Okay, so maybe you won't have the most glamorous (or varied) diet, you'll at least have a chance at survival if you can find a good water source and know how to start a fire from scratch - see your old Boy Scout Handbook for that one. I don't know how the powdered sugar and vanilla extract will add to your cuisine after a nuclear meltdown, but when you run out of all your other canned and dried staples, they may make that , bugs, sod and twigs menu a bit more appetizing...
When storing corn, dried beans, grains, pasta and other grain based food you have to watch for weevils and and beetles that hatch from eggs that are already in the product when you purchase it.
ReplyDeleteI was just going to make the same comment. You need to seal up any opened products.
DeleteWhole nutmegs over 1000 years old are still flavorful and wholesome
ReplyDeleteBeans and rice is a pretty good survival diet. What the chart really says is that if one gets the water level in the food item down to near zero, it'll store for a very long time if insects are excluded. The two apparent exceptions (vinegars) are sufficiently acidic that bugs won't grow, and the other liquids are essentially non-aqueous (honey has some water, but it's not available for microorganisms).
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