I opened my box of ultra-pasteurized milk today. It was great on cereal. It did however make my coffee taste a little “heavier.” I think I will try 2% next time instead of whole.
I now have enough frozen and canned items on hand to last for an unpleasant month.
I have also started turning-over some of my older emergency supplies. For example, tonight I opened my can of bacon-flavored Spam. Apparently I bought this in March of 2020. From one Trump administrative disaster to another.
I have to report back, it was actually good. Probably the best tasting Spam I have ever had. Tasted like at one point it used to be alive. Unfortunately I don’t see this in the store anymore.
For the record, if anyone is curious, I’m not a bit meat eater. Once or twice a week at the most.
That’s the one I usually buy, but I’m not a milk drinker. I use it to cook or thin/stretch high sodium canned chowder or cream soups. My most recent reason to buy it was for Ninja CREAMi ice cream recipes. Now I’m done paying for Big Ice Cream products.
After donating some pandemic supplies that went uneaten, it forced me to reconsider what went on the list to re-stock. Instead of Spam, I bought Deviled Ham and Hormel chili. Both are easy to open pop-tops, and don’t have to be heated. Progresso and larger Campell’s soups have the same advantage.
This is why I keep graham crackers, sardines, chips & salsa, chocolate, and gorp to switch things up and lighten my mood. If the worst happens, some variety helps me to keep eating. I also keep popcorn, in case there’s power.
This are pricey - but healthier than other freeze dried meal pouches and has a ton less salt. Supposedly much higher quality; but a ten year shelf life as opposed to 25.
Pretty good! Tasty. Not too salty. Appealing looking and smelling. Super easy to reconstitute in the pouch with hot water.
It’s a winner for a small batch of bug out meals. Way to pricey for at home food.
that seems like a good option for quick, yet indefinite “bug outs”.
dehydrated or partially dehydrated meals are a very good option if one has access to the fresh water needed to prepare them. here, we do not have a ready source of fresh water that is not piped down from the mainland. collecting rainwater is good for using to wash or water garden crops, but until the weekly aerial spraying of mosquito larvacide chemicals stops, we can’t use it for potable. it’s canned beans, soups and MREs for our survival kit.
we know these things because we stock up for hurricane season every 6 months, or so.
we are stocking up here because we won’t leave - not for a storm, not for stormtroopers…
You might want to keep foil or plastic pouches of food in a rodent-proof container. Cookie tins, or large glass jars with wide mouths and metal lids, are decent cheap countermeasures.
I’ll spare you the details, but I have some firsthand experience with why I am suggesting this.
