5 easy survival food preps

Survivalist Boards ^ | 1/23/11 | Kev

[Kartographer]

Don’t want to stockpile 1,000 pounds of dried rice and beans? Want something that taste a little better then MREs? Want something that you don’t have to worry about rotating out?

One of the main problems with stockpiling survival food preps, is that people sometimes stockpile what they do not normally eat. So the food stocks sit in a closet, expire, and have to be thrown out. In the long run its easier to stockpile what your family normally eats so rotation is handled in a natural manner.

[MEG33]

Good grief..Have you never made a typo?

[Kartographer]

This might explain it:

Grammar sticklers may have OCD

https://illinois.edu/blog/view/25/76120

[MEG33]

I admit my BP rises when I see “loose” used for “lose”.
;o)

Nice thread, Kartogpher

[Eye of Unk]

I wonder if OCD is contagious off the internet?

benn seeing a lot mor grammar nazis lately.

back to the thread, I just picked up five more 6 cans of Augason farms yesterday at my local Walmart, they had nearly a full aisle two months ago, now the stock is almost gone and they have not been re-stocking.

And over in the sporting goods area they have the same sized gallon cans of Mountain House meals, more than twice the price of the Augason Farms, and with only ten servings per can I passed up on the Mountain House.

I love Ramen noodles and I can supplement them with the Augason soy beef or chicken substitute if I chose, I usually use tuna.

I may very well be the largest buyer of the Augason farms emergency meals locally, I’m not bragging for ego and since I’m not posting where I live I can say I know have 65 number six cans. I have no idea how long that will last for one person, I think one month.

[Lazamataz]

Thank you. I might live. Probably not, but maybe. You never know. Could be, but the odds are against it. Sometimes yes, sometimes no. Who can know for sure. But I will. Unless I don't. But then if I die, I won't be alive, so I won't die. Unless I do. It's a tossup. Sometimes you get the bear, sometimes the bear gets you. But I'll try. If I don't, I won't. You can't tell for sure. I might make it, or not. There's a chance. This can happen, unless I haven't a prayer. But if I do, then I will. But there's not the slightest hope. Yet I am sure I will make it. There's zero chance of that. But who can say? I can. I will make it. But maybe not.

Of this, I am 100% sure.

[Kartographer]

See Post # 31 this thread.

[thesearethetimes...]

Good alternatives Bump

Thanks, and may God guide us.
Tatt

[FLAMING DEATH]

I’ve heard the same thing from multiple sources. Canned food really doesn’t lose any flavor or nutritional value in long-term storage.

I rotate my stocks of everything else, but leave the cans alone, for the most part.

[Eye of Unk]

I sometimes think I may have gotten a bit too compulsive buying as much stock of the freeze dried emergency foods, where I live even in the winter it would be hard to go hungry what with moose all over the place in rural Alaska.

But on a side note if it did go all to hell and people are going hungry then at the least I have something most people will barter immediately for, except maybe ammunition.

What concerns me is that locally at my Walmart they sold these quite well, but no re-stocking, either the profit margin was small or the supply is restricted. But then again they have had Mountain House cans and pouches for many years, but they are over priced and don’t sell very much.

[raybbr]

[MEG33]

LOL

[Starstruck]

I had a lot of those Korean C’s in the late sixties. Problem with the cigarettes is they tasted like Chicklets.

[Vinnie]

We had a can of pineapple bits blow a year or so ago. Really foul.
Notice the ‘galvanize’ looking finish on the inside of pineapple cans.?
Must be some reaction of pineapple and the usual ‘tin can’ construction.

[Ladysmith]

yikes! My AVG just blocked a threat from that site: Exploit Rogue Scanner (type 1927).

[Marcella]

“Is a lot of that Walton Feed food, wheat berries and beans, and such?”

The Walton Feed food is from almost every food group. I planned meals for a month, then ordered enough to last for my chosen amount of months. Foods that last forever on their own, I bought at grocery, like salt, sugar, honey, etc.. If TSHTF, I have stored grocery food to start using first and when that is gone, go to the Walton food.

For me, I found that planning meals helped me get the right amount of varied foods. Yes, there are a lot of Walton beans and I have various seasonings to use with those so they don't taste the same every time. I have a way to cook dried beans that doesn't take boiling them for hours and that saves fuel. I have rice to add to those beans to make a complete protein.

I have studied since 1998 to be able to be self sufficient so I don't have to depend on someone else to keep me alive. I have written numerous articles to help people begin to prepare. Those articles are on Survival Podcast website.

[bgill]

About the Augason Farms 30 day packages from Walmart:

30 Day Emergency Pail = $99.88
1 Month Emergency Food Pack = $174.88

Why does the box cost twice as much as the pail. Sure, there’s some dried onions and bacon bits and such in the box but I can’t see the price being to much higher. I’m probably missing something by reading it online at the Walmart site since there’s none in the stores within a 100 miles of me. I don’t much care about variety in a shtf situation and with a tight budget I’d rather go with the cheaper one but I’d like some input from someone who experience with the products.

I’m also not understanding the $174 box which states 540 servings. That’s way over 3 meals x 30 days = 90 meals. Or are they saying a sprinkle of dried onions or bacon bits as a flavor enhancement is a serving?

What is your preference for taste v. price for various brands?

[goosie]

I have read that canned tomato products are the worst offenders for going bad with tomato paste being the worst.

[ansel12]

It was the cooking of the dried beans that I was getting to.

I wanted to make the point that everyone needs to be prepared to cook those dried items with minimal fuel use.

Every prepper needs a pressure cooker, and a pressure canner, and all the canning materials, as almost a starting point of their (long term) preparedness.

Dried beans and wheat are the foundation of a true melt down scenario that would throw us into a starvation situation, but facing two hours of cooking time, for each meal, is of course impractical for most of us, actually all of us, because even those living in timber, don’t need the unnecessary physical effort of hand cutting firewood that they are wasting with excessive cooking.

It is imperative that people get those pressure cookers, and learn how to can dried beans while allowing the canning process to do the cooking for instance, which means that one complicated fuel gathering and cooking session can produce many quarts of canned beans for the shelf.

They need to learn that you can bring your beans, or wheat berries to a boil in a pressure cooker, turn off the fuel, and that the beans/wheat will cook on their own.

Learning thermos cooking is useful also.

[ansel12]

My tomato sauce is all dated, best by 8/2010, but my tomato sauce never goes bad, my old tomato paste though, gets where it kind of explodes when I puncture the can to open it, after throwing a few of those away, I started using them anyway, and it didn’t hurt me, but I am curious what the explosive spitting is about.

[Kartographer]

That’s exactly why I built one of these:

My Ammo Can Rocket Stove:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2914240/posts