Purchase any comfort foods that would be pleasant to have should you be forced to live off your food storage for a long time (chocolate, pickles, spices, condiments, etc).
Key Points
- Comfort foods can help ease your stress during rough times
- While not considered “life sustaining” foods, we consider them “sanity-sustaining” foods. This is especially important if you have young children. A few normal foods or delicious snacks now and then can really help a difficult situation.
- Our advice to use what you store, and store what you eat applies to comfort foods as well. Try a new thing each week or month. Some of our ideas may not be your normal treats but they are great food storage items.
Comfort Food Ideas
- Home-made popcorn in a pot
- Mashed potatoes with instant potatoes and GRAVY
- Hard Candy
- Chocolate
- Pudding (made using dry milk)
- Granola bars
- Fruit snacks for children
- Chicken noodle soup in a can (for if you get sick)
- Kool-aid
- Condiments (ketchup, mustard, bbq sauce, salsa, pickles)
- Spices (inventory what spices you use and store an extra one or two of each)
- No-bake cookies ingredients (recipe coming soon)
- Rice Krispie Treats
- Macaroni & cheese dinners
- Chocolate and butterscotch baking chips for homemade cookies or snacking
- Peppermint tea bags
- Ovaltine
- Danish dessert (w/frozen raspberries)
- Busy Day Soup (this is a meal, but it’s dinner comfort food & easy to make)
- Homemade peach pie
- Homemade cinnamon rolls
These are all just ideas- Obviously they aren’t all that healthy, necessary to sustain life, or totally “food storage” types of foods – but hey, everyone needs a little comfort food sometimes!
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Hi there! I’m Jodi. I created Food Storage Made Easy to help make food storage and emergency preparedness feel simpler and more doable. This site is home to the tips, recipes, checklists, and resources I’ve created and shared over the years.