nickdutch wrote:the ultra cheap rice is edible and frugal, but I personally dont feel that it lasts as well as better quality rice. The flavour and texture seems to start off bad and then degrade somewhat, and a good quality organic brown rice or a good white basmati is a far superior product. However, if you are hungry and all you got is old cheap rice, cook the hell out of it and be grateful you have it.
It is probably older stuff they want shot of, although I have to say paying more doesn't always get you a better product. There's a lot of crap in M&S
. Sticking with my wholegrain for as long as possible - tastes so much better then the white, stodgy stuff and actually gives you some nutrition as well - win, win. The organic stuff is much more expensive and I'm not sure exactly how organic rice differs from non-organic rice. I like to know the details before I invest my cash. I do buy organic, to keep the level of pesticides and meds (antibiotics, etc) down, but it's actually quite difficult to get a wide range of organic products in this neck of the woods. I paid £5.98 for 4kg of white Basmati rice (£2.99/2kg), whereas I could have bought packs of white rice at 40p!!!! I think each of these packs was 1kg, so I could have gotten away with paying £1.60. Maybe we are being completely conned and it's just exactly the same thing. Anyone ever done a cooking/taste/quality comparison. We don't eat the white stuff unless it comes with takeaway, so I don't really want to break open a pack right now. I have to admit I was a bit gutted when I read that brown rice doesn't keep long term. If I had to choose between potatoes, pasta, brown rice, etc, I would definitely choose brown rice. Not mad keen on potatoes and really can't understand why people eat so much pasta. I guess when we are hungry post SHTF we'll eat our shoe leather if there's nothing else
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). More to come. There is really cheap white rice at 40p a bag (kg?) in Morrisons - is it any good? I paid £2.99/2kg bag. Bought 5kgs of Brown Basmati Rice (the long grain was the part cooked stuff). No need to Mylar bag it as it won't last past 6 months anyway. The plan is to build up 6 months worth of Brown rice to be used in rotation, with a much larger quantity of white rice stored in Mylar bags inside plastic buckets as this can last for decades if necessary. Bought double quantities of things like Ketchup - not absolutely essential, but can make a very boring diet a lot more palatable and a bit more normal for the kids. The lady on the check-out said nothing as my DD and I packed 9kgs of rice and several packs of wholemeal pittas (to be frozen at home and used as needed - always do this anyway). She must have thought I was feeding an army. I bought several limes and I'm going to cut two slices from each and freeze them. Each half of the lime will be squeezed into an ice-cube tray (I may top it up with Tonic 
