This video covers several long-term survival foods that many preppers overlook. They can give variety to your diet, which is good nutritionally, and it can help boost morale also.
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Quick question… I don't know alot about shelf life of different emergency preparedness foods…you mention here that the shelf life of flour (even in mylar) is about 5 years.
So, why do companies like Auguson Farms say that their flour (in a mylar bag, in a bucket) has a shelf life up to 25 years?
I am really trying to prep but sometimes conflicting statements leave me confused?
So, what do you think of Auguson Farms claim on their flour as being up to 25 years?
My daughter likes quinoa but I think it’s disgusting. I agree that you should taste it before you buy a large amount.
I did a temp job at a place that made 'industrial-level vacuum sealers'. You need an air compressor for it to work, but it was production-level quick. One design performed a "FOOD-GRADE NITROGEN FLUSH" in the bag to remove OXYGEN, before the product went in.
great list, I was unsure about the gatorade and if I could store that powder. I need to transfer that this weekend. I stopped storing my pasta in mylar bags and started with mason jars and vacuum sealing them. I found too many times they would puncture tiny holes in the mylar, I only do the tiny ones now like pastina. With the flour, I keep them in the bags they came in, cut a slit for the 02 and put the whole thing inside the mylar, Keeps it from getting a metallic taste. thanks for you videos!!
I like to use a canning funnel when I fill my 1 gallon mylar bags. It holds the bag open perfectly and when used with bags with gussets they stand up for easy one person filling. 3 pounds of pasta fill a bag perfectly. Resealable bags help also. JR you probably know this. Thanks for all the inspiration!
Cornmeal goes RANCID!!!!!!Skip it
Recently added two 25-lb buckets of hard red wheat grain (40,800 calories per bucket) and one 20-lb. bucket of dried brown lentils (27,150 calories) to my long-term food storage for a total of an additional 108,750 calories. That is a lot of calories in just three buckets and stores in a small space. The wheat and lentils will be used as the basis for survival dinners supplemented with fat from bottles/jars of olive oil and coconut oil and the contents of #10 cans and Mylar pouches of freeze-dried beef, chicken, shredded cheese, powdered milk, tomato powder, powdered eggs, butter powder and assorted vegetables.
Whole grains and dried legume seeds are the best complex carb foods I know to help me squeeze a lot of calories into a small storage space. Considering that a moderately active adult will need about 2000 calories per day or 730,000 calories per year, those buckets of grain and legumes will help our household reach that nutritional goal a lot better than just stocking up on regular canned goods from the supermarket. And we also store ascorbic acid powder to give us an inexpensive source of Vitamin C when our container garden is not producing fresh greens and cherry tomatoes. We can also sprout some of the wheat grain indoors during winter to provide another source of vitamins.
Check out the low number of total calories in a can of condensed tomato soup or corned beef hash or pinto beans and consider how much temperature-controlled storage space you would need to store 730,000 calories of canned wet food. And that would be for just one adult or teen. And those canned goods cannot tolerate freezing temps, usually have low levels of vitamins and must be rotated/replaced a lot sooner than the dried grains and legumes that are packaged for long term storage.
I know I can get at least 20 years of storage in a cool, dry, vermin-free pantry for my grains and legumes. Considering the pace of inflation, the basic long-term food storage in our pantry is better than having money in our bank account.
Thank you
Tip with flour, rice and pasta. I freeze them for 3-4 days, then have them sit for a few hours to reach room temp. Then I add them to a Mylar bag with an oxygen absorber.
Add plain white or yellow grits to your storage items… it's a southern thing !!
I got a lot of oat groats. They last 20 years and you can boil them like rice.
you touched on an important concept. when storing food it should be food you are eating now. in a stressful time most likely with limited resources trying foods for the first time is not a good idea. My mantra is store what i eat now so that i can eat what i have stored later.
Canned goods, when stored correctly, will last decades. If it comes down to it, a big pile of rice with a can of chunky soup poured over it, is a good meal for two.
Beans, rice, canned goods, canned hams, spam, instant potatoes, oatmeal, egg noodles, sugar, flour, yeast, spaghetti and jars of sauce, 15 bean soup bags….just use your imagination, store them correctly and you’ll be pretty good to go.
Governments are plotting the planned destruction of economies… and so many people won't see it or be ready until it's too late.
Tomatoes…emergency alert
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I absolutely agree 100% with your selections. Just remember to properly package each one to prevent waste and loss of those investments.
In my preparedness planning, I have covered as many bases as I possibly can when it comes to nutrition and preparedness. Grains and rices are on the list. Brown rice is not as it is not a long term storage food. Wheat that is milled and unmilled is covered.
Good luck!!
Cook Quinoa with white Rice. It cooks at the same rate, and if you don't like the taste of Quinoa, it lessens the blow of eating just pure Quinoa.
In my canister for rice, I even just started mixing the two together.
Surprise caned food is more watered dowowed
I really appreciated you showing how you stored (in mylar) the different items. Thanks, enjoyed your video.
Your videos are encyclopedic 🤯
Chapters would be great
How do you store a firearm and ammo somewhere away from your house in case they rob your home?
What if you vacuum seal corn meal? Is botulism still a risk?
Not really something that you need to store but if you live near a decent size oak tree then you can make a reasonable substitute for flour. It could be useful to get through a post collapse winter. Most people will not know what to do with the acorns
Great tips!
I do love the masa, good video JR, folks best be preppin up. Bless ya`ll…
Oatmeal raisin cookies!🥰
Coffee, cigarettes, toilet paper, wipes, tooth brushes, baking soda, all good items to barter with
Wheat berries, millet, popcorn, and brown rice flour can be used to grow mushrooms on.
Grow out a few quarts of mycelium and create some mushroom patches around your property.
Not a huge fan of quinoa, but I store a bunch in five gallon bags in buckets and totes in one gallon Mylar bags. Always a good idea to broaden what foods you store for long term.
Wheatberries last forever in air tight containers….
great information, thank you.
Just remember that you need to get GMO free grains, preferably organic aswell. Cos most grain is GMO.