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

It's between 72 and 76, depending. Even if it had been 78, It shouldn't have gone bad. It makes me wonder if that Harvest Right machine does any better...all those folks thinking they have preserved food may be in for a rude awakening. I'm glad I saw that bulging can because if I hadn't, I probably wouldn't have opened up those cans. Of course I never bought single #10 cans either. I had to get a case of 6 each time.

So basic food is where it's at for me. Things that had milk products in them were bad. So I store some dry milk, but not much and rotate it out fast...like in 6 months. All those sauce mixes were a good idea, but they had dairy in them and were off. And since they came from different companies and I read this thread it's made me wary...especially of mixes and sauces and of course anything dairy.

For the evening crowd.

I've never purchased commercial food from any of the big companies. I just buy extra of what I already eat and store it in a closet. I live in an apartment and have limited space. I buy extra canned food, stuff in jars, rice, and beans. I put the bags of rice and beans into freezer bags and stash them in boxes in the closet along with everything else. I make sure to rotate yearly when I top off my hurricane supplies. As a single person, it makes no sense to buy bulk items.

LoL.

Unless you go backpacking 6-8 times a year.
Actually use your shit, keep a years worth of stuff. Week long backpacking trips will teach you a lot about your bug out plan, preps, etc. If you cant last a week in the woods then when TSHTF you may as well go to the camps.
Learn how to grow and dehydrate using heat, smoke etc.
Weekend warriors buying preps on amazon will be the first ones down.

Spot on. I don't think any of these people understand starving. You will not care about tbe taste.

Eat your mum. Yum yum.

I can gut clean quarter and skin a cow at night blindfolded.


Got it?

hey OP thanks for the heads up

I opened- inspected my most suspect pail. No odors whatsoever, but the very first thing I noticed was only 1 package was vacuum sealed

BIG hole in my elbow macaroni, and a small hole in another item along the outer edges. Discarded the elbow macaroni

I feel terrible for all the people that are unaware of this.

for more reports if your 30 years supplies were a rip off and went bad.

You don't have to go camping 6-8 times a year.

One method of testing your prepper strategy.

Designate a time period of 1 week, 2 weeks, 3 weeks...

Throw the mains switch on your electrical meter to OFF.

Close the main-valve to your water supply.

You will learn quickly what your prep-status is. When you have to cook, eat, clean, flush-toilets, with no power, and no water service.

Try-it, even for a couple of days it can be a challenge.
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A fistful of bay leaves added to a bucket works better than freezing. You'd have to have a huge empty freezer to freeze all the flours and grains you're likely to buy anyway. Bay leaves both repel and stop hatching on any already in there.

I have learnt, the hard way, that rats can chew holes in heavy foil bags that are 'vacuum sealed;' it doesn't even slow them down. I'll never forget some powdered eggs they got into once when we had a real bad year in AZ for rats. What a mess!

Some mice can too and they can get into a hole so small, you'd never guess they'd been in your package. You know those vacuum sealed bags of coffee beans? Mice in the cupboard ruined a new one of mine once and it was the last thing I thought they'd bother with. Out in the country, you're going to see mice in dizzying varieties no matter how many cats you have on the premises.

Rats come in enough varieties so it can take a while to indentify what your problem is. The only way even to know you've got rats and not just mice is the size of the turds they leave. They're not just a city plague: the country is full of them. They carry bugs of their own too. Manufacturers and shippers are never going to tell you about the turds they found in their warehouses!

That HANTA virus exploded on Indian reservations in the Southwest, most of it remote rural, because of rodent urine and droppings that nobody out there ever cleaned up. It was in every single cupboard in every house, hut, cabin, hogan, wigwam, whatever. Add some dust and dry wind, a hallmark of the whole region, and you have an epidemic.

Wow! Great post!

As promised, it's a Saturday morning BUMP to get more people checking their food supplies.

Go do it before you can't.

Check out the preserving power of a properly placed pyramid

Five stars and a karma pin. Didn't see this thread until today when Gemini Rising posted it in our Practical Prepping Protocol thread, for which I am very thankful.

This is horrifying, when people have purchased these foods and stored the away, believing they will be good for twentyfive years or more, only to discover, when starving, that they have nothing to eat but spoiled food. Sickening.

How did Auguson Farms do? I'm told they are the best, but your test will mean the most. I'm still on your first page, OP, so if you have already answered this question, thank you!

Yeah, me too. When I moved across the country, I opened a few cans and found it was rancid. I was very angry. I wonder what the deal is. These food items were less than five years old, but were supposed to last 20+ years.

I don't buy none of that shit. I stockpile on my own the old fashioned way.

I cut the middle man out a long time ago.

I had forgotten about bay leaves in the bucket. I had a bay bush a long time ago and had tons of leaves, and it really did work. I was lavish with them, putting them everywhere in the pantry too. I'm going to get some.

You'd think that storing popcorn in a dry canned mason jar would be rodent proof...when I lived in Oregon, I had my popcorn in mason jars in the pantry, dry canned. Mice got in the pantry, and because the ring was removed, a rat actually found a way to pop the seal and got into the jar. I had never seen anything like that before or since. But these days, I leave the rings on dry canned items...just in case.

I don’t buy MREs anymore for this reason. I ate them in a war and have thought they would be ok for STHF. But the last two cases of new production 2018 were awful. These had come banded, they were legit. The food inside made me ill, or at least feel weird and unwell. Hard to describe, it all sucks and too expensive to warrant

I was in when C Rations were still a thing. It was the cusp really. Towards the end they switched over to MRE's. I have a steel pot also. I was fitted with a Kevlar one near my ETS date.

MRE's are fucking nasty! C Rats might weigh more but at least they were edible! The steel pot could be used to boil water and you can't do that shit with a Kevlar one!

I don't know what I'm bitching about, I ate tree bark before.

IDGAF

They still have coffee in them?

whole grain kept dry and cool will keep for 20 years

You think food designed to last 25 years is gonna taste good?

I ate some rattlesnake the other day. Too many fucking bones.

Some people ain't going to make it! They are fickle and didn't pursue a game plan.