Posted on 10/01/2012 12:20:57 PM PDT by djf
Chocolate can be stored for a couple of years in the freezer. (Assuming the electricity doesn’t go out.)
After Halloween, all the candy will be on sale as the stores prepare to stock for Christmas.
“Visualize being a rabbit or deer”
Big game will be virtually extinct within a few months if there is a breakdown. There will be a very efficient bush meat market for that period of time.
Awesome list- thank you
I didn’t read all he answers in case this has been covered.
Freeze all pastas, flours, rice and other grain items for 30 days at 0F before storing. thats kills the bug eggs present.
I love those DAK canned hams, but apparently so did everyone else because I was never able to get as many as I wanted when they came on sale.
One thing I haven’t seen mentioned— metal cans for storage. Rodents can’t chew through them. Cheapest type is the 4-5 gallon popcorn cans you can often find at yard sales. You can also buy new empty gallon paint cans but they don’t hold much.
Misinformation in the article:
“A really basic way to store the rice, beans, cornmeal, sugar and pastas is to buy several 5-gallon seal-able paint buckets or food-grade buckets from your local hardware store. Put a cup or so of salt into a sandwich baggie (opened) at the bottom of the buckets. Then fill it with food stuffs and add a couple of ounces of dried ice (found at large grocery stores) which will remove the oxygen from the bucket after it’s sealed.”
Dry ice will NOT remove oxygen, except by displacing the air in the container, but to do that you need to leave the lid unsealed. You put the dry ice in the BOTTOM of the container, fill it with food, place the lid on and leave it for a few hours. Then you seal the lid. If the lids bulge on any of the sealed containers, you can ‘burp’ the excess pressure and then reseal it. The best thing dry ice will do is kill any insects and insect eggs which may be in the food, by depriving them of sufficient oxygen to survive.
You can home-can bacon for that.
I buy the packages of ends and pieces, chop them up even smaller, fry it all, then divvy into 1/2 quart jars, cover with hot water, wipe the rim of the jar carefully with vinegar (don’t want grease on there), put on the lids and run them through the pressure cooker.
Adding one to a pot of beans is perfect.
Good tips Max, thanks !
What are you going to do with all those frozen brussels sprouts if the power goes off?
Awesome! I would love to have a basement, but it’s a problem in my area.
[How ‘bout Twinkies? 127 year shelf life...]
Do Twinkies come in chocolate?
Maybe not so much.
The one LB bags of dried beans and lentil sprout nicely.
Not to mention you can plant them.
I might add tomato sauce. Adds flavor to beans or pasta as well as vitamin C.
Wow! Well done.
Prepper PING!
Yoder’s has canned ham and canned bacon.
We used to do the same thing only with self-rising flour instead of Bisquick and dried buttermilk powder. Then put a glob of bacon grease in the skillet, when that is melted, drop in the biscuits and put on the lid. Sometimes I added a little sugar to the dough. Those biscuits were pretty good!
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