Tinned goods

[jansman]

Sorry to bang on. How many times do we have to tell preppers to ; STORE WHAT YOU EAT AND EAT WHAT YOU STORE! Sorry to shout but you cannot just buy grub in the hope it will just sit there until you need it.
All food is from an organic, carbon based source. Which means it goes back, ultimately ,to the earth.

Start a storage/eat/storage system. You will get there.

[Triple_sod]

To be honest I think that little idiom can often do more harm than good....

Certainly a lot of newbie preppers seem to fall into this trap whereby they’ll eat say spam a couple of times a year so they’ll add it to the stockpile list, get a few cases and pretty soon they’ll be eating it a couple of times a month.... all in the name of survival

Interestingly the original, and to my mind much less ambiguous (though admittedly also less catchy) version went ‘eat what you store, store what you eat’
and was coined by the Mormon church.

[tigs]

To be honest I think that little idiom can often do more harm than good....

Certainly a lot of newbie preppers seem to fall into this trap whereby they’ll eat say spam a couple of times a year so they’ll add it to the stockpile list, get a few cases and pretty soon they’ll be eating it a couple of times a month.... all in the name of survival

Interestingly the original, and to my mind much less ambiguous (though admittedly also less catchy) version went ‘eat what you store, store what you eat’
and was coined by the Mormon church.

you know if you were starving you would eat anything !! we maybe not a pot noodle but almost anything

[jimmyd76]

well so far have about 30 tins of food lots of beans, soup, spam, fruit, hot dogs, spaghetti, ravioli and more beans lol was in tesco the other day and saw tinned fruit tomato soup and hot dogs on sale so bought some thinking ahead and when i got home wife said hope you didn't buy to much as were skint this week lol ah well prep prep prep

[tigs]

at least you would eat lol

[diamond lil]

Well don't confine yourself to tins - try broth mix, barley, lentils and porridge too, because then you've always got soup or porridge when you get tired of tins. And it keeps.

[Triple_sod]

To be honest I think that little idiom can often do more harm than good....

Certainly a lot of newbie preppers seem to fall into this trap whereby they’ll eat say spam a couple of times a year so they’ll add it to the stockpile list, get a few cases and pretty soon they’ll be eating it a couple of times a month.... all in the name of survival

Interestingly the original, and to my mind much less ambiguous (though admittedly also less catchy) version went ‘eat what you store, store what you eat’
and was coined by the Mormon church.

you know if you were starving you would eat anything !! we maybe not a pot noodle but almost anything

Pot noodle v spam, no competition, though I did used to be a student

You see where I'm getting at though?

Sure foods food in the shtf, same as stream water with a few purification tabs in will go down like malt whisky if it's all that’s going but you wouldn't want to drink it on a daily basis.

[Arzosah]

The other thing about dried foods like lentils, broth mix etc, is that it takes up less room for how many meals you'll get out of it. You've got to have the water, of course, or the ability to filter it....

[TorNicho]

Shelf Life of Cans
This site has been referenced several times on uk-preppers
http://shop.conserva.de/en/content/15-c ... shelf-live

As the Canned Food Alliance (CFA), an American federation of food manufacturers as well as tin and steel manufacturers among others have announced, tinned food virtually has an unlimited shelf life in the case of moderate storage conditions (temperatures up to 23°C).

Briton eats 50 year old canned chicken

On the occasion of their wedding in 1956, the British couple Les and Beryl Lailey received a can filled with chicken meat among other things. They kept the can in a kitchen cabinet until their 50th wedding anniversary, until Mr. Lailey could carry out his plan: He had always said that he would open and eat the contents of the can on his 50th wedding anniversary. The 50 year old chicken tasted excellent to the 73 year old and it agreed well with him. It was merely a little bit too salty according to Mr. Lailey.

Furthermore, in a discussion with the quality manager of a European cheese manufacturer, we found out that although they can only offer a specially produced canned cheese with a one year shelf life in line with an unbroken cooling chain, an employee recently gave a 7 year old can of cheese which he stored in his own basement to the laboratory and received certification of the microbiological, impeccable state of the cheese! The cheese tasted superb.

I ordered £130 of food just yesterday from this site. Tinned Bread hey?! Who'd have thought...

I do have tins and dried foods too. I love pasta, currently got over 10kg. Big bags, the way to go...