Emergency Pantry/Fridge Foods

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Lynx

Lynx

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Try to bias those canned goods toward pop top cans. If your can opener stops working and the stores are shut down because of whatever disaster, you're still in business.

What? Can openers fail all the time! Opening a can with a knife blade ruins the knife and it gets really tedious really fast.
 
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I have a surplus of Plenny Shakes and Huel. They are not meal replacements, rather actual meals made up of quality ingredients in powder form. They satisfy all nutritional requirements. No cooking, boiling, etc, and easy to transport. Just need water. They taste good to keep morale up.

They do not keep as long as canned goods, but are far more beneficial and efficient, rather than trying to meet nutitional requirements out of a can.

You will do far better with these than salt-laden MREs or the like. They are far more cost effective. No, I am not as salesman for them.
 
tourist

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Lynx said:
Try to bias those canned goods toward pop top cans. If your can opener stops working and the stores are shut down because of whatever disaster, you're still in business.

What? Can openers fail all the time! Opening a can with a knife blade ruins the knife and it gets really tedious really fast.
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There is also such a thing as a manual can opener for such contingencies.
 
Billyd

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I recommend this website. Freeze Dried and 20 year shelf life. I think that they still provide meal samples. Check them out.

https://readywise.com/

Food is packaged in five gallon size containers that can be stored in your closet.
 
Lynx

Lynx

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tourist said:
There is also such a thing as a manual can opener for such contingencies.
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Those are the ones I was talking about. I don't even consider electric can openers, nor do I ever use them. But manual can openers can and often do fail. Even Swing-A-Way, which used to be rock-solid dependable, is no longer immortal.
 
Ambsgb

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I read on a prep site that having a bag or bags* of pancake mix! Stores well and it's a filling thing. Also peanut butter.
 
tourist

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Lynx said:
Those are the ones I was talking about. I don't even consider electric can openers, nor do I ever use them. But manual can openers can and often do fail. Even Swing-A-Way, which used to be rock-solid dependable, is no longer immortal.
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Bought this budget can opener at Walmart and the first time I used it the handle fell off. When I buy can goods I always opt for the pop-off tops. We have an electric can opener but I always have a problem centering the can just right. Whose got time for all of that drama?
 
tourist

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Ambsgb said:
I read on a prep site that having a bag or bags* of pancake mix! Stores well and it's a filling thing. Also peanut butter.
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Regarding peanut butter I'm trending towards Jiff. I prefer creamy.
 
Bleed

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so.... i mentioned cigarettes.
i haven't had one in a month!
and they say "quitters never win".....
 
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