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04-13-2013, 08:26 AM
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What Food Prepping Have You Done?
Most of my emergency food purchases for storage up to this point has been canned goods and other staples with a shelf life of 1 1/2 to 3 years.
I bought a lot of canned white chicken breast meat from Sams Club along with SPAM, tuna, etc. Also 25 lb boxes of rice and quite a bit of salt.
Also found that spaghetti sauce in jars sometimes has a long shelf life with expiration dates a couple of years out so stocked up on that also.
Now that I have a decent stash of short term emergency food I am starting to buy "real" emergency food that has a very long shelf life so I don't have to worry about using it every couple of years before it expires.
My first purchase was twelve 28oz cans (21lbs total) of canned hamburger meat with a 15 year shelf life. My second purchase has been a 38 lb bucket of corn meal and 45 lb bucket of red wheat that both have a 30 year shelf life. Sams Club has started carrying emergency food at their online store and even with pretty expensive freight due to the weight the pricing was great.
I plan on buying more of those two items along with bulk sugar, beans, rice, etc that all have a very long shelf life.
I also plan on buying the buckets of freeze dried emergency good that efoods, Wise foods, Mountain House, etc produce along with some high calories emergency food bars.
Not actually food but related to it are a couple of other things on my to buy list. One is a Big Berkey water filter and another is a solar oven. Both are big ticket items so I will have to budget for them over time ($260 for the Big Berkey and around $200-250 for the solar oven)
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04-13-2013, 10:19 AM
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Re: What Food Prepping Have You Done?
Hey, CC1! For some reason, I had the idea you would be a bit critical about prepping. Glad to see that is not the case! What made you decide to do this?
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04-13-2013, 11:13 AM
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Re: What Food Prepping Have You Done?
Sounds like you have a good start...there are so many web sites out there...if your a milk drinker we found through our own taste test of 4 different brands we liked "Provident Pantry" to be the best tasting and next "Thrive" brand. I have both powered and instant, powered from "Thrive" powdered we use for cooking, it has to have hot water to dissolve and doesn't taste as good as the instant.
For me and our prepping I built a big pantry...most anything I want to prepare I can get my ingredients from there, and not have to go to the store. We only need to shop about every 10 days for bread and fresh produce...every time I shop I look for things I might need to add or bulk up on...canned goods will keep longer than a couple of years if they are in a dry and cool location, also we keep our supplies in as dark a place as we can, we have opened cans that were more than a few years old. I got can rotators for our canned goods so I don't have to restack every time I get a new can of an item...you can build them yourself which I had not seen till after I bought my racks...
We have a snack rack also which I keep chips, crackers, candy, nuts, dried fruit, etc on because you need variety and treats to keep your spirits up if your in a long term stress situation.
You really need to take into account your family size, your likes and dislikes...prepping is fun and can be addictive...LOL! I will post a couple of pictures of our pantry later today if I get a chance.
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04-13-2013, 03:50 PM
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Re: What Food Prepping Have You Done?
What are you prepping for?
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04-13-2013, 03:51 PM
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Re: What Food Prepping Have You Done?
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Dinner
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04-13-2013, 03:55 PM
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Re: What Food Prepping Have You Done?
You gotta wonder about canned hamburger meat with a shelf life of 15 years....whats in it?
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04-13-2013, 05:48 PM
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Re: What Food Prepping Have You Done?
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You gotta wonder about canned hamburger meat with a shelf life of 15 years....whats in it?
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"Canning" your own meat has a very long shelf life and nothing is added. Keeping food in a vacuum gives is a long shelf life in and of itself. But I'd rather eat food I canned than something processed... although keep processed food isn't a bad thing to do either.
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04-13-2013, 06:01 PM
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Re: What Food Prepping Have You Done?
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Originally Posted by Digging4Truth
"Canning" your own meat has a very long shelf life and nothing is added. Keeping food in a vacuum gives is a long shelf life in and of itself. But I'd rather eat food I canned than something processed... although keep processed food isn't a bad thing to do either.
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What about Sodium? All canned goods have extra sodium from what I have seen
How do you can your own stuff?
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Let it be understood that Apostolic Friends Forum is an Apostolic Forum.
Apostolic is defined on AFF as:
- There is One God. This one God reveals Himself distinctly as Father, Son and Holy Ghost.
- The Son is God himself in a human form or "God manifested in the flesh" (1Tim 3:16)
- Every sinner must repent of their sins.
- That Jesus name baptism is the only biblical mode of water baptism.
- That the Holy Ghost is for today and is received by faith with the initial evidence of speaking in tongues.
- The saint will go on to strive to live a holy life, pleasing to God.
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04-13-2013, 05:05 PM
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Re: What Food Prepping Have You Done?
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04-13-2013, 04:00 PM
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Re: What Food Prepping Have You Done?
Canned bacon and powered eggs.
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