Posted on 03/02/2011 4:25:06 PM PST by Red in Blue PA
Most weeks, you make a big grocery list and head to the store, prepared to buy loads of fresh food to make your family's meals. We often don't give a thought to stuff sitting in the kitchen cupboard or we automatically throw out anything that's been in there longer than we can remember.
But Janice Revell, co-founder of StillTasty.com, says "Look in your pantry and your cabinets and check whether the items really do need to go. You'll be shocked by what you really don't need to throw away."
So before you throw out that years-old sugar or replace that bottle of vanilla that's been gathering dust, consult this list of "forever foods." You may be surprised how many of your kitchen staples have a shelf life of decades — even after they've been opened.
(Excerpt) Read more at shine.yahoo.com ...
I named all but the rice. The article needs to add that rice, whether opened or unopened, needs to be stored in the freezer to keep whatever little ickies and eggs from hatching. But, hey, they add protein!
Indeed. I have 5-years-since expired raisins that are moist and fresh tasting as they can be. I make sure to seal them up well each time I re-close the package — Sunmaid.
It is serendipitous observations such as that which have led to advances such as the invention of Ivory soap and Penicillin.
Perhaps you have just made the next great discovery in the field of Entomology...
I have softened hardened white sugar in the micro ..as well as brown
We have seen small bugs in white rice. If you have a lot to store it might be a good idea to put a piece of dry ice on top. The dry ice will sublimate and the CO2, being heavier, will displace the oxygen. After the ice is gone, then seal the container. The lack of air will keep the bugs away.
I have been wanting to know something on this.
I store rice, beans in original pkg. inside freezer bag in my freezer.
How long will stay edible? Will they lose their flavor and nutrients?
I have eaten sugar and salt left over from the 1930s Depression.
Whiskey should be #11
It’s also good for barter!
I’m talking about 4 years for the longest storage.
I buy when on sale. I bought lots of coffee when on sale.
Store them in original container in dark cabinet. Should last a long time.
After opening I store in fridge.
Yes, only the best.
” I bought lots of coffee when on sale.
Store them in original container in dark cabinet. Should last a long time. “
I bought up 30 cans of Walmart “Master Chef” coffee when it was priced at $2.50 a can (32 oz) — they were some 6 years old last year when I started rotating them out, and the ones I have opened and used were perfectly fine - fair flavor (of course, I’m not a ‘coffee snob’) and acceptable caffiene content....
ping for later
From the “no joke” department…
Back in `06 I was D.O. for the Texas Minutemen. We had a secondary facility at the east end of the El Paso project as the project watch area was a bit over 50 miles long.
Anyway, the secondary facility was 3 miles west of Ft Hancock which is pretty much at the corner of no and where. There was nothing there (besides the buildings) to sustain life, just dirt, sand, rocks interspersed with the occasional area of sandy dirt.
Some of the watch volunteers would bring sacks of junk food and of course it never quite all made it to the trash barrel. At night a few rats would cruse down the side of the barn like building (inside) and check out the wrappers.
Never saw one eat a single McDonald’s French fry. They would sniff a half a scoop of the things… and keep right on walking.
Now, I condemned rail cars full of grits that had been shipped back from Wheelus AFB, Libya to CONUS that were full of insects and didn't have a chance of recovery to wholesomeness.
Whiskey doesn’t last. That’s a fact.
I also store unopened pastas and opened flours in the freezer, keeping out what flour I’ll use within a couple months stored in tight lidded plastic container.
I prefer glass for storage when possible. I do have some barley and oat bran in glass, stored on shelf I wonder about.
And a good way to store protein is in protein-drink powder. I’ve had some of it for eight or nine years, and it reconstitutes perfectly with water.
[scratches head] Can’t figure out why it’s not on the list.
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