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To: Pollster1

Find a brand of canned tomatoes that has the inside of the can coated. Those shouldn’t pick up the metallic taste as much.

Tuna is a very high priced item. There are only 2.5 oz of meat inside a small can.


124 posted on 10/15/2016 9:54:00 PM PDT by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: bgill
Find a brand of canned tomatoes that has the inside of the can coated. Those shouldn’t pick up the metallic taste as much. Tuna is a very high priced item. There are only 2.5 oz of meat inside a small can

Good points. However, my interest was in how long I could store the canned tomato sauce we normally eat, which is cheap but good. We eat tomato recipes a lot, and it's nice to know the real shelf life. I can store a year's supply on our normal diet and just rotate through - eat the oldest month and replace it. Since the brand we eat lasts longer than a year, it's not worth paying for a more expensive brand if all I want is a single year's supply, or even up to two years.

My approach works if we have a one-year emergency, more or less, but it falls short if we have a longer crisis that starts with several years of Venezuela-style shortages. I've been planning for a crisis that would not go on forever. My preparations may be based on a bad plan if Hillary wins, given what the far left is creating in our country.

As for tuna, that was just a question of variety for our diet. I buy tuna on sale, and I wanted to know its shelf life, since I already have what seems like an unlimited supply of squirrel meat. Fish is much further from home, but I'm not storing enough tuna for even one year.

132 posted on 10/16/2016 5:27:41 AM PDT by Pollster1 (Somebody who agrees with me 80% of the time is a friend and ally, not a 20% traitor. - Ronald Reagan)
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