Stocking Up On Canned Vegetables

[Drinkthekoolaid]

Do they have buffalo wings in a can

Frank's hot sauce and butter. Make anything taste like a buffalo wing


Seriously, it's not a bad idea to keep some flavor condiments on hand in the event of shtf. I would imagine you may be eating some not great food and anything you can do to flavor it up for more variety of to be more appealing would go a long way.

Ps-I also heard people who eat more spicy food are less likely to get sick. Doubt there is any evidence to back it up, but interesting to consider.

 

[Plater1]

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?

Most canned food is cheapest right after harvest time, Sept and Oct around here.

 

[Foxtrapper]

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

Exactly why I mentioned the 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?

Absolutely worth going if your going to buy enough stuff to can. They run Mon, Wed, and Fri during the growing season. Aug seems to be the best month to go..

Finger Lakes Produce Auction, Inc.

They also do some auctions during the winter with store bought type stuff..

 

[togmaster]

Do they have buffalo wings in a can

I'd pick up a couple of six packs of that.

 

[livingston]

Do they have buffalo wings in a can

 

[livingston]

 

[Acer-m14]

I thought for sure this would have been in the video above .. LOL ..

 

[Acer-m14]

just seen this vid ..I like the shelf's for can storage if you got the room ..
just don't store condensed milk LOL .. watch the vid ..

 

[Bananabandit]

Dont forget salt and pepper.

 

[Plater1]

just seen this vid ..I like the shelf's for can storage if you got the room ..
just don't store condensed milk LOL .. watch the vid ..

Dry powdered milk will last nearly forever. The shelves are a good idea too.

 

[Glenn B]

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

I do not think there has been an expiration date on any canned food I have bought in over a decade. There are "best used by" dates but as far as I can tell they apparently mean little as to how long a canned product can last and remain edible. I have eaten canned foods, that have been stored up to 4 years beyond the "best used by" dates, all with no health problems. So long as the cans have not been dented (and thus possibly become unsealed), I figure them to be good beyond the "best used by" date. I would eat them even if much older and the cans were intact and the contents looked and smelled good on opening the cans.

I have canned foods like green beans, corn, Spam (very difficult to store as it seems to get eaten by me and my son) I storage. I rotate them every couple to few years. I also have some dried foods put away - beans, flour, rice (some of them can last in storage 15 to 25 years). And I have salt and sugar (white sugar and honey) also stored - probably last the longest. Then there is the booze...

 

[carpediem]

Nice!

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

 

[Phauxtoe]

I wonder what those hot wings taste like could they be any good I would try to second

 

[Drinkthekoolaid]

Not exactly canned food.... But I was wandering Wal-Mart and their camping aisle has freeze dried mountain home single serving meal packs and high calorie survival rations for sale. Both have long shelf lives.

I'm getting a few of the survival rations for my big out bag and just to have. Not super cheap they are like 4.99 but small size, portable and have like 2500 or 2800 calories I can't remember.

 

[Phauxtoe]

I just got a stack of canned goods from France.
I just Love pate!
All kinds goose, duck, pork, rabbit and mixes!

 

[carpediem]

View attachment 4836 I just got a stack of canned goods from France.
I just pate!
All kinds goose, duck, pork, rabbit and mixes!

Potted (or canned) Meat!!

 

[Phauxtoe]

Yeah well it's the one thing that French can do better!

 

[carpediem]

They are better at surrendering......

 

[The30oz]

Not exactly canned food.... But I was wandering Wal-Mart and their camping aisle has freeze dried mountain home single serving meal packs and high calorie survival rations for sale. Both have long shelf lives.

I'm getting a few of the survival rations for my big out bag and just to have. Not super cheap they are like 4.99 but small size, portable and have like 2500 or 2800 calories I can't remember.

The survival bars are only good for 5 years and definitely try them before storing them. I got one a week ago, the UTS (?) emergency food ration, and tried it out. If robitussin made a cookie it would taste like that ration.

 

[Drinkthekoolaid]

The survival bars are only good for 5 years and definitely try them before storing them. I got one a week ago, the UTS (?) emergency food ration, and tried it out. If robitussin made a cookie it would taste like that ration.

Good to know. The flavor got was Apple cinnamon hope it's slightly better than cough syrup

 

[The30oz]

Thats the one I got. To me the first couple of bites were fine, after about one full square though I was kinda regretting my decision. Also they look like small squares but are not individually wrapped so when you open the bag its all one piece. The plus to these rations is there is NO prep and there good in ANY temp. There not gonna freeze or melt.

 

[Harry Hood]

Do they have buffalo wings in a can

This might work with some Franks Hot Sauce

 

[Harry Hood]

This looks good.

For you vegetarians

 

[Phauxtoe]

this is Real and its GOOD!

 

[4excal]

Frank's hot sauce and butter. Make anything taste like a buffalo wing.

That's exactly what we do at my restaurant lol..bigass vat of Franks and a bigass commercial size butter block

 

[4excal]

Dont forget salt and pepper.

Salt and Prepper?

 

[4excal]

The survival bars are only good for 5 years and definitely try them before storing them. I got one a week ago, the UTS (?) emergency food ration, and tried it out. If robitussin made a cookie it would taste like that ration.

True, but when SHTF isn't flavors and taste sorta least of ones worry? May taste like the cats ass but it's calories yea? I buy the 3600 (3 1200 cal individuals)apple cinnamon SOS yellow package brand, and they can double as a billy club if you need to protect yourself too lol.

(For those who will be quick to say "oh, so you know how a cats ass tastes", yup maybe I do)

 

[Blimey]

"best by" dates on cans are essentially meaningless. AFAIK every food product in the US needs a "best buy" date. The longest I've seen is maybe 3 years in tomato products. But as long as the seal is good, the food is still "healthy" 20, 50 years later as long as it hasn't been breached. Either the food is rotting or it's not; there is no middle ground. If it was canned properly (all commercial goods you can assume are), unless the seal is breached in some way there is no way for the food to ever rot. Anything that could have done it was killed during the canning process.

I have a a bunch of canned goods and I do cycle them, but I do have a question:

Rotting issues aside (as mentioned, if not bulging and it was canned properly you're good): will food products over time leech crap from the seal inside? My preference on products is to get glass when I can, and on most tomato products it is glass (my stuff stays in the basement with only one small window, mostly covered, so it stays dark), but I have a ton of beans as well. Are these sucking in cancer crap from the can linings? I heard a lot of them were BPA. are they still...?

EDITED: Decided to check myself and BPA is still in most canned foods and it does leech into them and it raises BPA levels. A concern. BUT, the FDA still to this day says BPA in current food levels is safe. So I have decided not to worry too much.