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Three buckets of "15 bean (and split pea) soup mix", 36 pounds per bucket, in the understair LTS area.

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Been experimenting with the vacuum sealer more recently for LTS in smaller quantities, 10 pound each or so of pinto and northern white beans.

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And canned varieties in the pantry, Brooks/Bushs chili beans, pork&beans, Bushs baked beans, refried beans, and three bean salad.
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And maybe 15# of peanut butter.
 
#23 ·
Las Vegan said:
Prepping supplies are sometimes referred to as "Beans, bullets, and band aids." Beans would obviously stand for all food and all associated supplies, but just how many beans do you have? I have (beans and legumes), between my kitchen and my storage pantry:

140 cans, various, total ~15,400 cal.
3 #10 cans of dehydrated bean products (refried beans, black bean burger mix, etc.). total ~ 13,680 cal.
6 5-gallon buckets of dry beans, various, total ~295,120 cal.
2 5-gallon buckets of lentils, total ~99,730 cal.
1 5-gallon bucket split peas, ~49,860 cal.
6 jars peanut butter, total ~39,900 cal.
2 #10 cans of peanut butter powder, total ~72,00 cal.

That's over half a million calories just in methane production. Watchu got?
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How are you storing the beans in the 5 gallon buckets and what shelf life are you expecting?
 
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1BRAVO9 said:
How are you storing the beans in the 5 gallon buckets and what shelf life are you expecting?
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Sealed in Mylar bags with oxygen absorbers, 33 pounds of dry beans per 5-gallon bucket, with the lid hammered in place. Per my Internet sleuthing, they can stay fresh for 25 to 30 years assuming best practices with the initial packing and then optimum storage conditions. See the pics in the thread immediately preceding yours for pics of what it will look like. My oldest buckets are about five years old, so they are probably being left along with the rest of my vast estate in my will.
 
#25 ·
Las Vegan said:
Yikes, that would make me crazy.
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I stopped doing paper work when I realized I would NOT buy something, because that meant I would have to enter it into a record.

I acknowledge that a database of preps would be valuable....but I found that work so distasteful it was actually hurting my prepping.

So I just place a sheet of paper in my LTS tote, and when I fill the tote, I mark it on the paper and toss it inside and forget about it.

I have ton of 'store' food on shelves.....none of that is recorded. I just keep the shelves full, and 'front' the cans as I restock.
 
#26 ·
I have a very small collection of pinto and black beans (dry and canned), I don't like beans all that much. But I have a good stash of dry lentils, which I love. I bought a case of canned lentils for quick eating, and after trying a can I bought several more. There might be circumstances where you don't have the luxury of cooking dry beans/lentils, and canned beans and lentils can be eaten out of the can or just quickly heated. A good way to save water and fuel.
 
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MinPinnie said:
I have a very small collection of pinto and black beans (dry and canned), I don't like beans all that much. But I have a good stash of dry lentils, which I love. I bought a case of canned lentils for quick eating, and after trying a can I bought several more. There might be circumstances where you don't have the luxury of cooking dry beans/lentils, and canned beans and lentils can be eaten out of the can or just quickly heated. A good way to save water and fuel.
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To my way of thinking, canning is expensive. Canning very cheap foods, means you are mostly paying for the can.

If I am paying for the can, I want it filled with something of high food value.

I might want a can of canned chili. But I don't keep cans of beans. It seems like a huge waste to spend $1 on a can of beans when its the same amount of beans I have dry for $.05
 
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Darin lee said:
It seems like a huge waste to spend $1 on a can of beans when its the same amount of beans I have dry for $.05
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Generally, I agree with you. And I store many pounds of dried beans for that reason. But...I also store canned beans, either bought or my own. Like these black beans (<2# for 5 pints) and limas (1# for 4 pints)
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And these baked beans made with navy beans...
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Reason being, dried beans need electricity (or other fuel) and water, and canned beans don't.
 
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2ftgd said:
Reason being, dried beans need electricity (or other fuel) and water, and canned beans don't.
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Well they do.

You just mean the canned beans already have used the fuel and water, and dry beans still need fuel and water.

But just as I have lots of dry beans stored, I have lots of water and fuel stored. Combining them at a later date doesn't worry me.

Which isn't my point. I imagine everyone who has stored bulk beans, also stores bulk water and fuel.


Actually its less about beans, and more about canning....I view canning as the least desirable way to store food. Its bulky, heavy, and if glass, fragile.

Although I have hundreds and hundreds of cans, they all contain things that have no other shelf stable method of storage.
 
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irv818 said:
I figure that if things get bad enough to where I have to eat mostly beans and rice - I'll be heating with a wood stove, with a pot bubblin' on top, just like in the old days, or sittin' round a campfire, like in Blazing Saddles.

No propane or electricity needed.
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Things don't have to get bad to do that. Beans and Rice cooked over a wood stove are GOOD.
 
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