freeze dried foods

[PreparedKent]

Freeze dried is wayyyy too expensive for me:

My current food storage (not frozen) currently consists of:

Canned Meat (Corned Beef and Spam)
Canned Fish (Salmon, Sardines, etc.)
Baked Beans
Heinz Macaroni Cheese
Heinz Beef Ravioli
All Day Breakfast
Heinz Macaroni cheese
Heinz Spaghetti Bolognese
Chopped Tomatoes
Tinned Carrots
Tinned Peas
Canned Soups

All these items can be picked up at a local Supermarket cheaply, look at for 3 for 2 offers or other discounts. I have filled my cupboards for probably around £100, which wouldn't have bought much Mountain House food!!

[Jaeger48]

I would highly recommend checking out the Mormon food storage program in your area. The church has a reccomendation of storing a year of food for each person. They have canned dried beans, rice, and flour for very reasonable prices.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ation.html

[Deeps]

Freeze dried is wayyyy too expensive for me:

My current food storage (not frozen) currently consists of:

Canned Meat (Corned Beef and Spam)
Canned Fish (Salmon, Sardines, etc.)
Baked Beans
Heinz Macaroni Cheese
Heinz Beef Ravioli
All Day Breakfast
Heinz Macaroni cheese
Heinz Spaghetti Bolognese
Chopped Tomatoes
Tinned Carrots
Tinned Peas
Canned Soups

All these items can be picked up at a local Supermarket cheaply, look at for 3 for 2 offers or other discounts. I have filled my cupboards for probably around £100, which wouldn't have bought much Mountain House food!!

I'm guessing you're a fan of macaroni cheese.

As an aside have you tried some of the cheaper brands of stuff ? We all have different taste's but I'm a huge fan of the aldi cheap spaghetti hoops, to me the best of the tinned spaghetti and at 16p a can......you can't go wrong.

[PreparedKent]

Haha I never noticed that! I've never actually been to an Aldi before maybe I should take a look

[DustyDog]

I agree, mountain house do have an amazing shelf life, but my food preps are lots of tins, similar to preparedkent;

plenty of corned beef and ham
beans with and without sausages
tuna
rice pudding
various veg, including spuds, carrots, peas, tomatoes etc

Also dried preps, pasta, rice and various flours (for making bread)
And various cook in sauces.

I have looked at mountainhouse, getting the odd one here and there, as they do last forever and sack well.

[MissAnpassad]

Is it really that Mountain horse have a longer shelf life, or is it that the country it is produced in have less strict regulations on "best before" dates? In Sweden we even put best before dates on salt.

[Deeps]

Haha I never noticed that! I've never actually been to an Aldi before maybe I should take a look

Get yourself down there, Aldi's and Lidl's do some really good stuff, fresh veg is good, they don't do EVERYTHING like Tesco's/Asda but we've gone from doing our 'big shop' in Tesco and a wee spin round Aldi's to the other way round, Aldi's first and then Tesco's for bit and bobs that we can't get in Aldi. Our nearest Lidl is a bit of a trek otherwise we'd be there more often too.

We eat a lot of fresh food but for my 'zombie stores' their tinned stuff is good and cheap, worth a look anyway mate.

[featherstick]

Haha I never noticed that! I've never actually been to an Aldi before maybe I should take a look

Great place for a big prep shop - £100 will get you a LOT of tins.

They also do annual specials so a few weeks ago they were selling lots of French confit de canard and so on - great for stocking up on.

[DustyDog]

Aldi are good for somethings and not so good for others, their tinned stuff is as good as any and dried not bad, i try and do a bit of both if i can, i.e, aldi and tesco, can't go wrong.

[Deeps]

Aldi are good for somethings and not so good for others, their tinned stuff is as good as any and dried not bad, i try and do a bit of both if i can, i.e, aldi and tesco, can't go wrong.

Where else could you go in for a tin of beans and come out with a inflatable canoe, log splitter and a portable power charger (and of course the tin of beans).