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Best place to get food for long term storage?
Submitted by freedomfan08 on Wed, 10/01/2008 - 23:27
Hi everyone, I'm wondering if anyone here can recommend a good company from which to purchase food stores for my family. Any help/suggestions are much appreciated. » |
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Amazon.com Just make sure
Amazon.com
Just make sure you use coupon codes andb uy foods from the smaller companies, not the Kellogg's etc.
The most reputable is ...
eFoods Direct. There food in NON GMO and packaged fresh, many storeable food companies will sell aged product limiting the shelf life for your use.
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Good info. Thanks!
Good info. Thanks!
Ask a Mormon.
(I'm a Mormon.) Our church has been preaching food storage for probably fifty or sixty years or longer. There are some good ideas outlined here:
http://providentliving.org/content/list/0,11664,7448-1,00.html
Also, the church tries to make available facilities (usually near any big city) where you can dry pack or wet pack your own food. If there's anything for sale there—wheat, rice, honey, whatever—it's sold at cost. Usually the recommendation is to build your supply gradually so you can get into the habit of rotating through it (and it actually being familiar and useful to you; instead of like opening a time capsule). Just call representatives of the church in your area (missionaries) and ask them for the bishop's phone number. The bishop will be happy to direct you from there. Also, if you volunteer your time at a cannery or food packing place, the food goes to local families in need, and you get to learn how it's done.
Anyone have an opinion...
about Enerhealth Botanicals as a source of storable food supplements?
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re: JKap... my 2 cents
Hi, yes i have bought a case of the enerfood and a case of coconut powder as a potential nutritional supplement if it were to be necessary. its Not storable food (2year shelf life is good though) but in addition to a small amount of food it will be a life saver. Besides i try to drink a glass of the 2 mixed with juice everyday anyway so it wont just sit and go to waste if nothing happens. Each can contains about a month and half to 2 months worth of 'a glass a day' making a case of 6 last potentially 10 to 12 months a good amount of time to figure out and execute further plans.Also in a pinch you could live on coconut and the enerfood by itself if on the move for a month or 2 (very portable). Its WAY better than nothing and is within reach for lower income people. i give it thumbs up *I do not fear death, I fear life without liberty.*
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Thank you for the information...
I think I'm going to get some and a Berky water filter.
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Seriously? Sam's Club or
Seriously? Sam's Club or some other big store that sells food for restaurant supply. Instead of putting away wheat and MREs, get a chest freezer at Sam's and fill it up with food.
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Power?
You still need a backup plan if the power goes out for prolonged periods, or unless you live in a northern climate with long, cold, dark winters....
Also, your frozen food will be of limited utility if you have to become nomadic, either temporarily or for a prolonged period (unless the aforementioned climatological circumstances apply).
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I agree--an auxiliary
I agree--an auxiliary generator should be on the list.
But my primary idea--like we discussed earlier--is to fill the freezer with grain-based, long-shelf-life cereals and items that would have minimum spoilage at room temperature. So even if the freezer fails--you're still good for a long while with its contents.
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Check for a food co-op or food buying club in your area.
You can buy bulk items like whole wheat berries and dried beans, 35-lb. containers of cooking oil, 60-lb. tins of honey, bulk dried milk powder, and other long term storage foods. For the same money as you could spend on a year's supply of freeze-dried food you can get several person-years' supply of bulk foods, enabling you to feed others as well.
(Re-posted in order to correct a couple of infuriating typos.)
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Start your own food co-op with your locals.
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the grocery store
check the canned food isle.
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Check out HoneyVilleGrain.com
Some good long-term stuff and cheap shipping.
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Someone may have noted this already...
...but a surprisingly good option comes from Costco. They offer a bucket of food from Food for Health that is very reasonably priced, easy/ready to store and doesn't taste half bad.
Costco - Emergency Food Kit
There are 275 servings in there for $85 with free shipping. I regularly get emails from Costco advertising it at $75 with free shipping.
275 servings divided by 3 meals a day equals 91 days of meals or about 3 months of food for one person. Or, one bucket would provide three meals a day for three persons for one month. That's not bad for $85. That's also only $340 for a year's worth of meals for one person.
Of course, you could make it four meals a day and it would still be a great deal. You get some easily prepared food, a little variety, and some peace of mind for a good price. The food tastes fine (and even yummy good in some cases). It is also easy to transport either via the bucket it comes in or in the individually wrapped packs.
It's not perfect, but a great alternative and compromise. Especially for those of us who might not be able to afford thousands of dollars for a years worth of food for an entire family. \
If nothing else, I would consider it a fantastic supplement to anyone's food storage plan.
Another great thing about Costco, is that you can return anything at any time for any reason. They are not perfect, but I do appreciate that.
* I hope I got all that math right. Either way, it's a good deal. Also, I do own them myself, so I am not just making this up. : )
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Problem with the Costco thing is that you probably won't rotate
the supply.
Unless you are USED to buying one of those puppies and eating through everything in it every 90 days or so...
As a "natural disaster" emergency food kit, it's probably not a bad idea... but there are certainly better (and probably healthier) ways of storing up food on a rotational basis.
Best way is just to buy bulk and buy ahead what you normally eat.
An additional benefit is fewer trips to the store (which will save big bucks on the gasline costs, as well as reducing wear and tear on the vehicle.)
If it lasts from
10 - 20 years, a person could just save it for that long, and then eat it if it hasn't become a necessity (I sure wouldn't want to have to eat that stuff if I didn't have to). This isn't something that you'd need to rotate like normal food. At that low price you could afford to feed it to your dog after not having needed it for 20 years.
My question is what kind of
My question is what kind of food is in it how nutritious is it and how much processed foods.
You don't need to spend thousands. Grains and beans are relatively cheap and easy to store. Canned goods also also cheap and can be bought each time you shop.
I would say for 3- 5 hundred you could get 6 months to a years supply of food for a family of 3 if your frugal how you shop and buy in bulk where ever you can.
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looks severly processed and chemically laden
http://www.foodforhealthint.com/proddetail.php?prod=275servi...
but it is cheap and would be okay in a real emergency.
Adding my two cents
for whatever it's worth. Remember if you are on regular medicine, to have a least 3 months worth extra. I take thyroid medication so it's a have to have for me. Also if you have allergies or sensitivities to certain things like wheat and soy, watch labels. A lot of the emergency prepared stuff has extra nasty stuff like msg etc. You want to eat but you don't want it making you sick in the process. I bought a book last year called "A Year's Supply" by Barry G. and Lynette B. Crrockett. I had no idea on how to go about getting started with emergency prepartions but this gave me some really helpful information. There's lots to think about, we take a lot for granted. I've made a lot of progress but I know I can still do more. Thanks to the rest of you for the food storage resources, I never feel totally prepared, always adding more. Watch how you store things, thats important too. This has been so much fun, I've learned so much in the past year!
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do you go through the country to our north
for your big supply of Thyroid meds? I was looking on there and its $35.00 for 100 Synthroid name brand. I'm on Synthroid as well and have been looking into doing that.
reply to Down80
Just saw your comment. No, Ive never gone North for my supply. I just got my doctor to write out a script for me. I will have to look up what I spent, but $35.00 for a 100 sounds like a good price. It's funny he didn't even look surprised when I said I wanted an emergency back up supply. One thing I did try with success was skipping every other day on my meds to see how I would do, no problem. So now I know if I have to I can stretch my three months to six. I'm planning on calling up and seeing if I can get another 90 supply, that should hold me for a year. If your not aware, soy is poison if your on thyroid, well not literally, but it is bad, because it's a natural hormone so it interferes with your thyroid medication. It's not good for a whole lot of other reason, but I don't ingest any soy products.
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chinkadaro...med reply.
Yes, I am aware of the soy. Its funny that everyone thinks soy is amazing but it can screw up your thyroid and make you fat. I was born without a thyroid though so I would only alternate in emergencies. My doctor just wrote it up for 90 days I didn't even have to ask. I thought that was nice. Did you know grapes are not good to eat/drink when on Synthroid? Makes it less likely to work. I also read that nuts (walnuts mostly) do that too.
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read up on a lot of stuff but didn't see that about grapes, or nuts for that matter. Thanks. Yeah, I think you'd have to be more cautious about skipping. Mine is just very slow, but still functioning, but I can't go too long with out meds otherwise I get a little cloudy in the brain if you know what I mean : ) Which is way it was important for me to be prepared, can't take care of yourself too well if you can't think. I know the thing I would miss most if things really hit the fan is having this great sight to exchange info. Thanks for the input.
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