Don’t forget spices. Everyone talks about the rice and beans but no one talks about (Sea)salt, pepper, cumin, cayenne, cinnamon etc. Probably make good barter material as well.
No kidding. The word “Salary,” comes from the fact that salt was used as pay.
Spices will probably be worth much more than their weight in gold. They have been mediums of exchange from probably as long as gold. Choking down one more dead squirrel would be mitigated by some pepper!
Salt is very inexpensive (currently) and easy to store! Too many people have the romanticized idea that they’re going to live off the land with their “hunting skills”. But they often fail to look past the butchering and ask WHAT they’re going to do with 100 lbs of meat? I don’t WANT to have to shoot something every day just to eat! That’s going to get old pretty fast. :-)