My Food Storage Shopping List

I have a list of things that I like to keep on hand for the foods that we eat on a regular basis. I have lots of different options, and decided to include them all for the sake of brainstorming.

My three-month supply for cooking includes the following:

Breakfast foods:

• Oats and oat grouts
• Cold cereal (I try to buy only on sale, and our goal is to eat less for cost's sake)
  
• Baking ingredients (for quick breads, raised breads, waffles and pancakes, etc.)
  
• Eggs (I hear they can be frozen...still have yet to experiment with that; I expect that would work better for baking) - but they still keep for weeks in the fridge
  
• Pancake mix
• Cocoa mix
• Nuts (for granola, protein kick for the morning, smoothies)
• Frozen hash browns
• Bacon bits (I freeze them)
• Shredded cheeses (freeze well)
• Cream cheese (keeps for months in the fridge)
  
• Yogurt cultures (I have a yogurt maker)
• Peanut butter, jams and other bread spreads
• Frozen, dried and canned fruits
• Bottles of juices and/or frozen juice concentrates
• Nuts
  

Ingredients for Lunch and Dinner Foods:

• Rice (for a shorter-term supply, you can store brown as well as white rice)
  
• Pasta (shaped pastas, spaghetti, lasagna)
  
• Other grains for nutrition and variety (I'm experimenting with quinoa right now)
• Lunch meats (I buy in bulk and then wrap and freeze individual slices to help them last longer, and for convenience and food safety for school lunches)
• Bread spreads (see above)
• Tuna
• Mayo, mustard, catsup
• Tortillas (my goal is to get myself making these from scratch)
• Canned beans (I like kidney and black) (I sometimes will use pureed white beans in baking or sauces to hide fiber and nutrition in our meals and treats)
• Dehydrated (or canned) refried beans (cannery refried beans are awesome!)
  
• Pasta sauces (jars and mixes -- our favorite mixes are pesto and alfredo envelopes)
• Canned tomatoes, tomato sauce, tomato paste, tomato soup (I've started using the latter in place of sauce or paste in recipes)
• Canned pineapple and mandarin oranges
• Frozen (and sometimes dried) veggies (all sorts)
• Canned evaporated milk
• Cream soups (I use cream of chicken the most)
• Cheese (I like to buy shredded cheese in bulk and freeze in smaller bags) -- mozzarella and cheddar or cheddar/jack
• Cream cheese (stores for months in fridge)
• Canned meats (frozen works, too, but I prefer the ease and small portions of the cans) -- Cannery meats are great
  
• Ingredients to make bread (flour, wheat, yeast, oil, salt, sugar, powdered milk)
• Boxed mixes (e.g., mac-n-cheese, Rice-a-Roni and Pasta Roni)
• Packaged flavorings/seasonings (Italian, Mexican, Chinese...these add so much variety to my basics!) -- these in addition to my basic spices that I get in bulk (taco seasoning, garlic seasoning (my favorite is Johnny's from Costco), cinnamon)
• Other spices (curry, pumpkin pie spice, Italian seasoning, etc.)
  
• Canned soups/soup mixes
• Bullion and/or canned broths
• Dried minced onion
• Green chiles
• BBQ sauce