Average Joe MREs

[wyoDreamer]

@MoonShadows spoke my thoughts. We have wheat berries stored in the mylar bags and they are rated for 30+ years of shelf life. I have a grinder to make flour for homemade bread, so that is why we have wheat stored.

We started slow in stocking up on the freeze dried food in the #10 cans. It is a little expensive to order it on-line and have it shipped. We found a place in Colorado that sells the food storage stuff, I believe it is a Morman store. A little at a time and it all eventually adds up. I think we will eat better if the SHTF than we do now.

We actually use it to make meal mixes for camping. so it gets rotated out a little bit.

Sometimes SAMs CLUB has freeze dried hashbrowns in the store, but you used to be able to order freeze dried foodstuffs and pick up in the store.

 

[lcertuche]

I've saw regular frozen, shredded hash browns dehydrated. I think it's probably Linda's Pantry (again not me, another Linda). It could be cheaper to do it yourself.

 

[Britesea]

Just found and ordered these. What a time-saver!
http://mylarbagsdirect.com/mybaforvase.html

Don't forget you can also sprout your dried bean, wheat, lentils, etc to increase your vitamin intake if you are on a subsistence level.

Blanching the potato shreds is a PITA (ask me how I know...)but necessary if you are using your homegrown potatoes. If you aren't, then go for the frozen hashbrowns, they are already blanched, and dehydrate them.

 

[Britesea]

Sprouting is a good idea for both the livestock AND the people- lots more nutrition in the sprouted stuff as opposed to the seed itself.