Food Storage: How much do you have right now?

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[greeneyes]

Thanks for posting all those links. They are great.

[American in Israel]

Hope your correct about not having to live as a refugee.

My list is not about menu fatigue, my list is about survival. It is the most concentrated food at the cheapist price. And indeed, I did forget oil. But oil is a problem as it gets rancid within a year. I would get this, then build on top of it. This is the core, and is the easiest to store, with the longest shelf life.

And in Africa it would not be called menu fatigue, it would be called feast. To a dying man watching his family starve, it would be heaven.

[American in Israel]

Pop corn is a great idea, but it must be vacuum packed immediatly as the moisture ratio is critical for pop corn to pop. But, now that you mention it, I might just pick up a 50 pound sack. Thats a great idea. (equals two five gallon buckets aprox)

-grin-

[greeneyes]

Glad the idea appealed to you. I can’t claim credit. Read it in a cookbook that talked about the pioneers and how they did some things. I was interested to hear that popcorn can be used for cornmeal too - I would never have thought it, but I did buy some, and will try it next time I get out the flour mill.

[JRandomFreeper]

I wound up living off of my preps and forage for about 2 years. Some disasters are very local and personal. My preps are the food I eat. And the food I eat are my preps.

I'll not live like a refugee.

One thing I didn't have enough of was canned fruits and dried fruits. Around here, there isn't much in the way of forage fruits. I've corrected that part of my preps.

/johnny

[Marcella]

I'll copy your recipe because you are using some powder to substitute for the real thing and I'd have to do that in emergency situation. I have the old recipe from earlier times - no flour was used and no sugar was used. We had buttermilk at home all the time. I didn't drink it but my mother was raised on it so we had it. I remember breaking up cornbread into a glass of milk and it was tasty - mother put hers in buttermilk.

For a fast cornbread to go with homemade soup, when my husband was alive, I used Jiffy boxed along with creamed corn in it because he loved “Creamy Cornbread”.

Using a boxed mix always seemed weird to me - remember mother used “handful of this” and “pinch of that”, plus it doesn't take too long to make cornbread from scratch but I kept a few boxes of mix on hand for fast cornbread since he liked that mix with creamed corn.

[JRandomFreeper]

I use dried eggs and dried milk/buttermilk for a lot of my baking every week. It's cheaper and easier for me.

/johnny

[M Kehoe]

Good evening. Thanks for adding me to your ping list.

but one thing you must consider is that in some events you would literary be competing in your 'hunting and gathering' against how ever many of those 19 million plus fellow Floridians survive as well.

There were 239,500 hunters in 2011, and 1.1 million fishermen in the same year (fws.com). You might have another 750,000 who could live off the land in the state, who could compete for the same resources. Methinks the other 17 million people will not be a problem in regards to scarce resources. Matter of fact, I might be feeding some of those people if they had certain skills that we may need.

Methinks we will probably do ok.

5.56mm

[M Kehoe]

Sorry, fws.com=myfws.com. Sheesh.

5.56mm

[JRandomFreeper]

I expect you'll do just fine. ;) Good to see you on the thread.

/johnny

[Mich Patriot]

"It's good to have a savings account in a currency that you can eat, and doesn't depreciate like the dollar does."

This is why I'll never feel foolish about stocking up, even if sh!t and fan never meet. It's a no-brainer.

[Mich Patriot]

"if you can find a small can of tuna for under $0.70 it might be the best thing to buy it then and there...

No kidding. Also, have you noticed the sneaky bastards have (in some cases) reduced the small tuna can to 5 or 5.5 ounces, instead of seven? Be careful because at first glance it kinda looks the same.

I've written this before, but worth repeating. I buy 15 ounce cans of Wild Alaska Salmon from Wal-mart for as low as $2.34. Some WM stores charge a bit more (strange), but my local Wal-mart STILL has the $2.34 price. Occasionally they are OUT, so other preppers must be on to it. The beauty of it is that the "Best by" date is currently around Sept, 2017. Tuna's okay, but heck, that salmon price is about the same. Yep, Ive got over 60 cans. It's damn tasty too.

[JRandomFreeper]

I save a LOT of money by buying in bulk and keeping food and other expendables stored. From 1998 to 2012, I didn't buy any TP. I had enough stored for a decade (I had daughters, step daughters, and a wife back then, I never wanted to run out).

I went into shock last year when I had to buy some. The price was astronomical.

Whatever I buy today isn't going to be cheaper tomorrow.

/johnny

[Mich Patriot]

"Whatever I buy today isn't going to be cheaper tomorrow."

That's for damn sure, and TP has gone up more than anything I can think of (not sure why). Anyhow, I have about six years worth of TP now, so I guess that makes me officially 'full of it'. :) I figure it never goes bad though.

[JRandomFreeper]

I have to admit, that without all the wimmenfolk in the house, the supply went from about 6 mo to over a decade. ;)

Nope, keep it dry, and it doesn't go bad. I'm going to do a bulk buy of John Wayne TP from a restaurant supply company or custodial supply company this year. Hopefully, enough to last the rest of my natural life.

/johnny

[listenhillary]

Lewis and Clark Expedition supplies - Spent $2,324.00

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/lewisandclark/resources.html

[Mich Patriot]

Oh, you are soooo right about the “wimmenfolk”. I have a 21 Y/O daughter and a 51 Y/O girlfriend. I can’t keep up with the trash cans when they’re around. :)

[CottonBall]

Good post here. Willnyou be linear in the morning - say around noon your time? Not to discuss anything already said. ONLY idle chitchat as if we just met. Oh wait w you that means your entire lifestory, complete w crying, lying, defending&protecting trash while attacking Dr l personally....maybe not what I want either...

[Nailbiter]

bflr

[GGpaX4DumpedTea]

Many years ago, in the mid to late 1950’s, I worked in the Iowa Dept of Agriculture State Chem Lab. We were called on to man the Dept of Ag booth at the Iowa State Fair each year. Among other things, we had samples of home canning that were many years old, some a hundred years or more, and still good.

My mother canned many things, including tomatoes, peaches and other fruits and veggies. Some had been there on our basement pantry shelves for a number of years, but were still good, still good to eat, and none made us sick.

On rare occasion, a quart of canned tomatoes would explode. Any that did not explode were safe to eat, and quite nourishing.

We can veggies from our garden and from our fruit trees today. This year we will expand that to include canned meats. Stuff we buy, we do not respect expiration dates on the cans or packages, except that we rotate by using the oldest first. We would never throw anything out for being past the expiration date. This is also true of our stash of natural remedies, including supplements.

Note that the FDA does not require expiration dates on supplements, and some manufacturers/suppliers put manufacturing dates on, but not expiration dates.