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y cleaned out the diesel line and gasoline will be flowing through the diesel line for a day or two to get the gasoline tank farms full again ps 5 lots of conspiracy talk out there right now maybe some are true however according to my source at colonial people don t realize how many thousands of miles of pipelines there are in the us pipelines that need virtually daily maintenance he said there are leaks and breaks every day he laughs when he sees the post shtf movies with clear barren land he says that if daily maintenance of the pipelines stops there would be seas of fuel all over the us 11 comments surviving for 90 days part 2 food storage september 15 2016 george patton there are many different kinds of foods that you can stock up on there are five major categories of commercial food storage freeze dried dehydrated frozen home freezer canned food commercial and home plastic retort packages and military meals deciding which is the best food for you to store depends on a lot of factors cost is important of course but so is shelf life tastiness ease of preparation and use and ease of actually getting the stuff in your home freeze dried versus dehydrated food how do they work and what are the differences moisture content the main objective with food preservation is to remove the moisture so that the food doesn t decompose grow mold etc dehydration removes about 90 95 percent of the moisture content while freeze drying removes about 98 99 percent foods that you dehydrate at your home will typically have a 10 percent moisture content level while foods that are dehydrated professionally will have a lower moisture content which increases the shelf life shelf life the moisture removal has a direct impact on the shelf life most dehydrated products like dried fruits vegetables powders and texturized vegetable protein tvp also known as textured soy protein tsp have a 15 20 year shelf life however dehydrated items like honey salt sugar hard wheat and oats have a 30 year shelf life sometimes longer freeze dried foods will have a longer average shelf life freeze dried fruits vegetables just add water meals and real meats will have a 25 30 year shelf life nutritional content according to research by the american institute for cancer research freeze dried foods retain the vast majority of the vitamins and minerals found in the original food however when compared to fresh fruits and vegetables freeze dried foods did lack in some vitamins like vitamin c which break down very rapidly dehydration doesn t change the fiber or iron content of food however dehydration can break down vitamins and minerals during the preservation process and retain less of their nutritional value when compared to freeze dried food dehydration tends to result in the loss of vitamins a and c thiamine riboflavin and niacin cost usually dehydrated foods are going to be cheaper than freeze dried if you re on a tight budget dehydrated foods are definitely the way to go we have a mix of both the main similarities storage requirements there isn t a difference in storing food that s freeze dried or dehydrated the cans or buckets are all the same size pros and cons of using a freezer for food storage pros of freezing it s fairly simple to do it s very familiar to most of us you get the most input into what you are storing it s the best way to preserve the original freshness and taste you get to buy what you want to freeze and can even save your own fruits and vegetables from your garden you can freeze virtually any kind of food solid or liquid cons of freezing you are limited to where you put your storage food to the size of your freezer it s all in one place in almost every natural and unnatural disaster you are going to be without power studies suggest that if you don t open your freezer food will stay frozen for up to two days a generator can solve this problem but then you have to store fuel and the noise of a generator can make you a target to those without food to achieve the maximum frozen food shelf life you will have to protect them from moisture loss and air exposure how long does frozen food last like with any storage method how long you can store food for will depend on the specific type of food frozen foods can last only a few weeks in some cases but more often then will be fine to eat after several months after a year most foods will start to taste off storage times listed are for quality only frozen foods remain safe indefinitely here is a basic chart of storage times for keeping food in the freezer bacon and sausage 1 to 2 months casseroles 2 to 3 months egg whites or egg substitutes 12 months frozen dinners and entrees 3 to 4 months gravy meat or poultry 2 to 3 months ham hot dogs and lunch meats 1 to 2 months meat uncooked roasts 4 to 12 months meat uncooked steaks or chops 4 to 12 months meat uncooked ground 3 to 4 months meat cooked 2 to 3 months poultry uncooked whole 12 months poultry uncooked parts 9 months poultry uncooked giblets 3 to 4 months poultry cooked 4 months soups and stews 2 to 3 months wild game uncooked 8 to 12 months pros and cons of using commercial canned goods for food storage note this report isn t long enough to discuss home canning in depth watch for a future report which will discuss home canning in depth pros of commercial canned goods it s very easy to do you buy the cans at the grocery store and put them away for later use you are buying exactly what you like to eat taste is a huge factor in nutrition the food is already prepared so your prep time is greatly reduced cans are usually smaller allowing for more variety in what you are eating you don t have to consume an entire 10 can of something before you move on to something else commercially canned food is usually done at the peak of freshness so the quality is usually very good cons commercial canned goods the smaller the serving size the more it usually costs basing an entire families food storage requirements on commercial canned food will cost more than dehydrated or freeze dried food the shelf life of canned food is much shorter than dehydrated or freeze dried foods we recommend this web site for the best information on shelf lives use by dates etc it s an awesome site http www stilltasty com storage times are usually for quality only although canned food loses its nutritional value over time it doesn t necessarily go bad merely because it s old the bottom line don t be so quick to toss out or donate those canned food items sitting on your basement shelves just because they hit their printed expiration date when all else fails open them and use your senses to determine if they are still edible they probably will be swollen cans are the best indicator that something is wrong bad food also smells bad when in doubt some high heat from your stove and an iron skillet can serve as another method by which to cleanse the food prior to eating it plastic retort packages and military meals note this report will be an overview of the various military meals mres and such watch for a future report which will discuss military meals in depth what are they we ve seen them all over the place those who are veterans remember them as the pouch that holds the entrée in the mre most of us have seen them in the grocery stores as the flexible can in quick ready to eat pouches in science terms it is a heat resistant bag made of laminated plastic films it is then heat sealed and sterilized by pressure cooking in a retort autoclave as a result the retort pouch contains heat treated food that is safe from micro organisms pros of plastic retort packages lighter than canned food because it s flexible it can take more abuse because it s flat it s easier to store it s easier for individuals to eat as most of them are in single serving packages cons of plastic retort packages convenience usually comes with a cost individual serving sized food costs more shelf life is very dependent on the temperature at which they are stored not a good food to store in the trunk of your car in the summer so what is the best food to buy we don t think any one type of food is the best we do think that a combination of all of them can be useful storage of fruits and vegetables freeze dried or dehydrated are clearly the choices price is the huge factor here with dehydrated fruits and vegetables being very reasonable storage of meats canned meats are the tastiest and we recommend home canning for meats watch for a report on home canning of meats soon storage of single serving foods retort packaging is the most convenient to store carry and eat in part 2 a we re going to talk about how to achieve the cost savings of buying in bulk and still allowing you to achieve family happiness by having a variety of foods that they love to eat 8 comments surviving for 90 days part 2 b how much food do you need september 7 2016 george patton for this post we re skipping ahead a little we want folks to start thinking and start planning next week s post will go into greater detail on the different types of long term storage food this is where preparing gets challenging most of the folks that sell long term storage food get you excited by the number of servings that they include in their price anyone who has had company for thanksgiving knows that serving size is meaningless cousin eddie eats like a horse aunt sal eats like a sparrow heck when the wife and i get a rack of ribs she eats less than half and i eat the rest we ve got to plan based on how many calories are required not serving size so how do we know how to do this well our medical community has actually studied this for us they have come up with information that has determined how many calories a person needs in a day broken down by age and gender and how active these people are so how do you use this information we ve taken it one step further to figure out how many calories are needed for more than one person such as a family if you take the chart shown above and add a few columns you will have a sheet that computes your total family daily requirements here is an example of a chart like this filled out let s say for example that you are a family of four with the husband being 32 years old the wife 30 with two children one 4 years old and one 9 years old filling in the numbers of people you see that you will need between 7000 and 8850 calories per day for your family if we take a look at 10 cans of some typical items we find out that different things produce different calorie counts it s interesting to see that different items provide very different calories per serving and even more importantly cost per calorie for those on a budget you may want to explore recipes that make use of the higher calorie contents like red and black beans in this example to be able to create adequate calorie counts with less money spent once you have your basic essential food stuffs on hand there are certainly other considerations such as snacks fruits etc these will be covered in a later chapter and these are just examples you can create a spreadsheet like this input the things you like to eat and or already have in stock and see where you need to adjust to create adequate calorie counts now comes the fun part planning your menus if we go to a sample calorie count sheet you ll see that we took ten 10 cans of vegetables and meat and figured out the calorie count per serving that chart also computed the number of calories produced by the total of the 10 cans these ten cans produce 29 152 75 calories computing our from your daily requirements you see that these 10 cans of food will feed your family for 3 29 to 4 16 days adding it up for 90 days tells you that you will need 216 to 273 10 cans of food of course this is based on a number of factors that can change it s based on you having nothing other than long term storage food you might have other food options such as mres commercial and home canned food for planning purposes i ve worse cased it if you are on a budget you can certainly adjust out higher calorie food for lower calorie food whatever food stuffs that are planning on you can do the same computations it s not serving size its caloric requirements the beauty of using a calculator for computing your requirements is that you can play around with different menu items to increase calorie content and reduce costs let s see what the lowest costs could be we learned very early in our preparing process that the expensive part was meat freeze dried and other long term storage meat was very expensive for example in our scenario of a family of four using real meat versus tvp meat increases your food storage bill by over 2000 over the 90 days if there were no other options it might make you want to become a vegan we tried tvp meat used in casseroles and stews it actually isn t bad tasting the cost per calorie for tvp meat is far less than real meat we looked at different options the first was to mix tvp and real meat on a 50 50 basis it certainly works out and cuts your food storage bill by 800 or so another option was to home can meat we practiced that and found it not only to be fairly easy to do and an incredible cost savings but it is also very good to eat our challenge is to keep it in storage instead of using it and eating it regularly a later chapter will discuss home canning of meat we can t state strongly enough that the key to planning for food storage is to first determine how many calories you and your family needs to survive once you ve figured that out you need to explore different menus if you have all the money in the world you can pretty much replicate your day to day foods via long term food storage if you are like most of us you are on a budget and some menu adjustments will have to be made to maximize caloric input versus cost per calorie these spreadsheets will make it easier to compute and adjust different items in our examples we only used dehydrated and freeze dried food you can use these spreadsheets for any kind of food be it canned goods from the grocery store or any other food input the serving and calorie count and you get the results you need the strongest recommendation that we can make is to try these menus now before you have to live on them there is nothing worse than having to eat things that you can t stand most folks just won t eat it or won t eat enough of it calorie intake is critical when we were in the army there was an old saying when you wrote plans and other instructions people always referred to a concept that napoleon used when issuing guidance to his subordinates he would always have the instructions read to one of his corporals he figured if they understood it then everyone else would too the notion became used in the army as finding your napoleon s corporal before you sent something off well we had this chapter read by our napoleon s corporal and we got some feedback that we figured we needed to address he told us that he had read and understoo...