foods don't store long term what to store instead foods don't last hi
it's AlaskaGranny Alaska Prepper I thought I'd share with you today five foods that I do not
store long term anymore I'm going to explain to you what those foods are why I don't store them
long term what foods I store instead the first food is brown rice brown rice is delicious it's
nutritious it's easy to prepare brown rice is very versatile brown rice has oils in it and so it can
go rancid you can have foods like brown rice in your prepper Pantry food storage stockpile but
for the longest lasting long-term food storage you need to store white rice white rice can last
for decades and you want to have foods for long term stockpile you know is going to be safe to eat
rice still going to be good to eat and nothing's going to happen to it you don't want to come to an
actual emergency shtf and find out that your food is unfit to eat so for the short term it's great
to have brown rice but for the long term store white rice I recently made a video on how I make
a lentil brown rice meal in a jar I'll put a link to that video in case you want an idea of how to
use your brown rice the next food I don't store for long term anymore are egg noodles pastas will
last forever but egg noodles have eggs in them and so the eggs can become spoiled and rotten so
it's great to have egg noodles they're very nice for different kinds of casseroles stroganoff but
use them up within a couple of years they're not going to last forever like pasta as well pasta
macaroni noodles they just are made basically from flour and water and so pasta can last forever your
dried foods such as rice and pastas need to be stored in an airtight container in a cool dark
dry place and they're going to last forever but egg noodles need to be rotated keep an eye on any
type of fancy pastas that you have for example here I have red lentil pastas and I'm not really
sure how long they will last so I don't store them long term I buy red lentil pasta because
they're to me they're special they're a delicacy and so I like to rotate them and use them within
a short amount of time like the egg noodles I keep foods like red lentil pastas and I don't
keep them in my pantry more than maybe two years brown sugar I don't store brown sugar for the long
term anymore either brown sugar is great it has a delicious flavor it's moist and creamy brown
sugar is yummy in so many recipes but moisture in brown sugar can dry out and so then you have
a problem with your brown sugar is hard and it isn't available right when you want to use
it you can put something like an apple slice or a piece of bread in with your brown sugar seal it up
well and let it sit say overnight and then brown sugar can soften up again because because you need
to add the moisture back into it you don't need to be concerned with storing brown sugar if you
have white sugar and molasses because you simply blend them together and that's how you get the
brown sugar the Molasses is like a byproduct I guess you would call it from when they're making
the white sugar now white sugar is great to store long term store it in a cool dark dry environment
seal it up airtight but don't use oxygen absorbers with sugar because it can turn it into a big hard
brick and nobody wants to try to break their sugar apart when if you just store sugar airtight it can
remain nice and granular if you do live in a humid environment you find sugar is clumping
up you can take something as simple as a Saltine cracker drop it in the jar sugar and then it can
help absorb any moisture white sugar needs to be kept dry and brown sugar needs to be kept moist
both of them need to be stored in an airtight container so if you want to have brown sugar in
any kind of a situation decades from now store some molasses the next food I don't store for long
term is yeast I like to buy the little packets yeast you can also buy yeast in a jar and it looks
like I'm storing yeast forever but I'm actually using the yeast because I have Oster bread machine
I like to make bread in my Oster bread machine I'll put a video to an easy way to make bread in
your bread machine an easy recipe in case it's something you're interested in a bread machine
is a great way to be able to provide the bread that you need so then yes you do need some yeast
it's certainly easy and convenient to use a bread machine when you want to make bread from scratch
it saves a lot of work on the old hands with all that kneading instead of packages of yeast for the
longest term food storage I have a sourdough starter this one's been in my family for so
many generations and years that it's got a name we call him Doughen and it's easy to continue to just
have your sourdough starter continue to feed it a little bit and even if you go on vacation or you
don't want to use sourdough starter for a while you can put it in your refrigerator and get it
out occasionally and feed it again you don't have to keep sourdough starter on your counter and feed
it every single day if you're not making a lot of things with your sourdough starter don't feel
like you have to continue to feed it and discard when you aren't going to be using it because that
seems very wasteful I've also dried some sourdough starter so that I could rehydrate it in the future
so that Doughen can live on so I'll put a link to that video on how to dry your sourdough starter if
you want to have yeast forever put away with your spices and Seasonings is where I have it so that
you'll have it for the longest term another food that I do not store for long term is dry kidney
beans dry kidney beans need to be soaked and they need to be cooked thoroughly you need to get them
to a certain temperature because there's a toxin that's naturally in kidney beans that's not in
other beans so while I don't store dry kidney beans in my long-term storage I do have plenty
of canned beans so then I never have to worry did I cook them long enough did I get them to
the correct temperature it's simple to have some canned kidney beans right in your prepper pantry
and you can usually pick them up for not a lot of money finally the food that I don't store
long term is food I don't like if I don't want it today I'm not going to want it in the future and
you might say well under hardships you'll eat anything but wouldn't you rather store Foods
you actually like so then in a hardship situation you can still continue to eat food that you want
that you enjoy that you know how to prepare so if there's foods that you don't like don't add them
to your prepper pantry and your long-term food storage stockpile because people say this is what
Preppers need this is what you should have this is what you must have what matters is what you want
what you are willing to prepare what your family is willing to eat that's how you get the best use
out of your grocery dollars buying foods that you actually will use you don't want to store Foods
either that you don't want to eat you want your pantry to be full of foods that you do want to eat
so think about the foods that you will and won't store for long term leave us a comment below and
tell us what are those Foods what are your strategies of what kind of foods you want for
the longest haul for any kind of a situation in your prepper Pantry in your long-term food storage
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