Thread: What do You Stockpile?

I have been researching stockpiling. Anyone here stockpile? if so what do you stockpile and how do you store it. I haven't started stockpiling yet being that I have just started on my journey to a frugal life.
I would really like to have any input and ideas on the subject.

Thanks,
Gizzymo

My food pantry has all the dry food goods that we use in it - Flours, rice, baking supplies, cereal grains, salt, and dry beans. Basic stuff. I make my own noodles, breads and cereals and other mixes, chips etc. We raise or trade for 98% of all the food we consume. My spice cabinet is full of herbs and spices (most of which we raise ourselves) and my bakers cabinet is full of extracts and flavorings (most of which we process ourselves). One kitchen cabinet has dehydrated fruits for snacking, along with homegrown popcorn ready to pop, and homegrown peanuts and peanut butter and other nuts and nut butters. Another has coffees and teas. And the third has dehydrated onions and peppers and dry soup mixes.

Our basement shelves are full of home canned (jars) of homegrown fruits and vegetables. Sliced, diced, juiced, sauced, souped, jellied etc.
Another section of our basement stores potatoes, onions, garlic and root crops and cabbage family crops, for fresh eating. (Right now there are still a lot of potatoes and sweet potatoes in there. We just today brought the last of the fresh onions up into the kitchen bin. (The top section of the bin holds about 5 pounds of onions and the bottom section holds about 10 pounds of potatoes. The top is a table top and I usually have a jar of garlic sitting on it.)
Another section of the basement stores apples and other fruit for a few weeks or months after harvest until we get time to process them. We actually had apples stay usable in there this year until about two weeks ago.
Yet another section stores the melons for a few weeks after harvest and pumpkins and winter squash all winter. We have two butternut squash and a big green striped long neck cushaw squash, yet.
The fifth (back corner) section of our basement (used to be a coal bin) is now the home of our two mushroom kits.

We have two refrigerators and one holds the fresh stuff that requires refrigeration. Like milk, butter, cheese, tofu, fresh juice, left overs etc. Normal stuff. The other holds fresh from the chicken eggs, we try to give the eggs away to anyone who will take them, but we usually have a refrigerator full anyway. (We can't afford to deliver them to people and most don't want to come all the way out here to get them.) We do take some to some people but they have to take about 24 dozen at a time and we have to be going out in their direction (which does not happen very often) we told these people to use what they wanted and give the rest away to their neighbors.

The freezer part of one refrigerator stores a big mixed bag of frozen vegetable and stock cubes. Also, Fruit ice. And is mostly used in the summer as a flash freeze unit. (Put whatever you want to freeze in a single layer on a cookie sheet and freeze--once frozen put the frozen pieces in a freezer bag and seal. The bags are then put in one of the big freezers for storage.) The other one right now is full of the roosters we harvested last fall.
We have a small chest freezer that is full of frozen fruits; a large chest freezer filled with frozen vegetables and another large freezer filled with meat (beef, pork, chicken and turkey).

We eat from our garden year round--first fresh then home processed. We rotate foods that are in storage yearly. We have met our goal of having 8 years worth of food in storage (in case we have crop failures or we get sick and can't garden for a while or anymore.)

In the supply closet is enough toilet paper, tissues and paper towels; personal and dental care items; cleaning supplies, matches, batteries, light bulbs, lamp oil and wicks; foil and plastic wrap, wax paper, food storage bags and canning jar lids to last several years. My medicine cabinet (In the hall leading to the basement--cool and dark there) is full. Next to it a First Aid Kit is hanging on the wall along side the fire extinguisher.

I think that about covers it. Hope this helps. Thanks; Virginia