I estimate about 5 months maybe 6. As of right now.
I don't store pasta or prepared sauces(but then I don't use prepared sauces anyway). I think that restricts your menu too much. I have a lot of home preserved food.
I do store plenty of sugar and pickling strength vinegar, salt and an embarrasing amount of jam jars, kilner jars and spare seals.
4 120L waterbutts full of rainwater ready to treat. Think I'm sorted.
Probably week, maybe two. Very poor. Water is not so good either. I really, really need to focus on the key essentials. I've got multi-tools galore though and rucksacks galore ! I don't think they would taste too good though
I don't have any clue how to start home preserving. I'd really like to, but I wouldn't have a clue where to start. Even if it's only for all the tomatoes I've grown this year - the only bloody successful thing in the entire container garden!!!
I'm waiting until I get some money itsy then hitting M&S. Their profits will jump after I've been... I will probly save the company. I might go as sinfully far as 4 tins !
The ladies on MSE are finding that old style preserving isnt as easy as they thought- too many people having stuff rot and go bad on them. Plus the gear costs money and then you need the time. I'm more into growing stuff that will stay in the ground a longer time and just pick & use as I go. Like leeks, my leeks are awesome (says she bashfully)
Had the Plumber in today. Cut right over meal time. So youngest was famished as usual. I got the veg out the fridge,peppers,onion,carrot,spinach,etc. stored rice and...a jar of ICELAND sweet and sour sauce. Bang on meal!
Point being,rice is good with flavour. And its quick.
In three words I can sum up everything I have learned about life: It goes on.
Robert Frost.
Covid 19: After that level of weirdness ,any situation is certainly possible.
I just got about 11 Kg of dry food inc. rice, lentils and beans + 4Kg Gram flour and 4 Kg (ish!) Buckwheat flour (plus raising agents for basic 2 inch thick risen frying pan breads) and some dehydrated apple to help out. Plus some tomato pure in the fridge.
I am not prepping for global thermonuclear war, just a bad winter and not being able to get to the shops for a week or so.
I am not a total believer in economic decline either.
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Got only a few weeks, due to having to use up my previous prepped stores recently.
Lack of money, really.... like Lil said, it's hard to be able to eat day to day AND stock up. But I have plenty pasta, rice (though need more sauces!) and rabbit meat and fish in the freezer. Am digging up the tatties from the garden, cooking, mashing, chipping and freezing those too.
One of my ambitions is to one day buy a canner so I can preserve more foods in jars or tins, hate having to rely on the freezer so much as we get plenty powercuts here in winter. Though, last year it was so cold, and the snow was so deep, when we had a big one, I stored some of the frozen food out in a very deep snow drift and it never thawed til I used it. That was dire emergency measures though.
Red Doe wrote:One of my ambitions is to one day buy a canner so I can preserve more foods in jars or tins...
Yeah, I'd like a pressure canner and about 200 kilner preserving jars. Ain't gonna happen this year though. Bloody car needs quite a lot of attention, AND a full service.
