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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Well, some of them got burned...
We thought we were really grown up then; how little we knew.
Seen this??
http://barry-julie.blogspot.com/2012/08/a-warning-from-airman-in-airforce-could.html
scroll down and read the stuff at the yellow warning sign...
It would truly would be SHTF to get me to eat spinach!
/johnny
I ran across a swollen can at Walmart a few months ago. Looked like it was ready to blow.
Story about the general officer that retired a few years ago shared his 60’s era Vietnam issued pound cake and peaches with his staff at his 2010 retirement ceremony 50 plus years later ..... They all were surprised it was great !
I store can goods on a rotational FIFO set of racks in a cool dark root cellar style storage room. Each can gets a sharpie pen DTG marked on it or a computer printed lable I make stuck on it. Oldest can goods in the rack are ranch style beans and they were 5 years old as oldest product I had on hand.
They are still good.
Soups, stews and chili, peanut butter, honey, canned juices and sauces add to,the dry storage of pintos, rice, cornmeal , and spices etc....
75% of our “pantry” is canned goods and the rest are dry goods and freeze dred . If power goes then first few weeks is beef, chicken, pork, fish and wild game harvested. Jerky manufacturing Inc per se as the freezers thaw that portion of food stores.
Agree on the C-rats. Shy of Lima beans and ham of course...:o)
Stay safe
When the SHTF I for one am not going to worry about partially hydrogenated oils in my peanut butter or trace amounts of mercury in the canned tuna.
I’ll buy what’s cheap and stack it deep. When I need it I’ll thank God for it.
To me it reminds me of the stuff I get when I use to wash out my lawnmower and I imagine to me they would taste about the same, but J I bet you could even make lawn clippings taste like ambrosia! ;-)
/johnny
Woulda been a bad day for a manager, had I seen it.
Very bad day. I can speak with the volume to be heard across a drill pad without raising my voice.
/johnny
Yoder’s sells some EXCELLENT canned bacon.
It wouldn’t surprise me if they stuck it back on the shelf after I left. I think it is so rare to find one that the stockers these days don’t even realize something is wrong with it.
If you have a bug-out bag, I’d recommend sticking a jar of peanut butter in it. It doesn’t take up a lot of space, doesn’t weigh too much, but is packed full of vitamins, calories, and fats that will be essential in the event of an unplanned (but hopefully prepared for) cross-country excursion.
For Roy Grant, wherever he may be now.
But do they have a gun on the label?
Not gonna happen.
The US doesn’t have a large enough army to cover 300 million people who would suddenly get a bit pissy over someone messing with their food.
It’ll start on one block and end terribly on the next...with extreme prejudice.
Fictional writing.
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