Posted on 08/17/2012 8:16:52 PM PDT by 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.
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Sadly no, but its still good bacon!
I still get swollen cans, I have one right now, a can of Bumble Bee tuna of a batch I purchased in 2004.
Months ago it was a can of Ro-tel tomatoes that swelled on me, I get them occasionally.
“I like the ranch style beans they they picture take a can of them (with Jalapenos) and mix it with a couple cups of cooked rice and you have some good eating.”
Whoever wrote that didn’t include any rice with the beans so he had an incomplete protein. You are right to add the rice to have complete protein.
I have a few jars of peanut butter but it’s regular type and I don’t have many. I should get some Jif natural.
I haven’t stored a nutritional drink like Ensure. I think they have that without sugar also. Then, there is the nutritional drink Glucerna for diabetes with nutrients in it. I’ll have to do some research on Ensure and Glucerna to determine what to get, plus I don’t know their shelf life.
LOL.... Did a lot of planning with John Wayne bars and Cheese..... Timing timing timing.
Stay safe Marine.
That said, one of the best meals I ever had was at 0300 in a cold October. Cold spaghetti MRE, followed by a nap with a curb for a pillow, up to make coffee at 0430 (make CQ write it down to wake you up). 36 hour days are for young men.
/johnny
Well, I admit anytime I read one of these deals about the government going door-to-door doing or confiscating anything, my tin-foil warning light goes on hi-beam and blinks like crazy.
The logistics would be a nightmare, they don’t have the personel, there are not enough med centers in the whole country to deal with the resulting casualties.
But it can still be an indicator of the general tone of where governments head is at...
If you garden, try mache also called corn salad. It looks and tastes like fresh spinach but has 4 times the iron and vitamin C. It grows like a weed and doesn’t bolt (go to seed in hot weather as fast as spinach.
I like MREs, myself. Fresh ones (that being a relative term) are pricey, though.
It is rare. Much more rare than the 60s. You might want to shop somewhere that doesn't mistreat their canned goods.
/johnny
I read someplace that Tac Bac is produced by Yoders as a novelty item.
Mache? I just learned something new.
Wow. Thanks.
I’m gonna order some seeds and try it.
Today, I just got done harvesting a bunch of New Zealand spinach. Another plant much like spinach - but it doesn’t bolt, it does very well in dryer climates and warmer conditions than any kind of spinach I’ve tried.
about the door to door scenario.....remember, the govt elites can apply their rules to anyone at anytime...if it suited them to enforce strict gun control, who do you think they would go after first, the inner city feral yutes or the church attending republican in the country?......
I believe you are right, but if you can live with eating bacon without a gun on the can it come in you can get the regular Yoders cheaper.
All of Yoders canned meats are very good.
Anyone remember Celebrity Bacon? We used to buy it for camping trips. It was great!
It depends on what you call rare, evidently not rare enough for me.
As far as bad cans, those were handpicked cans, not dented ones, I am a long time prepper.
/johnny
Don’t throw out “expired” canned goods. If the cans are still sealed, they’ll be fine. They’ve found canned foods last far longer than the sell by dates with a little degradation in taste. Rotating is the thing to do but if they are in a cooler dryer place they can last decades.
A big old can of pineapple juice exploded in my pantry last weekend. Took three days to get the sticky goo off everything.
Earlier this year I found one of my large cans of Boyarde Ravioli had started bulging.
A few years back I had a can of tomato paste go bad, which somewhat surprised me because tomato paste/sauce is pretty acidic.
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