Posted on 09/16/2023 3:07:53 PM PDT by CottonBall
This is an ongoing thread – meaning come back to chat, post information, or ask questions any time. Hopefully the thread won’t stagnate and I’ll do better at posting weekly (or bi-weekly) topics than I have in the past. (anyone willing to post a topic now and then we'll be highly praised and appreciated).
We are in for some bumpy rides, and prepping can only help. If for peace of mind, if nothing else. We have a wonderful gardening thread and a current-events survival/prepping thread, and hopefully this one can piggyback off of those, maybe having a longer discussion about certain topics or … whatever. It's your thread, do what you like with it! (civilly, of course)
Here are granny’s threads, if anyone wants to peruse them:
nw_arizona_granny’s Thread #1
nw_arizona_granny’s Thread #2
nw_arizona_granny’s Thread #3
“people are like hogs at a trough.”
LOL not sure your friends would appreciate that description!
are you able to get a sour flavor?
Yes. It is all in the starter. My starter smells like beer and taste somewhat sour.
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Same to you, IM!
I decided I am going to try for a couple more months with the prepper thread. Hopefully everybody’s just busy with holidays. If there’s no interest in January then I’ll close it down again.
Please keep it going if possible. There’s a lot of valuable information to be shared.
I’ll post a few more months after the first of the year. The last few months there hasn’t been very much interest. So we’ll see what happens! Thanks for coming on board
Thank you for all your work!
We were recently given several bags of blackeyed peas and bags of chickpeas. This is not something that I have ever cooked or eaten. Do I cook them just like beans with at little ham? Does anyone have good recipes for these?
Thanks for keeping this thread going, CB. I know I’m guilty of not posting very often. Seems I’m so busy with other things that I don’t get to read/post very much on FR these days.
I did find french cut green beans at Aldi yesterday for .20/can discount. .43 instead of .63. So I bought 4 flats of them. I heard prices at many stores are going up again after the 1st.
I watch a homesteader on YT who has encouraged people for the past couple years to buy 5 cans extra each week to stay on top of your pantry and rising prices. Guess I got a few more than 5 this week! Her channel is Appalachia’s Homestead with Patara. She lives out in your neck of the woods, east TN.
Happy New Year. May we be more mindful in the coming year.
hey, I thought of you today when I went to Grocery Outlet and got a whole bunch of cans of reduced green beans. Unfortunately they are reduced because they are close to the expiration date but I know they will last long enough. But getting a sale from Aldi’s is better!
Let’s see, I got 40 cans. I’m not sure if that’s more or less than you got. My husband started low carb and that’s about the only vegetable he can eat almost freely. Plus green beans are my favorites too.
Nope, you won, you got 48! Plus better expiration dates!
Good for you finding a bargain. The cans I got have fall/25 dates. I too have been doing low carb, so green beans work for me. I’m sure prices will continue to go up next year, so finding those bargains will surely help.
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“The cans I got have fall/25 dates”
I’ve sort of become knowledgeable about expiration dates. Accidentally. I’m cheap so I’ve been buying discounted stuff. And most of it is over the expiration date by the time I get to it. So far the only thing I have found that is affected by a couple years past the expiration date is Peanut butter. It feels sort of loses its peanut flavor and becomes a horrible consistency. Probably from the additives.
Canned Goods last a long time. I have some tomatoes from 2016, and they just started looking bulging this year. So even Tomatoes can Last 5 Years past the expiration date, easily.
Great idea on canning water. We never know when our water source will dry up, we’ve lost power already this winter so who knows what’s next. And I need somewhere to store those jars anyway, it’s not like they’re easier to store without water in them. And then when I need to can again I can dump the water if I need more jars.
My hubby was laughing at me canning water when I first got the Tattler lids. I think I had seven jars of chicken that didn’t seal and we had to eat them quick. Actually I think I froze some. The next time I practiced with water. Much easier to deal with the failures!
That is a very good point about the storage space for jars of water.
No more storage space required if full or empty.
“So far the only thing I have found that is affected by a couple years past the expiration date is Peanut butter. It feels sort of loses its peanut flavor and becomes a horrible consistency”
Only thing I have had a problem with is evaporated milk. A few months past expire date and it turned into some kind of brown crud.
A couple of comments:
Expiration Dates - Not a big deal for those of us who grew up in the era before products had any sort of understandable date or date code.
In our limited experience with storing store bought canned food the product that went bad first was canned pineapple.
In general store bought canned food in old style cans keeps much better than new style cans with pop-top lids.
Another point: Plastic is not impermeable to the same degree as metal or glass.
Foods and water in plastic bottles will all lose moisture over time.
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