Call me Joseph
February 3rd, 2011Hands Off my MREs
Perry Stone says he had some prophetic dreams about the food supply being damaged by excess rain. Since then, floods have caused a food shortage in Australia. He thinks the problem will become global in nature.
Accordingly, I’m refreshing my knowledge of nonperishable foods. After all, Perry Stone hasn’t been wrong yet. He went up to George Bush when he was the governor of Texas and told him the Holy Spirit said Bush would be the next President.
Let’s see what I’ve found (omitting garbage like tofu and rice cakes):
Oatmeal
Canned fish
Canned meat
Rice
Beans (only last about a year)
Dried fruit
White flour (whole wheat flour goes funny)
Corn meal
Pasta
Almonds (24 months in sealed package)
Peanut butter (18 months)
Corn oil
Sugar
I should also freeze more pork, beef, and chicken. But how can you prepare for a shortage of dairy products and eggs? I don’t think much of that stuff freezes well.
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You can freeze butter for 8 months in the original packaging. You can preserve fresh eggs for months by storing them in a weak salt and lime solution. You can find it on the Internet.
February 3rd, 2011 at 12:44 PM
Spaghetti or other sauce in jars, peanut oil (don’t like corn, sorry). I think they have dried eggs (which I’ve heard taste awful, but hey). Cheese does not freeze, but surprisingly milk will, but can only be used for cooking. Open the jug and take some out of the top to allow for expansion. Canned soups and stews would be on my list. I even saw in a catalog canned bacon. Kinda weird.
I’ve also had feelings to get a stash together. Problem is (at least in my house) is where to store it. I now have to do it for 5 people (daughter and grandchildren moved back in).
February 3rd, 2011 at 12:55 PM
Got a country ham on the way!
February 3rd, 2011 at 3:34 PM
Dried milk is good to keep on hand, you can even get dried buttermilk for baking. Also keep canned condensed milk. There are dried eggs, they are edible if not tasty. But remember this. Rice, oatmeal and dried beans have to be cooked in water.
Now, in a flood there will be water, possibly not good to drink. If you are all electric forget about using your stove for cooking. Keep on hand a camp stove that uses the little bottles of propane and make sure you have plenty of them. A propane grill can be used for cooking, ours has one of those little side burners, too.
Also bleach will purify the water for drinking, it may still look bad but will be bacteria free.
We try to keep canned tuna, (I cannot eat it), canned chicken, even spam for emergencies. That is in addition to our overstocked pantry of canned good and dry products.
We also have a rainwater collection system with a 3500 gallon tank. We live where it doesn’t rain enough for it but we keep it full with our well water. It has a filter, but it also has a UV system for sanitizing the water. We have a 110 watt generator (Honda 1100) so we can run it without electricity, which we had to do yesterday because of the rolling blackouts in Texas. So be sure you have gasoline for the necessities like that, not just for cars.
I could go on and on but I won’t, get your thinking caps on and be prepared.
February 3rd, 2011 at 7:45 PM
UHT processed milk can be stored at room temperature for months. Not popular in the U.S., though.
As for preparing for egg shortages: take your tools & build a chicken coop.
February 4th, 2011 at 3:03 AM
All of the tye died, patchoulli stinking, tree-hugging, Kumbaya singing, anti-war, anti-gun, anti-capitolism, anti-everything liberal progressive socialists will starve to death because they one day they won’t be able tot run over to Publix or Kroger or Whole foods and don’t know how to grow their own food and shoot a gun to kill and gut something to eat when and if the time comes.
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I can hunt and fish and plant a garden on a plot of ground with terrace rows to control runoff flow and I’m only two generations away from living and operating a southern farm and remember seeing how it was done when I was a kid.
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Forget Con Agra and the other big agra-businesses…do it yourself is where the solution is at when the time comes I think.
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A couple of my relatives who are Mormon and wrong fundamentally on the big religion picture all have a locker full of food in their basements so there is some sanity inside of the insanity of every group of beliefs I think.
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When President Reagan got them to tear down the wall in Germany and the Soviet Union fell the baby boomers thought that the nuclear threat was over with and we could all go out into our back yards and fire up the grill in peace.
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Now the Muslims with their desire to implement a world wide Caliphate presents an even greater danger to our way of life and fully two thirds to three quarters of America doesn’ even know what the word means.
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Keep your powder dry…Brother Steve…
February 4th, 2011 at 3:06 AM
I swear I can spell but apparently can’t proof read…
February 4th, 2011 at 8:11 AM
Evap milk will do – I like it in coffee. Or shelf stable milk. Or powdered milk. Hey, if you’re willing to accept refined flour, refined milk isn’t a stretch.
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I believe green coffee beans last longer.
February 4th, 2011 at 10:51 AM
Keep and raise your own chickens for endless supply of eggs and you can always eat a chicken if it stops laying.
Dry powdered milk will keep a year or more, tastes terrible on cereal but will do in a pinch for baking and making milk based gravy.
Vietnamese pot belly pigs are good eating and can be kept in limited spaces.
Dry red wheat can be kept for a very long time if sealed properly. Grind as needed, same for dried corn kernels.
Root vegetables can keep a year or more when stored properly, look into building and maintaining a root cellar.
February 4th, 2011 at 1:14 PM
Cheese lasts for a long time, and you don’t need to freeze it.
Look for an alternative to freezing, like preserving things in oil, lard, or salt, since electricity is also likely to fail. Also, if you don’t have a basement you can put some 55 gallon oil drums in the ground (or a larger piece of concrete piping) and make space for underground storage. The temperature drops a bit once you excavate a few inches.
February 5th, 2011 at 3:44 AM
In Canada and Mexico, and probably everywhere else, (because of milk supports here in the U.S.,) you can buy quarts of milk in boxes. Unrefrigerated. Lasts for six months to a year. I forget. Tastes just fine, and I’m a milk freak. I love the stuff.
Don’t even get me started on cheese.
February 6th, 2011 at 4:17 AM
Butter will keep even longer if some care is taken. For one you can clarify it (melt it and skim the solids) which seems to help it keep better. For your research I’ve also heard butter prepared like this referred to as ghee. Also a friend of mine has had luck canning butter in mason jars. Nothing strange, same methods as canning anything else.
As for freaky weather, I’m not sure what to make of the source, but I just read that we’re at the start of a shift of the magnetic poles. I have no idea if it’s true or not, but there are stupider things in the world to do other than set a few extra pounds of rice aside.
February 7th, 2011 at 12:15 AM
You can buy canned milk and buttermilk powder, no problem. And the eggs and there is even powdered butter, though I have never tasted it. You can get cheese powder also. The eggs are useful in baked goods and pancakes. Be sure to stash some salt and barley too!!!