IMPORTANT MESSAGE TO PREPPER and PEOPLE WHO STOCKPILE COMMERCIAL FOODS FROM COMPANIES

Are.you storing the food items inside of glass canning jars? The really big ones are great for this. For cereals or trail mix just mix it right in the jar, flour, sugar, all that can go right in the jar, open the package and pour.
Small packets of food can be pushed down in there and stored in the packet
Freeze your flour for 48 hours before you store it. That kills any weavels or larvae that may be hiding in there

You say this now, but most of us have never experienced true hunger. There could potentially come a time where we have no choice but to eat canned dog or cat food. Even dried dog food. Think the stored food you have is inedible? Wait until you try canned cat food.

Maybe I should come back on the weekend when more people are home to see this?

one more thing, I had several fruit and vegetable packages that are freeze-dried. Inedible. Just plain Inedible. I think I would have eaten the packaging in an emergency before I would have eaten the actual foods inside them.

I appreciate the heads up. I will have to wait until early next week to have a block of time,but I will post the results. .

You say this now, but most of us have never experienced true hunger. There could potentially come a time where we have no choice but to eat canned dog or cat food. Even dried dog food. Think the stored food you have is inedible? Wait until you try canned cat food.

I appreciate the heads up. I will have to wait until early next week to have a block of time,but I will post the results. .

We have a shit load of the large cans - would buy by the case and try one as soon as we got it.

MOST OF IT TASTES LIKE CRAP FROM DAY ONE.

We went through our “hidden” stored foods earlier this year when all this Covid crap started and found several of the Augason farms pails of wheat berries had cracked on the bottom due to expansion - popped the lid on one and it was full of dead bugs. Lost about 100 pounds of wheat berries. Everything else looked and sounded okay when shook and since I have no use for it.

However, I no longer include it in my list of emergency foods.

Have added pantry space and gone to full rotation. I still freeze the bags of rice and vacuum seal - but keep it readily accessible.

I don't know if anything like this has been posted before but for the last few weeks I have been cleaning out things around here and on those things is my food stash. Mind you, I have been stashing food for about 10 years. I have foods from several different companies.

As a side note let me just throw this in their real quick: I had a three month supply from a company that I received about seven or eight years ago and it had been stashed under my bed. I threw it out.

One more sidenote: I used to work for one of the major storable food companies. I used to sell this stuff to customers. Now I feel like I have jilted them.

So back to what I was saying, as I began clearing out things I started selling and throwing things out. What really struck me is how much of the food had actually gone "bad".

Almost all of the foods from EFoods and My Patriot Supply were bad. What I mean by bad? Let me explain:

Upon opening the bag the contents were a bit discolored. Well maybe that's part of the natural aging process and they're still actually edible, so I go to prepare them. Potato soup is gross. Cheesy broccoli and rice, gross. Granola, rancid. Cheesy potato soup was tolerable. Creamy chicken and rice, let's not go there. Tasted like ass.
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I mean you can still live on the stuff I guess, but is this really what peole paid for? Weren't we told that these foods would keep for 25 years? I'm calling BS.

I mean after all their dehydrated freeze-dried so they're supposed to retain their viability right?

I'm going to go dig some more and experiment some more and document some more. I really believed in the products that I was selling to customers. I swear to God I hope that this is not common because if it is I have this crap on my conscience.

Please check your own stash, or if you already have and have found out that your foods suck and you had to throw them away or get rid of them, respond and let me know.

The companies that I have foods from are:

EFoods
My Patriot Supply ( think they changed the foods from Patriot Pantry to Ready Hour or something like that.)

Wise, who I think is now under Readywise.
Emergency Essentials.
Food4Patriots
Auguson Farms

I appreciate the heads up. I will have to wait until early next week to have a block of time,but I will post the results. .

now THIS is what I'm talking about. This is the kind of thing I need to know is happening two foods that were supposedly designed to last X amount of years.

I'm very sorry you had to go through that.

I have been putting-food-by (as they say before the
"prepping" label was used) for many years. I had a
similar 'AH HA! EXPERIENCE" when I found a whole bin
of white rice that had a particularly BAD ODOR when I
opened the bin. It was a sterilized bin and the rice was
placed in plastic with paper napkins to absorb any moisture
int he bin.

What I have since determined...is that the PLASTIC WRAPPER
OF MOST COMMERCIAL RICE will degrade in an especially TOXIC
WAY after about 2 years (depending on the manufacturer.)

We need to (as "preppers") be SURE TO REPACKAGE our food
stores in containers that will hold the food integrity for
the duration of your need for back-ups.

That being said...I don't know if there have been any
scientific studies on the food integrity in certain
plastic containers (like Tupperware, etc.) but that would
sure be a good use of grant money if someone would take
it on!

Just a heads-up since this topic really has been on my
mind in re-evaluating my own backup food stores now.

Thanks for this thread--it is very timely. THE LAST THING
YOU AND YOUR FAMILY NEED IN AN "EMERGENCY" IS FOOD POISONING! CHECK YOUR RESERVES!


O's Cookie

Maybe I should come back on the weekend when more people are home to see this?

A jar of fresh made ghee (butter oil) where the jar was sterile and sealed properly will last for a hundred years.

Basmati Rice, stored properly, will last indefinitely. It is the king of rice, cooks in 12 minutes, easily digested and tastes like popcorn.

Dried Beans (lentils and mung beans fast cooking and most digestible) stored properly, will last decades. High protein and easy to digest.

Wheat berries store for 10-20 years. Just need a grinding mill to make flour as you go.

Canned vegetables are good for 5 years. I have carrots, green beans, spinach, corn, tomatoe, potatoes, etc.

Properly freeze dried vegetables likewise but you might need to do it yourself to do it right.

Salt, Pepper, cinnamon, ginger, and freshly ground spices like those in mixed curry, properly sealed in small serving containers, will last a decade. The spices in curry are anti-inflammatory, increase digestion, anti-parasitic, anti-oxidant, and are tasty.

So quite simply you have FRESH MADE rice and beans with vegetables in a butter/curry sauce and flat-bread at the ready for super cheap, without relying on the dubious "ready made" freeze dried techniques that promise 20 year shelf life that winds up being more like 3 or 4 MAX.

I don't know if anything like this has been posted before but for the last few weeks I have been cleaning out things around here and on those things is my food stash. Mind you, I have been stashing food for about 10 years. I have foods from several different companies.

As a side note let me just throw this in their real quick: I had a three month supply from a company that I received about seven or eight years ago and it had been stashed under my bed. I threw it out.

One more sidenote: I used to work for one of the major storable food companies. I used to sell this stuff to customers. Now I feel like I have jilted them.

So back to what I was saying, as I began clearing out things I started selling and throwing things out. What really struck me is how much of the food had actually gone "bad".

Almost all of the foods from EFoods and My Patriot Supply were bad. What I mean by bad? Let me explain:

Upon opening the bag the contents were a bit discolored. Well maybe that's part of the natural aging process and they're still actually edible, so I go to prepare them. Potato soup is gross. Cheesy broccoli and rice, gross. Granola, rancid. Cheesy potato soup was tolerable. Creamy chicken and rice, let's not go there. Tasted like ass.
.

EFoods
My Patriot Supply ( think they changed the foods from Patriot Pantry to Ready Hour or something like that.)

Wise, who I think is now under Readywise.
Emergency Essentials.
Food4Patriots
Auguson Farms

this is good info right here. Thank you Oracle

Try to cook and eat old beans. They will not get soft even after soaking and cooking for days.

All I know is there are going to be LOTS of very disappointed upset folks when they go to use their stored foods.

People have spent thousands of dollars on these foods. They might be able to use half of them, maybe more, maybe less.

I'm a good Catholic. Joseph interpreted the Pharaoh's dream. There would be 7 excellent harvests then 7 years of drought. So Pharaoh had food stored during the good years. I think it was mostly grains and Egypt grew wheat mostly. They stored things off the ground in a mud brick thing I have no idea what is called. Its about ten feet by ten feet by ten feet high. He would have had row after row of these things. They ate a lot of bread back then.

I have been putting-food-by (as they say before the
"prepping" label was used) for many years. I had a
similar 'AH HA! EXPERIENCE" when I found a whole bin
of white rice that had a particularly BAD ODOR when I
opened the bin. It was a sterilized bin and the rice was
placed in plastic with paper napkins to absorb any moisture
int he bin.

What I have since determined...is that the PLASTIC WRAPPER
OF MOST COMMERCIAL RICE will degrade in an especially TOXIC
WAY after about 2 years (depending on the manufacturer.)

We need to (as "preppers") be SURE TO REPACKAGE our food
stores in containers that will hold the food integrity for
the duration of your need for back-ups.

That being said...I don't know if there have been any
scientific studies on the food integrity in certain
plastic containers (like Tupperware, etc.) but that would
sure be a good use of grant money if someone would take
it on!

Just a heads-up since this topic really has been on my
mind in re-evaluating my own backup food stores now.

Thanks for this thread--it is very timely. THE LAST THING
YOU AND YOUR FAMILY NEED IN AN "EMERGENCY" IS FOOD POISONING! CHECK YOUR RESERVES!


O's Cookie

looking for more feedback

Where ddid you have them stored?

They need to be in climate controlled storage or they won't last nearly as long.