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Prepping is all swell and dandy, until you realize you don’t have the money for it. You buy stuff you immediately realize you can’t afford, even when it’s just some decent food.

Things are actually not that bad. Strolling through several supermarkets to check the usual – no on sale products – food items, I made a list with things a low-budget prepper would afford. I’m talking the most basic food one needs in his kitchen from the usual stores, like Wal-Mart, neighborhood grocery stores and the dollar stores.

Stockpiling food

So here is a list with 50 food stocks you can buy, one per week, for under $5:

  • 4 pounds of rice
  • 5 cans of fruit
  • 15 packs of Ramen Noodles
  • 6 cans of mixed vegetables
  • 4 pounds of white sugar
  • 3 cans of chili
  • 6 cans of tuna
  • 10 boxes of iodized salt
  • 15 packs of Ramen Noodles
  • 2 jumbo boxes of raisins
  • 4 cans of spaghetti sauce
  • 5 cans of diced tomatoes
  • 3 pounds of kidney beans
  • 5 cans of kidney beans
  • 10 cans of baked beans
  • 12 cans of generic condensed cream of mushroom soup
  • 12 cans of condensed tomato soup
  • 5 cans of apple juice
  • 6 bags of dry pasta
  • 1 pound jar of honey
  • 500 tea bags
  • 120 herbal tea bags
  • 4 pounds of dried black-eyed peas
  • 2 cartons of molasses
  • 15 boxes of baking soda
  •  5 jars of spices
  • 4 cans of flaked chicken
  • 5 bags of garlic powder
  • 2 cans of spam
  •  48 bottles of water
  • 2 jars of peanut butter
  • 10 boxes of macaroni and cheese
  •  3 cans of flaked ham
  • 10 cans of Vienna sausages
  • 3 cans of beef stew
  •  3 cans of flaked turkey
  • 10 packets of gravy mix
  • 1 canned ham
  • 3 bottles of barbecue sauce
  • 1 large canister of iced tea mix
  • 50 packs of generic cool-aid mix
  • 10 boxes of instant pudding
  • 20 boxes of gelatin mix
  • 10 cans of corn
  • 5 bags of dehydrated onion flakes
  • 2 bags of beef jerky
  • 2 pounds of powdered milk
  • 5 pound bag of flour
  • 3 pound bag of cornmeal
  • 3 jars of sauerkraut
  • 3 pounds of steel cut oats

You might think that these quantities are to big, but I’m talking about stockpiling food for emergency situations here. If you buy each of these items in the written quantity in a separate week, you will spend less than $25 per month, and in 50 weeks, you will be sure that you and your family will not die of starvation if the crisis comes.

Keep this list and pass it on so more people become aware that you don’t have to be rich to be a prepper.

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