Salt, pink and table

If you have a freezer and expect to have power, many things can be vac-sealed and stored. You just have to adjust for the changes in consistency when you do that.

I store:

Shredded cheese whipped eggs butter dry milk vegetables cured meats Spices, spice mixes, and pre-mixed ingredient packets for bread and other staples.

Things like eggs get gooey after freezing, but they're fine for using in cooking. Cheese gets sweaty, but melts fine. Sugar can get gooey as well, I only freeze-store that in mixed ingredient packs that I make up for things I like to cook often.

For things like eggs, I'll whip them and pour into silicone block soap molds, freeze, and then put the frozen brick in a bag and seal them.

Cornmeal and flour are the two most important things you can have besides rice and beans. You can make a huge amount of stuff with just those two things and water (and salt/sugar/ egg/milk/or butter if you have it) to survive on. A cup of flour cup of cornmeal and water and a little salt and sugar,( not necessary) will make a batter like pancake batter to make flat cakes for breakfast that you can put honey or maple syrup on. Hoe cakes are the same thing but with milk .

dry beans

coffee

I don't buy in bulk since there are only the two of us. Canned food lasts probably longer than you will live. I stocked up on it. Lots of canned beans. Dried beans take a lot of energy to cook. Also recently bought some dried potato flakes to try. Canned fish like tuna, salmon, sardines. Also canned soups, chili, and stew. Keep stocked up on dark chocolate for energy and mood lifting. Not for everyone...CBD extracts, candies for pain relief.

powdered milk perhaps?

Your hardest things to store are fat.

Red feather canned butter.

Bega canned cheese.

Those aren't really deals, but they are a vital part.

Salt, pepper and multivitamins. There's a reason that salt and/or peppercorns were often used as money through history. You can't buy too much salt -- it's a mineral, and never goes bad. On top of that, in a grid down situation you will be using a LOT more salt -- not just for consumption, but as a preservative.

Bulk pasta. It will give you an option for starch past the rice.

On the other hand, all of this is going to be pretty grim and just a way to get scurvy or beri-beri slowly if you don't have a garden. Even in an apartment, you have windows and can start some herbs. Olive oil, salt, pepper, the pasta and a few leaves basil and parsley from a window pot makes a MUCH better meal than plain pasta.

If you can get a garden going, grow tomatoes and squash and zucchini and cabbage, and you can get actual food that also lends itself to preservation. Learn to can (hot water bath is fine for all this, you really only need steam canners when you start putting back meat) and learn to make saurkraut.

Seriously, I thought I didn't like saurkraut until we started making our own. Even the stuff in the bags in the cooler at the store isn't as good as from your own crock. Same with tomatoes. I avoid fast food tomatoes now, because none of them are actually ripe (and most have been ruined by refrigeration as well.)

I did the same last jan when i watched those fake chinese video of people dying in the streets.

I still have a few bags of rice!

I may actually buy more, what is going on with the economic slow down is starting to worry me. The supply and demand side is no issue so the economy can rebound quickly, the artificial barriers to trade and capital flows is very worrying.

Check out Honeyville.com they've got bulk stuff freeze dried and canned in big cans.

If money isn't an issue get a freeze dryer. Your options will become endless.