Baked Beans!

[Squawk]

I am supposed to be smart, but during the last birdflu scare I prepped heavily, however because of lack of space for six months food I had no real stock rotation system. After the scare I decided to eat my way through the stock until one day I took out a can of beans that was strangely round !. I realised it was a 'blown' can and for the life of me I cannot explain why I tried to open it in the kitchen !. All I can say about my stupidity, is that a single can of beans is perfectly adequate for redecorating a large kitchen !.

[SooBee]

That one made my day!

I'm decorating just now but I'll give that little paint technique a miss.



Soobee

[junmist]

[Optimystic]

Hi

I stock the following tins - tomatoes, potatoes, peas, carrots, sweet corn, butterbeans, kidney beans, black eye beans, white kidney beans, baked beans, rice pudding, various fruits, spinach, prolly others I can't remember at the mo.

Then rice, pasta, oats and cous-cous for dried items.

Might be worth storing a bunch of water too - so cheap - incase the stream became undrinkable. Or add a purification system to your preps.

Cheers

Matt

Would defo agree with this.. Purification tablets are cheap enough and easy to store.. Also, we store things like Stuffing!.. its brilliant for adding to soups and stews, adds flavour and helps to thicken a watery meal.. Another good thing to look for is Indian spices, things like curry powder will make even the most boring of meals taste a tiny bit better! Oh and Salt!! A must have too..

[Staffs prepper]

You need to try an achieve a balanced diet, so fats protein and vitamins will be needed. Meat, pasta vegetables and fruit. Tinned or dried it does not matter.

[tigger159]

Lidl have tinned fish in tomato sauce (+others) with a best before of 2016.....throw your fishing rod away...it's just not necessary ! Lol.

[riversong]

Interesting thread. The preppers motto "Store what you eat and eat what you store" is ok if you usually live out of cans or eat a lot of wheat. We don't we eat a lot of fresh veg and meat. The idea of existing out of cans filled me with dread. We need a foodies gormet prepper group !!

However, having looked at the cannedfoods site it gave me some ideas. I think they need some work
for a prepper life style but there's a project

[Mr.S]

Just seen this and it made me smile.

My BOBs MREs consist of mostly of microwave rice, oats (for porridge) and beans. Easy food that can be eaten cold for extra cavemanlyness or cooked on top of my ghillie kettle. Total cost for an MRE is about £1.50 per meal and the oats are rotated out every couple of months.

6 months however and you'd turn yourself inside out when you fart...

[soutie]

beans are a great staple , they can be tarted up with spices, meat etc and bulked up with rice .

[iceprep]

I've managed to store lots of multipacks of Heinz Beans, Costco knocked the price down, as it turns out they were switching to Cross and Blackwell Beans. I must have a dozen 6 can packs. Got long expire dates.