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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OT - did you see that Soros is selling off his stocks and share for millions in gold? Just something to make you go hmmmm.
I have a weed in my yard, red sorrel, aka sheep sorrel.
Pain in the rear. It sends it’s roots everywhere and sprouts from the roots, you practically have to dig up your yard and totally sterilize it to get rid of it.
But it is edible! The fresh leaves have a distinct lemony, citrus like flavor, it is fairly high in Vitamin C, folic acid, and 4 or 5 other critical nutrients.
So I’m torn about digging iy out and trying to destroy it and just leaving it...
“Wouldn’t a multi-vitamin do a better job than a nutritional drink. Vitamins are cheaper, take up much less storage space, and no worries with excess sugars and sodium.”
I won’t know that until I do some research.
I inspect all my cans, except for the occasional closed case purchase.
Yes, I think so.
Well I am not claiming to be a great seer or anything, but the way I see it we are facing three outcomes; The way I see it, there’s three possibilities; One a high chance that the whole mess will blow-up if ‘Bama’ looses we already see the desperation growing among his followers. Two the pressure mounts to a point ‘Bama’ go forward toward the election and ‘O’ cracks goes scorched earth and action has to be taken directly against him before the election in order to save the country and three ‘Bama’ wins and within months the man’s tyranny will reach a level that true patriots will not be able to stand.
I could be wrong, but that’s the way I see things.
In the very first of the 1970s we were still eating WWII C-rations, if I recall right.
I own some C-rations in their original boxes, and I would still eat them.
“I own some C-rations in their original boxes, and I would still eat them.”
I don’t have MREs in my emergency food storage. But, I do have 12 MREs with a heater in each box, in my bug out bag. That bag is only for leaving my house if a hurricane/tornado/other damages my house so I cannot stay there.
I wonder if the military has ever tested these for edibility, just out of curiosity.
Funny thought: You open those cans in a dire emergency; Massive civil unrest.. No other food source, etc.. And a few of those old slapstick comedy worm things pop out and go ‘boing’!
I love MREs, although for the first couple of years, many of us thought that the C-rations were better, (MREs sucked for the first few years).
MREs last a lot longer than people think, eventually the candy will get soft and mushy, but everything else stays good.
I still have some of the LRPs which are sort of MRE like, but dehydrated, they are packed in the same type of bag.
Canned foods don’t go bad, as long as they are sealed then they are edible.
What happens is that things may change some in texture and flavor, and nutrition may fade, but they are always safe to eat.
I noticed that foods with pasta in them do not age well because the pasta changes, so I always use those products within the 2 year period or so, corn and tuna do great, and I have eaten 25 year old cabbage from a survival can that was fine.
I’m still eating tuna from 2004.
Is a lot of that Walton Feed food, wheat berries and beans, and such?
I had to look it up and I don’t think I’ve ever seen it before. We live in the desert and it prefers moist, acidic soil and we have dry alkaline soil so it probably doesn’t grow here.
Thanks, I have four cans of those ranch style beans with jalapenos and they are too hot...I will add rice!
Thanks, I have four cans of those ranch style beans with jalapenos and they are too hot...I will add rice!
It took a little time to set up and organize the pantry, but now we can see what we are using, replace the depleted stock, and rotate stock as we fill the rack.
They make smaller units, too.
It was interesting to see how our perceptions of what we had on hand varied from what we actually had once we got the rack set up and cleared the shelves and cupboards filling it.
Some things were in far shorter supply than we thought, some we had a lot more of than we believed.
I just can't take somebody seriously has the writing ability of a child and doesn't know the difference between "then" and "than."
A few years ago, at a church potluck, I HAD to find out who made the great-tasting “spinach”.
She led me around the side of the church and showed me....lambsquarters!
It really is that good.
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