It's all about protein. You can get your fats in bottles and cans. Carbs last very long if there is no fat attached to them. Protein sources of many kinds are what you need to avoid malnutrition and starvation.
Expiration Dates on Food and What they Mean - storing food for prolonged stays at home
Showing posts with label food storage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label food storage. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 15, 2020
Tuesday, October 15, 2019
Food Supply: Chicken Supply Chain Tightens - Low cost Chicken
$5 Chicken Factory Production
Keep this in mind when you make your plans for food storage. The supply lines are becoming too centralized and thus risk cutoffs, shortages, or disaster.
Prepare!!!!
Keep this in mind when you make your plans for food storage. The supply lines are becoming too centralized and thus risk cutoffs, shortages, or disaster.
Prepare!!!!
Friday, July 13, 2018
Collapse USA: Postcard from the end of America, Waitress Stabbed, Ultra rich Escape,
Postcard
Sadly, this covers much of it. We have flooded the country with those only interested in the Free Stuff, and made many Americans into the rootless cosmopolitans that are the scourge of any thriving culture. With the outbreak of war they will head off to feed off the next thriving country.
Waitress Stabbed
The country I grew up in is a place where this never made the news so likely didn't happen back then. Things have gone crazy as have people as the rule of law fades away.
Ultra Rich Plan Escape from the Rest of US
Sadly, this covers much of it. We have flooded the country with those only interested in the Free Stuff, and made many Americans into the rootless cosmopolitans that are the scourge of any thriving culture. With the outbreak of war they will head off to feed off the next thriving country.
Waitress Stabbed
The country I grew up in is a place where this never made the news so likely didn't happen back then. Things have gone crazy as have people as the rule of law fades away.
Ultra Rich Plan Escape from the Rest of US
Saturday, March 17, 2018
Grid Collapse: Britain 4 meals from Anarchy
Britain
This applies to almost all modern countries reliant on the grid without hardening against EMP and Cypber attacks. Decentralization is the best answer.
How to Protect Yourself: Decentralize your backup plan
Solar for low power applications such as lighting and radio
Lighting - candles, LED lights, batteries, lamp oil and oil lamps, solar yard and string lights.
Heat - Fuel for heat - wood, oil, gas, coal,
earth berm design and associated design systems.
Water - storage, hand powered well, nearby steam access, filtration
Weapons - Handguns, Shotguns, And Rifles for protection
If you live in Britain forget about self defense so you might luck out and just be finished off long before you starve or die of dehydration.
This applies to almost all modern countries reliant on the grid without hardening against EMP and Cypber attacks. Decentralization is the best answer.
How to Protect Yourself: Decentralize your backup plan
Solar for low power applications such as lighting and radio
Lighting - candles, LED lights, batteries, lamp oil and oil lamps, solar yard and string lights.
Heat - Fuel for heat - wood, oil, gas, coal,
earth berm design and associated design systems.
Water - storage, hand powered well, nearby steam access, filtration
Weapons - Handguns, Shotguns, And Rifles for protection
If you live in Britain forget about self defense so you might luck out and just be finished off long before you starve or die of dehydration.
Thursday, February 2, 2017
Survival Food: Kippers for Medium Term Storage - Smoked Herring
Kippers are a great source of protein, fat, and calcium. The oil that most of the canned fish come in is a great source of calories that can help you survive in a calorie starved environment like food shortages. Because of the means of preservation sodium is often high but in a stressful and heavy exercise environment that can be a plus.
The brand I use is Trader Joe's but they are probably sourced from one of the major brands just like their Sardines.
Yesterday, I tried a can that was dated for use by 2013. It is now 2017. I opened it, put it to my nose, and looked at it. It looked the same as it would have two or five years earlier. I detected no sign of spoilage so it became my breakfast along with a British Muffin. It tasted fine and a day later I had no ill effects as I fully expected. I have never gotten ill from canned food, ever. Of course I've thrown out some when I opened it and something didn't look or smell right and of course any can that was puffy or leaking would be included in that throw out category.
Since I buy these freshly canned and they usually have two or three years of time before the expiration date I got six or more years of storage and likely I could go much further down the road with these. Instead, I just rotate them out by eating them prior to expiration and buy some new ones. I just happened to miss the dates on the one shown and the one I ate yesterday. It was no big deal to me since I've done this many times before with sardines and other canned items. I'm not suggesting that you do the same but it is good to know that this type of food can endure years in storage.
Try some if you never have. If you like them add some regularly to your food storage. These to me are much more palatable than freeze dried food and of course are a lot less expensive for the equivalent amount of high quality protein and fat that stores for a long time.
The brand I use is Trader Joe's but they are probably sourced from one of the major brands just like their Sardines.
Yesterday, I tried a can that was dated for use by 2013. It is now 2017. I opened it, put it to my nose, and looked at it. It looked the same as it would have two or five years earlier. I detected no sign of spoilage so it became my breakfast along with a British Muffin. It tasted fine and a day later I had no ill effects as I fully expected. I have never gotten ill from canned food, ever. Of course I've thrown out some when I opened it and something didn't look or smell right and of course any can that was puffy or leaking would be included in that throw out category.
Since I buy these freshly canned and they usually have two or three years of time before the expiration date I got six or more years of storage and likely I could go much further down the road with these. Instead, I just rotate them out by eating them prior to expiration and buy some new ones. I just happened to miss the dates on the one shown and the one I ate yesterday. It was no big deal to me since I've done this many times before with sardines and other canned items. I'm not suggesting that you do the same but it is good to know that this type of food can endure years in storage.
What to do:
Try some if you never have. If you like them add some regularly to your food storage. These to me are much more palatable than freeze dried food and of course are a lot less expensive for the equivalent amount of high quality protein and fat that stores for a long time.
Monday, January 2, 2017
Millennials and Survival Skills and How about GenX
Millennials lack basic survival skills
If survival meant using the latest phone app then millennials as a group would be above the rest of us. It may yet prove to be so if somehow Skynet becomes a reality. I suggest the age cutoff is not just 20 somethings but maybe even 40 - 50 somethings. Most haven't learned survival basics. If you always lived in urban areas it often doesn't matter how old you age since city living usually means getting your needs at the local store. You never had to do it yourself. If you grew up on a farm then likely you know much more than most about basics for survival. Areas you don't know you can fill in with practice and study.
Many of the simple things like jump starting a car, siphoning fuel, tying a knot, or growing your own food people born in the last 40 years don't have a clue. They just get out the cell phone and call for help, but what happens if that help is no longer available.
Sadly, most people wouldn't make it a few days in the woods if it were in cold temperatures and water was scarce. Many couldn't grow their own food if the food supply started becoming sketchy and hunting is outside of their psychological realm.
Here are 4 suggestions to learn what you need to know for basic survival skills.
1. Making Temporary Shelters
2. Finding Water
3. How to find food in the wild
4. Starting a fire with no tools
Book to Read
How To Stay Alive in The Woods by By Bradford Angier
Bushcraft 101 by Dave Canterbury
Items to Purchase and keep in your vehicle
Lifestraw
Magnesium fire starter
Butane Lighter
Emergency Survival Blanket - multiples
Water - in bottles and replace regularly - add a canteen
After you've handled these others then you can find the food you need.
Food
Foil packed Salmon and Tuna
Sardines
Vienna Sausage
MRE - entrees
Protein and Energy Bars
Extras you can save from visits to fast food outlets
Normal things you'd toss once you used what you needed can be used later. Fast food items that come in the order are often good to have around.
Salt, pepper, and Ketchup packets
Plastic forks, knives, and spoons
If survival meant using the latest phone app then millennials as a group would be above the rest of us. It may yet prove to be so if somehow Skynet becomes a reality. I suggest the age cutoff is not just 20 somethings but maybe even 40 - 50 somethings. Most haven't learned survival basics. If you always lived in urban areas it often doesn't matter how old you age since city living usually means getting your needs at the local store. You never had to do it yourself. If you grew up on a farm then likely you know much more than most about basics for survival. Areas you don't know you can fill in with practice and study.
Many of the simple things like jump starting a car, siphoning fuel, tying a knot, or growing your own food people born in the last 40 years don't have a clue. They just get out the cell phone and call for help, but what happens if that help is no longer available.
Sadly, most people wouldn't make it a few days in the woods if it were in cold temperatures and water was scarce. Many couldn't grow their own food if the food supply started becoming sketchy and hunting is outside of their psychological realm.
Here are 4 suggestions to learn what you need to know for basic survival skills.
1. Making Temporary Shelters
2. Finding Water
3. How to find food in the wild
4. Starting a fire with no tools
Book to Read
How To Stay Alive in The Woods by By Bradford Angier
Bushcraft 101 by Dave Canterbury
Items to Purchase and keep in your vehicle
Lifestraw
Magnesium fire starter
Butane Lighter
Emergency Survival Blanket - multiples
Water - in bottles and replace regularly - add a canteen
After you've handled these others then you can find the food you need.
Food
Foil packed Salmon and Tuna
Sardines
Vienna Sausage
MRE - entrees
Protein and Energy Bars
Extras you can save from visits to fast food outlets
Normal things you'd toss once you used what you needed can be used later. Fast food items that come in the order are often good to have around.
Salt, pepper, and Ketchup packets
Plastic forks, knives, and spoons
Monday, November 2, 2015
Eating to live and to survive healthy - post collapse - Junk Food for Survival
I found this article describing the 80/20 rule applied to diet and it makes perfect sense. Vary your intake in terms of type of food to avoid boredom but also to fill in nutritional needs. Allow yourself some less than perfect food to enjoy eating and overall it will keep your metabolism in balance.
Putting away food for the future might also be done in this fashion by adding some comfort foods, and easy to prepare cheap foods that have borderline questionable health value. Give yourself a break and add some chocolate, cake mixes, pop tarts, and whatever else you like to your storage efforts. I think some twinkies might even be a good idea. I myself prefer creme filled oatmeal cookies and fig bars. Store it all and enjoy. The nice thing is that you can tap these stores and update them as part of your regular diet. Sure, have all those freeze dried food supply buckets but have that as your last line of defense rather than your only one. Those are much more expensive and full of sodium while not really pleasing the palate like a good serving of mac and cheese might do. Put away all of these and feel comfortable in knowing you can always get a chocolate rush even when all is lost. That's my plan.
Pizza anyone?
Putting away food for the future might also be done in this fashion by adding some comfort foods, and easy to prepare cheap foods that have borderline questionable health value. Give yourself a break and add some chocolate, cake mixes, pop tarts, and whatever else you like to your storage efforts. I think some twinkies might even be a good idea. I myself prefer creme filled oatmeal cookies and fig bars. Store it all and enjoy. The nice thing is that you can tap these stores and update them as part of your regular diet. Sure, have all those freeze dried food supply buckets but have that as your last line of defense rather than your only one. Those are much more expensive and full of sodium while not really pleasing the palate like a good serving of mac and cheese might do. Put away all of these and feel comfortable in knowing you can always get a chocolate rush even when all is lost. That's my plan.
Pizza anyone?
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