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  1. Food and Water
    Stored in plastic 2 liter and smaller gatorade type bottles, is there any reason that rice, grains, popcorn, spices, etc can't be stored long term. Assuming that you freeze it for 3 weeks to eliminate the possibility of weevils, and you place an O2 absorber in the bottles and then store the...
  2. Disaster Preparedness General Discussion
    I want to store foods with indefinite shelf life, such as dried beans and white rice, in mason jars that I vacuum seal shut. Would a pure salt like pickling salt be wise to sprinkle on top for a little moisture absorption and bacteria prevention? It might minimize the risk of botulism. Brand new...
  3. Food and Water
    I have looked around the forum, but can't find suggestions for ambient humidity limits for bucketing foods. I live on the east coast near the ocean, so humidity is a potential issue. Can anyone point me to some resources or guidelines? Thanks for your help!
  4. New Member Introductions
    Looking forward to interesting conversations on a whole list of topics including solar, alum batteries, alternative heating ideas, rocket stoves, dehydrating food, solar cookers and much more...
  5. Food Preservation And Storage
    I started this series of threads on Company information relating to Long Term food Storage (LTS foods) to assist readers in performing their own Due Diligence prior to plunking down hefty amounts of their hard earned money for what later turns out to be sub-standard or even uneatable Chow. I...
  6. Food and Water
    Hello ladies & gents, I am planning on building up my food storage supplies soon and had a question regarding commercial bulk long term food. I have looked at several different brands including Augustun Farms and Mountain House, etc, and I want to know what is the most cost effective long term...
  7. Food and Water
    A person can spend all day in the garage mylar-bagging flour and still not get it right. You start off with these nice stackable 25 lb sacks ($7.98 each)... 1. rip em open, try to dump them into the 6 gallon mylar, spill all over. 2.) try putting the mylar bags into 5 gallon buckets first...
  8. Food and Water
    I am trying to stock pile some storable food. Most of the things I have are Can food, they only last about 2-3 years. All I can think of real long term food are rice, beans and dry noodles, and bottled water which apparently also have shelf-life. What kind of storable food do you store for...
  9. Food and Water
    The importance of long term food storage is increasing as one may run into natural disaster or emergency. If you are preparing for the possibility of a food shortage or disaster, you need to have the necessary materials for long-term food and product storage. Long term food storage requires...
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  11. Off Topic Lounge
    I've now read a number of news stories about how various African nations are now sealing their borders with Liberia and Guinea over the Ebola threat: and how that may impact harvesting the chocolate crop(notably the Ivory Coast, Ghana and Ni*ger*ia). The article suggests that they rely on...
  12. Food and Water
    I don't know wether to post this here or in the religious section, so mods, please move it to wherever you see fit. I've recently gotten into the idea of prepping, and I would like to start soon. I read somewhere on this site that the priorities should be water, food, shelter, so I bought around...
  13. Food and Water
    Hey guys. I'm obviously new here, but I've been researching long term food storage and am up to date on most of the basic techniques for doing so. I'm in the planning stages of getting my food ready. I have to acquire my buckets and pick and store the foods that I want to keep until I get...
  14. Disaster Preparedness General Discussion
    So my wife has been washing out all our plastic food containers (plastic containers for spaghetti sauce, bulk ranch containers from Sams, plastic cookie jars from the kids) and I'm trying to think of stuff I can store in there that will last decades but doesn't need O2 absorbers (cause those...
  15. Food and Water
    Hi friends, Am thinking of portioning white rice, dried beans, rolled oats, etc. into two-person servings and using my vacumn sealer to remove all the air and seal them up tightly. Was then going to place them into HDPE2-compliant containers (i.e. 5-gal. pails with Ropak lids) and use some of...
  16. Food and Water
    I am new to prepping but I have been reading up on it for quite a while. I finally started accumulating supplies (prepping on a budget). I have a prepping partner who I do a fair amount of trading with and we pool our resources to get things done, like today. We each provided food and split...
  17. Recipes
    Hello, I am getting ready to start preparing ready made meals in Mason Jars using the " 52 jars method" from a blog online. The goal is to make enough jars to last for a year using dehydrated/freeze dried ingredients and along with necessary spices, etc. to be stored for 10-25 years and vacuum...
  18. Disaster Preparedness General Discussion
    I want to store cheap, easy to get food, that will last for years. Can't afford to buy tons of canned foods or other items that expire rather quickly. Rice- Read how to store. But wondering any particular style rice or is it all the same? Beans- Read up how to store but wondering what style...
  19. Food and Water
    Just moved to a new house and there is a huge pear tree out back. The tree is completely filled with pears ready for picking. A very conservative estimate of the yield from the tree is least a half dozen 5 gallon pails. We have been eating pears non stop for a few weeks and haven't made a dent...
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