So I believe people should be prepping food. But do you buy emergency food like my patriots supply or store rice beans and such. My problem with the patriots and others are the expense and taste. What do peppers do.
Look no further than the Mormons, they have it down to a science.
https://providentliving.churchofjesuschrist.org/self-reliance/home-storage-centers?lang=eng
https://providentliving.churchofjesuschrist.org/self-reliance/home-storage-centers?lang=eng
For storing dry goods i like either mylar bags and oxygen absorbers or in mason jars and oxygen absorbers. Works great for: beans, rice, oats, sugar, flour, instant potatoes, popcorn kernels, macaroni noodles, etc…
Also we do home Pressure canned meats/foods. Obviously store bought canned foods are excellent as well and most last at least a couple years longer than the expiration dates if stored properly.
We keep some of the expensive freeze dried stuff too.
We don’t have a giant stockpile. But we try to keep enough to last our family a couple months just in case.
Once we opened some Mylar goods that were about 10 years old. A lot of it smelled funky and had kind of gone off. Fed most of it to the chickens. Since that experience, we make sure to rotate our stock every 3-5yrs ish. Everything is still fresh that way and we actually eat the food instead of just storing forever then trashing it.
Also we do home Pressure canned meats/foods. Obviously store bought canned foods are excellent as well and most last at least a couple years longer than the expiration dates if stored properly.
We keep some of the expensive freeze dried stuff too.
We don’t have a giant stockpile. But we try to keep enough to last our family a couple months just in case.
Once we opened some Mylar goods that were about 10 years old. A lot of it smelled funky and had kind of gone off. Fed most of it to the chickens. Since that experience, we make sure to rotate our stock every 3-5yrs ish. Everything is still fresh that way and we actually eat the food instead of just storing forever then trashing it.
@tim you really need to decide just what you are hoping to accomplish. Are you wanting a couple weeks of food stashed in the event of a bad ice storm or do you want a basement filled with enough food to last you and your entire family for a year? Are you wanting to put it away and not touch it for 20 years or are you the kind of person that will actively stay on top of expiration dates and rotate your stores? You really need to paint us a clear picture.
im kind of f***ed in the A**
I predominately eat carnivore. Most of the long term shelf stable foods are just carbohydrate overload - I keep some SPAM and some canned chicken breast but cant stomach canned tuna or salmon - the chicken is tough enough to deal with
It does occur to me though that if the lights are out longer than a month for some reason, rice and macaroni would probably taste pretty darn good
I predominately eat carnivore. Most of the long term shelf stable foods are just carbohydrate overload - I keep some SPAM and some canned chicken breast but cant stomach canned tuna or salmon - the chicken is tough enough to deal with
It does occur to me though that if the lights are out longer than a month for some reason, rice and macaroni would probably taste pretty darn good
Yes food supplies for 6 to 12 months good for 10+ years would be nice.
Well that’s way beyond anything that I’ve done. What I’ve seen and read from people that have that same goal is they have an entire room they’ve turned into a pantry. If it were me and I was planning for a years worth of food id keep my diet on the simpler side of things and just keep more of whatever you’re already eating.
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The Mormons also own something like 65,000 acres in Osage County Oklahoma to raise beef cattle.
As I said we did the whole 10yr storage thing. Our Mylar stuff was supposed to be good even longer. But it wasn’t… we even had perfect seals, thick ml bags, fairly stable temps, etc…
If you’re wanting 10+ year shelf life stuff that never gets touched just stick with the high dollar freeze dried stuff, #10 cans, and the Mormon cannery.
We’re only millennials but we’ve basically been preppers since 2008ish. Learning as we go. Currently we feel our best option is just keeping 3-5yr shelf life items, actually eating them and rotate the inventory every couple years.
We also keep extra seasonings, water filtration options, first aid stuff, etc
We used to be way more into prepping. But after 15+ yrs of SHTF not actually happening, we’ve scaled it back a bit lol. Plus our kids are getting older now and we don’t want to fixate on doom and gloom scenarios for their sake either
I say that having water filtration tools and foraging skills will be more valuable during SHTF than a pile of high sodium, high carb, water intensive “survival food” anyways
Home pressure canned meats are your friend here…. We love canning red meats. We’ll buy clearance beef roast, or use venison, lean pork cuts, etc. Cube it up and pressure can it in pint jars with a few onion slices, a garlic clove, tsp of salt,and couple jalapeño slices.. it’s absolutely delicious and has a 1-2yr room temp shelf life (crazy preppers swear it actually lasts 5+yrs lol)…. We’ve always found it to be so delicious we just eat it and re-stock every year or two
Also, home canned chicken breast totally wrecks commercial canned chicken too
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