Baked beans...

[sethorly]

I started all this because I saw lots of posts about food prepping but nothing on calories.

It looks like we're saying the same thing then.

The thread has run its course I think.

[Deeps]

The thing is sethorly, we know all this.

No one ever said don't store high calorie foods, the only person that said not to store something was you back on the last thread where we had this exact same discussion when you said we shouldn't be storing canned beans.

The first link you've posted is a fair point, but it's completely irrelevant, what you carry for a short trip has no bearing on what you should store for long term survival, and the second link has dried pinto beans as the writer's second best rated food so completely contradicts what you're trying to say when you're insisting that beans are no good.

You're refusing to listen to what is being said to you, a balanced diet has enough calories in it, otherwise it wouldn't be a balanced diet, stop with this whole nonsense about balanced nutrition but with not enough calories, those two things are mutually exclusive.

You go ahead and store whatever you want, but we are not going to agree with you on this.

Let's take my stores as an example, I currently store 1 years worth of a reasonably balanced diet, (and a year's worth of liferaft rations but I'll ignore those for now.) I could probably change that easily enough and get 3 years (or more, but we'll call it 3 years) worth of raw calories in the same space with no regard for actual nutrition, should I?
No, of course not, I'll have scurvy and who knows what else long before that first year ends.
If I eat my years worth of food and there is no more food to be had anywhere then I'm in trouble, but if I eat my 3 years worth of pure calories then I'm in just as much trouble, and a lot less likely to be fit enough to solve my problem, I might have lived for two years longer, but those two years won't have been pleasant and if I can't find food then I'm still going to die, am I that much better off?

No matter how much food you have stored, unless you have a huge bunker, eventually it's going to run out, the whole point is to give you time for either the crisis to be over or until you've made other arrangements such as growing your own food, you're very unlikely to be able to store enough for the rest of your life, if you are then space or cost isn't going to be a problem so this whole discussion is completely irrelevant, and the healthier you can keep yourself the higher your chances of survival are when your preps run out.

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[DustyDog]

Beans are a good staple in anyone's food prep, but like a lot of things in life, moderation, it is no good living on beans every day, you would miss out on some vitamins and minerals as well as getting fed up of them, no matter how much you loved them, give me fillet steak everyday, i'll soon be sick of it.

Have a good varied supply of food, tinned, dried and frozen, you cant go wrong.