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Forever Food: Miracle Munchables That Never Spoil
We’ve all heard of the amazingly long-term shelf life of most canned or dried goods when stored properly, but even these will eventually lose their nutritional value and spoil… though it may not be for 5+ years or longer. What a lot of people don’t realize is that a handful of foods/sauces actually boast a shelf life of forever. These 16 shelf stable staples are enough to get you through just about any food shortage or emergency situation you may find yourself in, including a Zombie outbreak or attack.
16 Foods That Last Forever: Just like anything, these foods will only last forever when properly stored and cared for. That means keeping them in well sealed containers stored in cool dry places whenever possible, as well as keeping up routine inspection and rotation. Always supplement meals with fresh and varied ingredients whenever possible, a well-rounded healthy diet is extremely important for truly long-term survival.
Cornstarch – This gluten free forever food is most commonly used as a thickening agents for sauces, stews, and syrups, but it can do a whole lot more than that. Cornstarch is great for treating blood stains, detangling and cleaning hair, soothing rashes and sunburns, and it can even be eaten straight out of the box for a kick of starch when needed.
Corn Syrup - One of the most common substitutes for sugar, corn syrup is used in everything from baked goods to canned foods, candy, soft drinks, and more. While it wont work for medical treatments like real sugar does (see: Sugar Antiseptics), this substitute sweetener is a definite treat in an undead world. Try to avoid high-fructose syrups when possible. It might be the end of the world, but that’s no reason to let yourself go.
Dried Beans – If left properly sealed and stored in a cool dry place, dried beans will never spoil. Available in the form of pinto, lentils, black, garbanzo, navy, peas, and more, these easy to find and store forever foods are packed full of proteins, fibers, and carbs, making them a great shelf-stable staple… even without an emergency on the horizon. As dried beans age, they harden slightly and need a little longer to soften while soaking or cooking.
Dried Pasta - Kept free of moisture and insects, dried pasta will last you more than a lifetime… unless you eat it all of course. This easy to prepare emergency staple is great for filling bellies and providing a boost to carb stores. Available in a wide variety of forms and base ingredients like buckwheat, rice, flour, egg, spinach and more, there is a type of pasta for just about every occasion.
Extracts - All liquor based extracts like vanilla, orange, almond, mint, etc. last a lifetime or longer… as long as you get the real stuff and not the cheap “flavored” kind. Useful in beverages, baking, and even as a mild deodorant, extracts are great to have on hand.
Hard Liquor - The uses for this valuable staple go beyond the occasional escape from reality or use for celebration during times of duress, it’s also a highly valuable commodity for barter and even medical treatment and sterilization in some cases. Shelf stable even after being opened, hard liquor will be there as long as you need it to, and as long as you can resist downing a whole bottle at a time.
Hardtack – A simple mixture of flour and water, forming a hard dense cracker that can literally last for decades, hardtack has been used the world over as a dietary staple and supplement during times of disaster and war. While it might not be the most flavorful food, hardtack can keep you going when times get rough.
Herbs and Spices - Everything from garlic powder to cumin, basil, oregano, black pepper, cinnamon, mustard seed and more, will last you well into twilight ages of the world… as long as you keep them stored in a cool dry place and have enough on hand to go around. In addition to the obvious use as an ingredient in many dishes and baked goods, herbs and spices play an important role in supplying much needed nutrients for survival, as well as their widely accepted use as a natural alternative to many medications.
Low-quality herbs and spices often come with microscopic mold/mildew contamination that can lead to spoilage (not to mentioned illness) over time, and some low-cost options are even diluted with things like bricks dust and other non-edibles. So while it might cost a bit more in the immediate, in the long-term the benefits of high-quality herbs and spices are worth the extra upfront cost.
Instant Coffee - Not everyone needs a boost to the system all the time, but a little coffee can go a long way to making a bad situation a little more bearable. Available in a wide variety of containers from individual packets to gallon size cans and more, this is one of the most readily available forever foods you can find. The everlasting abilities of coffee don’t stop with the instant kind though. Green non-roasted coffee beans can be stored just about forever, and you have the added benefit of roasting them as you see fit… as long as you have the tools and knowledge to do so.
Raw Honey - This eternally shelf-stable delicacy is one of the best survival foods to have around. Literally lasting forever, honey crystallizes as it ages but never spoils. In fact, archaeologists have even discovered shelf-stable raw honey in Egypt’s ancient pyramids. Used as a sweetener and treatment for a number of maladies, raw honey wont ever let you down. Check the labels at your local grocery store or farmers market carefully. Cooked honey will eventually spoil so stick to the raw stuff when you can. (see also: Honey Everlasting)
Salt – The only exception to this rule is with seasoned salts. These often contain ingredients that spoil within a year or so. The real stuff, from sea or from the table and iodized or not, should last a literal lifetime and beyond. (see also: Salt For Survival)
Soy Sauce - Stored in a well sealed container and left unopened, soy sauce will last forever. This is primarily due to an extremely high sodium content. Useful in a variety of sauces as well as a condiment on it’s own, soy sauce is a tasty treat to have on hand for the apocalypse. While hoarding those little see-through packets you can snag from most Asian restaurants might seem like a good idea, it’s probably better to just buy a few small glass bottles instead.
Just likes spices, and most prepackaged and prepared foods/sauces, low-quality soy sauce can come contaminated with mold. While it might not present an immediate problem, it can greatly reduce the shelf-life of the soy sauce, and it really isn’t very good for you anyhow.
Sugar - Over time both white and brown sugars will clump together and harden, no matter how you store them, but that doesn’t mean they’ve spoiled. In fact, just like honey, this cane-based sweetener and ingredient for many baked goods has a literal shelf life of forever, and can even be applied medically. (see also: Sugar Antiseptics)
Uncooked White Rice - Unlike naturally oily brown rice, uncooked white rice can last forever as long as you keep it away from moisture and invasive critters like moths and other small insects. Full of calories, carbs and proteins, white rich can be a meal on it’s own or added to things like vegetable or meat stocks to height the nutrients and flavor.
White Distilled Vinegar - Found in most stores and even some quick-stops, this highly versatile Forever Food isn’t just great for pickling, canning, sauces and preservation, it’s a powerful cleaning agent, washing liquid and deodorizer as well. Stored in a cool cry place, a gallon of this can go a long way.
Wine - When properly produced and stored wine only gets better with age, and that makes it a highly valuable resource for barter and survival. Unlike its hard liquor counterpart, wine must be stored in a cool, dark dry place and consumed quickly after opening (3-5 days). Proper storage of wine can most difficult, as it requires positioning of the bottle so that the cork doesn’t dry out, as well as the proper environment. For optimal storage, keep the bottles on their sides or tilted slightly cork-side down so that the liquid is in constant contact with the body of the cork. Keep stored in a cool, dry and more importantly dark area, with a stable temperature and level of humidity maintained as much as possible. Bottles should be checked a few times a year to make sure corks aren’t drying out and that the bottles haven’t cracked. Only wine bottled with real corks can be stored long-term, screw top or plasticized corks will not last for extended periods of time. Unfortunately, champagne and sparkling wines will not store for long term use.
In addition to their uses for nourishment and some survival uses, many of the items listed above will become high-value currency for barter in an apocalyptic or undead world, especially salt, sugar and alcohol. We recommend storing no less than 1-3 months worth of each of the 16 Forever Foods so you’ll always have them on hand for yourself and for trade.
Making an investment in a few everlasting ingredients and food supplies can save you from an empty belly and malnutrition during the apocalypse or other times of disaster… not to mention making your food stores a little easier to manage. This vital step to being properly prepared for a worst case scenario is one of the most important yet simple things that you can do.
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Permalink Reply by saint.357 on
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this is the least of the damage that fucking dog did to me. my arm is a thousand times worse.
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Permalink Reply by Jessie W. Garrett III on
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That dog now has the taste of blood and its really gonna start after people. It's time to take matters into your hand. I would call the local sheriff's office and find out what can be done about it.
Hell, tell them the truth, that this dog has attacked a cop and now it's attacked you without reason. Tell them the truth, you can't go anywhere and that this is your home but you don't feel safe with this dog around...
If they say you have to fill out a report and then call animal control, do it...
The owners have this dog screwed up...Next time it attacks you'll be talking to us from the hospital...
Sorry if this sounds mean, But Where the Fuck is the Fire you have when it comes to protecting yourself from Big Brother and Zombies and Raiders?? Quit making excuses and trying to play both sides of the damn fence...If you're as tuff as you have claimed you are, you would quit looking for an excuse my friend and do what needs to be done...It may not be the dog's fault for his mental state, but the owners can and should be accountable for the action of their dog...
Family of Not, Do what's right dude...Only victim's find excuses...You know what needs to be done and how to protect yourself and those within your family that need it. Where did that Saint go?? Where did the commanding officers of the Avenging Saints go??
I'm not trying to be mean or anything like that, I want to see the Saint that Fights for every trial he has fought to get this far in life....
Man you know what has to be done to protect yourself and those inside that house, QUIT BACKING DOWN!!!
If you're ever to be taken seriously as a leader or even a Lord Humongous type you will have to stand up. Hell dude, it could be that those within the house are needing that leader in order to follow to finally make a change in which they begin to start helping themselves and with you being the first to stand up, could result in those finally standing behind you...
Now I'm not trying to come down on you dude...I kinda like you...(LOL)
The fire and shit we all here see within your posts and subjects really show a quality of leadership that you are capable of, so taking that fire and applying it to protecting yourself now will later prove to not only us, which you shouldn't worry about, but to yourself that you have the Power....(Damn He-Man cartoons...)(LOL)
Dude I don't mean to come down on you like one of my kids. But unless you start standing up and doing what is best for you and those you are trying to protect, you'll do exactly what most people do, play the victim card and say it's not the fault of this or that, that it's always someone's elses fault...Dude, it aint your fault that the dog is mentally fucked up, but because the owners have totally fucked the dogs head up and it now has the taste of blood, the aggression of the dog will begin to get worse...
Don't give me some excuse, don't even tell me what you are going to do...Just do it...It may sound stupid and that I'm trying to be a hard ass dishing out some tuff love or some shit like that...I'm not...I want to see the Saint in which all should fear wake up and take up the fight that will save his life before the Z-poc or whatever falls upon us....
I actually like you dude...You're kinda like a little damn thorn in my side I can't get rid of, but it's one of those thorns that even after you get rid of it you sort of miss the pain....So lets see that fire back when I first saw your posts and take it and add it to the fight you have at home....
Stop wussing out and give us back the REAL SAINT.........
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Believe it or not, I think most of your junkies that survive will band together and that's where we'll get bands of renegades or raiders. This will be our main problem with dealing with the living when the Z-poc happens.
Personally, those that have dealt with the problem or are dealing with it as we speak are still holding on to the concept that the person suffering from the addiction will suddenly change or finally wake up and see the damage in which they have caused because of their addiction.
I know I have family who are addicted to drugs, even if they were to survive long enough to make it to me or my compound, they would never be in a position in which I have to trust them with my life.
But I also know that I would do my best to protect them, but as for having a solid placement within my encampment, that would never happen. Reason being is because the addiction is way to strong for them to deny.
Plus, How I can I help someone who refuses to help themselves? You can't.
I'm not picking on Saint by no means, but I feel he believes that someday his family member will change. But the fear of having to leave them behind in order to survive is something I don't think he could face. So basically he's in a damned if you do and damned if you don't situation...
And when faced with a reality such as, do I try and save my loved ones, who's problems could get everyone killed or do I leave them to fend for themselves, (Knowing that that person or persons won't survive long without him), you feel stuck. On one hand you don't want their blood on your hands, but then again you don't want the blood of others on your hands either, just because someone couldn't control their demons....
I have a slight different problem when it comes to the Z-poc. My kids and myself can move fast and will be able to survive. As for my wife, with her missing leg, heart problems and her diabetes, I have to make a choice when time comes to either leave her behind to get my boys to safety or face the fact that we're fucked...
I can separate my feelings from my actions at the time of danger, trained myself to react or respond to the situation without having thoughts of what will happen afterwards...That's why when my brother goes into the hospital I don't panic like everyone else does. I trained myself over the years to react to my brother's problems. Not act upon my emotions in which everyone does.
In the Z-poc, I can see having to make a decision or decisions that will be emotionally stressing, but separating ones feelings and do what's right in a group setting or even on your own will keep you alive longer then having to battle the emotional side of the problem. Once the problem has been dealt with, that's when you deal with the emotional aspect of the situation...
It's hard as fuck to train yourself to set your emotions aside. Took my damn near 14 years of having to deal with the medical problems my brother faces everyday. Watching him and learning that the emotional state that everyone gets in when he's having to deal with a seizure places added stress on him...Not at the time of seizure, but later after he comes out and is back home. Everyone bugging the shit out of him making sure he's ok. Always asking him if he's alright and just the constent nagging they all do when he's went through a seizure just kills me...All he wants is to be left alone and you look in on him from time to time...Don't talk, just look in on him...Other then that, he wants to be left alone....
So when someone starts trying to argue about lower or higher functioning addicts being part of a group, that usually tells me they are facing an emotional and stressing realization that they will have to face the damned if I do and damned if I don't scenario...
As it stands for me at this point in time, Alcohol has it's place and time...As for drugs, I can't see a time where your dulled senses will ever be an attribute to any group.
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thats where you got it wrong i know they can't change and i hate them i hate them so fucking much that every time I'm with that person it takes everything I've got not to snap their fucking neck. if it was up to me i would have kicked them out on the street a long fucking time ago. its other family remembers that keep them around, even though the bitch is nothing but human cancer bleeding us dry. to emphasis how much i hate them it was their fucking dog that attacked me. and this is only the worsts time that dog bite me so many times i have scars on every limb. but can we get rid of it no, they wont let us. one of these days this dog is going to kill one of us and i can only hope it will be them and not me. they have four other fucking wonderful dogs they could spend their time with. all of them sweet hearts. but they have to keep the fucking psycho. all because their fucking drug deal found a bunch of little shits trying to kill it and then passed the dog onto us. some how because the dog was abused it some how correlates to their own fucking abused past. god damn junky fuck. i have to put up with their fucking bull shit all the god damn time with a fucking smile on my face. lying through my teeth that i don't hate their fucking guts just to try and keep some semblance of normality in them. you ever have to chock down your hatred from someone and kiss their ass even though all you want to do is beat them into a blood fucking puddle on the floor. it is worse then anything else. i have to hurt myself to keep from hurting them when I'm in their company. but the first fucking thing i do after the dead rise and civilization crumbles meaning no cops and no laws. i put a bullet in their fucking head and i hope that their spouse who has been reluctantly carrying them along simple because they don't know what else to do understands.
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Permalink Reply by KOMRAD RHINO☭ on
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I agree with Jessie here. Keep a knife on you at all times. Don't even justify to them why you have it. It's your home for Christ sake! You don't need to justify shit to anyone in your own home. Then when the dog even looks cross eyed at you. Stab the fucker with it and drive it in all the way to the hilt! And I do agree with Jessie on another thing. REPORT IT ASAP! This covers your ass when you have to do it. Nobody should have to live in fear of a dog in their own house for any reason. My mom had a twitchy tempered dog. I fixed his ass when they left one day. It had been acting more twitchy then usual this day. Well when I got home from the range that day, they were already gone. It greeted me at the door. Was friendly at first. I got sat down to clean my pistol when he showed his teeth. That was when I switched out an empty mag for a full one. I no sooner got the mag locked and loaded when he came at me. It was so hell bent to take a chunk out of me that it took 10 shots out of a 15 shot 9mm magazine to drop him and all shots were head shots. He dropped less then a foot from the chair I was sitting in. Mom and dad pulled in just as the last shot was fired. Dad ran in wondering what happened and saw the dog. He knew right then what had to have happened. He went out and told mom. As much as it hurt her. She to understood why. Well as with all shootings the cops had to be called. It was upon examining the dog that they found that all ten shots hit home in the head. So my suggestion bro. Strap on the knife and be ready. He will make another go at you. And just for the record. The dog I killed that day. They raised it from a puppy. Treated it like gold and never had a problem with it until it got older. Some dogs just have it in them to be dangerous no matter how they are treated. And when a dog gets a taste for blood. It's just going to get worse. Get that knife. Strap it where you can get it quickly. And most of all don't hesitate to use it when the time comes. Let the owners scream till Mt. Olympus crumbles. They can get another dog. But YOU can't get another life and this to close bro. Way to close!
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well i can assure you both of one thing that dogs never gonna get the drop on me again. i am done fucking around with him though. if it tries anything again it will die by my hands. I'm always strapped with a knife anyway, just stupidly let it out of my grip that night. but for reasons i really can't get into here calling the cops is not an option. lets just say it will snowball and cost me everything then leave it at that. but I'm done being a fucking chew toy. the only good thing is that the dog stays locked up in the basement apartment with them. so as long as i don't go down their which i am never doing again i won't have to face him. if I'm lucky the problem will resolve it's self with the fucker biting the bitches throat out. the realm problem in the mean time is the stupid bitches complete lack of common sense. she took the dog out on a walk to the liqueur store cause you know everyone needs to pound a pint of vodka an 9 in the morning. lets the dog knock her down and drops the leash. the dog was muzzled but I've seen him get it off.
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Then you may want to consider poisoning it if you get the shot. Because eventually it will make another go at you. And if the cops are out of the question. Then your are going to have to do something yourself. And better for you to make the first move then wait for the dog to and it have the upper hand. God and fate protects only those who do for themselves bro.
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Rat poison is good. But antifreeze works best. And being in the basement. Either one would make a great staged accidents. But I think antifreeze would be the best. When they get a good belly full of that. There is no coming back from it. And being it has a sweet taste to them. You shouldn't have to mix it in with anything but water for the dog to take it in completely.
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thanks for the tip but its a basement apartment dude completely furnished so I'll have to clean up the evidence afterwards. make it look like it died of "natural causes".
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Well unless they have the vet do an animal autopsy. Then you won't get caught. And I doubt they will go to that kind of trouble due to cost.
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