Started my canned food store

[dreamcatcher]

I started the food prep this week. Canned foods. All the own brand stuff. I was surprised how much I got for £40. Basic stuff beans, tinned meats etc. I will keep adding over the coming weeks, but I guess the next problem will be storage.
I have room for around 100 cans at the moment, which is a lot I know but I want to add dry goods such as rice and pasta. I noticed the rice will need a two year turn round as the use by is 2014.

[preppingsu]

I started the food prep this week. Canned foods. All the own brand stuff. I was surprised how much I got for £40. Basic stuff beans, tinned meats etc. .

I take it from this you have never bought the own brand canned goods before? If not, have you tried them? You really don't want to be left with food that you really cannot stand and makes you heave!! Only buy stuff you have tried and would be happy eating day in and day out. And most importantly rotate your store so you will need to be eating some of it soon.
Just a few suggestions......

[tigs]

canned foods can last at least 50 years with out losing anything in value up to 100years it only loses 15% of its nutritional value as for dried goods repacking them in mylar bags http://www.theselfsufficiencyshop.co.uk ... od-storage with Oxygen absorbers they will last you years

[Ian]

canned foods can last at least 50 years with out losing anything in value up to 100years it only loses 15% of its nutritional value

I would love to see a decent scientific reference for this please. If true it would change the whole concept of food storage.

[mole hill]

I just done a quick search and found this, http://www.internet-grocer.net/how-long.htms

[Ian]

I am sorry but I don't regard unsupported statements by companies with a vested interest (tin manufacturer and retail seller (who only offers a three year guarantee)) as good enough evidence for me to lay down a store that will keep for "at least 50 years with out losing anything in value" with any confidence.

One tin surviving which was not mass produced, in those days each tin was hand made and individually processed with the intention of lasting as long as possible, really does not prove the point, it was for an Arctic expedition after all.

From my scanty research on the 'RRS Discovery' Antarctic expedition all food was specially selected, manufactured, packed and stored for the expedition and I am sure the same would have been true 80 years earlier,

[gary5wift]

I'm glad I'm not on my own . I finally started my prepping this weekend. I bought my first lot of Aldi canned and dried food (all stuff we've tried previously) and added some shelves/drawers to the pantry to hold it and keep it seperate from our day to day food. Also installed a few sets of solar security lights around the outside of the bungalow, these work well and light up the outside surroundings well if anyone approaches.

Cheers
Gary

[tigs]

I am sorry but I don't regard unsupported statements by companies with a vested interest (tin manufacturer and retail seller (who only offers a three year guarantee)) as good enough evidence for me to lay down a store that will keep for "at least 50 years with out losing anything in value" with any confidence.

One tin surviving which was not mass produced, in those days each tin was hand made and individually processed with the intention of lasting as long as possible, really does not prove the point, it was for an Arctic expedition after all.

From my scanty research on the 'RRS Discovery' Antarctic expedition all food was specially selected, manufactured, packed and stored for the expedition and I am sure the same would have been true 80 years earlier,

the fact is companies do not have any interest in saying that there food lasts 50 plus years in a tin!( read your own statement! ) in fact the opposite is true they want you to buy more ! Canned food as old as 100 years has been found in sunken ships and it is still micro biologically safe it not just the odd tin !! also there are several thread on here with links to scientific sites that show that tinned food is safe to over 50 years!! so want i stated is not unsupported !
as for the arctic expedition i am guessing you mean In 1820, William Perry (Parry) took an expedition in search of the Northwest Passage, toward the North Pole. He took with him some canned meats. At the time, food canning was about a 10-year-old technology.

At least one can of meat was not used and wound up in a museum in England. In 1938, it was opened and found to be edible. It was fed to a cat which suffered no ill effects from eating the 118-year-old meat.

[Lomast]

not at all scientific but a couple of years back we were clearing out my grandmothers house and found some WWII issued tins of peaches so i decided to try them before chucking them, although they didnt really have a lot of taste they seemed alright to me and i didnt suffer any harm.

Things like meat i may be a bit more nervous about

[Youcantseeme]

I started the food prep this week. Canned foods. All the own brand stuff. I was surprised how much I got for £40. Basic stuff beans, tinned meats etc. I will keep adding over the coming weeks, but I guess the next problem will be storage.
I have room for around 100 cans at the moment, which is a lot I know but I want to add dry goods such as rice and pasta. I noticed the rice will need a two year turn round as the use by is 2014.

A good way to develop your stores,a system that I use, is to use what you store. When you go shopping, add to your store supply and place your longest use by date at the back of your row and use the shortest date first. Always try one item first before stock piling on a line of food in case it becomes wasted food and then ultimately wasted money. Another idea that I use (along with many others) is to stock up on what you like when they are on special offer , again making big savings!