Rebel_Rider1969
Well Known Nuisance
Anybody made any using off the shelf stuff?? Cost?
I keep some tins of vianny sausage and sardines and smoked oysters not big on potted meat but its not too bad on a cracker and a few packs of kool aid for a little something differentAnybody made any using off the shelf stuff?? Cost?
Agreed, the stuff like rice and some canned goods stay good for a really long time, which is good because I normally won't eat that stuff unless theres nothing else to eat. I got sick of shopping in the covid era weirdness so learned to buy as much as I could of everything without it going bad before we use it. Just takes some organization and minimal effort once you get going.Honestly IME it's better to just stock 6+ months ahead of rice, pasta, salt, sugar, canned goods, etc and eat as you got (and keep buying). Less time, less effort, far less waste when your MREs / Homemade MREs / Survival food goes bad.
Granted if you are making it for hunting, that makes sense but aside from that, I don't see it. Then again I ain't bugging out, I'm staying put.
Canned food is nuclear fallout-proof. Decontaminate cans by scrubbing off the hot particles off the outside of cans with hot soapy running water. Think a hot shower, not a hot bath, or else you're just going to be having cans you just scrubbed swimming in a hot particle soupI keep some tins of vianny sausage and sardines and smoked oysters not big on potted meat but its not too bad on a cracker and a few packs of kool aid for a little something different
Extra-dried goods in double-enameled cans have a 25+ year shelf life. Just like the Mountain House brand of freeze dried canned goodsBack when I was in high school, my friends and I would do a lot of traveling and camping.
We lived in Turkey and would grab our backpacks and hitchhike across the southern coast spring break and during the summer. We would usually stay gone at least a week, sometimes more than 2 weeks.
Dad would go to warehouse sales on base and buy a case (12 meals) of C Rations for $3.
This was in the early ‘70s and, as I remember, this stuff was packed in the late ‘50s.
We each had small Sterno stoves that we would heat the cans up on. Good stuff.
Tasty MREs????Although, the only bad thing about having tastier MREs is the fact I keep eating the things and can't save them up
I said "tastier"... lol. Big difference!Tasty MREs????
MRE bombs are illegal nowadays. Dead serious. I made quite a few like 30 years ago. They're a lot of fun.Yeah after Ivan we was bored and I had the bright idea to experiment with the MRE heaters. Cram one in the neck of a half filled water bottle so it don't hit the water. Then put the lid on and toss that baby. It dam near blew the windows out of a condo lol. Dam thing was crazy loud