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Foods With the Longest Expiration Dates
yahoo finance ^ | 7-27-11 | Seth Fiegerman

Posted on 07/29/2011 11:31:36 AM PDT by WOBBLY BOB

Every house has food in the pantry that has been there for weeks if not months, but according to food experts, you may want to think twice before throwing those items out. Many common food products last far longer than you might think.

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TOPICS: Food
KEYWORDS: expiration; food; foodexpirations; prepper; preppers; storage; survival
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To: wrench

Probably the only thing lasting that long worth consuming.

A life without fresh produce is not worth living.


21 posted on 07/29/2011 12:01:06 PM PDT by RitchieAprile
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To: SatinDoll

Well....ya.....after you’ve drowned them in Gin!!!


22 posted on 07/29/2011 12:01:10 PM PDT by G Larry (I dream of a day when a man is judged by the content of his character)
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To: Miztiki

What is ‘properly’?


23 posted on 07/29/2011 12:03:29 PM PDT by SMARTY (A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.)
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To: econjack

A chemist working for a large multinational food company once told me diet drinks go bad - but not the others... For reasons to ‘make it simple’ they tag all of them with expiration dates...


24 posted on 07/29/2011 12:07:26 PM PDT by GOPJ (Honk if I'm paying for your car, your mortgage, and your big, fat Greek bailout - mewzilla)
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To: Arkansas Toothpick
Someone found a jar of honey in a King Tut's tomb, it was 3000 years old, and still good.

Just remember the rules of food storage, avoid oxygen, moisture and light.

Properly stored food can last for decades.

25 posted on 07/29/2011 12:07:46 PM PDT by Indy Pendance
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To: Phlap

See post 25.


26 posted on 07/29/2011 12:09:07 PM PDT by Indy Pendance
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To: WOBBLY BOB

In the military in Germany, I seem to remember eating a K-ration or two left over from WWII.....this was 1970...


27 posted on 07/29/2011 12:09:25 PM PDT by Gaffer
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To: WOBBLY BOB

We began our preperation about 18 months ago when we realized how bad things were getting. We’ve always planted a garden and done some home canning but we’ve gone into overdrive the last 1.5 year.
We now have about 9-12 months of food stored which we rotate to keep fresh. Factory canned goods will last about 2 years, home canned food will last as long as the seal remains unbroken. We planted 3 gardens this year and, dispite a historic drought, have gone through over 300 canning jars so far. We’ve even canned chicken that we raised, the deer I shot last year, and some older beef from the frezzer.
As a source of reference material I’d recommend “Backwoods Home Magazine”, they’re what “Mother Earth News” was before they went environazi.
It can be done quite quickly, however, be prepared to defend what you store or keep it a closely guarded secret. When things implode there will be those who will try to take what you’ve stored if they know it’s there.


28 posted on 07/29/2011 12:12:09 PM PDT by GT Vander (Life's priorities; God, Family, Country. Everything else is just details...)
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To: WOBBLY BOB

Uncooked rice....keep in cool and dry and dark area, will last forever. Had a batch I forgot about for more than 5 years, and when cooked, still tasted decent. This is why this is the staple of more than a billion good folks across Asia.


29 posted on 07/29/2011 12:12:28 PM PDT by DecentAmerican
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To: bushwon
I've often wondered if Twinkies and Cheez-Wiz aren't byproducts of early nuclear testing.

Scientist: Hey, Doctor Oppenheimer, come take look at this. It's... It's some kind of spongy, yellow, almost cake-like material. And it's built up on almost every vertical rock face within 2 miles of the epicenter. [pauses, removes a piece of the material from a rock face and inserts it in to a small device] Hmmmmmm. That's strange. Even though back-ground environmental radiation levels are still quite high, this... this... "sponge cake" doesn't appear to carry ANY residual radiation. What do you suppose it is?

Oppenheimer [licking his lips]: I have no idea, Dr. Twinklestein, but it sure is DELICIOUS! And it's got a cream filling!

30 posted on 07/29/2011 12:13:24 PM PDT by WayneS (Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm. -- James Madison)
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To: WOBBLY BOB

Fruit cake.


31 posted on 07/29/2011 12:20:47 PM PDT by BykrBayb (Somewhere, my flower is there. ~ Þ)
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To: Kartographer

Ping!


32 posted on 07/29/2011 12:26:18 PM PDT by Indy Pendance
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To: WOBBLY BOB

Don’t know about the “frilly” stuff like Twinkies and soft drinks, but my brother, in World War II, in 1945, while sitting in a foxhole on Okinawa, opened a C-Ration can of some kind of chicken concoction, and while “dining” he perused the printing on the can. It read: Product of Omaha, Nebraska 1929.


33 posted on 07/29/2011 12:28:23 PM PDT by Tucker39
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To: All

bump


34 posted on 07/29/2011 12:29:30 PM PDT by Maverick68
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To: WOBBLY BOB
In the 70's, my friend and I went to a flea market where we bought a large lot of various WWII surplus C rations in olive drab cans. At the time that made them about 30 to 35 years old. We ate them several times when we went camping.

Insane, I know, but, no ill effects. The varieties I recall were; spaghetti and meat sauce, canned hamburger, chicken and noodles, peaches and for a snack, crackers, candy and jam. The crackers were like English style biscuits and tasted like an old warehouse. Those did make me gag as I recall.

35 posted on 07/29/2011 12:31:44 PM PDT by freedomson (Tagline comment removed by moderator)
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To: GT Vander
Check out this site for more tips on food storage. Dehydrate2store

We've been prepping for years. I have about a year of stored stuff. I can and dehydrate. We bought a 1/4 side of beef last month, in a couple weeks we'll get our 1/2 pig. Check out your local butchers. The beef came out to $2.29 a pound, about 200 pounds. The pig, $1.69, about 100 pounds.

Our local meat market price list and quantities.

36 posted on 07/29/2011 12:32:15 PM PDT by Indy Pendance
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To: appalachian_dweller; OldPossum; DuncanWaring; VirginiaMom; CodeToad; goosie; kalee; ...

PING!!!!


37 posted on 07/29/2011 12:38:20 PM PDT by Kartographer (".. we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.")
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To: G Larry

I think the fried pies out of the vending machines are already that old.


38 posted on 07/29/2011 12:43:54 PM PDT by Elderberry
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To: WOBBLY BOB

If there is an item in our fridge that is green and otherwise unidentifiable, it’s usually very old meat or very new cheese.


39 posted on 07/29/2011 12:44:48 PM PDT by C Lee Tolindo
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To: Elderberry

Any vending machine food is questionable, except candy bars. I wonder what the shelf life on them are. Those apples, oranges, bananas and sandwiches, yuck. Creepy thinking of eating anything ‘healthy’ from them gives me the hibbie jibbies.


40 posted on 07/29/2011 12:47:35 PM PDT by Indy Pendance
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