“Well to all you comrades in hoarding out there I guess that survival food has turned out to be a better idea than any of us knew. :-)”
Actually, for certain items, about a year ago I started buying cannisters of survival food (Augason Farms brand, found at Walmart online), because it’s cheaper, lasts longer, and what I have tried so far tastes good too. Most of it has a 10-20 year lifespan unopened, and one year opened. Especially as there is only one of me, so often certain items like celery, green peppers and the like will spoil before I can eat them up, but with the freeze dried version of them, they won’t spoil. Easily reconstituted, tastes fine when used in soups, stews and the like, and saves money. Win, win.
Augason Farms country style powdered milk is the only one I’ve been able to ever actually drink. Tastes just like real milk. Amazingly good, and great for emergencies, like when I run out of milk in the winter, it’s 0 degrees out and snowing, and I am trapped inside (I live in the burbs of Chicago, where the weather can turn on you at the drop of a hat).
The variety of survival food items is amazing. Butter, dried eggs, onions, potatoes, meat, cheese, powdered honey, brownie mix, stews, spaghetti, white and chocolate milk, orange, apple, peach drinks, mushrooms, corn, biscuits, taco meat, etc. You name it, they have it. Now I’ve made myself hungry, lol.
Kudos, and if you have any more tips, please post them.
We'll all be grazing on grass by the time Obama leaves the White House if this inflation keeps up...and I'm sure it will.
Leni
Good info. We live a block from a Wallyworld. Will check our the powdered milk as we usually order and drink Grandma’s country cream powdered milk. It is just the same as drinking regular milk also. You have to order Grandma’s online. I would love to just go pick some up.
I checked them out and it sounds pretty good until you start to think about it. What THEY CALL a year’s supply of food for one person is less than a thousand dollars but it is only 1100 calories a day. For a large man like myself if I am active at all I need three times that. A man half my size who is doing hard physical labor of the sort that people used to do could go through the whole week’s worth of calories in one day or a day and a half at the most and not gain weight. No, I am NOT exaggerating. The idea that a normal size adult can live on 1100 calories a day and maintain a normal weight and good health is absurd. That calorie count is literally a starvation diet. When I was a boy working on the farm I ate more calories than that for breakfast most days and when I left for boot camp just after my 18th birthday I weighed 169 and measured six feet three and one half inches tall, a “string bean” if ever one existed. I could lie in bed, get up only to eat and visit the bathroom and on 1100 calories a day I would dry up and die.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpqQl_z2tR0
WARNING - Susan’s imstillworking youtube videos are a prepper’s dream. She not only gives the how to on all sorts of food storage but explains in detail the whys and why nots. The link above is a video on dehydrated onions. It seems the companies are cheating and lying on how much they will reconstitute. Buyer beware. You should open and use one can of every food product to make sure the label is correct on the amount of servings it contains.
She also gardens and her guyfriend, mhpgardener, is a tomato gardener to beat all.
I’ve yet to find a Walmart in Central TX that carries freeze dried foods except the occassional one serving packets for camping. And that’s a rare find. No Austin store or any towns within 75 miles lists it online.