I know prepping is a bit of a meme, but what are some of the best food items to store long term? Is rice one of the best emergency foods? It’s cheap, it lasts for a very long time if kept somewhere dry (relatively easy to store), and a person can survive off of it in dire situations.What does /diy/ think?
>>2982808pemmican
Rice is not bad to have on hand, but it has basically no nutrients, white rice at least. Beans have protein, vitamins and minerals and basically store just as well as rice. Ask your local bakery, or the bakery in your local walmart for food grade 2gal and 5gal buckets. They usually just toss them away
>>2982808Just run a buffer of foods you already eat.Do you want to eat 11 year old rice that smells like plastic bin if you get into a storm?I don't think so either.Just buy 2x as much as you need and replace when you are half way out.Also if you are even slightly overweight or anyone in your household is. Do not stockpile food. In fact buy 1/2 of what you need. You will just eat more if you have more available. You are guaranteed to be debilitated by fatness, and food running low for a few days is only an inconvenience.
>>2982818A lot of the bagged white rice sold in the U.S. is "enriched", so it has vitamins,etc added.The smaller packages of 15 bean soup mix store easily in a 5 gallon bucket, with smaller bags of brown/whole grain rice and bullion cubes/powder. A good volume to make a large number of meals will fit in a lidded 5 gallon bucket that you can purge with nitrogen for long term storage.>>2982822>Just run a buffer of foods you already eat.This is honestly the best method. Establish a base pantry sufficient for 3~6 months and rotate your stock.
>>2982808>what are some of the best food items to store long term?Look for protein items. Liver, ground beef, eggs, etc. Refrigeration is a meme. They'll last years at room temperature. Advice you can take to the bank.
>>2982808If things get that bad wouldn't it just be better to die immediately? Unless you live off grid in the middle of nowhere.
>>2982822> 11 year old rice that smells like plastic binI’ve eaten that 11 year old rice. It was absolutely indistinguishable from “new” rice.Keep it in it’s original bag (or use ziplocs) if need be. Use polyethylene or polypropylene containers (buckets).Brown rice will go bad quickly, like a year. white rice is good for at least 25 years I reckon.Don’t throw bare rice into a rubbermaid tub to store…Those degrade and turn sticky over time (the plasticizers leach out).
>>2982808>riceArsenic, anon. Not to mention low nutrition. It's cheap for a reason.
>>2982808freeze dried food is what you want. properly stored it never goes bad. just add hot water. rice is garbage food.
>>2982822>>2982829ignore this. get freeze dried food. mountain house is the best.
>>2982891>>2982892That shit is fucking expensive, and defeats the concept of having a functional pantry.You two are silly. You may as well have recommended MRE's or some shit.
What foods freeze dry the best? One of these days I'll set up the harvest right freeze dryer...
>>2982849Are you the idiot that keeps getting btfo on /ck/? It's brown rice that might have arsenic, they're talking about white rice here.
>>2982901you don't need a "functional pantry" you need food that will reliably stay good forever. we get it you're poor. but don't be stupid as well.
>>2982912technology connections did a video about this. some foods do not freeze dry well, or at all.
>>2982901actually now that I think about it stupid and poor go hand in hand.
>>2982808Beans, cereal, dried fruits, preserved meats, preserved vegetables and honey. Beans and cereals can be used to grow more food, aside from providing you with carbs, fiber and some protein. Meats will give you protein and fats, fruits and honey are there to diversefy your diet, and to treat yourself to something sweet from time to time, lastly preserved vegetables, can help with scurvy, some fruits will help with this. There are fruits and vegetables that can be kept for longer, like potatoes, quinces, some older varieties of fruit, root vegetables and nuts, you can also save seeds for growing more food, or just replant root vegetables. The problem will be water, since you need to drink more often and water can go bad, so you would need a filtering system, a clean source of water or you could try the old sailor method of adding strong spirits to water to keep it from going bad. A good place to learn more would be looking how people in the past survived.
>>2982808Vacuum sealer and mason jars.Rice and beans. Hard tack.Coconut oil. Tallow. Lard. Ghee. Spices. Spam. Sardines. Herring. Anchovies.Evaporated milk. Tomato paste.Chocolate. Crackers. Pretzels. Tea biscuits.Bulk tea and coffee. Tobacco.WATER(!)
>>2982966If you're wasting money on shit like MRE's then Yes. Yes they do.
>>2982808flour, beeans, protein powder, cheese, etc. few bottles of multivitamins and such too. clean water is gonna be more of an issue though, start distilling your own.>>2982822 says it best, just store what you eat normally. if what you normally eat doesn't keep well store the ingredients to make it and if its something you normally get pre-made start making it yourself. if the normal way of making it uses ingredients that don't keep well then try and experiment with substitutes before picking something else. have your food on a rotating queue such that you eat the oldest stuff first but buy extra every time you go shopping until you feel like there's enough buffer.
>>2982939The hull has the most arsenic. The kernel does as well, retard. There are far more nutritious things that store better like lentils and other dried pulses, Wang Chun.
>>298312440% of the world’s calories come from rice.You’re more likely to die from the US shooting up your country with depleted uranium rounds.
Beans are a pain in the ass to cook id pay the premium for the cans if i was prepping
>>2982849Wow. Btfo on two boards now. Maybe if you studied "commitment bias" harder than you've studied the arsenic content, as well as the prepper value, of white rice, you might realize that you've looked like a fool for some time now. I'm sure you'll come back with something snazzy, guys like you don't seem to be able to take being wrong.
I bought 10 cans of beans after this thread but ive ate 2 lol
>>2983230that's fine. as others stated previously, you should be stocking stuff you already eat. you can also note down how much of it you eat so you can actually know how long your supply would last
>>2983230This M'fer eatin beans!
>>2983152Pressure cooker.
>>2982808More of a second thought, but keep a stock of Vitamin C, D and B12. A dire situation is pretty much an end to most fresh fruits but apples and you don't want your physiology turn into that of a mediaeval peasant.
>>2983052Congrats, you die from scurvy.
>>2984221tomatos are a significant source of vitamin cbut yeah throw in a multi vitamin or some dried fruits
