Posted on 12/09/2013 7:51:43 PM PST by Kartographer
We all like to think about and imagine how SHTF will change us, but it is almost impossible to know how we will react on whole set of new things that SHTF will bring to us.
People think that it will be something like sharp cut and prompt change, like today it is SHTF and we are different people with different reactions. It would be cool, but it is not like that for most of us.
Some changes will happen over the time, and we may not be aware of it at all. One of the obvius changes (and probably most interesting changes for online community of preppers because of movies) is different relationship to violence issues, for example over the time you learn to react different to violence, and doing violence.
Other may be living with dirt and being more dirty and accepting it. With each accepting of the above you are kinda losing your old life, becoming different.
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I wonder how well raisins would last? They are inexpensive and are sweet too. Also probably good for you.
I put some up in glass canning jars with an 100cc oxygen absorber. I have opened them up tow years later and they were still good. I have an advantage that the air here is very dry so things I vacuum naturally have a very low mosture content.
Gummy bears.
No thank you.
I have some fossilized circus peanuts.
Honey lasts forever.
Raisins, vacuum packed
36 months kept at 40°F
12 months kept at 70°F
9 months kept at 90°F
http://extension.usu.edu/files/publications/publication/FN_2005_Harvest-11.pdf
Tallahassee Approved.
Lay in a stock of those and you’ll be able to trade a package for a side of beef
Yes, Honey would be the finest of storage choices and very versatile.
This stuff is great, but I dont know what the shelf life is.
Peanuts and sunflower seeds will go rancid.
http://www.karsnuts.com/brands/kars-nuts/
I put away honey. Less worries about storing.
I do have sugar, almond bark and some other stuff but, if anyone really wants sugar they’ll have to source it themselves.
Besides, tomato sauce, salsa and the like are sweet.
Where do you order those oxygen absorbers from, please and thanks.
Back in the days when they used to stack peanut hay rather than just let it lie on the ground like they do today, I was able to acquire a lot of peanuts.
The peanut picker came into the field and it just sat still and they brought the hay stacks to the picker which also bailed the hay as peanut hay is highly desirable, at least I think it is.
After a week or two, I roamed around the now cleared field and discovered there were lots of peanuts still in the field if anyone wanted to go pick them up one at a time.
Lying out in the Florida Sun for a few weeks had just barely cooked them. Not nearly parched but actually just about how I liked them best. I picked up enough to fill several paper bags full and ate on them for several years. They never did go bad which I think was a result of their having laid out in the burning hot sand for several weeks.
Sunflower seeds go rancid fairly quickly if exposed to air.
Peanuts last longer, but will still go rancid.
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