I might add those dried gravy packets. A cup of water and one of those packets, you can have some nice turkey or country gravy, does very well over ride or beans or egg noodles.
“ride” sb “rice”!
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Food prep...for later
I get frustrated reading these articles, because I’m no where near prepared for such a situation and for one big reason: I live in Florida.
A lot of preppers in my area lament the warm, moist conditions as not being conducive to adequate long-term storage. It’s often very humid, water gets into everything over time, and storage of things like rice, beans, and pasta is often measured in months and not years.
Uhhh, I may be wrong, but I've always thought the oils in ground cornmeal would turn rancid after being stored for a long while (assuming the bugs didn't ruin it first), unless you oven can the cornmeal in jars with lids, or vacuum sealed it in #10 cans or mylar bags with oxygen absorbers.
I would think for really long term storage (i.e. years) it would be preferable to vacuum seal or mylar bag whole corn and then grind it as needed for cornmeal. Keeping it as whole corn until needed makes it less likely the oil in the kernel will turn rancid.
Someone with more experience with storing corn/cornmeal can maybe confirm this or explain it better.
I might add powered milk and complete pancake mix.
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What about the life of cured meats, like smoke, sugar or salt cured hams?
Why is there no canned pork? I can get chicken, beef and tuna, but I can never fond pork. (besides ham)
I’m also interested in learning how best to store salt, sugar, and spices, for long term storage. For large quantities of salt and sugar is vaccum packed in large mylar bags in plastic buckets with oxygen absorbers and dessicant packs adequate to keep it good/useable for 2 years or more?
My favorite recommendation: 50 pounds of rice or bread flour costs under $20 at Costco. One sack for one “yuppie food stamp” and you can feed an adult enough calories (maybe not nutrients, but at least energy) for over a month.
Chocolate. Lots of it.
Doesn’t honey last forever?
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Honey, Bisquick, and cheap weight gain powders also come to mind. Provided you have water, you could cook biscuits on a stick over an open fire, slather them in hooney and wash it down with a weight gain drink of your choice. Could be worse.
Another one of my faves is something I don’t hear people mention often.
Canned sweet potatoes.
Hey! Good with any kind of breakfast, also good with dinner. You can eat them cold or warmed up. High in sugar, so a good energy source. Packed in water, another very useful commodity.
And in the big picture, they are pretty cheap, bulk-wise.
I would add two:
Coconut oil — lasts for a very long time, in all kinds of conditions. It is very healthy, and packs a lot of calories.
Small canned fish (with bones and skin) — nutrient dense, palatable, and inexpensive. Inexpensive, and being smaller fish, less contaminated with toxins than tuna.
Those two, coupled with multivitamins, and the obvious (salt, the more nutrient dense canned vegetables, etc.), are all that you need.
Don’t all of those beans require lots of your most precious resource, water, to be edible? What happens if clean water becomes a commodity? Do you feel that they are worth the tradeoff?