I meant the outdate on the canned goods. The room was floor to ceiling looked like all four walls with food. I hope she shares.
I grew up as you- gardening, canning- most of what we ate.I do can,and dry fruits and veggies. I make beef jerky every so often. Used to make venison but one needs access to the venison to do that. I do work on a year’s supply- twice down through the years I really needed that buffer. My electric wheat grinder will not do oily things like nuts and soy beans. The hand mill will though.
Not a bad way to live.
I know that when I shop for canned foods, using my coupons, I check the expiry date in the store. When I shelve them I always double check the stock. It’s part of the whole couponing thing. We have an agreement that if canned stuff somehow gets to a month of it’s expiry date, it goes to the food pantry. So far we haven’t taken anything to the panty. We do donate at the holidays though.
The last time I sat in front of the food pantry, two really huge woman came out lugging three plastic bags each. They were stuffed. (the bags I mean) They went down the street and got into a SUV.
I also garden, and each year try to add to my list of, “things I know how to can”. It’s an ass-busting way to get food, LOL. But it is very satisfying.
We harvest a deer or two a year from a little piece of land I brought back a few years ago. I figure it covers the cost of taxes (for that property)- which are very high here even for vacant land out in the middle of nowhere.