Emergency Supplies?

Cappy2cap said:
i go to readymaderesources.com They are the authority, IMO, of end of the world shit....they have everything...i stocked up on mountain house cans and if stored correctly, outlast any other choice for food storage...it'll last between 20 to 30 years. i eat mountain house every camping trip and have tried all their stuff...its pretty good. when the world ends it will be just fine for taste. and people say it needs water and that makes it 2nd choice to mre's....but if there is no water you shouldnt be eating anyway cuz starvation takes 30 days vs dehydration/death taking 3-5 days....
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Who has actually eaten 20-30 year old food? I call BS
 
RedbeAR15 said:
Who has actually eaten 20-30 year old food? I call BS
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Ill tell ya in 20 to 30 years man...thats just what it says on the package...when it comes down to it...with no food available, i'd prob eat my left arm covered in dog turds so ill take my chances with the mountain house for now:D:D:D
 
RedbeAR15 said:
Who has actually eaten 20-30 year old food? I call BS
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Oregon Freeze Dry (Mountain House) has been in business since 1963. On thier site they claim to have personally tasted food that was freeze dried for 35 years and claimed it tasted fine.

Just a bit of FYI. But as Cappy said, he will let us know in 20-30 years so we can all rest easy.
 
RedbeAR15 said:
Who has actually eaten 20-30 year old food? I call BS
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This is not aimed at anyone in particular, so please do not take this as anything other than information to process as you see fit.

It's not BS. The BS is falling for a psychological marketing ploy of how you will die or get very sick if you don't throw out your perfectly good food to buy more once it is past the date on the package. We as Americans are a very wasteful society while other nations struggle to get by with a small fraction of what we have for way more people. :( Depending on the type of food and preservation/storage method used, if it is sealed properly it will last way longer than most people have been taught to believe. Also, as long as you consume everything in the package their should be no loss in nutritional value since it didn't magically escape, :eek: though it might have leached into the juice.

I remember a couple pallets of the outdated dark brown bagged MRE's coming through during my time in the sandbox that were pretty old. The skittles bags inside some of them expired 13-15 years earlier. At the time, I was one of the sheeple brainwashed by marketing of expiration dates so I was definitely less than thrilled, but it was eat or starve and I wasn't going to starve. So, after chowing down on a weeks worth of them before newer ones arrived, I realized I couldn't tell much difference taste wise between the old and the new. I never got sick from it and I found myself somewhat enlightened. ;)

However, a few weeks later I did get sick when I had no choice but to drink tainted bottled water that smelled like crap, literally, due to it being the only source of water available in 140 degree heat for 4 days. That water was recalled the same week for "containing excessive quantities of fecal matter" even though it was clear with almost no visible material in it but the damage was already done. :grumpy: I still stand by the 19 days of miserably persistent dysentery was better than death by (quicker) dehydration, but it was close. :o

Since then I've also eaten canned food that looked, smelled and tasted ok even though it was 7-8 years past the "use by ...." date and eggs that were in the refrigerator for over a year with no problems. I now find it ironic how people are willing to forgo the tools we are born with such as smell, taste, feel and vision to instead rely on a computer generated date to determine whether food is bad or not. One really has to wonder how man could have survived thousands of years without technology. :rolleyes: But seriously,I have seen cans with bulging, swollen lids that still had 9 months left before they expired that smelled so bad I wouldn't feed them to my neighbor's dog. :barf:
 
Yea - I hear you guys but food poisoning is no joke. I guess we will all take our chances if necessary

Regardless - How many of those rats can you carry to sustain you for how long? Are you palnning on hunkering down?

I see things differently - give me seeds and I will grow, no matter where I have to go

Can you grow a garden?
 
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AZTimT, I have to say that I really enjoy your postings. You defintely have a good head on your shoulders, seem to have some very good practical experience & looks like you're able to look through all the BS when analyzing a situation.

I briefly met you at the A.G.Russel Knife Show. I bought the Nuclear Pumpkin KZ & you showed me the really unique one you got. I wish I had gotten to talk to you some, hopefully at another show sometime.
 
Bravado said:
Anyone ever ordered from this place? I have MRE's of course but I'm wanting longer food storage so I'm looking at the Mountain House Canned stuff, any suggestions?


http://www.thereadystore.com/
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Never purchased from there but I have from beprepared.com for the Mountain House cans quite often. Internetgrocer.net is another good site but shipping is somewhat steep. YMMV.

OT : frugalsquirrels.com is a good resourceful site.
 
RedbeAR15 said:
Yea - I hear you guys but food poisoning is no joke. I guess we will all take our chances if necessary

Regardless - How many of those rats can you carry to sustain you for how long? Are you palnning on hunkering down?

I see things differently - give me seeds and I will grow, no matter where I have to go

Can you grow a garden?
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You are right...if you get food poisoning, you are prob in real big trouble in the end of times...

make sure they are not hybrid seeds!! They wont grow after the first crop...Go to the Ark institute and get non-hybrids!!
 
I've been an avid prepper for the last 5 or 6 years, I have most of the brands of foods you guys are talking about, the mountain house is one of my favorite, I've got about 2 years worth. Honeyville farms has an awesome amount of product and pricing, they still have mountain house, little side note I doubt MH will be available for a year , I have a good source that says, the US government bought 1 billion dollars worth from them, back to honeyville, they have bulk, freeze dried and dehydrated. Theyalso have bulk, like parboiled rice which stores for 25 years but is as good as brown but not bleached like the white. Also another good bulk food place is the LDS cannery, you don't have to be a member of they're church to buy and they're prices are at cost, PM me an I can give more details if your interested. The world and yes even the US are close to massive food shortages we've never seen and once it starts alot will change.
 
aceinaz said:
I've been an avid prepper for the last 5 or 6 years, I have most of the brands of foods you guys are talking about, the mountain house is one of my favorite, I've got about 2 years worth. Honeyville farms has an awesome amount of product and pricing, they still have mountain house, little side note I doubt MH will be available for a year , I have a good source that says, the US government bought 1 billion dollars worth from them, back to honeyville, they have bulk, freeze dried and dehydrated. Theyalso have bulk, like parboiled rice which stores for 25 years but is as good as brown but not bleached like the white. Also another good bulk food place is the LDS cannery, you don't have to be a member of they're church to buy and they're prices are at cost, PM me an I can give more details if your interested. The world and yes even the US are close to massive food shortages we've never seen and once it starts alot will change.
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Yeah that Honeyville stuff looks good.:thumbup:
 
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