Stocking Up On Canned Vegetables

[GTN]

I would love to be more of a prepper but I seem to suck at it. I can't stay committed.
I was at Tops supermarket and they have Del Monte canned vegetables 20 cans for $10. It's like a $1 off per can. I got 30 cans.
Are these any good for storing?

 

[Automan21]

Check the expirations, I guess you could rotate stock when theres another sale.

 

[C3D]

You need a Cansolidator

 

[Gunright]

I've opened plenty of canned vegetables past their expiration date. I'm still alive.

 

[fnfalguy]

Don't buy them just because they are on sale, make sure you eat them as well. Sorta how we ended up with canned asparagus in the pantry. Ended up being donated to the food bank.

 

[Plater1]

I would love to be more of a prepper but I seem to suck at it. I can't stay committed.
I was at Tops supermarket and they have Del Monte canned vegetables 20 cans for $10. It's like a $1 of per can. I got 30 cans.
Are these any good for storing?

Keep them in a cool dry spot and they will last many years. If you do this often put the date on the can so you can use up older cans first.

 

[GTN]

With some scrap wood I made this in my basement stairs

 

[Plater1]

View attachment 3795 With some scrap wood I made this in my basement stairs

Looks like something out of "Backwoods Home" magazine. Good idea.

 

[GTN]

Looks like something out of "Backwoods Home" magazine. Good idea.

It holds 90 cans in that area plus more on smaller shelves that I made between the studs in the 4x6' area

 

[Celt]

They can last many years past expiration is kept in cool, dry, dark spaces. Rotate stock. I have alot of vegis, fruit, etc.

 

[tony]

Great idea. I like it. Not a prepper here but just try to keep shopping and trips to the city to a minimum so we store some. The date on the cans is not an expiration date but a "best if used by date". Canned goods, as others said "kept in a cool dry spot" should easily last 10 yrs. When buying to store don't buy any dented or crushed cans. Before using if cans are bulged at all they are most likely spoiled and no good.

 

[Acer-m14]

I just watched a vid on this topic .. can goods are fine unless you see a bulge in the can or if its been dented .. if you see on the cans now .. its a bests used buy date .. so a year later it may be a bit bland .. but still ok .. what i have seen in real life is tomato sauce .. like skettie sauce with meat in can ,.. the tomato acid breaches the can after a few years .. .. and if it hasn't .. you will know on smell n taste its rancid ..

 

[Saltwater60]

I would love to be more of a prepper but I seem to suck at it. I can't stay committed.
I was at Tops supermarket and they have Del Monte canned vegetables 20 cans for $10. It's like a $1 of per can. I got 30 cans.
Are these any good for storing?

Not only are you bad at prepping as I am it seems your bad at math. $10.00/20 is $.50 per can not a dollar. I'm not trying to be a jerk I just thought it was funny.

 

[Acer-m14]

@Saltwater60 was just a simple mil to moa error .. LOL

 

[Deplorable Me]

Past due date. Taste may suffer but food is still edible as long as cans are not bulging. Internal can linings on high end canned goods are Teflon (white) vs lacquer (clear) used years ago. Lacquer internally coated cans are cheaper and still used.

"Light" , low sugar or low sodium products suffer quality issues first in that the sodium or sugar are part of the preservation formula.

Glass is a better material but comes with mixed blessings in that the contents are light sensitive . So store in the dark.

Acid products like spaghetti sauce are best in glass. A pinhole in a can liner will cause the contents to eat thru in time. Pickles use vinegar which is acid , same reason.

I've eaten Korean War surplus "C" ration canned goods in the 70's. Those were definitely lacquer coated cans. We never ran across any bloated cans.

As a kid I never remember seeing expiration dates on any cans.

 

[Bananabandit]

Not only are you bad at prepping as I am it seems your bad at math. $10.00/20 is $.50 per can not a dollar. I'm not trying to be a jerk I just thought it was funny.

My first thought as well

 

[livingston]

What was Found (and still edible) inside a 150 year-old Sunken Steamboat
In 1856, the Steamboat Arabia was frontier bound, loaded with supplies for 16 towns. With two hundred tons of precious cargo aboard, it left Kansas up the Missouri river on a routine trip, but waiting silently at the water’s surface, lost in the glare of the setting sun, was the thick trunk of a huge, fallen walnut tree lying directly in the path of the approaching steamboat
The lethal impact came without warning, piercing the thick hull of the steamer. Water poured through the gaping hole and the Arabia sank to the bottom of the Missouri River within minutes. Everyone on board miraculously swam to safety, except for one forgotten mule, tied to the deck.

Legends passed through generations about the lost location of the Arabia and inspired a local, Bob Hawley, to find the boat with his sons in 1987. They used old maps and a proton magnetometer to figure out the probable location until finally discovering it half a mile from the river. The farmers who owned the land where the boat lay under 45 feet of mud, gave permission to the Hawleys to excavate, on the condition that the work be completed before the spring planting.
What was Found (and still edible) inside a 150 year-old Sunken Steamboat


With the lack of air to spoil them, thousands of artifacts were recovered intact, including jars of preserved food that are still edible, tested by one of the excavators themselves, who ate a pickle from the Arabia finding it to be still perfectly fresh.

 

[livingston]

The Arabia Steamboat Museum - A Historic Kansas City Attraction

 

[Phauxtoe]

I would love to be more of a prepper but I seem to suck at it. I can't stay committed.
I was at Tops supermarket and they have Del Monte canned vegetables 20 cans for $10. It's like a $1 of per can. I got 30 cans.
Are these any good for storing?

I thought you meant buy them as reactive targets

 

[Criticalt]

We have been canning(jarring) food for 20 years. We use it up as we go but ive eaten jarred veggies after 10 years. Pickled food lasts pretty much forever and honey lasts literally forever.
There was edible honey found in Egyptian Tombs, 3,000 plus years old.

 

[GTN]

Not only are you bad at prepping as I am it seems your bad at math. $10.00/20 is $.50 per can not a dollar. I'm not trying to be a jerk I just thought it was funny.

Reread please. It's a $1 off per can

 

[Drinkthekoolaid]

Any food you stock up and keep on hand is better than no food.

 

[dwa12479]

View attachment 3795 With some scrap wood I made this in my basement stairs

Pinto beans? Barf. I think I'd rather perish....LOL

 

[GTN]

Pinto beans? Barf. I think I'd rather perish....LOL

Yeah the wifey is big on beans

 

[Foxtrapper]

The best thing to do is to learn to grow your own food and can it. We've done that for years. We also raise our own meat, and of course we hunt a lot as well. We buy very little out of the store. That is the kind of prepping you should be striving for if at all possible. I know that some of you don't have the land to raise your own food on. But, there is an auction in Penn Yan, NY called the Finger Lakes Produce Auction where you can buy all your fresh veggies in bigger lots and then can them. We sell some of our extras there every year..

 

[Doc8404]

Not only are you bad at prepping as I am it seems your bad at math. $10.00/20 is $.50 per can not a dollar. I'm not trying to be a jerk I just thought it was funny.

I saw that also. But I didn't want to be the dickhead for once.
Plus after reading it a second time, I realized that it was a dollar off birthday I am.

 

[GTN]

The best thing to do is to learn to grow your own food and can it. We've done that for years. We also raise our own meat, and of course we hunt a lot as well. We buy very little out of the store. That is the kind of prepping you should be striving for if at all possible. I know that some of you don't have the land to raise your own food on. But, there is an auction in Penn Yan, NY called the Finger Lakes Produce Auction where you can buy all your fresh veggies in bigger lots and then can them. We sell some of our extras there every year..

I have a 1/3 acre lot then minus out the house,driveway, out building leaving maybe 1/10 acre - that won't supply much

 

[GOPerfect]

Finger Lakes Produce Auction

I would be coming from Buffalo. Would this be worth going to? Get a hotel and do some buying next year. Is there a better time of the season than the next?

 

[Phauxtoe]

Do they have buffalo wings in a can

 

[GOPerfect]

Do they have buffalo wings in a can

Nope, sorry they do not.