Just like they do in the supermarkets when they stock the shelves - pull forward the older goods and put the new stuff behind. Time consuming YES but it should mean little waste and less diarrohea!!!! [/quote]
thought everyone did that-even non preppers, standard practice in our house.
Just like they do in the supermarkets when they stock the shelves - pull forward the older goods and put the new stuff behind. Time consuming YES but it should mean little waste and less diarrohea!!!!
thought everyone did that-even non preppers, standard practice in our house.[/quote]
Obviously not, this thread is about eating out of date food!!!!!!!
preppingsu wrote:
Obviously not, this thread is about eating out of date food!!!!!!!
surely thats the whole point, if i rotate my food then i dont have to eat from out of date tins!, on the other hand i read on some American sites that tins can still be edible(the contents not the tins!) after 30 years so long as they are not "blown" or damaged. do not store dented tins as they are suspect!
Tins are easy to store and have a relatively long shelf life but most people on here are on a budget.
People stash away tins and might prefer a diet of fresh food as opposed to all tinned food. Keeping the tinned stuff for emergencies.
Alternatively, they might have acces to fresh fruit and veg from the garden/allotment which they eat daily and stock up on long life food
Even if you have all the moeny in the world you can't make the sell by dates any longer so if you won't eat out of date foods there is a limit to how much food you can store.
By experimenting amongst ourselves we can work out which foods are worth stockpiling for the long term.
I totally agree with rotating stock, that is common sense but if we find a food that will store for 20 years then that is one thing I am stockpiling and maybe not rotating, not for 20 years anyway.
You would have to be very clever to stockpile exactly what you eat in a year. We tend to go off things for a while or fancy a change. If we know that tinned Pear Halves or Rice pud will last a few years we know we can eat something else without the worry that those will be off by the time we get round to them.
Another point is when you are stockpiling as much stuff as some of us do, with a restricted amount of space, rotating is not as easy as just moving a couple of tins. If you have a months worth of food I would imagine rotating is a doddle. Over 12 months of food stashed in cupboards, wardrobes, attic, cellar, under the stairs, etc. is not quite as easy.
As long as we know we are not going to poison ourselves we should be OK.
the way i see it is, whatever system of food storage we each use, we need a system where we can rotate the old stocks first, we may say-what the heck, i'm willing to take a chance on getting the runs! but what if we are taking that chance when TSHTF? the last thing i want to do is take a chance on old out of date food when everything is"going to hell in a handcart" on the streets! i need to be fit and active in that situation not running to the toilet(which may or not be working) every 5 minutes.
bulldogeagle wrote:the way i see it is, whatever system of food storage we each use, we need a system where we can rotate the old stocks first, we may say-what the heck, i'm willing to take a chance on getting the runs! but what if we are taking that chance when TSHTF? the last thing i want to do is take a chance on old out of date food when everything is"going to hell in a handcart" on the streets! i need to be fit and active in that situation not running to the toilet(which may or not be working) every 5 minutes.
Eurgh! That's a very good point, actually...imagine if the whole family are 'incapacitated' at the same time!
I have got some bits and bobs that are a few months out of date - not much at all - a few jars of pasta sauces, beans, and so on, which I have no problem with. But years and years out of date would probably put me off. But surely rice/dried pasta would be okay? I thought that dried food would just lose a bit of taste, the older it got?
And on that note, I've got a couple of cartons of UHT milk that I found lurking in the back of the cupboards today - it's expiry date was May 11. Any thoughts on whether I should throw it out or give it a whirl?
Ogre wrote:
INSTANT COFFEE: This was a let down, Glass Jars of Maxwell House, vacuum sealed. The wife said they just dont have that 'oomph' you expect. Can see us going down the bean and grinder route in future. These were best before 2009.
I think Maxwell House is pretty naff anyway - I've never gotten along with it ...but I guess I'm a bit of a coffee snob. You can't beat grinding your own beans and brewing your own fresh coffee. Yum yum!
I've got a couple of cartons of UHT milk that I found lurking in the back of the cupboards today - it's expiry date was May 11. Any thoughts on whether I should throw it out or give it a whirl?
UHT milk has a very long shelflife, we keep 24 cartons at a time, its supposed to not go off until you actually open it so it can be kept on open shelves, once open though it must be kept in the fridge. as with everything else we rotate this too, new ones to the back, use from the front.
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