I hear and see all the ads 'pimpin' the food insurance, dry-food stocks, etc.. I'm asking where can I research for the best bang for my bucks.. Peace out brothers..
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Re: Food Insurance
Most of these prepackaged vendors are pure pimps. If you have google you can figure out how to do it right and do it cheap. Canned foods will last almost indefinately depending on what is in the can. Do mot use your "bonus prefered customer special secret squirrel discount card" to make these purchases. Especially if it is a large amount. Your local grocery store and food wharehouse have 95% of the things you need to store.
If you are smart you can do all the packaging yourself. There are many tutorials on putting up your own food.
I am preparing to purchase a high end pressure canner for canning(in jars) game and various meat products. A freezer is for the foolish.
Good luck.
Most of these prepackaged vendors are pure pimps. If you have google you can figure out how to do it right and do it cheap. Canned foods will last almost indefinately depending on what is in the can. Do mot use your "bonus prefered customer special secret squirrel discount card" to make these purchases. Especially if it is a large amount. Your local grocery store and food wharehouse have 95% of the things you need to store.
If you are smart you can do all the packaging yourself. There are many tutorials on putting up your own food.
I am preparing to purchase a high end pressure canner for canning(in jars) game and various meat products. A freezer is for the foolish.
Good luck.
Re: Food Insurance
Do it on the cheap yourself & get some extra stuff.
Figure out what you eat that has a long shelf life and buy lots extra and rotate through it.
pasta, rice, beans, canned soups, canned or jared sauces, flour, sugar, Soy Sauce, almost any canned goods, Ramen, honey, raisins, peanut butter, canned or pouched tuna, vegemite, beer etc usually have over a year shelf life, so slowly buy more of what you eat than you need, get good storage buckets, start stocking up with each shopping trip and then work your way up till you have a year worth of those staples.
Then continue eating like you always do, except use the oldest stuff first and stick the new groceries in the back.
Then get some freeze dried foods that are good quality for things that don't store, like milk, eggs, meat and vegetables/fruit
I'd recommend the Thrive foods found at http://www.shelfreliance.com/ as I've tried a lot of their stuff and it works well and tastes good.
As a note however, there is no need to go buy all their expensive stapes of things that you normally get that are shelf stable anyways, stock piling what you eat cheaply is way cheaper / better, use their stuff for the things that don't keep on the shelf.
Now if you have a second bug out location or country property, then you may want to get more of their long term canned goods or some Sam Andy canned food for long term storage since you won't be there often to rotate through things.
Do it on the cheap yourself & get some extra stuff.
Figure out what you eat that has a long shelf life and buy lots extra and rotate through it.
pasta, rice, beans, canned soups, canned or jared sauces, flour, sugar, Soy Sauce, almost any canned goods, Ramen, honey, raisins, peanut butter, canned or pouched tuna, vegemite, beer etc usually have over a year shelf life, so slowly buy more of what you eat than you need, get good storage buckets, start stocking up with each shopping trip and then work your way up till you have a year worth of those staples.
Then continue eating like you always do, except use the oldest stuff first and stick the new groceries in the back.
Then get some freeze dried foods that are good quality for things that don't store, like milk, eggs, meat and vegetables/fruit
I'd recommend the Thrive foods found at http://www.shelfreliance.com/ as I've tried a lot of their stuff and it works well and tastes good.
As a note however, there is no need to go buy all their expensive stapes of things that you normally get that are shelf stable anyways, stock piling what you eat cheaply is way cheaper / better, use their stuff for the things that don't keep on the shelf.
Now if you have a second bug out location or country property, then you may want to get more of their long term canned goods or some Sam Andy canned food for long term storage since you won't be there often to rotate through things.
Re: Food Insurance
Do you and your family buy bottled water (you know those handy 500ml plastic bottles that just about everyone seems to carry around)?
If so, stockpile a bunch of those and use them as you would every day and replace the stockpile as you drink them. They easily last 3 to 6 months in your house without any issue and then you have a ready made portable water reserve as well.
Then build from that with other water storage as you see fit and also filtration equipment as your budget allows.
Do you and your family buy bottled water (you know those handy 500ml plastic bottles that just about everyone seems to carry around)?
If so, stockpile a bunch of those and use them as you would every day and replace the stockpile as you drink them. They easily last 3 to 6 months in your house without any issue and then you have a ready made portable water reserve as well.
Then build from that with other water storage as you see fit and also filtration equipment as your budget allows.
Re: Food Insurance
There is a bulk dry foods vendor/cannery in Denver that you can drive to and can up your own dry foods in bulk. You put it into giant paint-like cans and can spend all day there building a pallet of dry foods for super cheap (and I mean: <span style="text-decoration: underline">CRAZY CHEAP</span>). They say that with O2 absorbers in the cans you can see shelf lives of 30yrs. I haven't done it myself but have a lot of friends who have and have pallets of food stored up. So you might search around a little for something like that local to you.
There is a bulk dry foods vendor/cannery in Denver that you can drive to and can up your own dry foods in bulk. You put it into giant paint-like cans and can spend all day there building a pallet of dry foods for super cheap (and I mean: <span style="text-decoration: underline">CRAZY CHEAP</span>). They say that with O2 absorbers in the cans you can see shelf lives of 30yrs. I haven't done it myself but have a lot of friends who have and have pallets of food stored up. So you might search around a little for something like that local to you.
Re: Food Insurance
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: W54/XM-388</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I'd recommend the Thrive foods found at http://www.shelfreliance.com/ as I've tried a lot of their stuff and it works well and tastes good.</div></div>
We eat a lot of Shelf Reliance food in our house and have actually saved on our grocery bill. You end up cooking what you need and don't have a bunch of left over produce.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: W54/XM-388</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I'd recommend the Thrive foods found at http://www.shelfreliance.com/ as I've tried a lot of their stuff and it works well and tastes good.</div></div>
We eat a lot of Shelf Reliance food in our house and have actually saved on our grocery bill. You end up cooking what you need and don't have a bunch of left over produce.
Re: Food Insurance
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: High Binder</div><div class="ubbcode-body">There is a bulk dry foods vendor/cannery in Denver that you can drive to and can up your own dry foods in bulk. You put it into giant paint-like cans and can spend all day there building a pallet of dry foods for super cheap (and I mean: <span style="text-decoration: underline">CRAZY CHEAP</span>). They say that with O2 absorbers in the cans you can see shelf lives of 30yrs. I haven't done it myself but have a lot of friends who have and have pallets of food stored up. So you might search around a little for something like that local to you. </div></div>
Got a name or link?
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: High Binder</div><div class="ubbcode-body">There is a bulk dry foods vendor/cannery in Denver that you can drive to and can up your own dry foods in bulk. You put it into giant paint-like cans and can spend all day there building a pallet of dry foods for super cheap (and I mean: <span style="text-decoration: underline">CRAZY CHEAP</span>). They say that with O2 absorbers in the cans you can see shelf lives of 30yrs. I haven't done it myself but have a lot of friends who have and have pallets of food stored up. So you might search around a little for something like that local to you. </div></div>
Got a name or link?
Re: Food Insurance
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Tim K</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: High Binder</div><div class="ubbcode-body">There is a bulk dry foods vendor/cannery in Denver that you can drive to and can up your own dry foods in bulk. You put it into giant paint-like cans and can spend all day there building a pallet of dry foods for super cheap (and I mean: <span style="text-decoration: underline">CRAZY CHEAP</span>). They say that with O2 absorbers in the cans you can see shelf lives of 30yrs. I haven't done it myself but have a lot of friends who have and have pallets of food stored up. So you might search around a little for something like that local to you. </div></div>
Got a name or link?
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I don't know what it's called but here's info I found via google on it:
http://www.pinchingyourpennies.com/forums/showthread.php?t=104007
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Tim K</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: High Binder</div><div class="ubbcode-body">There is a bulk dry foods vendor/cannery in Denver that you can drive to and can up your own dry foods in bulk. You put it into giant paint-like cans and can spend all day there building a pallet of dry foods for super cheap (and I mean: <span style="text-decoration: underline">CRAZY CHEAP</span>). They say that with O2 absorbers in the cans you can see shelf lives of 30yrs. I haven't done it myself but have a lot of friends who have and have pallets of food stored up. So you might search around a little for something like that local to you. </div></div>
Got a name or link?
</div></div>
I don't know what it's called but here's info I found via google on it:
http://www.pinchingyourpennies.com/forums/showthread.php?t=104007
