Tip: When building up your disaster food stockpile, think about how you will use the foods in meals. Otherwise, you could end up with a lot of foods you don’t like. Or you might end up with disproportionate amounts of food, like 30lbs of pasta but not sauce to go on it.

In my book Disaster Preparedness for Women, I show exactly how to plan a food stockpile so you can make healthy, balanced meals. The book also covers all the preparedness essentials so you are ready for anything. Get the book here.

Here are 11 tasty ways to use dried beans Try these delicious dried bean recipes.

1. Red Bean Pasta Sauce

Source: 11 Delicious Ways to Use Those Dry Beans You Stockpiled

Click on the link for 10 more useful recipes. You did realize that you’d have to eat all those didn’t you?