My mother grew up during the depression and always bought up extras for hard times. I did the same as soon as I was able to. We have quite a bit of stored foods. I have vacuumed packed jars of flour. A 5 gallon bucket of sugar, and much more. Rice, beans of different kinds. Some of the beans are older, and tougher, but those, I cook in the pressure cooker, Afrer soaking, of course. You can’t tell the difference. I love prepping. Now I need to work on hubby and water storage. We do have a small still for distilling water.
