Posted on 06/02/2022 12:17:21 PM PDT by GeorgiaDawg32
Ok, so today I ordered meals from 4Patriots (33 days supply) and freeze dried beef (19 separate servings) in anticipation of severe food shortages being predicted.
I really hope I don't have to use them, but I'll have them just in case.
My question is, does anyone have any recommendations or specific companies you've used to order the same type of thing?
If so, did you like them?
I’ve been water glassing three dozen eggs each week for a few weeks now and will continue doing so. I can’t go without fresh eggs.
lol...
I have 200lbs of rice 300 cans of tuna
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Thanks for the tip. Which Sea Foam, though? It is a brand with many applications (fuel treatment, oil treatment, throttle/engine cleaner, deep creep, etc)
You bought a whole bunch of carbs for a lot of money.
I just ordered three gross of canned veg from Wal-Mart for about 3.4 cents an ounce.
Mormons stock many of their goods/supplies under the bed in lieu of a box spring. On closet floors/shelfs.
Had neighbors that had barrels of various grains in their lower quads levels. They conducted classes on prep work.
Its a 16 oz can, I buy off Amazon. $8.50. Sea Foam SF-16 Motor Treatment - 16 oz. 19,000 five star rating...
Peanut butter does go rancid, and it doesn’t take very long. I wonder if peanuts hold up longer? Making peanutbutter is relatively easy. In the right climate, you can grow peanuts so they are a renewable resource.
In my experience most pre packaged survival food is grossly overpriced but does fit into certain scenarios.
IMO canned goods, beans, rice, dehydrated potatoes, etc are far better value and more palatable (esp considering I don’t care for processed foods to begin with -even canned)
LDS canneries are probably the absolute best source of long term storage staples and a much better price than all the hyped survival foods.
I got tired of throwing out expired prep canned goods through the years and all those emergency food supply vendors prices are too high, in my opinion. After many years of trial and error I found it comes down to basics. This emergency food prep plan is cheap, quick, it will keep you and your family alive and it will last on your shelf (room temperature) for 25 years. Rice and beans are among the oldest foods known to man and the combination creates a complete protein. Here’s how it’s done. Get some mylar bags & oxygen absorbers on amazon (amzn: TekUnlimited 25Pk 5 GALLON Mylar Bags with Oxygen Absorbers) and a women’s hair straightener (amzn: B09FDS3HPL). Get as much white rice (must be white rice, brown rice spoils) and beans from Sam’s Club as you can afford. The more the better, you can never have too much as it can be bartered or used to save the lives of the unprepared. Sam’s club has 50lb white rice for $20ea and 12lb bags of pinto or black beans for $10ea. Get some 5 gallon buckets at Home Depot or Lowe’s (does not have to be food grade buckets when using mylar bags). Here is the rice / bean per bucket calculation... 35lbs rice or beans per 5-gallon bucket (approx). If using Sam’s Club or 50lb bags of white rice, then 2 bags of white rice will fill three 5-gallon buckets. If using Sam’s Club beans or 12lb bags, then 5-6 bags of beans will fill two 5-gallon buckets. Fill mylar bags inside bucket with rice or beans, put in oxygen absorber and seal with hair straightener. This is a pretty good video demonstration of the mylar / bucket filling (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6JJcJjB-eY ) however note that you should use nitrile gloves when pushing down the rice prior to sealing and the use of a vacuum cleaner is optional as the oxygen absorbers should remove most of the air nonetheless I used the vacuum cleaner method w/ crevice tool and found it worked well. Prior to lid, place a cut out of the package or a print out of the nutritional information and also how to prepare it inside bucket, then place the lid on the bucket and tap down. Place some duct tape alongside and write with Sharpie the contents of bucket and the date. Place buckets out of sunlight and somewhere where the temperature is always at 50-70 degrees. Optional additional items for the rice and beans are spices and veggies. A plan for how to cook them should be considered as well. As for survival water, plan to obtain from natural sources. Map out local springs, lakes, etc. Then get some individual LifeStraws, or the LifeStraw high volume gravity fed (LSM12) if you can, or the Sawyer water filters. These will filter any type of water but will not kill viruses or bacteria. Pick up some Clorox or you can use granular calcium hypochlorite to fully disinfect water. This can be bought in powder form to make when you need it. You can also boil clear, filtered water for at least one minute to kill viruses.
I am not LDS and have limited familiarity with their products but:
Mmmmm
Yeah true. I’m buying the ones with all kinds of preservatives in them. Nasty stuff, but I figure they should be edible for two years.
I buy 25 pound bags of white Jasmine and Basmati rice
I fill 1/2 gallon Ball canning jars and add an oxygen absorber and a food grade desiccant. These will last 20 years. At a fraction of the cost of buying rice already packaged as “long term”.
That said, I bought the jars some time ago. They are now hard to get and ridiculously priced. So I also use 1 gallon 5 mill mylar bags, each with 10 cups of rice and oxygen absorber and desiccant. These will also last 20 years but should be stored where rodents can’t get to them.
You can do the same thing with dried beans and dehydrated potatoes. That includes instant mashed potatoes if you buy the plain kind without any fat or extra ingredients. Fat does not store well.
I also have several months supply of canned beans and veggies & chicken. All of which will last for years.
I bought a Volcano Stove, a Lodge cast iron dutch oven and some charcoal. A 20 lb bag of charcoal will cook for nearly a year for two people.
Salt and sugar are still cheap and will be guaranteed valuable barter items. Read up on rationing in WW2 in the USA. Buy a lot of both and consider it an investment.
REMEMBER....IF YOU CAN’T DEFEND IT, YOU DON’T OWN IT.
I looked at your profile and am in awe of what you have done and experienced. I hope you’re eating better, however, these days. o7
Stay away from TVP (textured vegetable protein-soy) and many items have a high sodium content. Just my opinion.
Hmm, so it seems. I’ve never bought any prep foods other than stuff from the grocery store. I did do a lot of online window shopping which is how I know about EE.
I do have stuff in buckets but they’re frosting buckets and everything in them needs no special treatment and they’re regularly rotated. Of course I’m not going for 20 year’s worth. Canned goods, including meats, pasta, rice, beans, salt and sugar is about it for us. That and a garden of open pollinated plants with enough seeds on hand for the next year or three. I can store some potatoes over winter to make seed potatoes for next year.
For people who have the money, the #10 cans make more sense for a lot of things.
Some of the advantages of being on gunboats were having real chow hall meals when not on the river. So we only had to put up with C-rats irregularly. Also we had showers every couple of days. What I did wasn’t much compared to those ground pounders in the field. My hat is really off to those guys. Days on end in the muck. Vietnam was mostly boring, interspersed with brief periods of total insanity.
I hope people were nice to you when you were back in the States. I understand that was not always the case.
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