for emergencies. We don't do much on the dehydrated as the cans come with their own water but dehydrated uses our water. We do like pasta, though, and we do the Knorr and similar one-package dehydrated side dishes. Throw a can of canned chicken or tuna in with what was a side dish and it becomes a meal.

[twostep]

To your suggestions, I would add tea because it doesn't need to be ground (like coffee) and can be put in a glass jar to make "sun tea" if you have no heat. Sadly, it requires a LOT of sugar. Drinking only water gets old quickly, and powdered sports-drink mix is a solution. We will need multivitamins because there won't be a lot of fresh greens. I definitely recommend (order on-line) Enso superfoods Supergreens; it arrives in what I think is a Mylar bag. Mixed in a chocolate-shake, it turns into a mint-chocolate shake. In a pinch, hot chocolate powder, sweetened condensed milk, and water plus Supergreens would do it. It can be mixed with just water, but not as much fun.

[Dcooper]

Thanks for sharing about one pot meals: I had thought they were off limit because of sodium and other preservatives, but realistically thinking, Survival Food needs to be calorically dense. I like how you broke the different types of canned foods down and then rated them within each category.

[gailcurl]

In a Bad Situation, All these Food Items are Good. We Are Trying to Survive, Not Picking What's Best!!

[finshaw]

That's a good breakdown for different ideas. I think of survival food maybe a little differently, I prepare for a Venezuela type situation, where it is very difficult to get meat, milk, and basic necessities. I will be able to make my own bread, and have plenty of cans of different meats, vegetables, and things I usually expect to buy regularly. I'm glad that you mentioned the ravioli type canned meals, that made me feel more confident that I haven't been adding stupid stuff to my stash. There are also a lot of really hearty soups out there, great by themselves or over some rice or noodles.

[rulistening]

You are So Adorable Darlin.
And the disappearing chickens are very entertaining.
I love your presentations

[MarkFaust]

I have a very small menu for canned food, so it was easy for me to prep. Tuna, chicken, sardines, beef for the proteins and then just corn and green beans. My main prep is my cooking fuel and pastas, and of course a few ways to protect my investments.

[Mrs.Silversmith]

I love to get the refried beans because I know I will use them in a variety of dishes, so they will get rotated through the pantry regularly. Plus, they are just so darn tasty.

[baddabeer]

If you do have most canned chili… add a can of rotel tomatoes. Kicks it up amazingly

[roryincali]

Good info, thanks. By the way, I'm pretty sure the rooster was saying; "DON'T GET 😂

[BrendaBodwin]

You forgot Twinkies. When all mankind is gone, Twinkies and Spam will remain to mark that mankind was once here.

[lindawolffkashmir]

One thing I would add, watch the acidic foods like tomatoes, fruits, sauerkraut, etc. for can integrity. These foods will compromise the can quickly, especially if there’s some damage, or if stored in a damper place. If you want to keep these foods, rotate them out on a regular basis. They’re not bad foods to store, but you have to keep on top of them much more than the others.