Ultimate prepper mum has 426 meals ready to feed her family for up to eight months

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READ MORE: Mum fed pet monkey kebabs and offered it cocaine before flushing it down the toiletIt takes Kelsey three months to preserve all the food and has enough grub stored to feed her family for eight months.The family eat fresh food from their farm during the summer months and, then when winter comes around they live off the preserved stocks.Kelsey started preserving food so the family could eat home-grown food all year round, but it also means she is prepared for any natural disaster or pandemic that could cause an issue in the supply chain.Kelsey, a stay-at-home mum and photographer, said: “When we moved to the farm we wanted to live a slower lifestyle and wanted to know what we were eating and where it was coming from.“I taught myself how to preserve food and learnt lots of hacks like making corncob jelly which tastes like honey.“It does take a long time.

I spend at least two hours a day in the garden and then the process of preserving things can take days as I go back to things in stages"Kelsey says that learning all the various preservation techniques was hard, but very worthwhile.“I’m very proud every time I walk in the pantry," she says.“I have it stocked up to feed us about two meals a day from October through to May.“It helped during the pandemic because we didn’t have to panic about running out of food while we were locked down.”Kelsey fell in love with the art of preserving her food after she moved to a farm in the US state of Indiana with her husband and their three children.She started by learning to can pickles from books and watching videos online but now preserves everything she can.The family grow fresh fruit and vegetables and have chickens and dairy goats - which they later eat - on their farm.“I.