Posted on 07/29/2011 11:31:36 AM PDT by WOBBLY BOB
Every house has food in the pantry that has been there for weeks if not months, but according to food experts, you may want to think twice before throwing those items out. Many common food products last far longer than you might think.
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Probably the only thing lasting that long worth consuming.
A life without fresh produce is not worth living.
Well....ya.....after you’ve drowned them in Gin!!!
What is ‘properly’?
A chemist working for a large multinational food company once told me diet drinks go bad - but not the others... For reasons to ‘make it simple’ they tag all of them with expiration dates...
Just remember the rules of food storage, avoid oxygen, moisture and light.
Properly stored food can last for decades.
See post 25.
In the military in Germany, I seem to remember eating a K-ration or two left over from WWII.....this was 1970...
We began our preperation about 18 months ago when we realized how bad things were getting. We’ve always planted a garden and done some home canning but we’ve gone into overdrive the last 1.5 year.
We now have about 9-12 months of food stored which we rotate to keep fresh. Factory canned goods will last about 2 years, home canned food will last as long as the seal remains unbroken. We planted 3 gardens this year and, dispite a historic drought, have gone through over 300 canning jars so far. We’ve even canned chicken that we raised, the deer I shot last year, and some older beef from the frezzer.
As a source of reference material I’d recommend “Backwoods Home Magazine”, they’re what “Mother Earth News” was before they went environazi.
It can be done quite quickly, however, be prepared to defend what you store or keep it a closely guarded secret. When things implode there will be those who will try to take what you’ve stored if they know it’s there.
Uncooked rice....keep in cool and dry and dark area, will last forever. Had a batch I forgot about for more than 5 years, and when cooked, still tasted decent. This is why this is the staple of more than a billion good folks across Asia.
Scientist: Hey, Doctor Oppenheimer, come take look at this. It's... It's some kind of spongy, yellow, almost cake-like material. And it's built up on almost every vertical rock face within 2 miles of the epicenter. [pauses, removes a piece of the material from a rock face and inserts it in to a small device] Hmmmmmm. That's strange. Even though back-ground environmental radiation levels are still quite high, this... this... "sponge cake" doesn't appear to carry ANY residual radiation. What do you suppose it is?
Oppenheimer [licking his lips]: I have no idea, Dr. Twinklestein, but it sure is DELICIOUS! And it's got a cream filling!
Fruit cake.
Ping!
Don’t know about the “frilly” stuff like Twinkies and soft drinks, but my brother, in World War II, in 1945, while sitting in a foxhole on Okinawa, opened a C-Ration can of some kind of chicken concoction, and while “dining” he perused the printing on the can. It read: Product of Omaha, Nebraska 1929.
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Insane, I know, but, no ill effects. The varieties I recall were; spaghetti and meat sauce, canned hamburger, chicken and noodles, peaches and for a snack, crackers, candy and jam. The crackers were like English style biscuits and tasted like an old warehouse. Those did make me gag as I recall.
We've been prepping for years. I have about a year of stored stuff. I can and dehydrate. We bought a 1/4 side of beef last month, in a couple weeks we'll get our 1/2 pig. Check out your local butchers. The beef came out to $2.29 a pound, about 200 pounds. The pig, $1.69, about 100 pounds.
PING!!!!
I think the fried pies out of the vending machines are already that old.
If there is an item in our fridge that is green and otherwise unidentifiable, it’s usually very old meat or very new cheese.
Any vending machine food is questionable, except candy bars. I wonder what the shelf life on them are. Those apples, oranges, bananas and sandwiches, yuck. Creepy thinking of eating anything ‘healthy’ from them gives me the hibbie jibbies.
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