Posted: 9/29/2016 6:01:41 PM EDT
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What percentage of your food supplies are canned?
For me I think about 60%. How long do you expect the canned goods to last? I have some from 2011, starting to rotate these out of storage and replace with new. I opened some canned peaches last night from 2011, they were okay, not great. Not sure what to expect from the other cans, the few I have used have been fine. I went thru everything today and noticed some canned green beans from last year had started to leak, they hit the trash. All the older stock is out of storage and ready for use. |
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A good share. Maybe 40%+.
We eat a lot of canned food and try to keep on the shelf an amount that will be used by the best by date. For example, if black beans have a 2 year best by date, we try to keep on the shelf an amount that will be used over 2 years (about 24 cans for us). We replenish as the items are used so the shelves stay stocked with that amount. I get that food last way longer than the best by.....but this method allows you to not get overstocked with stuff you will not use. ETA - you could also donate leftovers before the best by.....or you could do what you are doing and hang on to them until something bad happens. Look at it like insurance. How much money do we spend on unused insurance every year???? |
| Last year at my in-laws we had a green beans with diner that I thought tasted kind of like fish. I realized it was a metallic taste and looked at the can for damage or something. Can was fine but it turned out to be from their Y2K stash and was like 12 years past it's use by date. |
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i'd guess 40% of mine is.
i have boxes of stuff i've pulled to purposely run it out of date. just got my first bad can a few weeks ago. Spaghettios dated 10/2009.....brown and stinky, but was only one of four cans. 2008 Bushes beans, and lotsa other stuff still good. |
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I have about 30% in factory cans, 50% in home caned, and 20% in freeze dried. I don't count the live chickens and egg potential or the heirloom food from seed that I grow every year.
Since I got my home freeze drier two weeks ago, I have put 50# of cooked chicken breast through it as well as 12 smoked porkchops and some straw berries and pulled pork. I am converting my home canned foods to freeze dried. |