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Too much reading. I’ll just hit McDonald’s in a pinch.

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I thought they said Glenn Beck was crazy for talking about this last year …

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After seeing the photo of the pantry in the article, I just reaized how woefully unprepared for an emergency we are. Thought I had a pretty good stockpile, but it pales in comparison to that food dump. Better hit the Krogers.

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After seeing the photo of the pantry in the article, I just realized how woefully unprepared for an emergency we are. Thought I had a pretty good stockpile, but it pales in comparison to that food dump. Better hit the Krogers.

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To paraphrase a quote from “The Graduate”:

“I’ve got one word for you: plastics LENTILS.”

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Good information. One should prepare. My grandparents had their root cellar. I have a bit of deliberate overstock. Neighbors might help in a pinch. Don’t wait for the government to play daddy jeebus (see Katrina stories).

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I forgot to add that garlic powder as a seasoning can make nearly anything protein based taste better, if not basically palatable.

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I
sleep securely with my stockpile of canned bacon.

H/t Yoders

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I keep MREs and some canned stuff, been thinking on getting into some dried stuff with mylar bags and buckets. Recently found a local place, thanks Mitt!

http://www.providentliving.org/content/display/0,11666,7977-1-4352-1,00.html

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@Tim: Mormons (Glen Beck) are taught to stock food. They even have their own canning factories. Sometimes they allow nonMormons to use their canning facilities. I’m well stocked – only because I would rather be self sufficient than have to get on the big white bus to a FEMA camp. Nothing any worse than eating something that you have no idea what it is.

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People ask why I’m so nice to the squirrels in my yard and don’t get rid of them. I just smile and think “tomorrow.”

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I started stocking up about 2 years ago after listening to Beck. Every so often I go through it and donate anything close to expiration date to a food pantry. Anything expired i toss, I do’nt want to get anyone sick. I do rotate the food using the Fifo system. (first in first out) I was trained in as a restaurant manager years ago.

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Oh wow, BFH – thanks for the link.

IMO – you can’t have too much Spam (they have a bacon flavored Spam now.) I hear the shelf life is about 1000 years.

Slice it thinly, fry it crisply, layer it on squishy white bread with lots of mayo, and a big slice of iceberg lettuce. Heaven!

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No need to spend a lot of money. A 25# bag of rice or beans will feed a person for a month. Canned goods then supplement that. Use an airtight container to keep the bugs out. Also recommend a water purifier when the SHTF.

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@ Goldenfoxx, they will sell to anyone.

Anyone who is into storing food will gladly help those wanting to store food, when times are good.

Times get rough, folks who prepared are most worried about the folks who didn’t.

Mormons would rather help non members now instead of when they are eating their stockpile. Check out the link I posted above, you can find a storage center and even get order forms and calculators.

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Invest your money in food and water.
You can’t eat gold and silver.
Buy some lead to protect your food and water.

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A friend of mine ventured out into town a couple of days after the wind storm two weeks ago knocked out power to half of the state. He found it to be a scary experience. People appeared to be near panic and ready to riot.

Another friend of many years has been urging me for a couple of years to start buying plastic barrels and filling them with beans and rice. And a few more full of ammo. Maybe I should start acting on his advice.

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Here are a couple of useful links:

http://www.stilltasty.com/

http://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/features/do-food-expiration-dates-matter

I can’t find the article I read last year that maintained that many expiration dates are far shorter than necessary for two reasons:

First, the seller wants you to chuck the item after a couple of years and buy new,

Second, the seller must keep records of the testing and verification of the item’s shelf life. Therefore, they are not going to go to the time and expense of testing and verifying that an item is still usable and effective after 20 years even if would be. They may invest 3 years and call it quits.

I often push the limit on products I’m familiar with. Not as far as the honey found in an Egyptian tomb however – a jar was discovered that was 3,500 years and still edible.

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We’ve been looking ahead for some time now. One good thing to purchase is a seed bank. Fresh food will be worth its weight in gold if/when everything collapses. (I threw the “if” part in there for laughs.)

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Two years ago I caught the after 4th sale at the local Home Depot, when they had twin packs of 20 pound bags of charcoal briquettes on sale for $6 a pair. I bought a dozen double bags and have been using it ever since.

Two years later, they no longer make 20 pound bags. Now the sale is $9 for a pair of 13.6 pound bags.

At the same time at our local restaurant supply store, they still sell a 50 pound bag of hardwood mesquite charcoal for $13 a bag. It has been that price for at least 5 years…

That is how food inflation takes place and nobody notices. That one pound jar of peanut butter is no longer a pound, nor is your bag of coffee, or box of cereal, or any other product you can name. All of them are sold in significantly smaller portions while the price actually increases slightly….

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That is one of my pet peeves and I’m really vocal about it around here.

Add to the list dry dog food, tuna fish, powdered laundry soap – things I buy frequently and cuss out frequently.

Problem is, we buy by sight – if the package looks the same, how many of us actually read the small print at the bottom – like the dog food that went from 20 lb. to 17.5 lb to 15.5 lb.? I thought those bags were getting easier to heft because I was getting stronger in my old age.

Now when I open the can, box, bag, etc. and find it half full – DUH!! I have a clue! Forget that baloney about ‘product may have settled during handling’.

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No one ever talks about the essentials, like toilet paper.

What’s up with that?

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You can’t have too much salt. If you’re going to be eating rice and beans, you better have salt.

According to the studies in the link, canned food has been found safe decades after the “best by” date. “Best by” refers to maximum flavor, not safety.

Aside from water, protein is most important. Tuna and salmon have expiration dates four years off, and if I can get a large can of salmon for 2.50 now, you can bet I’m going to stock up. You can also make your own beef and turkey jerky by going to online recipe sites. Contrast the price of commercially pkg’d jerky to that you can make when London Broil is on sale for 2.99/lb.

You can also make your own powdered eggs, but they’re rumored to be best used for baking and not scrambled eggs.

I started “prepping” in ’09 when Beck advised, and I’m not sorry. Some of the deals I got then are still incredible four years later.

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Does anybody know about items past their expiry, items such as the cheese in mac and cheese, or mixes? I have heard the chemicals include din ingredients go bad and can actually poison a person. It that false, then?

People should also think about other items that may be needed–such as TP as someone mentioned above. Medicines, a small kit for children to entertain themselves (e.g. coloring books & crayons, jacks, books, puzzles), candles, a bunch of plastic bags for trash, rope, a set of warm clothing and blanket…stuff like that.

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If you’re going to spend big bucks on MRE’s (I’m not), then you’d better stock on multi-vitamins because that dehydrated food can’t sustain you indefinitely.

If you lose your source of safe water, what do MRE’s taste like, dry, right out of the package?

Canned, ready-to-eat soup would be my suggested meal.

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I live in the suburbs of NorCal. My food supply is walking around on the hoof. Got a compound, damn good with it. I think I’m the only guy in this state that hunts. Need to find a venison breakfast sausage recipe. If you got one, please post it.

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EZ PZ – good old Ixquick never fails:

http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,165,145174-254194,00.html

same site, a little different:
http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,165,145174-255194,00.html

http://www.free-venison-recipes.com/lowfat-venison-breakfast-sausage.html

Bon appetit!

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Brad: oops. I posted a message that has gotten caught in moderation. Probably shouldn’t have quoted three links. If it doesn’t come through, I’ll separate into two messages.

Yummy stuff

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Please post again. I’m filthy in Black Tails. The DFG tried to have a youth hunt here several years ago for does. Peta and the tree hugers shot it down. Would love a recipe, thanks for passing it along.

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Here we go Brad, one at a time

EZ PZ – good old Ixquick never fails:

http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,165,145174-254194,00.html

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same site, a little different:
http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,165,145174-255194,00.html

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I’m not sure why anyone would want a low-fat (no bacon) recipe, but for the weight watchers:

http://www.free-venison-recipes.com/lowfat-venison-breakfast-sausage.html

Bon appetit!

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We make our own laundry soap. The money we save allows us to buy more food.

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