Preppers’ PING!!
I wonder how well raisins would last? They are inexpensive and are sweet too. Also probably good for you.
I have some fossilized circus peanuts.
Honey lasts forever.
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/
That is next year's project. And I know where sugar maples and birch trees grow.
I have also stocked up on cocoa powder for baking and making brownies, fudge, and cakes from basic recipes, including some no bake stuff.
The fat in chocolate is of course what deteriorates the fastest, but the cocoa powder lasts forever, even after opening. No matter how much sugar I have, I buy 4 or 5 bags every time it goes on sale.
Sugar, Salt, Baking Soda, Corn Starch, cocoa powder, cinnamon, honey, all will last sooo long. These are all things that are some basics needed and can be used to make lots of different simple treats.
I have about 5 lbs of Lindt chocolate stashed.
And 40-50 lbs of sugar.
Lazy chicks with tattoos need not apply!
In a true TEOTWAWKI event, sugar is another item that would be worth it’s weight in gold.
A 1 pound box of regular table sugar might be the last sugar you ever see. Ever.
Honey, Sugars of multiple types ..... Werthers butter rum hard candy and hard lemon gum drops are our bulk sweet tooth supplies. Rotate the stock of hard candies each Halloween . Suspect the shelf life of those specific hard candies is about 5 to 10 years but as stated we rotate such each All Hallows’ eve .......
Kayro syrup mixed with some peanut butter makes a good sweet treat on bread also. Both of those products store well long term.....
1) Find a liberal
2) Drink their milkshake
3) Wash, rinse, repeat...
Jello!!!!!!
Cans of sweetened condensed milk. After a few years it basically becomes caramel. Yum.
There are other uses like putting in coffee, tea, and with rice to make pudding.
As long as the can isn’t damaged, SCM will be good for many years after the date on the can. It does darken and thicken but still good.
Honey of course - local if can get some. Don’t forget to get some raw honey that can be used on wounds but regular honey does help with wounds if you don’t have raw.
We have had many such changes over the past 5 years yet most aren't aware of it. If they are aware of one or two changes, they refuse to link them together to see the whole picture.
Several years ago, I was joking with my then-5-year-old nephew, asking him what I should grow in my garden. He said “candy!” After laughing about it, I started thinking more seriously about a candy garden, and ordered a bunch of seeds for things like marshmallow, sorghum, sugar beets, mints, licorice, etc. None of them grew the first year I tried to grow them, but I did have a nasty cutworm infestation that year. Last spring I planted a few sugar beets, thinking the seed was probably dead, but they grew and were a fun experiment.
I was also delighted to find a linden tree on my property. I’m quite sure there’s a way to process the nutlets so they taste like chocolate, but that project is kind of on hold until my house is built.
I also have honeybees on my property, which may or may not be from the hives I tried to start back in ‘07. The bees in one hive abandonned it. The other hive didn’t survive the winter, but the comb showed signs that they’d swarmed a few times before fall. Eventually I plan to build a better hive and try to entice a wild swarm, but for now I just like watching the honeybees buzz.
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