what kinds of foods stay edible the longest?

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SkinnyJoe

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I am thinking sardines and raisins right off the top of my head. Anybody have a good list to share?
 
I take dried beans and rice and then futher vacuum seal them. I don't know but I would think that the shelf life would almost be indefinite....within reason. Don't know if this is exactly what you were asking for.
 
Dried ground beef
parched corn
pemmican
hard-tack
jerky

Store them in muslin bags to encourage airflow and they should remain edible longer than they'll last if you're eating them.

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Wheat berries. Keep them dry and/or vacuum sealed. I have heard stories of them being found in ancient Egyptian tombs and still germinating after thousands of years. Not sure if these stories are true, but I have heard them from what seemed like believable sources.

Boil them for 45min to 1 hour or more, depending on the texture you prefer, and use them instead of rice. I enjoy them. You can also coarse grind them to get cracked wheat cereal (faster cooking) or fine grind them into whole wheat flour.
 
Honey, dry beans, and my best friends biscuits, they are also good for sling ammo or fishing weights. Chris
 
runningboar said:
Honey, dry beans, and my best friends biscuits, they are also good for sling ammo or fishing weights. Chris
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That reminds me of Biscuits that my Grand mother used to make, no word of a lie we used them as hockey puck's:D
 
Hard winter wheat properly stored lasts generations.

Honey stored properly will last 1000's of years.

Skam
 
Pemmican !!!

or how about chicken...it'll stay fresh till ya kill it !!!!
 
rice:thumbup:
 
What about salami/pepperoni and cheese? I've heard some people use them as trail food but I just don't have the guts to try it.
 
Living things. They stay alive, and you can kill them at your leisure. They even reproduce!
 
I've actually kept smoked ham, cheese, and bread on a 9-day hike during a west coast summer (around 25degC). The cheese (hard) was wiped in vinegar, wrapped in a vinegar-dampened rag, and then brown paper. It can be kept almost indefinitely if completely submerged in olive oil in a jar. The ham was wrapped in several layers of brown paper. Both will spoil quickly in plastic. The 'bread' was bagels that were just starting to get mold spots on the last day, but I didn't know how to make bannock back then.

The latest thing I've been playing with is lacto-fermentation of veggies. So far I've done cabbage (sauerkraut) and carrots. In backpacking terms, it should be storable indefinitely.
 
Hard sausages, cheese and bread are my number one woods food in the winter, in summer I switch to dehydrated, it is just too humid here. Chris
 
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