Posted on 10/15/2012 6:56:41 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Heat treatment is tougher but sure. A couple of hours in a 200 degree or so oven will generally do the trick. Safest way is to put the flour in a tin, but make sure the tin is try. Even a little moisture can damage the product. I've had people tell me that 180 degrees or so will do the trick and flour (and the paper bag it comes stored) will not combust and burn at that temperature or even the 200 degrees which is the lowest most gas ovens will go down to.
But, unless you have the time to watch it carefully, I think freeze treatment is just easier and safer.
Keep them refrigerated and they will last years past the expiration date.
what?
The doctor won't prescribe more than 30 days.
Ugh,those C-rats were pretty bad but that was gross
Really the one one I cared for was ham&eggs.
They were better than a snowball as we
would to say over there.
Trading was rampant
Don't be fooled by the "expiration date" printed on the label. Most times it is exactly one year from the date the script was filled, what an extraordinary coincidence! Effective life of a drug is dependent on how it is stored. Cool temperatures and darkness will insure a longer life. Avoid freezing liquids.
The country's largest consumer of prescription drugs is the Department of Defense. Can you imagine the impact on suppliers and the costs if the DoD had to roll over their entire supply of drugs every year? It doesn't happen because the DoD did studies on the actual longevity of prescription drugs and found that their useful life was much longer then one year. They also found that drugs slowly declined in efficacy rather then having a fixed life after which they just stopped working.
I read about this in a back issue of "Backwoods Home" and unfortunately the article did not include any hard data on actual life. Perhaps the Government Printing office might have copies of the studies available.
As to how to acquire "extra" medication for storage I would ask my doctor to provide 90 day scripts w/ 3 refills for all maintenance drugs (lipids, blood pressure, &c.) through a mail-order pharmacy (MEDCO, CVS, &c.). These pharmacies generally let you refill at about 65 days thus you get another 90 pills leaving 25 for your "stash". You renew your "yearly" script at 260 days, you have 100 pills in storage, you keep on rolling. After a year or two you start rotating your pill stash, using up the oldest and replacing them with fresh.
Regards,
GtG
“The doctor won’t prescribe more than 30 days”
My doctor prescribes by courses and usually my pharmacist asks do I want them all at once or just 1 box/bottle at a time. BTW, I’ve found usually most pills are only good for 2 years
Preppers’ PING!!
In Vietnam I was eating C Rations from the 40’s.
My son still has c rations - hope they are good if we need them.
My friend, who passed away at 101 years old, opened a can of tuna from the 90’s and ate it.
She was 97 then and had the best time eating it on a sandwich
And then *snap* — just like that, four years later she was dead!
There’s a way around that...talk to your doctor, tell them you need an emergency supply....unless of course you are using a PAIN KILLER or something like that, they will likely comply.
Darn, you just told them where my Walton food is.
My grown son and two other family members, shake their heads at the #10 cans under the beds they use. They have never cared enough to see what is in any can. I think they believe it is just regular canned food that will go bad. All three of them stay away from any food in a can - they are “modern” eaters only of fresh food. They even frown at frozen food from the grocery.
You know what I think? If a long term emergency happens, they will come here and look to see what is in those cans.
Right now, I'm the nutsy prepper family member to them.
That is the stick in the mud. Some meds you can get 3 months (they still wait until that is gone to re-order) but anything for pain management they will not.
I told my doctor I needed pain meds. due to hurting everywhere. I was serious about that, but I wasn't thinking the way he did. He gave me a prescription for those pain meds three times a day and the drug store filled three months at a time and keep refilling it. Most of the time I don't take one a day. I have bottles of the stuff and keep adding more. I'm thinking, “barter goods”.
LOL
ROTFLMAO!!!!
I tell people I took care of her for nearly six years before she finally passed away and I always get the “Sorry for your loss”
I smile and say “Well, she lived to 101 years and 5 months. She had it coming”.
Most people get the joke.
Thanks for your witty reply.
A Doctor's Thoughts on Antibiotics, Expiration Dates, and TEOTWAWKI, by Dr. Bones
" Studies performed by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) revealed that 90% of medications tested were perfectly fine to use 8-to-15 years after the expiration date."
I've bought my antibiotics from here for years and have many stock-piled.
Other meds, check the web or contact the manufacturer. Many other antibiotics just lose potency.
growing up poor in farming country in ND and spending 7 yrs in Uncle Sam’s Yacht Club, I can no longer stomach the thought of having to eat canned food, however hunger is the best seasoning. I have put “storage” in all of the little nooks and crannies in the house, the best was the old cistern, able to fit a full pallet into that unused space!
That’s because the eggs are already in there.
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