what should a basic prepare for bad times pantry contain

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1. a couple of days? Really? Good heavens, I've got six months worth of various dried and canned

goods plus peanut butter right now. Periodically I take a couple of months and take pains to eat mostly what I have on hand to "turn it over", but I always keep long store type foods on hand.

If you are interested though, I keep just about every type of canned bean (several of each) dried rice, lots of peanut butter, some of those Indian packaged meals that keep a long time, Atkins and other meal/snack bars, Muscle milk protein powder, powdered or canned milk (or sometimes a quart or so of long shelf life milk), lots of water, canned chili, tomato sauce, diced tomatoes, green beans. That kind of thing.... Dried or canned/bottled fruit...

Oh and if you have a barbeque grill, you are golden. If not, buy one of those small butane table top grills meant for catering.

What to do with it? Well, I can make a veggie bean rice bowl out of just about anything or a veggie frittata using just about anything I listed. Smoothies with the protein powder and maybe some canned fruit or the peanut butter (you can shake it if necessary sans blender). The pouch meals (the Indian lentils are among my favorite--you just heat and eat over rice if you want).

No need to survive on junk. I've never had to go more than a few days without power, but heaven knows I could go for weeks if necessary.