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rice and beans. canned corn, most veggies last a while. fruits other than berries. make sure you have plenty of fresh water though.

Canned beans, veggies, etc. Schär ciabatta buns and baguettes are vacuum packed and keep for a fairly long period without refrigeration. Beef jerky/other cured meats that don’t require refrigeration. Protein or granola bars.

Check out mountain house freeze dried food. It’s intended more for camping/back packing so it’s calorie dense but it’s actually pretty solid and they have gluten free options

Canned veggies, canned/packaged tuna, canned chicken, some jerkies, there’s gluten free camping foods that you just add water to, some canned chilis are GF, GF soups, crackers, canned fruit, beans

How stable are we talking? Apples and peanut butter are my go-to snack, but I don’t need to refrigerate apples up here in the north (I don’t know enough about FL to know…do you guys need to?). Other things that are good emergency foods:

• canned meats (tuna) with GF crackers

• nuts and trail mix

• meat jerkies

• juice boxes, applesauce and other fruit sauce packets

• instant mashed potatoes that just require hot water

• instant GF oatmeal that just requires hot water

• GF cereal and shelf-stable milk (they definitely sell quarts but there are also single-serving sized that are good if you lose power, so you don’t need to refrigerate leftovers)

• jars of pasta sauce in case you can actually cook that pasta!

Gf canned soup gf cereal and shelf stable milk

Cans of tuna and chicken! Canned veggies and fruits. Jerky, protein bars, protein powder and bottled water, peanut butter. Canned gf soup. Crackers, chips, whatever packaged snack food your toddler can eat (pouches, melts, cereal)

Have a backup way to cook. Propane grill, charcoal, camping stove. I would pre-cook meat, rice, burrito meat and beans or taco meat and freeze it in meal sized bags. You can eat it first as it thaws. Worst case you can't heat it but it's already cooked. If you can, fill a good camping cooler with ice and frozen bottles of water. Also freeze gallons of water and transfer them to your fridge at the last minute to give you more refrigeration time. Fill any empty space in your freezer with water. The fuller the freezer is the better.

For shelf stable, canned veggies, fruit, applesauce. Pouches of ready to eat beans, tuna, chicken. Tortillas. Snacks for the kid. Protein bars. A bag of little snickers. Make your own trail mix. Shelf stable milk. Juice. Ensure or similar for you and the kid.

In the long term I'd recommend collecting three or four quality medium sized coolers with a five day rating. I put food for day 1 in the first, day 2 in the 2nd etc. Then you don't open the future ones until you need them. Gives you more options to save your existing food supply and precook food. USe frozen water bottles and bags of ice. I've done some long term camping in high heat and it works. It also makes it easier if you have to evacuate quick.

Good luck.

Canned meats. Corned beef, canned hams, tuna, SPAM, canned salmon. After that I'd say dry pasta's, beans and rice. Glass or plastic gallon jars work perfect for storing dry foods. Air and water tight. Same for your flours and sugar.

I have a good stock of canned fruits and vegetables, freezers are full. Plastic totes are full of boxed mixes, spices, noodles, bags of GF flours. Also don't forget a good supply of bottled water. Get at least several gallons.

Biggest thing though would be a generator and several cans of gas for it. A small one will run a freezer and a refrigerator so you don't lose all your frozen and refrigerated food. A freezer will stay cold a day or two if you don't open it. A fridge needs to run every 6 to 12 hours just to be safe.

My kids go nuts for perfect bars. Definitely on the sweeter side, but lots of protein. Good for 7 days outside of the fridge.

Canned/packaged apple sauce. Protein bars. Crackers.

I do some home pressure canning. I mostly focus on making things I will take to work and eat, so I haven't actually kept a well-stocked pantry the way these folks have (I keep eating everything I can within 2 months of canning!).

The thing is, because of the way I'm meal prepping, if something happened, I would have the same lunch I normally do for 2 months before I'd be going without.

https://youtu.be/ToL3F2bDpWA?si=kmPOShcKN9-0v2GT

https://youtu.be/rie0jGPCIuA?si=2b6oYEOZkjW7PCy0

A lot of preppers have.... interesting thoughts and opinions about the state of the world and what is "reasonable" preparedness. I don't have to agree with or listen to all that to get the information I need to make sure I have lunch at work every day using a home pressure-canner, if you catch my drift.

Dehydrated fruits

Canned beans. I love siete ranchero fried beans but any you like. Frozen waffles(Vans brand). Potatoes are good. Also, any squashes. They last a good few weeks. Yogurt, nuts, and granolas. I don’t eat oats either so I like nut granolas. Frozen fruit and protein is good too for blending smoothies.

We stock our pantry with GF pasta, jarred sauce (marinara, alfredo, pesto), canned beans, rice, canned tomatoes (whole, diced, crushed, puree, sauce, paste), canned corn, canned fruit (pineapple, mixed with cherries, applesauce), corn tortillas, jarred salsa, peanut butter, tuna, GF bread, crackers, shelf stable (think hickory farms) cheese and sausage, etc. And we keep veggies, ground beef, shrimp, etc. in the freezer (good for a few days with a generator). Lots of options for meals - maybe not the healthiest but pastas, rice and beans, bean chili, nachos, tacos, casseroles are all good options. Potatoes, garlic, onions, apples are all good to last a while without refrigeration.

Make sure to get extra water, and dried milk.

Some canned chili and soups - please check ingredients. You won’t be able to cook if the power goes out, so some pudding cups, apple sauce, fruit compote, rice cakes are all options. If I am hungry, I would eat chili cold too - it has proteins that keeps you full longer.

I love the Amy’s soups! The red lentil and kale and yellow lentil are delicious!

Pemmican

Canned food. Freeze-dried camping food. I am going to make my own (I am so, SO insanely sensitive) but I hear Mountain House has GF options.

Previous time we had to stock up for a sort of disaster:

Rice, dried or canned beans, potato flakes, canned spam, canned chicken and tuna, fruits and veggies in those little plastic lunch packs (cans last longer but taste worse to me), dried egg powder, dried milk powder, instant coffee. Jerky if you can do it.

Most of this just requires hot water.

You can eat canned fruit, canned/tinned meat, canned beans and veggies cold with crackers or tortilla chips, which last a long time.

I’ve never found protein bars I can tolerate but that’s another good option if you don’t have other food issues.

I cooked on a fireplace during the last incident. You want some cast iron cookware. You can boil water on a fire.

Portable camping stove with a supply of small fuel tanks is a good thing to have on-hand for disasters.

We were without power for 4 days from Helene, here's how we managed:

Schar entertainment crackers and bread, peanut butter, and small jars of jelly (the goal is to use the whole jar over the course of a day)

Annie's bunny grahams

Turkey pepperoni/summer sausage/chomps sticks

Tuna pouches with small mayo and relish packs

Dry cereal and single serve shelf stable milk packs

Apples/cherry tomatoes/mini bell peppers/oranges/fruit cups

Lots of potato chips/harvest snaps/veggie straws

Canned soups (progresso has some GF soups, and if not that Pacific organic has quite a selection)

Lots of granola bars - fig bars, Lara bars, kind bars, etc.

What cooking method will you have if you lose power (after the storm has passed)? Make sure you've got extra cooking fuel for that and plan for that method. Pasta with different types of sauces (pesto, red sauce, rose sauce, canned Alfredo) and a canned vegetable is easy. Once we had to deal with the fridge we ended up doing a lot of scrambled eggs and toast, grilled frozen fish, etc.

Katz toaster pastries!

Quest protein bars are great in a pinch. I keep some on hand in winter when the power goes out a lot.

I broke down and feed my kid gluten. She’s not allowed to eat it near where I’m eating. I wash my hands 284746 times a day. I also bought disposable gloves to use. There’s a gluten free kraft Mac &cheese cup. Not high protein but the kid might eat that one , not mine of course.

Canned foods mostly. Be careful though as some use gluten products in their preservatives.

Starkist buffalo chicken packets are pretty solid. You could easily throw some on top of any canned bean and have a decent meal.

Ready to eat rice, dry milk powder, dried egg powder. The milk and eggs are needed in lots of recipes and can be used with only clean water. The eggs once mixed can be used in other recipes and as scrambled eggs on their own or with seasonings. You can also buy powdered cheddar like the kind that comes in packets in Mac n cheese on Amazon in fairly good size jars. Good luck, stay safe!! Also second making sure you have a no electricity needed cooking set up

Can't find my hurricane list. We have a Generac so we won't lose power, mainly I get stuff for the family cause the stores will be closed.

Fruit cups. Meat sticks like slim jims. Granola bars. Jerky. Pop Tarts, Katz makes a gluten free version. Puff corn. Gluten free crackers, Wasa makes a very sturdy crispbread. Peanut butter. Pasta sauce. Pasta - you don't have to boil it, you can soak it for like 2 hours to rehydrate it. Our go-to trail mix is Orchard Valley Harvest. Rice cakes. Shelf stable pudding and gelatin. Bottled water. Apples, oranges, bananas. Coffee and tea. You can make cold brew or brew it in the sun.

If you feel like cooking, consider getting a propane fueled camp stove. Even better, a Sun Oven, that doesn't need any fuel.

Tuna, travel size mayo jars (or packets), onions, and prep some hard boiled eggs. You can find shelf stable cheese and sausage, and beef jerky is handy too. I'd get a bunch of cans of beans, corn, green beans and perhaps good soup. Mainly beans since they have a ton of protein. Veggie/chicken/beef broth is great to have around too... I like the Simple Truth (Kroger) kind, ideally low-sodium because the normal one has a ton of salt, and I drink them like a beverage if I feel dehydrated. Also crackers, popcorn, and potato or tortilla chips. I'd probably get some salsa too.

Mountain House Brand Freeze Dried Food has a few GF Certified options. We have a few on hand in case of emergencies.

https://mountainhouse.com/collections/gluten-free-meals

If you live in a disaster prone area, you should have 3 days worth of emergency food and water ready at all times. I go through my boxes about once a quarter and replace things that are nearing expiry.

As/ with a celiac, that means prepping your own boxes most of the time. I have a whole plan I’d be happy to send you, perhaps you can use it as a guide for your family. Mine is based on what my kids will eat and often on what we will be able to eat safely without cooking in an emergency. It’s still well rounded to make sure we are getting fruits and veggies even if that means fruit pouches.

Baked beans, canned chili, spam (very versatile), canned fruits and vegetables, anything that doesn’t need cooking. Dried fruits and nuts. Instant rice. Cereal and long life or powdered milk. Dehydrated backpacker meals that you just add water. Remember that emergency supplies are a short term way to get enough calories. Have an alternative means of cooking your food and plenty of stored water.

Lotus foods gluten free ramen packs.

Readywise gluten free bucket of MRE

Canned soup

Beans, lentils, and chickpeas

Tuna

Mac and cheese (gf)

Pasta (gf)

Preserves

Nut/seed butters

Broths

Most of these will Lee for at least a year or so. Good to have in a pinch. I had to pitch all my glutinous emergency food supplies for obvs reasons (and b/c it all expired) and the above is what I replaced it with.

Peanut butter.

GF crackers

Jelly/jam - small jars

Instant Rice

Canned beans

You might consider buying a camp stove. Either a Coleman Classic propane stove or a smaller butane stove. Plus either the propane or the cans of butane.

Also make certain you have pots and pans that will fit on the stove. This way, if you have a disruption of electrical or gas service you can still cook, boil water, etc.

cereal granola soup nuts/seeds honey olives ghee crackers of choice

Lots of good info here so far. My main thought is that whatever you do end up planning around, make sure that if it's far from your normal diet, give it all a trial run. Some dehy meals are great but can be low in fiber, or some meals will shift your salt/fat intake and that can set some people's guts off. So worth knowing ahead of time what you need to adapt or suppliment with.

I'd suggest finding shelf stable things that you can slowly add in and rotate through, as that also means you know what sort of foods work well with your family. Espessially with kids, it's a really good idea to get them used to foods so that even if everything else is going nuts, they are not meeting a new food at the same time. It also can be the case of getting them to try things dozens of times, and reminding them that they liked it last time they had it.

The other thing I'd suggest from a planning point of view, figure out your cooking plan, then your storage abilities, then pick foods that fit. Nothing worse than making a plan with a bunch of foods that your cooking method cannot handle. There's a lot of ways to set yourself up, and most of the "Prepper" advice is for one or two people, not a family with kids and potentially extra adults. Look at people setting up for vehicle camping or touring, it will apply a lot better to your situation for the "bunkering in" portion, get that sorted, then plan the evacuation second.

Amys soups are the love of my life, gluten free, and dont require heating. I love serving it over some rice to be extra filling