Food Storage

glenn kangiser · November 09, 2008, 01:06:20 AM

I see that Home Depot dropped the price of their 5 gallon buckets to under $3.00 recently. They could work with the lids.

StinkerBell · November 09, 2008, 01:26:23 AM

I can milk a soy bean!

I have never milked a cow, but I have milked a soy bean. Really easy!

November 09, 2008, 01:40:28 AM

Is there some udder reason I would want to milk a soybean?

MountainDon · November 14, 2008, 12:10:01 AM

This slipped my mind earlier.

This is for storing your own grains, nuts, whatever, rather than buying them in sealed nitrogen packed cans.

Place 1/4 to 1/3 of a pound of dry ice in the bottom of a 5 gallon plastic pail. Fill with the grain, whatever. Place the lid but do not tightly seal right away. Wait several hours as the dry ice sublimates. When the pail bottom does not feel freezing cold it's done. The pail is now filled with the food and Carbon Dioxide. No oxygen to feed spoilage, insects, etc. Seal the lid and you're done.

Whitlock · January 02, 2009, 07:39:19 PM

Well Glenn and I just got back from getting some more food storage stuff. Most was packaged to last 30 years

We are going to need a trailer next time if Glenn orders again.
Maybe he will take a picture for you all.

January 02, 2009, 08:41:12 PM

glenn kangiser · January 02, 2009, 09:34:54 PM

I see Whitlock is going to make me get out of my chair to take a picture--- I'm sleepy....

....Because of Obama, I bought food and bullets.... hmm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4yloipsoZ0

MountainDon · January 02, 2009, 10:16:03 PM

Is that a ton of dog food on the left? Or dire emergency dry rations.

Whitlock · January 02, 2009, 10:18:50 PM

Quote from: MountainDon on January 02, 2009, 10:16:03 PM
Is that a ton of dog food on the left? Or dire emergency dry rations.

We need to make something out of our wheat

Don,looks like chicken feed to me ???Hopefully Glenn dosen't start clucking

January 02, 2009, 11:12:35 PM

We have several bags of dog food and chicken food. Feeding them well keeps the meat fresh....

I'm kidding - I couldn't eat Spike....

unless I ground him - he's too tough.

All seriousness aside, there are two bags of dog food - 2 chicken laying pellets and one scratch...

StinkerBell · January 02, 2009, 11:23:08 PM

I find popcorn kernal's make for the best cornmeal. Hard on the grinder, but best tasting.

muldoon · January 02, 2009, 11:46:19 PM

Muldoon, TX has no shortage of deer and hogs.

glenn kangiser · January 02, 2009, 11:52:24 PM

That is some great storage there, muldoon. We have a pretty good amount of them here.

I don't currently hunt but used to and could in an instant if the need arose. I view live deer as a method of keeping the meat fresh.

Whitlock · January 03, 2009, 12:05:39 AM

Hey Muldoon do you cut and rap your own meat?

January 03, 2009, 12:17:30 AM

I do, well I like shoulders for roasts and BBq .. Backstraps and loins for filets and just steak it out. And then grind the rest into either sausage or burger. I want to learn to make tamales.

Whitlock · January 03, 2009, 12:28:26 AM

Cool you wouldn't believe how many people don't know were the tinder loins ( No Jokes Glenn)are and throw them away.
Tamales are made at a store close to here and are so good It's not worth it to make them at home.
I sometimes deep pit a deer or pig if the freezer is full.The left overs make great carnitas.Or I would put the deer in the smoke house until someone bought it from me.I need to build another smoke house but that is project # 34562

muldoon · January 03, 2009, 12:50:36 AM

I hear you on too many projects. I'm in the country this weekend and on the blackberry. Everywher I look is a project, thinking about a greenhouse lately. This is the last weekend for deer season, tagged out tonight with a yearling doe. Yum, gotta make some room in the freezer.

glenn kangiser · January 03, 2009, 01:29:27 AM

We found a habitat for Inhumanity in Fresno on the Blackberry today (in Fresno it's Inhumanity) . They were near as much as new.

Remember the loins mouth, Whitlock - must be somewhere near the head.

I for one, do know where the loins are....

brian_nj · January 03, 2009, 08:43:32 AM

I take a little different approach to food storage and have had to live off of ours for an extended period of time. We store what we eat on a normal basis. We used to store a lot of bulk items but when they were needed we found that there were quite a few things that were not very palatable. While they may keep you alive and somewhat healthy, I store for bad times (disaster, economic collapse, Obama being elcted ect.) I dont want me and mine to just be able to survive it I want to be able to thrive (or at least live better than the average Joe)

It has taken a bit of time for us to build our pantry to the year level, but by shopping sales and discount clubs we are now comfortable with the stores we have put away. It also allows us to rotate the food on a normal basis by using it in our day to day cooking and replacing when the stores have a good sale. We have estimated that this has cut our food bill by over $2k a year for the last couple years! Just a thought but you would be amazed at how many people store food and when they try it they are not happy with what they have.

Brian

glenn kangiser · January 03, 2009, 11:46:59 AM

Quote from: muldoon on January 03, 2009, 12:17:30 AM
I do, well I like shoulders for roasts and BBq .. Backstraps and loins for filets and just steak it out. And then grind the rest into either sausage or burger. I want to learn to make tamales.

January 03, 2009, 07:08:51 PM

Brian, I agree with that. But what you use and use what you buy. It can sit on my shelf at home just as easy.

akemt · January 03, 2009, 11:14:13 PM

Has anyone mentioned yeast? We freeze costco packages and keep a jar on hand in the fridge.

Water...might consider that one too. And if you're storing food, you should then move towards other long-term storage needs.

I'm LDS and we're encouraged to have a 3 month supply of things we eat every day and then progress to a one year supply of basic food storage. They've updated the storage shelflife listings for foods:

Wheat 30+
White rice 30+
Corn 30+
Sugar 30+
Pinto beans 30
Apple slices 30
Macaroni 30
Rolled oats 30
Potato flakes 30
Powdered milk 20
Carrots 20

If you want to read more about it:
http://www.providentliving.org/content/display/0,11666,7636-1-4104-1,00.html#question_5

...There are all kinds of resources out there these days if you just do some searching. Garage sales are the best place to buy old canning, cooking, survival, freezing, dehydrating books and items. Even doverpublications has some good survival and cooking books (I love the old ones)...that's where we get the majority of our classics for homeschooling as well. Best wishes!

Whitlock · January 04, 2009, 01:06:19 AM

Akemt have you tryed the refried beans or the potato pearls yet?

glenn kangiser · January 04, 2009, 01:08:04 AM

Flutterby is also Catherine, and that is where we got the food stock posted on the previous page.

http://countryplans.com/smf/index.php?topic=5497.msg77715#msg77715

There is around $540 there for about the same amount of lbs of food - around a $1 a lb average overall- can't beat that.

muldoon · January 04, 2009, 01:40:30 AM

Akempt, I have brewing yeast stored up but wanted to make a comment on yeast in general. It multiplies easily and freezes well. If you put yeast in sugar water (honey, sugar, corn syrup, maple syrup, fruit juice, etc) the yeast will multiply as it eats the sugar. It converts sugar to alcohol and gives off co2 (good for plants). After a week or so you'll end up with hooch of some kind but at the bottom will be yeast slurry. Perhaps 10 times the amount of yeast you started with, you can freeze it and do the same thing again when you are about to run out. I freeze in ziplocks. You also can reconstitute many yeasts from commercial beer or wine (just find one with a little sediment and build it up as above). Its called yeast wrangling and its how I get the bizarre yeasts from obscure beers. Especially the belgiums.