Here’s a video I shot going over some of the basics. This is one method and is not all inclusive, just sharing some thoughts. Thanks!
Category: Food Storage
Sep 07
Eating Food that EXPIRED 9 YEARS AGO
I’ve written about expiration dates on canned food before but this was probably the most expired thing I’ve eaten and as such I thought to share with everyone. As far as tiered food storage I’d rank canned food as #2 on the list, all of the items you have in your fridge / freezer would …
Feb 11
Layering Food Storage (and a trip to Costco)
Prepping is like investing in the stock market, there will be highs and lows but you must be steady with your inputs understanding that commons sense and patience wins the day. Certainly if one is starting from zero there is a baseline that must be achieved (typically this might look like 1 month of supplies …
Aug 08
4 Storage Food Mistakes You Might Be Making
This past weekend my wife and I organized our storage / preparendess area. We did this together so that we would both know where items of note where, instead of me just taking on the task and her having to dig for something in my absence. We have various storage items sorted by category on …
Jan 15
You Might Reconsider Those Freeze Dried Meals In Your BugOut Bag
My wife and I like to go hiking and do some occasional backpacking. I freely admit that I like to spend more time in the woods than she does so I consider it a bonus when she tags along. Last fall we spent a few days in a remote part of a National Forest doing …
Sep 29
New Independent Testing Reveals 20 Percent Jump in Shelf Life of Mountain House Foods
Note from PJ: Thanks to Kyle for sending me this information, we have been emailing back and forth about this for a while now. For those of us who have Mountain House pouches as part of our preps, this is certainly good news. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Twelve-year pouch shelf life is longest to be verified …
Dec 16
Food Preps – Pre-packaged or Home Brew? (Part 2)
By M.O.V. In part 1 we covered disaster preparedness and OPSEC. Let’s dive right in and take a look at a few options for food storage and prepping. First, there are a variety pre-packaged long-term storage foods currently on the market today to choose from. Amongst those you can select either freeze-dried or dehydrated. In …
Dec 13
Food Preps – Pre-packaged or Home Brew? (Part 1)
By M.O.A. Let me preface this post with a thumbs-up kudos to PJ for his prep examples. If you are new to prepping, that is a great place to start culling ideas that fit within your own budget. It’s always all about lists, isn’t it? When it comes to food preps, you have a few …
Dec 12
MRE Review: MealKitSupply.com
I was contacted by the good folks over at Mealkitsupply.com about a month or so ago, they wanted to know if I would like to review a case of their MRE’s. Two thoughts immediately crossed my mind. While I don’t consider myself a connoisseur of all things MRE I have no doubt easily eaten hundreds …
Nov 28
Infograph: Are We Headed For A Food Shortage?
Here is a pretty cool infograph which was sent over to me via email. To summarize: less farmland, less farmers, more people = bad juju. I think it’s pretty clear that the path we are on is unsustainable…
Nov 25
The Winter Wheat Conundrum
Chances are at some point you’ve ordered a 3/6/12 month supply of food from one of any number of the major distributors most preppers frequent online. Quite often many of these kits come stocked with large quantities of winter wheat, which might leave the recipient scratching their head. It’s pretty obvious what to do with …
Oct 31
What’s In Your Spice Cabinet for SHTF?
This might seem like a strange topic but just trust me when I say that variety is indeed the spice of life. I’ve been in situations when water was the predominate beverage available for consumption, this was before all of the slick beverage powders were available in MRE’s. Don’t let someone get a tub of …
Oct 16
5 MRE Tips for Newbies
There are typically two ways to eat MRE’s, at least in my experience. The first method is much more relaxed and exists in an environment where time is not an issue, it also usually involves some heavy bartering for various MRE components. You heat up your meal while sitting in the shade, working your way …
Jun 14
Cycling through your Storage Food
We preach it all the time in the prepping community, you must store what you plan on eating and actually cycle through that food in order to keep things as fresh as possible. While not a huge deal for long term freeze dried items with a shelf life of 20-30 years, canned food items with …
Apr 29
Canned Food Expiration Date MYTH
If you are like me your food storage is quite diverse, with canned foods integrated into the rotation cycle. Unfortunately there might not be a way to get through all of your canned food stock prior to hitting a few of those expiration dates, so what then? Do you assume the food magically turned poisonous …
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