Check out the Ready Squirrel article, Flour or Wheat: Maximum Shelf-lifeįield Corn or maze has been a food staple for thousands of years. Flour kept in regular airtight containers will maintain quality for up to 6 months in the pantry. The flour will store ten years in Mylar, maybe 15, but that is debatable. Store flour in Mylar bags with oxygen absorbers for maximum shelf-life. Use flour to bake just about anything and as a thickening agent. White Bleached Flour is a solid addition to your emergency pantry. I stew lentils with carrots, onions, celery, and bouillon cubes and use them as topping on white rice with a shot of Tobasco. They contain protein, vitamins, and minerals and eat like a bean, but they cook much quicker. Lentils aren’t technically a bean they are a pulse.
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Check out the Ready Squirrel articles, Best Dried Beans for long-term storage, and How to preserve beans in long-term storage. Learn More about choosing and storing beans for food shortages. In regular packaging, expect a shelf-life of one to two years. Stew them with vegetables or add whatever fatty foods you can get your hands on.īeans stored correctly in Mylar bags have a thirty-year shelf-life. You can eat them like breakfast food with preserves, butter, or real maple syrup or use them as a base for found meat and vegetables.ĭry Beans are high in protein, very satisfying, and go with just about any long-lasting grains. Oats are in my top 5 survival foods to store.
The Scotch highlanders survived on a diet of oats in bannock bread and some form of animal fat, either cheese, butter, or milk. Rolled Oats are one of the few soft grains with a long shelf life. Need food-grade buckets, Mylar bags, and oxygen absorbers? Check out the Ready Squirrel article, Mylar Bags For Rice Storage (high-speed bulk food containers), and links to suggested products. It is mild tasting and said to be the best transition to making your bread. It is high in gluten but not as high as Hard red wheat. Hard White Wheat is what I store in bulk. People often find the transition from store-bought bread to bread made with red wheat challenging, so they start with Hard white wheat or mix them.Īmazon| Wheatland Store #3 Hard White Wheat Hard red wheat has the most gluten, which causes bread to rise, but it is also the gamiest tasting. Man has harvested wheat in some form for 10,000 years, so it’s proven survival food. Hard wheat is another one of the must-have survival foods. Learn more about rice by reading Ready Squirrel’s article, “How to preserve white rice for long-term storage.” Interestingly, eat rice with beans, and it provides a complete protein. White rice is cheap and lasts at least 30 years when packaged in sealed Mylar with oxygen absorbers. It is one of the tried and tested food staples that have kept entire civilizations alive for thousands of years.
White Rice is one of three foods (rice, beans, wheat) you should store for food shortages. We appreciate it and put it towards beans and bullets. If you purchase anything on the following Amazon links, Ready Squirrel gets a cut of Amazon’s profit at no additional cost to you. Keep in mind you will always get better deals if you purchase food locally at big box stores like Sam’s Club or Costco. I’ve listed Amazon links below if you need to purchase bulk foods online. So bulk foods are good for calories and barter should a Zombie apocalypse raise its ugly head. When currencies devalue and inflation increases, commodity items increase in cost and may become scarce. *Oxygen-free storage is not used for wet foods, higher than 10% moisture, or high-fat foods because there is a risk of anaerobic bacteria called botulism.īulk Staple foods are a commodity. If you aren’t ready to start re-packaging foods, store rice, beans, wheat, and rolled oats in an airtight container for a 1 to 3-year shelf life. Depending on the food type, other dry foods packaged this way will last 10 to 30 years. This method will get you a 30-year shelf-life for all main staples like dry beans, white rice, wheat, and rolled oats. They are packaged in sealed Mylar bags inside lidded 5-gallon food-grade buckets and treated with 2000 to 2500cc oxygen absorption. Most of my long-term food storage is dry food like beans, rice, wheat, and rolled oats. Bulk Dry Food (how to prepare for food shortage) I’ve shared enough information to get you started with your emergency pantry, including links to other articles on Ready Squirrel. Stockpiling food for shortages can also save you money by buying food in bulk at a reduced price. Still, a robust stockpile of food set aside for food shortages or economic collapse is a commodity and an added safety net for any emergency. Maybe the sky is falling, and perhaps it isn’t.
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