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How many weeks of food is this?
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stAGgering has some great info here.
Also mushrooms, nuts & seeds are easily vacuum packed & will last a few years, just rotate them in your diet to keep them fresher.
Dehydrate mushrooms (wild that I pick, see attach. photos) , your favorite veggies & fruits, then vacuum pack them, no need to refrigerate.
I use an Excalibur Food Dehydrator.
In the Excalibur for about 8 hours
These are saved for a mushroom sauce to put over grilled tuna.
Also mushrooms, nuts & seeds are easily vacuum packed & will last a few years, just rotate them in your diet to keep them fresher.
Dehydrate mushrooms (wild that I pick, see attach. photos) , your favorite veggies & fruits, then vacuum pack them, no need to refrigerate.
I use an Excalibur Food Dehydrator.
In the Excalibur for about 8 hours
These are saved for a mushroom sauce to put over grilled tuna.
Look at this at Amazon $180 - great reviews.
https://www.amazon.com/Excalibur-2900ECB-Dehydrator-Adjustable-Temperature/dp/B001NZPP6U
https://www.amazon.com/Excalibur-2900ECB-Dehydrator-Adjustable-Temperature/dp/B001NZPP6U
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I would love to do a "Survival Challenge", 4 teams (of 4) in the woods. You can pack in what you can carry in one trip.
Last ones left "alive" win a free weekend at home.
You have 2 hours to get a fire going or you "die" (spark or friction started only. bonus points for any controlled fire started by lightning!)
If you get wet you have 20 minutes to dry or you die
Any broken bones and you die, any cut that gets infected and you die
if we do this in Irons woods, at some point you have to assault his tree house.
extra points if you steal Walt's cannon.
- 6 if you still think "taking over a walmart" is a viable option!
Last ones left "alive" win a free weekend at home.
You have 2 hours to get a fire going or you "die" (spark or friction started only. bonus points for any controlled fire started by lightning!)
If you get wet you have 20 minutes to dry or you die
Any broken bones and you die, any cut that gets infected and you die
if we do this in Irons woods, at some point you have to assault his tree house.
extra points if you steal Walt's cannon.
- 6 if you still think "taking over a walmart" is a viable option!
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First off, everything you list are SIDE DISHES. No big deal, but you don't list any proteins (meat, eggs, dairy). The amount you showed us?
It might feed four adults for three to four weeks. IF you HAD to eat great steaks for every meal for a month (30 days +) you would be really tired of eating a great steak for every meal for a month (90 meals x four adults?) yeah, not so much fun after about the second or third week.
And if don't already know how to make the two meals you mentioned, you should practice MAKING biscuits and tortillas. It's not hard, AFTER you have practiced and made each of them successfully. The last thing you need is to try and make either of these meals for the first time when you and the other three adults are very hungry waiting on you to make it for them. Not a time to do it incorrectly, trying to fix it (and watching the first or second batch get thrown out).
While you could make a meal out of biscuits and gravy OR tortillas and beans (I have many times), given no refrigeration, you will be making larger portions and you will eat them for three meals (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner) or until your 4 adults have eaten it all.
You can get canned meat in all sorts of fashions. Ham, spam, tuna, chicken. And I concur that this is something that is NOT the way to go, unless you already eat both biscuits and gravy or beans and tortillas, etc
Otherwise, consider starting your pantry now. Store WHAT YOU EAT NOW. See those blue tubs on the floor? Full of beans, rice, flour, sugar. That we go through regularly. See the far left set of shelves? Bottom left shelf of those shows where we store matches. Gotta be able to have fire when ever you want it or need it.
In case you have not done tortillas, they are easy to make, but having a tortilla press makes it way easier to make. Again, if you have not made biscuits or tortillas from scratch, learn how to now. And make sure you stock what you need to do so. We've taken baking classes to make croissants (mmm CHOCOLATE CROISSANTS). Nothing like hot fresh croissants to serve with the meat of your choice (you can freeze dry lots of meats)...
Good luck.
I feel we have to the end of 2020 to get it all together. Because a lot of people I respect and have listened to have all said that 2021 will be a year of 'great change'...
8 minutes with Glenn Beck - worth listening to. Harry Dent recently sold his home this year (2019). We sold BOTH our homes in 2016. Still trying to find that 'last home'... got the money in the bank, but have not found what we are looking for yet.
It might feed four adults for three to four weeks. IF you HAD to eat great steaks for every meal for a month (30 days +) you would be really tired of eating a great steak for every meal for a month (90 meals x four adults?) yeah, not so much fun after about the second or third week.
And if don't already know how to make the two meals you mentioned, you should practice MAKING biscuits and tortillas. It's not hard, AFTER you have practiced and made each of them successfully. The last thing you need is to try and make either of these meals for the first time when you and the other three adults are very hungry waiting on you to make it for them. Not a time to do it incorrectly, trying to fix it (and watching the first or second batch get thrown out).
While you could make a meal out of biscuits and gravy OR tortillas and beans (I have many times), given no refrigeration, you will be making larger portions and you will eat them for three meals (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner) or until your 4 adults have eaten it all.
You can get canned meat in all sorts of fashions. Ham, spam, tuna, chicken. And I concur that this is something that is NOT the way to go, unless you already eat both biscuits and gravy or beans and tortillas, etc
Otherwise, consider starting your pantry now. Store WHAT YOU EAT NOW. See those blue tubs on the floor? Full of beans, rice, flour, sugar. That we go through regularly. See the far left set of shelves? Bottom left shelf of those shows where we store matches. Gotta be able to have fire when ever you want it or need it.
In case you have not done tortillas, they are easy to make, but having a tortilla press makes it way easier to make. Again, if you have not made biscuits or tortillas from scratch, learn how to now. And make sure you stock what you need to do so. We've taken baking classes to make croissants (mmm CHOCOLATE CROISSANTS). Nothing like hot fresh croissants to serve with the meat of your choice (you can freeze dry lots of meats)...
Good luck.
I feel we have to the end of 2020 to get it all together. Because a lot of people I respect and have listened to have all said that 2021 will be a year of 'great change'...
8 minutes with Glenn Beck - worth listening to. Harry Dent recently sold his home this year (2019). We sold BOTH our homes in 2016. Still trying to find that 'last home'... got the money in the bank, but have not found what we are looking for yet.
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One more item - I don't have one yet but it's on my short list. I've got most everything else.
https://harvestright.com/
Now about that survival challenge. I arrive in my deuce and a half pulling my Kitchen trailer and if I'm really ambition, attach my 10kw generator to the back of the kitchen trailer.
And that is how I travel. I'm seriously considering a M109 rear box to replace the bed.
https://harvestright.com/
Now about that survival challenge. I arrive in my deuce and a half pulling my Kitchen trailer and if I'm really ambition, attach my 10kw generator to the back of the kitchen trailer.
And that is how I travel. I'm seriously considering a M109 rear box to replace the bed.
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The store I got this all from sells a bag of beans for 20 bucks and you get 50 lbs. I only bough the smaller bag as I was not prepared to store 50 lbs that time. I have more of the same as seen in the photo and other foods too. But I stay with the basics and only add a can of fruit or something. Will we get board with the food? Sure but food in an emergency does not even have to taste good. The fact you have it should be enough.
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Vlad,
See those large blue rubber maid containers? They are each full of beans, rice, flour - two tubs each. As long as they are stored in a cool dry place, they keep a really long time. But I live in an arid climate (Denver and right now in W. Texas).
As I've been saying for a couple of decades (since BEFORE Y2K)... stack it wide and deep. DON'T FORGET TO STORE WATER... clean, disease free, water will be worth more than GOLD.
See those large blue rubber maid containers? They are each full of beans, rice, flour - two tubs each. As long as they are stored in a cool dry place, they keep a really long time. But I live in an arid climate (Denver and right now in W. Texas).
As I've been saying for a couple of decades (since BEFORE Y2K)... stack it wide and deep. DON'T FORGET TO STORE WATER... clean, disease free, water will be worth more than GOLD.
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Got water here and at bug out location. I'd like to have more but got all I can store at this time. I love biscuits and gravy and have eaten the Tortilla mix and tho I have a tortilla press I can't seem to press them out like the store. Fact is I plan to serve it as a maz biscuit with beans, rice and some sauce so long as I have some to put out.
Have canned meats but the meat will be a sparse addition to the dishes. Saving this stuff to keep my family alive we don't have to like it we just have to eat it and see about gathering what we can from the land. I am at a point now where I don't have any more space for any more stuff to store. I don't think I have enough but no further space to store more.
Have canned meats but the meat will be a sparse addition to the dishes. Saving this stuff to keep my family alive we don't have to like it we just have to eat it and see about gathering what we can from the land. I am at a point now where I don't have any more space for any more stuff to store. I don't think I have enough but no further space to store more.