Posted on 10/01/2012 12:20:57 PM PDT by djf
Not the orange or the blue, many have the white, You just have to look for them.
thanks for the response. I’ll have to pick up some coconut oil.
However, I still would like to know if there are any detrimental effects to putting veg oil in the fridge. Does it help extend shelf life? inquiring minds want to know.
Thanks. Got the pressure cooker, but haven’t canned meat so far. I will look into that.
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Sorry I didn’t respond to that part.
The answer is yes. Any kind of oil will last much longer if kept in the fridge. For the maximum lifespan, DO NOT open a new bottle (all that would do is allow more oxygen in), and place in fridge or freezer.
I have a large bottle of ultra virgin Olive oil in my fridge I never opened. I suspect it would last up to five years unopened, especially since OO has alot of natural antioxidants in it.
“I get frustrated reading these articles, because I’m no where near prepared for such a situation and for one big reason: I live in Florida. It’s often very humid, water gets into everything over time, and storage of things like rice, beans, and pasta is often measured in months and not years.”
If you get professionally hermetically sealed cans or buckets, like from Walton Food, and keep them in your air conditioned house, they will be fine. You couldn’t store them in a garage, of course. I am in more southern Texas humidity and mine are in my house. They stay cool and dry.
I would say 2 or 3 of those brussels sprouts would make a meal.
They really are Green Giants!
Water table level?
A person can buy the silica crystals drying gel by the pound at Amazon.
Also, the “Hot Hands” hand warmers are basically the same as the industrial oxygen absorbers.
And usually much cheaper.
If anyone and their family eats paleo or primal style and also is storing things long term, what have you decided would be prudent to store? Please please ping me to your suggestions.
We are moving so I won’t attempt this til after the move.
Here’s what I was thinking of putting away.
MSG-free (hard to find but I think I’ve found one) grass fed beef jerky (I react terribly to MSG)
White rice (I hear Lindbergs rice is arsenic free)
Dried fruits
Peanut butter
Grass fed non isolate whey protein powder
Maybe almonds but they don’t store for long...
What else? What else is still paleo/primal but good for long storage?
We eat all those things above, so I would buy a lot, then use it and restock as I go.
Bloody impressive!
Bisquick doesn’t have a very long shelf life.
Probably because it contains oil.
Processed pork products. And it is fine. I want hunks of pork meat to simmer all night in some great northern beans.
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Um wow!!! Amazing stash! I’m comIn’ to your place! If only to use your bathroom after “it” happens - you’ve got enough TP!! What is that on the bottom shelf, cans? Or bottles?
Same thing happened to me. the powder sticks to the inside of the mylar. we wiped them off waited til they dried. half took. gonna order from lds next time. rice n beans easiest to mylar seal.
Chocolate does not go bad, though if it gets too moist it can “bloom” with a white coating, which is not mold, and you can still eat it.
Cases of bottled water.
I haven’t been stock piling (I probably should) but as I live alone and live in a small garden apartment with very limited storage space - tiny kitchen, tiny and very few cabinets ; ( , I don’t have a lot of room to do so. But I do buy brown rice and whole grain pasta, just not more than I can use over a few weeks or a month. I have stocked up on those Uncle Ben’s brown and basmati pre-cooked rice in the vacuum packs when they are on sale and I have coupons - I don’t know what the long term shelf life is, but they are convenient to make a quick and healthy meal.
Plus evident that every couple of months, even though I’ve not seen not one single bug in my apartment since I’ve lived here, the management has had a pest control company come in for a “general” spray several times recently. About eight weeks ago they left roach baits in my kitchen cabinets and it freaked me out – I really didn’t like roach baits in my cabinets where my food and dishes are stored BTW! Then they came in about two weeks later to spray again. In fact I came home just tonight and there was yet another notice taped to my door that the pest control company was going to do another “general spray” in my apartment tomorrow – the same notice was posted on everyone’s door BTW. This leads me to think that, while I’ve never seen bugs (roaches) that there is a problem in my building. ; ( and it really pisses me off because I keep my apartment very clean and I keep all my food stuffs like flour, cereal and rice in plastic containers with tight fitting lids rather than in open bags or the boxes they came in.
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