Posted: 1/2/2011 11:02:43 AM EDT
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Noticed for some reason I dont throw out those small ketchup/mustard/hot sauce packages from take out. I once heard a story that homeless people go into restaurants and take a handful of ketchup and make tomato soup from them with only hot water. Got me thinking. Even though I have a ton of ketchup I never tried to make soup. Has anyone done this, its the only reason im saving the ketchup.
Ive seen mayo packages too, wondering how long they can last for. Might not be a bad idea to keep a bunch on hand to add flavor to foods in a survival situation. |
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My grandfather and grandmother both experienced the great depression. After their retirement, and when we were all grown up, they'd spend the summers upstate NY, and do the Florida snowbird shuffle to a trailer that they had in a senior park. One winter we went down, and the old folks were having a pot luck dinner kind of thing. One of my sister in laws notice that my grandmother took an open jar of mayo from under the sink, added some to a seafood salad that she was making for the event, and put it right back under the sink. It had to be close to 80 that day. My sister in law warned us not to eat the salad. For years we all wondered how they survived doing scary crap like that, until we actually did the research. It winds up that mayo has quite a bit of lemon juice in it, and can survive like that. Anyway, mayo can survive quite a bit of mistreatment. |
| a number of us in this forum (myself included) make our own "MRE" type meals. i keep those condiment packets to use with those. i typically don't like to keep anything that ordinarily needs to be refrigerated if it weren't in packet form (mayo, ranch dressing...etc) |
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My grandfather and grandmother both experienced the great depression. After their retirement, and when we were all grown up, they'd spend the summers upstate NY, and do the Florida snowbird shuffle to a trailer that they had in a senior park. One winter we went down, and the old folks were having a pot luck dinner kind of thing. One of my sister in laws notice that my grandmother took an open jar of mayo from under the sink, added some to a seafood salad that she was making for the event, and put it right back under the sink. It had to be close to 80 that day. My sister in law warned us not to eat the salad. For years we all wondered how they survived doing scary crap like that, until we actually did the research. It winds up that mayo has quite a bit of lemon juice in it, and can survive like that. Anyway, mayo can survive quite a bit of mistreatment. The reason that mayo gets such a bad reputation is the stuff that it's mixed with...tuna, chicken, etc. Those ingredients go bad quickly and will make you sick. It ain't the mayo. |
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MY parents grew up in the drepression, my father stocked up on canned goods, my mother would go to a fast food place, eat half a hamburger, wrap the rest up in a napkin and put it into her pocket, for later. Many old people do this, I think because the quantity is so much more then back in the day they cant handle eating the whole meal. My mom and dad does this. |
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MY parents grew up in the drepression, my father stocked up on canned goods, my mother would go to a fast food place, eat half a hamburger, wrap the rest up in a napkin and put it into her pocket, for later. Hell I do this!! If a place does not have a to-go box I make one myself. My family only goes out to eat with just the 5 of us maybe once or twice a year. When my father comes down he wants to eat out all the time. Kid's love Cracker Barrel so we eat there when my Dad is in two and they always give the kids two bottles of syrup I'd take one every time family members noticed I was doing this and they would give me the syrup they did not use it took over two years but I had enough to fill half gal bottle around about 30 of the small bottles when I looked at how much they sold it in there store it was around $2 a bottle so I saved $60. I'm a big take home person when it comes to food I have taken home turkey sausage, blueberry muffins, steak (I don't care if it was an all you can eat my son asked for it and he was going to eat it!) And a few other things. When I lived by myself for a few months I would buy tea for a gas station everyday and take 10+ packets of Splenda also honey the people who worked there did not care when the honey was out they would go back and get me some from the back room without me asking. The whole 6 months never bought honey, sugar or Splenda. |
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The reason that mayo gets such a bad reputation is the stuff that it's mixed with...tuna, chicken, etc. Those ingredients go bad quickly and will make you sick. It ain't the mayo. Actually, mayo used to be high risk- The pH was decreased to reduce risk of bacterial growth. I assume this is FDA regulation. So now the Mayo is safe, but if you make something from it where the pH migh change, all bets are off. |
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