Posted: 10/20/2011 2:58:43 PM EDT
| Do you store cereals like Frosted Flakes or Cap. Crunch? |
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i keep 10 boxes in my rotation, but not those flavors. I keep high fiber cereals, and I eat high fiber cereals, as they are filling and keep your plumbing working. Raisin bran frosted mini wheats honey crunches oats fiber one cereal. remember, during a real emergency, you will run out of milk, so get some powdered milk or prepare to eat dry cereal. |
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Yep, sure do. Cold cereals are very underrated nutritionally. I have noticed big differences in how some store.
These have not done well: Fruit Loops, Apple Jacks, regular Cherrios. Tend to get a very stale taste after about a year. These have done VERY well: Frosted Flakes (particularly the Gold version), Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Honey Bunches/Cluster type cereals, Golden Grahams. All were stored in original boxes, in a finished basement storage room. Average temp is probably around 60 degrees. I have some canned with O2 absorbers as well, once they hit the 2 year mark, I'll start rotating some out to see how they kept. |
Hey, I actually LIKE Cap'n Crunch! 
I don't think it would store all that well, though. The expiration is not very long in the original box and trying to put ox-absorb, dessicant, etc. or even getting it into mylar bags probably wouldn't work too good. I get a wild hair every so often and buy a box but I don't stock up on it because I don't think there's a good way to make it last very long. I still like it, though... 
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| Peanut Butter Captain Crunch isn't exactly in my stored food section but I always have enough on hand. The oldest I have eaten is 7 years past expiration and it still tasted brand new out of original packaging. Maybe it was a fluke since peanut butter by itself usually starts tasting really bad after about 5 years, but I'll be willing to take up a little space in the (short-term) pantry finding out. As someone else said, don't rely on it for anything but some calories and comfort and don't allow it to take away storage space from real food if you are space limited. |
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Grape Nuts!
I eat them at least 4 mornings a week. They might be the perfect long term storage food...what could happen to them? Are they gonna go SOFT or something 
Back before recyling cardboard took hold, Grape Nuts boxes did not even have a bag inside the box. |
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Grape Nuts! I eat them at least 4 mornings a week. em to our They might be the perfect long term storage food...what could happen to them? Are they gonna go SOFT or something
Back before recyling cardboard took hold, Grape Nuts boxes did not even have a bag inside the box. This...I eat em' too but not as often as you. You are correct, I bet they would be a long term storage cereal. Might have to add them to our supplies. |
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I have been storing various "sugary" and "non-sugary" cereals when they are found on sale. Mylar and and 02, sealed and good to go. As an addition to other stored items, this is a cheap huge caloric boost to any diet which is critical.
Frosted Flakes Fruit Loops Mini wheats plain and frosted Grape Nuts Cheerios Oatmeal Cream of Wheat All good to have... |
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Grape Nuts! I eat them at least 4 mornings a week. They might be the perfect long term storage food...what could happen to them? Are they gonna go SOFT or something
Back before recyling cardboard took hold, Grape Nuts boxes did not even have a bag inside the box. Believe it or not, I have eaten stale grape nuts. It takes MONTHS of an opened bag for them to get to that point! 
We rotate the cheap junk ceral, it would at the very least, be a nice comfort food every now and then. |
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We store oatmeal (quick oats and regular) and with wheat berries we can make cream of wheat and with rice we can make cream of rice cereals.
mredepot sells cereals packed in cans, however as listed above you can do it yourself in Mylar. |
| Right after I bought my house a Store here had Cheerios on sale for $2.00 with a coupon right next to them for "Save 1.50 on 1" I ended up with a cart full of big boxes of cheerios. I still have three left in my pantry and that was almost 5 years ago. They still taste fine today. |
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+1 on the Honey Bunches of Oats. After they get to the 3 year mark the Almonds get a little stale. I ate them anyway.
I noticed that I bought the majority of mine in the month of November for some reason. They must have been on sale. I will see what this November brings. The manufactor may want to make room for the new seaons crop?? |
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Cold cereals are very underrated nutritionally. I'd like to hear more about this. he means after you slice fruit and put ontop. Well, that's one way to look at it I guess. A delivery vehicle for fruit, and the fruit provides the nutrition. I see 
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Cold cereals are very underrated nutritionally. I'd like to hear more about this. I don't agree with the original post, they are a good source of nutrition. It may not be protein but they do have carbs, vitamins and calories. It can be a breakfast, munched on as a snack or used as dessert. Its a feel good food and provides diversity, I think that's huge in the mental part of shtf. I think a 5 gal bucket with 4 or 5 different bags of cereal would be a nice addition to supplies. I don't see why they wouldn't last for years when stored in mylar bags w/ o2 absorbers. Thats cheap and easy |
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I guess it depends on what you call preps. 5-15 year storage stuff, nope not a one of the store stuff but quite a few of the freeze dried stuff. In my normal daily rotation stuff, yes about four different types.
We even like the dirt cheap old standards like puffed wheat. I'm not being negative here. This all just comes under a different light once you get beyond a certain point measured in time. What is means different thing to different people. What you have stored back is a totally different definition for someone who grocery shops weekly and someone who does monthly. Tj |
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I guess it depends on what you call preps. 5-15 year storage stuff, nope not a one of the store stuff but quite a few of the freeze dried stuff. In my normal daily rotation stuff, yes about four different types. We even like the dirt cheap old standards like puffed wheat. I'm not being negative here. This all just comes under a different light once you get beyond a certain point measured in time. What is means different thing to different people. What you have stored back is a totally different definition for someone who grocery shops weekly and someone who does monthly. Tj I don't take it negative, I'm looking for all the feed back I can get. Could you elaborate on you last paragraph. |
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I guess it depends on what you call preps. 5-15 year storage stuff, nope not a one of the store stuff but quite a few of the freeze dried stuff. In my normal daily rotation stuff, yes about four different types. We even like the dirt cheap old standards like puffed wheat. I'm not being negative here. This all just comes under a different light once you get beyond a certain point measured in time. What is means different thing to different people. What you have stored back is a totally different definition for someone who grocery shops weekly and someone who does monthly. Tj I don't take it negative, I'm looking for all the feed back I can get. Could you elaborate on you last paragraph. The word preps just means different things to different people. To someone new at it, it could be anything over a weeks worth of food. As they progress, that point moves farther out. weeks become months, and I 'd say months become years but unless we are anal compulsive and use wharehouse software, once you reach a certain point, you don't know how long it will all last. Now that don't know how long point varies from person to person, but for the sake of discussion let's just say "A lot". The tendency then is to subdivide your food into what the guys call "Panty" and "Long-term storage" or what's right off the kitchen and what's in the mini-wharehouse. Most of us aren't eating the O2 absorber goods/MREs/freeze dried etc. day in and day out. One of the mistakes I made early on, years ago, was not looking at pantry as larder. It took a hurricane on the Gulf us living in an apartment complex to drive home how important that really was. Though only a one week no services thing, we were very quickly at the handing out food to our neighbors level. Young people in those days were not too up on keeping food around. We found we couldn't begin to give anything out until we knew what we had. I often looked at larder food in those days as camping food. Anyway, it was quite the experience as we discovered we had an easy month or more of food just in the pantry, a left over I guess of being use to shopping monthly when I was in the service. Most of our neighbors weren't talking weeks but a day or two. Its amazing in events like that how fast word gets out somebody has something and he's sharing. Its also even rationing amazingly fast you reach the "Sorry, that's it." point. Took us 48 hours in that apartment complex. Had we not planned that pantry out by meals then days, quite a few more people would have went hungry. As it was, many dinner was a can of green beans or basically one item of what we could spare. Tj |
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We store a little cereal. We eat mostly store brand and rarely for breakfast. We store UHT milk, too. I can't see Race Bannon drinking UHT milk. 
There is a little bit of a scalded aftertaste. I think Race Bannon could drink it straight out of the box at room temperature while slapping around some frogmen. He is a badass. I prepare mine once it's out of date by 6 months in potatoe soup. We do have about 3 gallons (in 1 quart boxes) on hand if the SHTF. |