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We bought those sealable plastic barrels that have the lid and metal ring that tightens and locks the lid to store clothes and extra shoes and such for the shed to keep rodents out we did add moisture absorbers to help with humidity and by doing this made room inside the house for food storage plus if we need to move out things are packed and ready! Hope this helps
Gma passed recently. Gpa years ago. They were hoarders....found crates of canned soup ranging from around 5-10 years expiration date. My dad and his brothers said to toss them, wanna know what I ate the rest of the week cleaning the house out? Even the 10 yr expired cans tasted, smelled, and looked fine. Found some silver hidden in the kitchen utensil drawers as well!
Don't have time to look it up, but there was a paddle-wheel boat that was raised out of the Mississippi River mud from the mid-1800's. Loaded with canned goods. Food was tested and found to be bacteria free and quite edible. Bit gnarly on the texture, but edible. On the silver--which caught my eye--back in the 70's, we had to go clean out a relative's farm. Dirt floors, gas lights, no indoor plumbing, etc. In the barn's corn crib we found over $120k worth of silver dollars. Go figure...
I watch the Wednesday grocery store ads and buy things when they are on sale! Plus, the first Wednesday of the month is Senior discount day, if you are 55 or older you get another 10% off at the store closest to where I live.
Happy new year J.R! Good video. Something that I do to keep my stored lithium battery packs in good shape is to use them to charge my electronics so they are flat, and then to charge them back up and put them back into storage ; and to do this once a year. Alkaline batteries seem to last longest if left in their packaging and stored somewhere dark, dry, and cool.
Pending on where you live and what sort of bug issues you may have, some take off the can labels and use a sharpie to write on the cans. This prevents bugs from crawling up under the label (or eating it off). Esp. in humid environs, this is a handy tip. Bugs, flood, and who knows what else can make a label come off then you don't know what's in the can, so it's a good rule of thumb regardless.
"Best by dates" on certain items are irrelevant. Last June I opened and ate a can of Chef Boy Ar Dee "Cheesy Burger Macaroni" with a best by date of 2012. Can had a "pull top", was in good condition, I suffered no ill effects.
@@monicamayer977 with cake or other mixes you can always add a teaspoon of baking powder and it will rise which is about all that would go wrong with cake or other mixes.
For years, I have taken a black sharpie and wrote the month/year of expiration directly on the front of the can - big enough to be easy to see. Takes a minute when you unload your groceries - and makes it so much easier for rotating .
@@nolashiflett635 I have been a "prepper" for over 40 years, the only can goods I have problems with is tomatoes and organic peanut butter. tomatoes usually go bad from 5-7 years and organic peanut butter 3-4 years.
I've got a lot of stuff squirrelled away in unlikely places, so another thing I do is keep an alphabetised paper notebook which I lovingly call my "Where did I put it? notebook". It's already saved me a few headaches.
Tinned food can be eaten years out of date as long as it hasn’t popped out. I literally ate 3 years out of date Heinz tomato soup the other day, it was perfectly fine ❤
I know a guy who found a cabinet behind his wall that had canned vegetables from the 1940s he opened it up and it was still Freshes the day it was packaged
@@ATruckCampbell My grandmother did a lot of canning in her healthy years and kept her jar canned food in a storm cellar, but she has been gone since 1989. My mom is now 80 and still does a lot of canning, but they usually rotate through and use up what she cans within a few years. Since we moved back to my hometown two years ago, he gives my wife and I a lot of tomatoes, green beans, peaches, beets, pickles and relish, and we buy peaches to can and eat fresh when she gets peaches each year. The oldest jars we have right now are dated 2020 and I know how to tell when one of these has lost its seal and/or gone bad, but I'd be afraid to eat something home canned from 80 years ago.
@@dolfinwriter5389 Yea it depends on what is being sealed up. I have not gotten into canning yet, but some foods I am sure could last that long, though yes I would be weary of it.
I have used 11 year old canned vegetables (I canned and dated them). They are safe and tasted fine. Color has slightly faded, and the nutrition is likely not as great as when newly canned. I would use them before then, but 11 years was when I saw the beginning of physical change.
I havent seen this anywhere else so i want to give an idea. Worm bins! You can feed them leaves/cardboard/yard and food scraps. Depending on your area or if you're in the city hunerking in, it will provide good compost to grow multiple container plants. Start now and learn to garden at the same time. Plus, when you start going crazy the worms can be your friends ;)
Thank you JR. Knowing how much food to store is important, but once I started I found I couldn't stop. Every time more doom and gloom hit I stocked more food. At this point I'm worried about being crushed if my supplies tumble over. Food is one thing, but that's not the only items we store. Fuel of various types, ammo, meds and even spare clothes and shoes. Knowing how much of each to store could be key to dealing with hard times. I try to think of all of the things that we may not be able to get in hard times and then buy extras. I even got an extra set of tires for my car.I don't think 2024 will be a good year.
Thanks JR. I always put my dry goods in glass jars and do as my grandmother did put a bay leaf in each jar. I am stockpiling all my prescription meds especially my inhalers and albuterol solution for my nebulizer!
I would be checking on the shelf life of your meds if you can get accurate information. They're not much good to you if they lose efficacy after a month or two. I'm not sure how you can get accurate information, maybe a Chemist, but certainly rotating what you have at the least would be important imo.
@oldbloke204 oh I've talked to my docs if I do not open the solution and keep it in the foil unopened it can be good up to 10 years. As long as it's clear it's good it may not work as good but it is still good. Same with my inhalers and my pills. I have 5 months worth of 1 daily inhaler and on the 13th I'll have 6 months of my daily inhaler. My rescue inhaler I have about 10 months worth. And I always keep an extra 3 month supply on my heart and diabetes pills.
Yes and no, depends what one has. I have more than enough for self, pets and adult family. Considering my age, it is unlikely I shall be here more than a decade or two, so having freeze dried foods means it more likely my family will use it after my day. I also have dry foods and grains packed in mylar inside plastic buckets, Wheat berries were found in the Egyptian pyramids, and still sprouted many years later. If one grows a garden and has a hydroponic set-up, both are easy ways of growing food. It is also important to have items necessary for every day living. No need to worry about pests with kitties on duty.
I believe you cannot have too much salt. Not only for seasoning, but for curing as well. Also can be used for bartering. Just need to have pure salt with no additives. I have both canning salt and pink salt stored. Pink salt provides minerals not in white salt.
During a SHTF scenario such as grid down for example.. Most people will tend to consume more food and water than expected. They'll be under a great deal of emotional stress and this often leads to satiating through eating.
@@melodyclark4347 .. Thank you Melodyclark4347. I've seen this during a regional conflict a while back and so made that assertion based on my personal experience and studies in human behavior. Edited to correct a word check error. I had typed assertion and this dumb app had instead wrote "acertion". 😡
🚨🚨Fire blankets for kitchen, fire place room, laundry room. Especially if you live in a rural area or outside city limits. We had to wait 40 minutes before a local volunteer fire department showed up. Was told the fire blankets saved our house
That is true, I was a volunteer fire fighter, we were good and got on the road really fast, but if you are out in the country and it is bad weather, it could take a while. Same with EMS and Police.
The FDA rates cans that have been properly stored as having a indefinite lifespan. "Best buy" is nothing more than a sales pitch to get you to buy more products.
Only exceptions are high acid products like tomatoes and canned fruits. They will eat the can over time. Otherwise yes the shelf life is practically forever so long as the cans are intact and sealed and stored in reasonable temperature conditions .
Wish ied known bout can of food. The other month I went through my food gave away cans of food from 2010 2011 I guess I should've keep em. Know I know.
@@diypreppertv I have three cats, no rodents. In RVs, Irish Mist soap is greatly disliked by mice, and wire like brillo pads without the soap, will stop mice coming in from the outside if stuffed into any openings.
A stray cat adopted my husband and I two years ago. She takes care of the voles, they were everywhere, and we give her affection and a warm place to sleep in the winter. She lets us know when she wants outside, no litter box, and the single word "out" lets her know that we are leaving and she needs to be outside.
As the prices rise my preps have saved me so much money! I have noticed I overprepped some things I don’t really like-like canned fruit. From now on I am sticking only to the things my family eats regularly.
Your fruit, drain it, chop it and add to boiled fruit cakes. They will last a good year at least, so good with a dab of butter, or custard, or simply as is. A good use for a fruit you dont eat. 😅
I buy a few cans of canned fruit in natural juices. They can be used for snacks and you can drink the juice. I also have saved the juice and used it in baking rather than sugar
I agree about indoor storage- here in Phoenix we can only store camping equipment and tools in our garages, literally all other preps need to be stored indoors. Absolutely nothing stored in our cars either. Summer temps reach 118F! 🥵
There is such a thing as reflectics to use in garages. I also have fans and a window. In winter the gas water heater keeps the garage from getting too cold In my RV, I lined every cupboard with it, and find it works really well, in both summer and winter.
Wouldn't what you stockpile be the same food you already eat (with a few exceptions)? Fiber is better, than laxatives. Maybe have for those once-in-a-while situations; however, taking too much of these laxatives will have the opposite affect.
I agree. As a female, I make sure to get enough iron tablets from different brands, because they have different added vitamins. I'm looking into getting vitamin C next, and a multi. I also cut up ibuprofen and aspirin into doses, and pop into the empty vitamin bottles. Saves much more space that way.
Full amino acids, proper fats, and meats, vitamins and minerals such as the essential ones are super important… we don’t die most of the time from lack of food. That is rare, more people get disease and die from lack of meeting their essential nutrients. Meats, even canned meat, are nutrient dense. This means, the most nutrients per calorie. Sardines, and other small tinned fish really helps. Frankly, we don’t really store grains… but we do store some foods to assist with transition, like meats and protein powders.
Stock up on things like gravy mix and taco seasoning. Dietary fatigue is real; if you just eat plain beans and rice, you'll find that you'd rather go without eating than keep eating that day after day.
Get cumin powder, it elevates rice from bland to grand. Also, get salt and pepper, as a basic prep. Also, GET LENTILS TOO. Powdered milk and powder pea protein are good as well.
There is no such thing as enough! After I lost all my preps on November 28th 2023, starting over is rough! Yes I was depressed after losing 7 to 8 years worth of resources, food, medical supplies, pew pews, buildings supplies and more. It hurt my heart after doing all that hard work. I was scared, I have to admit it, it took me two weeks to start buying supplies again. But unlike 99% of my relatives, I still believe in being prepared. I started preparing at the age of 19. And after all these years, I only found 1 person in my family that also liked to prepare for SHTF or just Life! The Bible talk about a Faithful Few, A Remnant!
Food calculator very helpful for large families. Somewhat disconcerting the amount needed for survival. Will develpp a plan to split food volumes into smalled moveable pachages.
JR IS IT BETTER TO STORE FOOD IN MYLAR BAGS OR VACUUM SEAL BAGS? AFTER BAGGING MY FOOD I PUT THE BAGS IN FOOD-GRADE BUCKETS. THEN THE BUCKETS ARE KEPT IN COLD DARK ROOMS.
I've heard that mylar lasts longer. So If you aren't going to touch it for 20 years then mylar with an oxygen absorber is the way to go. If you are rotating through it and you only need a few years then vacuum sealing is fine.
One thing I'm considering more often these days is what happens if folks have huge and expensive stockpiles of all this stuff and the house burns down, gets blown/washed away or whatever else. Here in Australia we're having issues with major storms in some areas and homes are getting completely trashed. Bushfires are a threat here most years and they often leave nothing behind. Insurance likely won't cover you if you haven't declared it all and you have big dollar amounts of various items. On that note our home/contents insurance virtually doubled this year and given all the carnage could very well go up again next year as well. In some places insurance is so expensive due to where they are that people simply can't afford it and now they've been hit again. I hear that in Florida, for example, some insurers are not writing new policies which could be a major issue. I'm not sure what people can do about these issues but certainly if people are living in disaster prone areas and these events get more common or worse then not living there may end up being a better option.
@@proehm Not going to happen, imo. I doubt that many have enough to make it worth the effort for a Govt. to come and take it and if the shtf big time it will be the last thing on their minds. Likely more of a concern that people will see you eating when they aren't and take notice. We're actually cutting back on the amount we have and we had nowhere near what many say they have. Then again we have family with a food Supermarket/Warehouse business so we may have better access to resources than some and we're growing more.
@@truthseeker1364 I remember reading a story that was from the siege of one of the Russian cities during WW2. It said that they could always tell who the cannibals were due to them being in much better condition than everyone else. Very sobering and shows that none of us know how things will play out.
@@oldbloke204 During WW2, the British were instructed to keep their food under the staircase. It wasn't because it would be safer from invading forces, it was so the military wouldn't have to look hard if they ran out of rations and needed to raid people's homes. Pretending everyone will be kind and peaceful only works when most people still try to be kind and peaceful.
Thanks to your video about dollar store cold and flu meds I've kept sufficient stock. Now that winter is coming back those store shelves are empty. Great advice
Dollar stores had a recall on meds might want to confirm yours aren’t on the list (I can’t remember if it was Dollar General, Dollar Tree or FamilyDollar that had the issue)
@@LWinWV ya it was dollar general, but the reason (stored at incorrect temperature) and that mostly brand name types like (Advil, Tylenol and crest ) were on the list of 300 seem suspicious. Thanks for info, first time i heard of it
33lbs of grains per month seems excessive considering it doubles in weight making it 66 pounds. A pound of rice a day is plenty. You will be eating other things with rice.
Semolina or pasta, oatmeal, flour, rice, masa, farina or malt-o-meal... It's easy to use a lot of grain throughout the day without realizing it, especially if you're using long term storage instead of store bought cereal and various breads.
STOCKPILING IS GREAT IF ONE RULE IS FOLLOWED FOR ME AND THIS IS ROTATING STOCK. WE STOCKPILE A LOT BUT MAKE SURE THE OLDEST TINS ARE IN FRONT AND NEWER ONES IN BACK. THIS RULE FOR US IS FOR ALL FOODS!!
Hi, J.R.!! Happy New Year!! Hope you and yours are doing well, and continue to prosper in the new year. We here are doing pretty well, and planning the garden for next spring! Just a couple of colder months to get through (we have plenty of firewood!) and New Growth will begin!! Stay well!! And best wishes!
I haven't heard about that with cans. Jars yes. I use a layer of cardboard across each layer to help distribute weight. Bubble wrap also works, and keeps them from jostling when packing them to relocate.
Thank you for your videos, I love your channel! Wishing you and your family a Happy New Year filled with many blessings and good health. Cheers from Ontario Canada.
I love these videos by preppers of what, how and when. But PLEASE can we get some info for those of us who are single in an apartment. What is the most crucial, etc. Not everyone lives in a house with a garden etc.
Question, would it be safer if when I full my 5 gal. bucket with Mylar bags to also full the bucket with sand to keep mice and rats from getting into my food storage? Enjoy your content 👍🏾
For added sealing, duct tape around the lid. I've had little problems with critters chewing thru those buckets. Tape will help keep dust to a minimum as well.
Kerosene (heating oil )is still pretty popular here in Scotland..Add an additive to prevent moisture and it will last a good 10 to 12 years and even longer iif used in 12v diesel night heatrrs .
Mylar+oxygen absorbers, in 5gal buckets, and mouser or two. For all grain products. Double your oxygen absorbers for oatmeal, due to higher air:grain ratio.
I only put Non Ethanol gas in my gas cans and I add Stabilizer. I have a grain mill and several 5 gallon buckets full of wheat berries. Lamp oil in plastic bottles will break when the plastic gets old. I buy a few rolls of Gorilla Tape each year and use the older rolls. I put three 4lb bags of sugar in new 50cal ammo cans to keep rodents and moisture out of it. Even though the cans are not cheap, you can not put a price on sugar after SHTF. I also store powdered milk and a few other dry foods in the ammo cans. Keep Prepping my friends.
It’s a fine line between hoarding and just long term storage. My husband and I are seniors. We also have need for life saving medication that we are only allowed to refill for 3 months. So realistically we just need to be prepared for 3 months. If help does not come within that time then the catastrophe is so bad that we probably will not live anyway. To have 3 months supply is easy except of course for water storage. And my kids won’t have a terrible hoard to deal with.
Thank you for sharing this valuable knowledge without getting political about it. We are all in the same boat and we all need good, valuable, understandable information. ♡
Remember PET FOOD/supplies/meds, people MEDS, WATER, Hygiene, First Aid, items for aging PARENTS and CHILDREN (even for others if none of your own-Childrens Tylenol was not available for a while in Canada...just an example) of course as well.
“The same scientists and politicians who are taxing my farts have now done the cme study and the earthquake study that I asked for and have come to the conclusion that if you multiply people farts and cow farts by localized earthquakes caused by cme’s then there is a high probability that we will need to be taxed for our bad thoughts that angered the sun god to spit fire at us and mother Gia to have so many belly aches. So many things to worry about now that we have technology that never existed in the past that allows us to monitor things that have gone on since the beginning of time and are now rapidly increasing due to our sins.”
As a lifelong prepper, I also take my likely longevity into account. Always good to balance one's supply of various food items as well as goods necessary for everday activities.
I heard acidy canned foods don't last as long after bb date (like tomatoes). Do you know approx how long acidy canned foods (tomatoes, etc.) last after the bb date? Not concerned with taste...just safety.
I think it all depends on the product or how it was packaged. Not all will go bad at the same time. I just read from another commenter that she will can the tomatoes prior to their expiration - that is a fantastic idea, and canning will last pretty much forever! So my thought is, to can soon after purchasing, or within a year of the expiration.
In hot climate and want to get more emergency food but our detached garage is the only place I have to store it. Garage is not insulated so will see humidity and temps reaching up to 100 degrees on hottest days in the summer. Am I screwed or should I spend the money to control garage climate? My pantry can store a decent amount but not the amount I would feel comfortable with a family of four.
We live in Mid MO and l used to put things in the garage, not a good idea. The heat will deteriorate the plastic water bottles and humidity may rust your cans, not to mention rodents. Outer home is small but I've got things under beds, in closets, in furniture cabinets, etc. I had to get rid of lots of stuff that no longer brought me joy, l needed that space!
Question say you have a lot of can good and before they expire can you put them in freeze dyer so they will have a longer self life and what would that self live be?
I believe that freeze dried food in the correct containers will last for well over 10 yrs, if not more. There are several good freeze dried food groups on FB.