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

Been eating Mountain House since the 80's..They have always been top shelf..and their taste has improved greatly over the years.

Better learn how to jar, can, and pickle!

Doesn't matter how old, my husband will eat it.
Soups, veg, fruit from 2009.


I stock up on coffee.

We have to learn to rotate, as other
posters have said.

I'm just going to stock up on things just
to get thru this winter.

My Augusan Farms pail from amazon is comprimised.

Bought it 4 months ago

Add a tsp. or two of baking soda to the water, they’ll soften right up.

I think you better check for lids. In the US, if you didn’t stock up before last April....most likely you’re out of luck.

That probably happened in shipment.

Augason farms is amazing! I have their number ten powered stuffs. No problems.

Always check shipments.... don’t just chuck things in the corner.

So far I have:

1) NorthWest Fork :
Gluten-Free 30 Day Emergency Food Supply (Kosher, Non-GMO, Vegan) - 10+ Year Shelf Life - 90 Servings

2) NuManna INT:
-NMFP 144 Meals, Emergency Survival Food Storage Kit, Separate Rations, in a Bucket, 25 Plus Year Shelf Life, GMO-Free

Not sure how they stack up, but mine are only 1 year old.

Beans last two to three years after drying. Some last longer like Pinto beans.

Thanks for the baking soda tip!

carp of the desert

Swamp here!

god bless you .

whole grains (seeds) store best. A garbage can duct taped shut in a cool basement will produce sprouts years later. Sprouts may be rabbit food but 5 star survival food. Do not buy "seed" as that has poison on it for fungus and will kill you

Don't eat the monkey's!

I would rather deal with the elements and nature than spend another second with clowns.

Sugar...local organic feed mills will sell human consumption grade 50lb bags organic evaporated cane juice super cheap. Also human consumption grade rolled oats, gallon jugs of molasses. Amish and Mennonite run bulk food stores will often give you fair prices for large orders ( 25# or 50# bags of beans and grains). Look for restaurant supply warehouses too...powdered cheese, milk and eggs.
I feel that many of the prepper sites are way overpriced for the exact same foods.

Can your old dried beans in a pressure canner. Voila! Soft beans, ready to use in tacos, chili, soups, etc.

Don't forget salt..have seen big bags of Redmond salt at feed store, as well as spices - I love Penzeys for price and quality. Bulk bags available.

I've been watching Steve1989MREInfo on youtube. And some of the newer ones are sporting kiddie like koolaid powdered drinks and not coffee. I don't think the new ones are going to be worth it.

Truth

Flours/ milled grains spoil much faster.
Sprouted flours are more nutritious, plus cooked first so most toxins attributed to sprouting are destroyed.

Ditto. Mountain House is extremely expensive though. I've also had very good experiences with Emergency Essentials and Ready Store.

I will miss coffee for sure. But have plenty of chicory and dandelion root if situation becomes dire.

Hopefully it won't come to that.

I really like the emergency essentials bucket lids..both the self sealing and the ones with the screw top inserts.

I lost several cases of Auguson farms food when I checked them. Not only check on them when you put them away, perhaps check on them periodically (I didn't). Hope yours stay in good shape. Again, I live in FL, and while they've been in my care, they've been in air conditioning, but I have no idea what the warehouses looked like or postal contitions were before arrival.

If a #10 can is bulging, you know it has problems. Oh and if you open a bulging can, it's a good idea to do it outside and wear eye protection. You don't want that in your eyes. I don't even open a bulging can any more. I just throw it away.

Those are great ideas and also point out another regular food supply advantage - familiarity. You know it works and how much you need because you eat it all the time.

The average person who says they are going to buy an MRE for 5x the price just throws it in the closet and has never eaten it before and has no idea what they really need.

I've just seen it too many times, stock it up for $$$$ let it sit, 75% of the time it sits and gets thrown out or given away while people were waiting for the apocalypse or the earthquake or whatever and nothing happened in that timeframe.

All the wrong processes. You don't just buy a bunch of stuff and let it sit. Bad idea.

Store what you eat. Eat what you store.

I started over 10 years ago. When I needed a can of corn, I bought two. When I used one, I'd buy two more. I lined up the cans from oldest in front, newest in back. When I would get a can off the shelf, I'd take from the front. When I went to the grocery store, I'd buy two and put them in the back. In this way I have built up a huge stock. ...and I just kept stacking. If the product started coming off the front as spoiled or tasting old, I'd mark that section for stock reduction. What I found is that you can go about 3 years past the "Best By" date on most canned goods. I keep all my stock at that point. If you're tossing out food, you're doing it wrong. I came up with this idea on my own using logical thinking and experimentation through the last 20 years.

Note: 3 things you can't store for long. You might have an extra can/jar or two but no more: mayonaise, salad dressings, shortening (except for lard, it keeps well).

All these preppers that buy all these emergency food buckets are idiots. Just buy a bag of wheat (keeps 10 years in paper bags) or corn (keeps 6 years in paper bags). Double those figures if you mylar bag and oxygen absorb them.

BTW, its simple to make your own oxygen absorbers: take find steel wool in a sheet. Salt it heavily, fold it over and put it in a little cotton bag.

Take if from experience, you're wasting your money on those fancy buckets. They'll be garbage by the time you really need them and they aren't cheap. The purpose they serve is to make you feel good and to make the company that is selling them money.

The farther away from the raw or original product a food stuff gets, the less time it keeps. Gasoline is the same way. Straight white gas (which has no additives) will keep a very long time. 10 years or more. Add anything too it and that keep time drops. Guess what! I do the same with fuel. I have two 55 gallon drumps of gasoline. In december, I empty one by starting to use it, then I refill it. Then, in july, I do the other one. The gas in there is never more than a year old. YOu can stretch that out to a year if you need to, especially if you have stable, cold temps.

Prep up, people! You're gonna need it.

Thank you op. I'll check mine...

I think you are right! I remember when I was a kid, bread would mold in just a couple of days. I used to have to keep it in the freezer or fridge. I did this into adulthood. Then hubs HATED it, so I quit doing it. He used to eat a loaf in very short time, so he either had to eat a loaf quickly or I threw out half loaves of moldy bread.

Now, seems like bread can stay on the counter and never mold! Maybe not “never” but long enough for us to use up a whole loaf.


Other comment I wanted to make to the person who asked about the storehouses and Joseph and the grain: remember, they are in a desert area. NO HUMIDITY! Not much to “mold the food.”

JMHO

Humidity does mess shit up.