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10/9/2014 6:56:01 PM EDT
Sitting on a heap of professionally prepared and packaged beef jerky.........ah.......beef tenders as benefactor prefers it to be called.  

The packages run from 3 to 10 ounces (with some kind of freshness" packet) and have sell by dates.

I would like to add these to my meager preparedness food bank.

How would you go about trying to lengthen their shelf life?

TIA
10/9/2014 7:03:03 PM EDT
[#1]
It'll last a long time.    Freeze them.    You could probably gnaw on a himalayan mummy with no ill effects.
10/9/2014 7:05:23 PM EDT
[#2]
I freeze deer jerky all the time.  6 to 8 months later still the same.
10/9/2014 7:10:08 PM EDT
[#3]
What about the whole sealed mylar bag thing with O2 absorber?

10/9/2014 7:37:16 PM EDT
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10/10/2014 12:00:16 PM EDT
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The only thing that should diminish with time would be flavor and possibly texture. If it's properly dried down and oxygen is removed from the package it should last a long time and still be palatable.
10/12/2014 5:23:14 PM EDT
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my homemade jerky doesn't last long at all but what little I can keep for myself will last a month in my desk drawer without killing me. I usually keep it in the freezer though and it seems to last forever there. You don't even have to warm it up. It is just dried meat after all.
10/12/2014 5:53:40 PM EDT
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I know some of it I have gnawed on, I thought was a few hundred years old
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