“Very basic article, but you might use it to get others to thinking about starting to prep.”
Agree...he does a good job on very lightly touching the critical topics. The next step for people is to start digging into those.
One comment about canned food. Most cans have an expiration date a year or a bit more out. If you give it to a food drive after that, they will politely thank you and then immediately trash it, since it’s “expired”.
But then there are others saying that canned food will last at least a decade, if not several decades, particularly if you keep it cool.
So here’s my experience - I stocked up quite well back in 2009 when I figured the dollar would collapse (as any currency this abused would do, in a sane world). Didn’t happen (yet), so now I have a boatload of 5 year-old food (believe me, if you had my wife’s cooking, you wouldn’t eat...or rotate through that canned food very quickly either). So, she’s been out for a bit, and now I’m eating the food. I made no special effort to keep the house (and canned food) cool either last summer or this summer, and temperatures in the 80s were the rule (even at this moment).
Result: The food is JUST FINE. Cannot tell the difference in taste from new and it has actually been a lot of fun eating it - I can calories very easy that way, and some of it is quite filling for the number of calories provided (like corn and peas). Very good experience so far, and I suspect that food would still be good for another 5 years, even with my (temperature) abuse. Now, give me a cool basement, and I wouldn’t hesitate to try 20 year-old canned food - providing, of course, that the can wasn’t bulged out (none of mine are, by the way), and the contents smelled decent.
I opened a can of stew a while back. It was AT LEAST 7 years old.
A little bit of shrinkage, (water molecules are SMALL!!), but it tasted great!
Do a Google and read about the SS Bertrand.
Now, give me a cool basement, and I wouldn’t hesitate to try 20 year-old canned food - providing, of course, that the can wasn’t bulged out (none of mine are, by the way), and the contents smelled decent.
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Just a little FYI on this . . . I usually don’t worry about canned food if it’s slightly out of date, but twice lately I’ve had issues. One was a can of tuna that was six months past date. It looked fine so I made some tuna salad . . . that was inedible!!! It tasted like I’d ground up the can and mixed it in with the tuna! LOL! The other was a can of Progresso soup that was only a couple of months past date. Gave me major indigestion. Now, as things stand now, these were minor inconveniences. But if there was no doc available, I wouldn’t want to risk getting sick from weird canned food. So my lesson from this was to try to keep all my canned food stoes within date.