Storing nuts

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Rebel Prepping
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Storing nuts

Post by Rebel Prepping »

I am experimenting with homemade MRE's as something of a side project and i was wondering if anyone had experience storing nuts not in a freezer for extended periods? I was thinking of adding roasted peanuts into the MRE's. The Nuts would be sealed in a mylar bag with no moisture so would this be suitable to store them for 2 years+?
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xplosiv1
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Re: Storing nuts

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Nuts contain oils which will over time, go rancid. It depends on how long you expect to keep them stored. I wouldn't be looking at nuts to last more than 2 years in mylar with oxygen absorbers and about 2 years in the freezer but that has a lot of cost attached to it (freezer space and power) . That's why nuts don't form any part of my long-term preps. If you can rotate them you could ok, but that means you need a steady diet of nuts from now on lol.

Dried fruit can last longer if you use an O2 absorber, but I wouldn't be looking to store anything with oils in it for very long.

The easiest way to figure out if something will store is to take a look at what the food storage companies are packing. They pack fruits but not nuts. If nuts could be stored long term, they'd pack them.
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Re: Storing nuts

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This might help

http://www.eatbydate.com/proteins/nuts/ ... tion-date/

I've only just found that site..... Interesting and useful
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Re: Storing nuts

Post by Arzosah »

This is an issue for me as well, as a vegetarian. I do buy big jars of peanut butter, which helps - but I haven't dealt with very long term storage yet.

That *is* a good website, thanks for that.
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Re: Storing nuts

Post by grenfell »

Completely unintentionally I stored some almonds off my tree for almost two years . Unintentionally because I picked them , took off the outer green flesh and put the uncracked nuts in a box and forgot about them :oops: . As I hadn't intended to store them I took no specific measures , they were just in an open topped biscuit box in the shed and when I eventually "discovered" them again had acquired a layer off wood dust from me working in there. Nothing ventured I thought and I cracked them open. About a quarter were spoiled and a few weren't properly formed but close to three quarters were edible .