Don't forget the can opener!

#6: Canned Fruit
#5: Canned Potatoes
#4: Canned Tomatoes
#3: Canned Chicken
#2: Canned Sardines
#1: Canned Beans

If a person in your family, get hungry enough, they would eat what is available.

You will never store enough food if hard times exceed your supply - YOU MUST invest on food production.
You are preparing for disaster, IF you think HARD TIMES is an at home camping trip & you can run to the store for a resupply.
Stock what you eat - IF anyone says you need something, that you won't/don't eat - Ignore them.
Also, don't forget all the non-food items - MED's and medical are often overlooked.
Best one I've heard in a long time - Sanitary Napkins - They are designed to absorb blood - You don't need a fancy bandage - YOU NEED to stop bleeding (thnx Patriot Nurse).

Canned: fruit, potatoes, tomatoes, chicken, beans, meat

Don't forget practical peanut butter! Protein, fat & calories. No cooking, no water. You can eat it in the dark if need be. Always good to keep in your emergency pantry
Love & Blessings to everyone 🫶✌️

Thank you for adding the statement:  buy only things that your family will actually eat.  Otherwise, the cans will stay unopened.  This is a waste.

Don’t throw away the liquid in the can.   Drink it!

We used to eat thin sliced canned potato’s with an onion and garlic and diced up spam or Vienna wieners. It was good

Six canned foods can cover a lot, but I wouldn’t call any pantry complete without water, a manual can opener, and something you can eat without cooking. Hard times have a way of exposing the little things people forget.

Canned food is one of the easiest ways to build an emergency pantry because it's affordable, shelf-stable, and doesnt's require refrigeration, i'd still rotate the stick regularly rather than letting it sit untouched for years

Make sure you pick up a manual can opener just in case of a grid down situation.  I like to keep some soups I can eat cold on hand as well.  You might not be able to cook as much as you’d like.  My favorite is Beef and Barley believe it or not.  🤷🏼‍♀️. Parboiled pasta and rice will take less water and time as well if that’s your preferred starch.

A crucial part of being prepared is to store enough clean water for drinking and cooking. Another important part of being prepared is having two or more grid-down cooking methods. If you do not have these two things, you are NOT adequately prepared for the many natural disasters or grid-down scenarios that could happen. DO NOT rely upon the water in regular canned foods to keep you hydrated. DO NOT assume the lack of heated meals with have no impact upon morale. Just try feeding a family member the contents of a can of unheated, canned pork 'n' beans or unheated canned chunky soup and watch the face he or she makes. A food that no one will eat is a useless waste of money and storage space.

Be aware that canned wet foods are NOT designed to survive freezing temperatures. When wet food freezes during a winter failure of the local power grid, the wet food expands. It expands with enough force to break the seals on metal cans and glass jars. And when that frozen food in the unsealed containers thaws, it will soon spoil. Unless you have a root cellar whose temperature never drops in the freezing range, DO NOT rely upon either regular canned food or home canned foods for your survival. Also, be advised that canned pineapple does not store very long under even the best of conditions. Ditto for canned fruit cocktail that contains pineapple. If you must keep pineapple in your emergency supplies, choose dried pineapple and preferably the type that is packaged for long-term storage.

To get the longest shelf life for food that will not be damaged by freezing temperatures, you want DRY, low-fat foods that are packaged in the absence of oxygen. So, stockpile dry foods that are sealed in #10 steel cans or Mylar pouches along with one or two oxygen absorbers inside those containers. Buy food packaged this way and you avoid the expense of having to keep replacing cans or jars of wet foods every 6 to 12 months so they do not lose flavor, texture or spoil. Many of the dry foods packaged for long-term storage are good for 20 years unopened if kept in a cool, dry, vermin-free location. Affordable, long-term storage, dry foods are available at LDS volunteer-run Home storage Centers in the U.S. There are also free tutorials on the internet showing how to use Mylar bags and oxygen absorbers to re-packaged dry foods at home.

Reserve a small stash of regular canned goods for a short-term emergency when the weather is not below freezing and replace every six to twelve months or so. A tote bin or cardboard box containing some regular canned goods, saltines, dried fruit, instant coffee or tea bags, would be good to have at the start of hurricane season or tornado season or for the first few days of a major snowstorm (if the power grid does not fail). Add two or three one-gallon containers of drinking water for each person in your household and that will get you and them through the first few days of a major storm that blocks roads with downed trees. Just make sure, if you are preparing for winter power outages, to have a grid-down way to heat one room in your home and move the containers of water and any regular canned food there. But this small stash of regular canned food is very different from having a stockpile of long-term food storage that stays ready 20 years for emergency use and enough of it to feed your household for months or even a year.

Just remember, whether you are relying upon regular canned food or upon dry foods packaged for long-term storage, both kinds of foods lack enough of the vitamins your body needs for good health. Make sure you have some daily multi-vitamins designed for adults and also some designed for children -- if you have children in your home.

Potatoes and Tomatoes are part of the nightshade family. I have to avoid nightshade vegetables, because they make my joints hurt and swell. However, if I could find and buy tomatoes processed without their skins and seeds, I could eat them. I can eat sweet potatoes which do come in cans. I love chick peas and most beans. What happened to green beans and carrots? Remember, we are supposed to eat both green and yellow (orange) vegetables along with meats and starches. Thank you.

For a practical pantry, shelf life, nutrition and rotation matter more than simply having lots of tins.

pecans and other nuts, I also like smoked oysters , caned tuna, salmon, crackers, snack crackers, soups

I just learned this evening that Tesco and Sainsbury's in w2 and w3 are having problems selling cakes and croissants because they can buy the grains and flour they need... Well if our farmers could grow certain items instead of buying from other countries... It would help farmers and we would be able to buy what we need... This is from someone that works in a supermarket...

I can my own potatoes,chicken, fish ,beef, pork, cabbage rolls,fruit, make my own jams and jellies,pickles ,syrups.I also can all my own vegetables. bake my own bread and sweet treats. all my veggies come from a small raised gardenn ,enough for us. we have storage for two years of food.

Once again, store what you use and use what you store. All the time. Yes, with subs,for fresh or frozen but you use the canned every so often. Cooking potatoes, cut them up before you cook them. Fifteen minutes.

I agree with most of this but, here in France, sardines are now hard to find.