Survival Food

[SirJames]

While store what you eat, eat what you store is very good advice and should cover 80% of your needs, you might have to look into can fruit if you normally eat fresh fruit...canned or dried meats if you normally eat frozen meets.

Three things to think of is lack or power for a fridge, lack of water supply (you will want to drink the god stuff and not wasting what little you have on long cook pasta only to pure the pasta water down the drain...and lack of power for cooking (though this can be worked around with camp stoves).

Also include throw away plates and forks/cups so you don't waste water cleaning your dishes if low water is part of the disaster.

 

[Ausseknifeknut]

Now I have a twisted sense of humour , but humans have up to an 100 year expiry date , which may explain cannibalism lol.

 

[David Stifle]

You might find this site useful as a guide. Your nose, taste buds and common sense is another.

http://www.stilltasty.com/

Odd, that site says uncooked dry black beans only last a year, canned beans even less. Uncooked rice, on the other hand, is supposed to last indefinitely.

 

[22-rimfire]

I believe there are still storage issues with dry rice. Sometimes I wonder about the folks that buy the big bags of rice at Sams. Have considered it myself although I tend to be more of a potato guy.

 

[cricketdave]

I use a air tight storage container for both rice and beens, I've had a couple of the bags of beens for a couple of years and just cooked some the other day and they were fine, just like when i bought them.

There is a home freeze dryer out now so you could do your own meals if you wanted. Its sure not cheap yet though.

 

[555]

Odd, that site says uncooked dry black beans only last a year, canned beans even less. Uncooked rice, on the other hand, is supposed to last indefinitely.

That's the reason I said to use it as a guide, just to get an idea. Food storage environments, be it to hot, to cold, variable, humid or dry can change the shelf life of stored food.

 

[wildmanh]

Dried canned goods can last over 25 years if stored in a cool dry place. Buckets of grains stored in a cool dry place will also last almost for ever. If you can store the dried food items in an air tight container below 60 or is it 55 degrees, things will last a long, long time.

Look up Emergency Essential's. They are a good place to get bulk dry goods and other emergency preparedness items.

If you want to start bottling your own items for food storage, Look up The Mending Shed. They have everything you need for your home drying and bottling needs plus tool and appliance repair.