Ask my wife about that. She’s already vacuum-frozen a lot of green beans and okra out of garden, a lot of jars of tomatoes she’s preserved, and there’s a big colander of cukes sitting in the kitchen waiting to be pickled. She’s got the spices and the salt to do it, but I caught hell tonight for forgetting sugar at the market. (I like the bold garlic-dill kosher spears, myself.)
I prefer to freeze foods..well, most of them. Carrots do best dehydrated. I dehydrate whole eggs, but then store the dried eggs in the freezer for longer shelf life.
The most major problem with frozen foods is loss of electricity, especially if for any reason you can’t run a generator.
One of the other members put up a link to a survivor in Bosnia, but the link seems dead due to certificate expiration. If that info can be put up on someone’s blog, it would be good to do so because it’s a very valuable piece. I read it a few years ago.
If you use a generator, you set yourself up for intruders. Your place needs to look abandoned. Cooking smells are a dead giveaway which invites hungry intruders. Failure to look starved is a give away that you have access to food. Lots of very interesting realities.thank
Most of is envision a more comfortable survival with all of our thoughtful preps. To some degree, and for a short time, that may be true, but don’t count on it over the long term. So please, do read survival stories from people who’ve done it. It’s not pretty. Better be in top physical condition with a little added fat storage, and know how to move fast, invisibly.
Freezing’s great, but if we lost power, and you don’t have a generator, you’d be eating and giving away a freezer full of food pdq. (On the other hand, if it’s summer, you could take it all out and sun dry the fruits and veggies, and salt cure and dry the meat and fish. Indians did it with everything, for eons. Good exercise, too, for whoever gets to fan flies while you’re working.)