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5 easy survival food preps
Survivalist Boards ^ | 1/23/11 | Kev

Posted on 08/17/2012 8:16:52 PM PDT by Kartographer

Don’t want to stockpile 1,000 pounds of dried rice and beans? Want something that taste a little better then MREs? Want something that you don’t have to worry about rotating out?

One of the main problems with stockpiling survival food preps, is that people sometimes stockpile what they do not normally eat. So the food stocks sit in a closet, expire, and have to be thrown out. In the long run its easier to stockpile what your family normally eats so rotation is handled in a natural manner.

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To: Kirkwood

Sadly no, but its still good bacon!


41 posted on 08/17/2012 9:28:52 PM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: JRandomFreeper

I still get swollen cans, I have one right now, a can of Bumble Bee tuna of a batch I purchased in 2004.

Months ago it was a can of Ro-tel tomatoes that swelled on me, I get them occasionally.


42 posted on 08/17/2012 9:29:28 PM PDT by ansel12 (Massachusetts Governors, where the GOP goes for it's "conservative" Presidential candidates.)
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To: Kartographer

“I like the ranch style beans they they picture take a can of them (with Jalapenos) and mix it with a couple cups of cooked rice and you have some good eating.”

Whoever wrote that didn’t include any rice with the beans so he had an incomplete protein. You are right to add the rice to have complete protein.

I have a few jars of peanut butter but it’s regular type and I don’t have many. I should get some Jif natural.

I haven’t stored a nutritional drink like Ensure. I think they have that without sugar also. Then, there is the nutritional drink Glucerna for diabetes with nutrients in it. I’ll have to do some research on Ensure and Glucerna to determine what to get, plus I don’t know their shelf life.


43 posted on 08/17/2012 9:29:33 PM PDT by Marcella (PREPARE)
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To: MrEdd

LOL.... Did a lot of planning with John Wayne bars and Cheese..... Timing timing timing.

Stay safe Marine.


44 posted on 08/17/2012 9:30:37 PM PDT by Squantos
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To: Squantos
Good old days. C-Rats weren't so great, and after a few weeks MREs aren't either. Last enlistment I was relegated to Services(cook) because of my hearing loss, so feeding troops was/is a big deal to me.

That said, one of the best meals I ever had was at 0300 in a cold October. Cold spaghetti MRE, followed by a nap with a curb for a pillow, up to make coffee at 0430 (make CQ write it down to wake you up). 36 hour days are for young men.

/johnny

45 posted on 08/17/2012 9:32:41 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Vendome

Well, I admit anytime I read one of these deals about the government going door-to-door doing or confiscating anything, my tin-foil warning light goes on hi-beam and blinks like crazy.

The logistics would be a nightmare, they don’t have the personel, there are not enough med centers in the whole country to deal with the resulting casualties.

But it can still be an indicator of the general tone of where governments head is at...


46 posted on 08/17/2012 9:33:34 PM PDT by djf (The barbarian hordes will ALWAYS outnumber the clean-shaven. And they vote.)
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To: All

If you garden, try mache also called corn salad. It looks and tastes like fresh spinach but has 4 times the iron and vitamin C. It grows like a weed and doesn’t bolt (go to seed in hot weather as fast as spinach.


47 posted on 08/17/2012 9:34:57 PM PDT by sleddogs
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To: Kartographer

I like MREs, myself. Fresh ones (that being a relative term) are pricey, though.


48 posted on 08/17/2012 9:34:57 PM PDT by Joseph Harrolds
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To: ansel12
Bury it. Deep.

It is rare. Much more rare than the 60s. You might want to shop somewhere that doesn't mistreat their canned goods.

/johnny

49 posted on 08/17/2012 9:35:38 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Kartographer

I read someplace that Tac Bac is produced by Yoders as a novelty item.


50 posted on 08/17/2012 9:35:49 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: sleddogs

Mache? I just learned something new.


51 posted on 08/17/2012 9:40:37 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: sleddogs

Wow. Thanks.

I’m gonna order some seeds and try it.

Today, I just got done harvesting a bunch of New Zealand spinach. Another plant much like spinach - but it doesn’t bolt, it does very well in dryer climates and warmer conditions than any kind of spinach I’ve tried.


52 posted on 08/17/2012 9:41:22 PM PDT by djf (The barbarian hordes will ALWAYS outnumber the clean-shaven. And they vote.)
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To: Kartographer
Fresh spinach and canned spinach are two different animals. That canned stuff Popeye eats is nasty. The fresh leaves are tasty cooked or added to a green salad. ****** BEWARE of the new tuna cans. I didn't notice a difference until I opened them. They are very thin so I don't know how long they'll last and are easily dented. I opened some cans tonight and couldn't use the lids to squish out the water as they kept bending. I ended up having to put the tuna in a strainer to sit a while before making tuna salad because it was way too liquidy. I suspect we're in for this new thin can for other items as well. Bottom line, be careful when storing these cans long term.
53 posted on 08/17/2012 9:42:00 PM PDT by bgill
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To: Vendome

about the door to door scenario.....remember, the govt elites can apply their rules to anyone at anytime...if it suited them to enforce strict gun control, who do you think they would go after first, the inner city feral yutes or the church attending republican in the country?......


54 posted on 08/17/2012 9:42:00 PM PDT by cherry (/)
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To: Kirkwood; All

I believe you are right, but if you can live with eating bacon without a gun on the can it come in you can get the regular Yoders cheaper.

All of Yoders canned meats are very good.

Anyone remember Celebrity Bacon? We used to buy it for camping trips. It was great!


55 posted on 08/17/2012 9:44:51 PM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: JRandomFreeper

It depends on what you call rare, evidently not rare enough for me.

As far as bad cans, those were handpicked cans, not dented ones, I am a long time prepper.


56 posted on 08/17/2012 9:45:39 PM PDT by ansel12 (Massachusetts Governors, where the GOP goes for it's "conservative" Presidential candidates.)
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To: ansel12
I'm also a long time prepper. I haven't had a swollen can since the '70s.

/johnny

57 posted on 08/17/2012 9:50:32 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Kartographer

Don’t throw out “expired” canned goods. If the cans are still sealed, they’ll be fine. They’ve found canned foods last far longer than the sell by dates with a little degradation in taste. Rotating is the thing to do but if they are in a cooler dryer place they can last decades.


58 posted on 08/17/2012 9:50:53 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: Kartographer

A big old can of pineapple juice exploded in my pantry last weekend. Took three days to get the sticky goo off everything.


59 posted on 08/17/2012 9:51:57 PM PDT by AZLiberty (No tag today.)
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To: JRandomFreeper

Earlier this year I found one of my large cans of Boyarde Ravioli had started bulging.

A few years back I had a can of tomato paste go bad, which somewhat surprised me because tomato paste/sauce is pretty acidic.


60 posted on 08/17/2012 9:56:52 PM PDT by djf (The barbarian hordes will ALWAYS outnumber the clean-shaven. And they vote.)
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