Posted on 12/09/2013 7:51:43 PM PST by Kartographer
Preppers’ PING!!
I wonder how well raisins would last? They are inexpensive and are sweet too. Also probably good for you.
I put some up in glass canning jars with an 100cc oxygen absorber. I have opened them up tow years later and they were still good. I have an advantage that the air here is very dry so things I vacuum naturally have a very low mosture content.
Gummy bears.
No thank you.
I have some fossilized circus peanuts.
Honey lasts forever.
Raisins, vacuum packed
36 months kept at 40°F
12 months kept at 70°F
9 months kept at 90°F
http://extension.usu.edu/files/publications/publication/FN_2005_Harvest-11.pdf
Tallahassee Approved.
Lay in a stock of those and you’ll be able to trade a package for a side of beef
Yes, Honey would be the finest of storage choices and very versatile.
This stuff is great, but I dont know what the shelf life is.
Peanuts and sunflower seeds will go rancid.
http://www.karsnuts.com/brands/kars-nuts/
I put away honey. Less worries about storing.
I do have sugar, almond bark and some other stuff but, if anyone really wants sugar they’ll have to source it themselves.
Besides, tomato sauce, salsa and the like are sweet.
Where do you order those oxygen absorbers from, please and thanks.
Back in the days when they used to stack peanut hay rather than just let it lie on the ground like they do today, I was able to acquire a lot of peanuts.
The peanut picker came into the field and it just sat still and they brought the hay stacks to the picker which also bailed the hay as peanut hay is highly desirable, at least I think it is.
After a week or two, I roamed around the now cleared field and discovered there were lots of peanuts still in the field if anyone wanted to go pick them up one at a time.
Lying out in the Florida Sun for a few weeks had just barely cooked them. Not nearly parched but actually just about how I liked them best. I picked up enough to fill several paper bags full and ate on them for several years. They never did go bad which I think was a result of their having laid out in the burning hot sand for several weeks.
Sunflower seeds go rancid fairly quickly if exposed to air.
Peanuts last longer, but will still go rancid.
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