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15 Best Canned Foods To Add To Your Stockpile

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I want to start off by pointing out that you’re better off canning and/or dehydrating fruits, meats,
and vegetables. Foods preserved at home are cheaper and healthier than store-bought canned
foods.
Having said that, if you’re new to prepping and don’t know much about food preservation, or if
you’re just looking to add more variety to your food stockpile, canned foods are an excellent
option because they’re very easy to store and they have a very long shelf life, sometimes lasting
for decades.
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But which canned foods should you store? Here’s our list of recommendations:
1. Apples
I was going to mention applesauce, but it doesn’t normally come in cans. Besides, it’s better to
get canned apples because you can use them as they are, or you can just mash them into
applesauce.
Sweet foods are far outnumbered by savory ones when you’re limited to canned products, so
canned apples are a great way to satisfy your sweet tooth while also getting most of the
nutrients offered by a fresh apple.
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2. Bacon
Yes, you read that correctly – bacon is available in a can!
If you are looking for a way to add delicious flavor to a wide variety of dishes while also
increasing the amount of protein and calories that they provide, you can’t go wrong with canned
bacon.
Best of all, canned bacon has a shelf life of over ten years, making it an excellent product to
stock up on.

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3. Baked Beans
What kind of prepper doesn’t have canned beans? Baked beans make for a great side dish, or
they can be used as an addition to a number of recipes such as chilis, stews, and soups.
They’re also high in protein and fiber and are quite affordable as well.
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4. Beef Stew
If you want to stock up on beef stew, you’ll have all kinds of options to choose from. There are
many types of beef stew with most containing a number of vegetables as well.
The result is a filling meal high in protein and fiber that can also be added to rice and pasta to
make for an easy dish.
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5. Bread
Bread will likely be one of the most difficult food items to acquire in a survival scenario given that
making it fresh requires a lot of different ingredients as well as some pretty serious baking skills.
Thankfully, B&M offers a product called canned brown bread which serves as a decent
substitute. It’s not the best tasting bread and it isn’t exactly something you could use to make a
sandwich, but it does go well with beans and other foods.
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6. Chicken
If you’re unable to raise your own chickens, storing cans of chunk chicken breast is the next best
thing. Canned chunk chicken breast contains diced chicken breast that is pre-cooked and
packed in water, meaning that it is ready to eat right out of the can.
You can use the chicken breast in any recipe that calls for diced chicken or add it to salads and
sandwiches. You can also use the water that has soaked up the chicken flavor as chicken broth.
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7. Chili
If you want a ready-to-eat meal right out of the can, canned chili is a great option. Canned chili
comes in a wide variety of flavors with an equally wide variety of ingredients, and it can also be
enjoyed as an addition to dishes such as pasta and rice.
Most importantly, chili is a high-calorie meal and a great source of fiber and protein.
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8. Corn
Corn is one of the best foods you can stockpile. You can use it in countless recipes, or you can
eat it by itself.
Plus, it’s high in calories, and pretty much everybody likes it. This is one instance where you’re
definitely better off buying the canned version instead of buying it fresh and preserving it
yourself.

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9. Diced Tomatoes
So many recipes are tomato-based that canned tomatoes are an essential supply to stock up on.
If you buy diced tomatoes instead of tomato sauce or tomato paste, though, you can easily use
a blender to turn them into any type of canned tomato product that you need.
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10. Green Beans

Growing fresh vegetables in a survival garden is always an ideal solution. However, certain
times of the year you may not have any fresh vegetables available, even if you are able to
successfully grow a garden.
To supplement your veggies, stock up on canned vegetables such as canned green beans which
are high in nutrients and can be eaten as a side dish or added to a number of soups and
casseroles.
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11. Pie Filling

If canned applesauce isn’t quite enough to satisfy your cravings for sweet foods, you can stock
up on canned pie filling as well. Even if you don’t have the ingredients necessary to bake a pie,
simply heating up the pie filling and eating it by itself can make for a tasty treat.
Pie filling might not be as nutritious as most of the foods in your stockpile, but it is high in
calories and can serve as a guilty pleasure at a time when such pleasures may be few and far
between.

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12. Soup
Especially chicken noodle soup. There’s a reason why chicken noodle soup is a go-to favorite for
people who are feeling under the weather. This soup is hearty, warming, and full of easy-to-
digest energy to get you back up on your feet.
Add cans of chicken noodle soup to your survival stockpile to enjoy regardless of whether
you’re feeling sickly or not.
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13. Spam
Spam may have somewhat of a poor reputation, but you may be surprised to learn that it’s
actually made of a lot higher quality meat than other processed meats such as hot dogs. Rather
than being made from meat by-products, spam is produced using ham and chopped pork
shoulder.
Spam is also high in protein, calories, and fats, and it can be used as a substitution for other
meat in most dishes such as stews, pastas, and chilis.
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14. Tuna
Tuna makes for an excellent source of fatty acids and protein and is especially high in nutrients if
you get tuna that is packed in oil rather than water (as an important bonus, tuna packed in oil
keeps for a longer period of time as well).

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salads and sandwiches, or eaten straight out of the can.
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15. Vegetable Medley

Speaking of supplementing fresh vegetables with canned vegetables, stocking up on cans of
vegetable medley will allow you to enjoy a variety of vegetables such as corn, carrots, green
beans, lima beans, and others all in a single product.
It makes for a great side dish that offers a range of nutrients given all of the different vegetables
that it contains.
How to Get the Most Out of Your Canned Foods

Knowing which foods to buy is only the first step. The next step is figuring out how to properly
store your food. Most canned foods have a great shelf-life. However, you can extend the shelf-
life even further by storing them in a cool, dark location.
Even if you store your cans in an ideal location, it’s still important to watch out for signs of
spoilage. When canned foods do spoil, the results are nothing to mess around with. Botulism –
one common form of canned food spoilage – can actually lead to death. Suffice it to say that one
bad can could easily ruin your entire survival plan, causing a few miserable days at best and
costing you your life at worst.
To further prevent spoilage, get in the habit of rotating your food storage. For example, if a can
has a shelf-life of five years and you’ve been storing it for four years, take it out and eat it now
and then replace it with a fresh can. That way, you’re always keeping your stockpile fresh for
when disaster strikes.
How you label your canned food is another important consideration. While the canned food you
buy will likely be labeled well-enough the day it’s bought, the food inside the may very well
outlast the label on the outside.
Over time, labels can fade or peel off, making it impossible to distinguish what’s inside that blank
aluminum. As a backup plan, you may want to add a strip of masking tape to the top of each can
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Lastly, be sure to add plenty of can openers to your stockpile as well. Can openers do break or
stop working sometimes, so it’s a good idea to have plenty of them around. While opening a can
with a knife is possible, it’s not nearly as easy as they make it out to be in the movies. If a knife is
all that you have available, you’ll likely end up cutting yourself, making a big mess, or both, so do
yourself a favor and keep some extra can openers tucked away.
Living off of canned foods alone is not ideal and not particularly good for your health (due to all
the sodium). However, it is something you could do temporarily if necessary and it’s not nearly as
unenjoyable as it might sound. While you’ll still want to supplement your canned food with fresh
food every chance you get, having a stockpile of canned food to rely on can certainly keep you
from going hungry.
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Rick Palmer says

June 2, 2020 at 12:43 pm
At this point , this post is 21/2 years old , so l don’t know how many will be knew
readers. By experience lhave found the military P38 type can opener to be a vital tool .
You are absolutely

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P38 takes very little practice to learn to use , is sturdy inspite of its looks and will easily
fit a keychain , key ring , in your wallet or even on a string . It is easily resharppened with
a rock , file or sand paper . Best point of all is they are cheap .
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cheryl a Branco says

January 18, 2020 at 1:14 pm
You can actually bake bread over a campfire in an old fashioned cast iron dutch oven.
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Jerry says
August 12, 2019 at 1:55 am
Ok on the cheap i think just buy 3 or 4 times what you buy for Pantry. Long term only for
the rich after pantry big ass bag of rice big ass bag of beans and well like i said just
pantry. Tuna if you make tuna salads or canned chicken if you like chicken salad
crackers etc. Bread easy if there is power not so easy if no electric! The whole fancy
shmancy freeze dried long term food is only for the elite way over priced but if you work
between the rice beans and lil canned met you can eek out a year on the cheap! look at
it logical just use cans and lump of the other Throw in a few giant ass bags of Jerkey to
cook into rice beans! this is on the cheap Multi Vitamins etc!
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Elbert Jones says

July 16, 2019 at 7:48 pm
If you look on the web; You can find out how to raw pack pressure can Bacon. The
canned bacon has 18 strips to a can. A 16 oz. fruit jar will hold a pound of bacon.If it’s
properly
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Ani says
January 5, 2019 at 10:35 pm
I think you must mean “vegetable medley”, not “melody”, although veggies that can hum
a tune would be most entertaining I’m sure.
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Alan says
January 6, 2019 at 6:33 am
oops!
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DM Simms says
July 16, 2019 at 6:55 pm
It takes only a little extra time to proof read our writing. I learned to proofread
when editing our small college veterans paper back in the 60’s. If you’re not too
rushed, do it. I’m not lecturing you, but these errors weaken your writing as well
as your message.
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jack says
March 3, 2020 at 6:17 am
This message is not weakened by a typo. This is a minority opinion.
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lois Fitzgerald says

September 13, 2018 at 7:35 pm
I never knew flour went rancid. Guess I never had it that long
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Charleyene Popp says

April 9, 2020 at 3:53 am
Make sure to freeze your flour first that will kill any weevils in the bag. At least a
couple of days.
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Cole H Wilson says

September 13, 2018 at 7:50 am
Why not canned ham or ensure?
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Alan says
I just figured protein was covered by the bacon, beef stew, and chicken, but if you
like ham, go for it. As for ensure, I didn’t think of that. Good suggestion!
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Actually Carnation Breakfast Essentials is better than Ensure. I’ve done research
on it and it is healthier and a bit more cost efficient.
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Biagio Lobianco says

July 16, 2019 at 1:11 pm
Ensure is garbage. Look at the label. No one should be drinking this crap,
especially the elderly.
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Cry Havoc says

Read “To fight the wild” the survival story of Rod Ansell. All the canned food he was able
to salvage after his boat capsized, got wet and lost their labels. Whenever he opened a
can, he didn’t know if it was carrots or canned peaches. Thus, the advice given to mark
all cans with a permanent marker is very good advice.
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Gary rogers says

I have a lot of survival food.Glad to hear from this all those items will caned will last long
.Herd that it would but was not shur. need to here it from someone else….

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gina says
why not beef canned at home instead of spam? much better taste and better for you
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Alan says
I agree it’s better to can foods at home. But like I said at the start of the article, this
list is for people who want to dive in and get some food stockpiled quickly.
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prsmith says
I have a better question. . .why can’t you find canned beef au jus in 5 ounce cans
like you can find canned Tuna & Chicken?B
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Bemused Berserker says

June 2, 2020 at 11:00 am
Walmart (not my favorite place to shop) has their Great Value Canned Meats in
Chicken, Ham and Roast Beef. A 12 oz can sells between $3 – $4 in my area. It
tastes OK (I’ve had better and I’ve had worse), has plenty of broth in the can to
use as Au Jus. I buy both the Beef and Chicken to make a two pot meal. I
shread the meat and add it to either to beef or chicken gravy poured over a
huge pile of mashed potatoes. The Grandkids love it. I haven’t tried the Ham, as
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I also recommend buying the Pioneer brand Gravy mixes. At a $1 a pack for 2
cups of gravy, instead of the 1 cup in McCormick or store brands at nearly the
same price. Sure Homemade Gravy is better tasting, but I look for things that
are easy and fast to fix when it comes to prepping supplies.
It would be nice to see a smaller can, but I haven’t ran into any so far. Hope that
helps.
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prsmith says
I’m single. How does the single person get balanced meals from canned food without
spoilage? I simply cannot sit down and eat a can of corn or spinach or broccoli as a
meal.
To that list I would add many fruits and especially high Vitamin C fruits like oranges,
grapefruit, etc.
While not necessarily the most nutritious, Chili Mac, Beefaroni, Beef Ravioli and the like
make good, one-can meals which don’t even require heating.
Bread: Learn to make Bannock. If you store Wheat Berries and have a grain grinder plus
a few other ingredients, you can have bread any time you wish and adding nuts and
seeds can really up the nutritional value. Pan Bread and Fry Bread are other options.
YouTube is your friend.
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“standard” size cans no problem;). I used to get Celebrity brand canned bacon at
my local Kmart, but haven’t seen it in some time, but it was excellent. If you see it
do give it a try.
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Nightfury77 says
October 24, 2018 at 6:18 pm
My solution to vitamin c and a scurvy prevention is a product called true lemon. It

comes in lemon, lime, orange, and grapefruit. Crystalized fruit juice. Each packet = 1
wedge. I use in water for flavor and cooking.
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Mike says
April 24, 2019 at 1:53 am
Or you can just learn to make bread now. Its not hard. Makeshift ovens are easy to
make
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Sarah says
August 16, 2019 at 11:05 pm
Like they said, storage for the ingredients can be difficult. If any moisture at all
gets into wheat or sugar, it will go bad. Plus, likely you won’t have access to
electricity, and depending on the type of SHTF or location, you may not have
access to, or for safety reasons be ABLE to start a fire (a requirement for any
kind of cooking). Canned foods, however, can be choked down without heating
requirements. These are also good ideas of foods to keep in a 72 hour kit, which
is a good idea to have on hand for emergency evacuations.

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Ranger72 says
July 16, 2019 at 3:19 pm
I think if you ever had to actually use your stockpiled canned food you be surprised
to find you can eat a can of corn or beef, even family size with no problems
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Bemused Berserker says

June 2, 2020 at 11:22 am
There are single serving cans of the more common vegetables, but they’re not as
cost effective as the larger cans. If you have the freezer space, put the leftovers in
ziplock type bags for a second or third meal. A minute or two in the microwave and
they’re ready to eat.
Have you considered making Bannock with Oat or Barley flour? That was what the
Auld Scots that gave us the easy bread used. Wheat was a value crop, whereas
Oats and Barley were destined for animal feed most of the time. Scots being thrifty,
found recipes and ways to make use of the cheap feed. I grind my pinhead Oats and
Barley in a small food processor. Pinhead or Steel Cut Oats have a much more
robust flavor than Rolled Oats, as they contain the Oat germ, which is mostly lost in
the rolling process. You can either mix with Wheat flour or completely replace the
Wheat. I started by mixing, but now just replace the Wheat altogether as I prefer the
flavor. The earliest Bannock recipes didn’t have but the flour and water. When
baking powder and soda became available in the 1840’s,they were added to the
recipes. Yeast cultures were difficult to keep alive in the Highlands, so flatbreads and
griddle cakes were the norm for centuries.
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You are absolutely

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Cole H Wilson says

Why not canned ham or ensure?

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Cry Havoc says

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