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I would put in regular food that I cooked and freeze it. Those are my MRE. I don't want military rations or feel the need to have them on had. Good old-fashioned home cooking is where it is at for me.
What regular food store well in a homemade MRE?
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If I was making it up from scratch, it would be dried meat, with rice and dehydrated vegetables stored separate. With some coffee, tea, salt, and pepper in air light containers. Then I would have a root cellar with root vegetables, and canned goods on shelves. If all of that couldn't get me through till the next hunting season, then it's just my time to go.
How would you make your homemade MREs portable?
Ziploc bags?
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What if you can't stay in one place due to various reasons?
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What it boils down to is Jerry will be one of the most unhealthy people if it ever comes to having to deal with a catastrophe. All the junk food that doesn't include the nutrition we need to deal with surviving is mostly absent in all the inquiries being made by her.
I don't know what to reply to this.
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I believe she is trying to learn what foods would be good to have if there was a situation where she would not be able to rely on others to decide what she needs to eat.
Quite Actually, this is just a homesteading/emergency preparedness question.
When you get responses like that don't be afraid to tell people the truth about yourself, that you are neuro-atypical, developmentally delayed with handicaps and you're trying to do your best to learn and understand about the world and to absorb information. You've mentioned it a few times but not everybody knows about it.
The more often people read your posts the more obvious it becomes. When people are more aware of your developmental circumstances they will either become more patient with you and more willing to help you to understand things, or else if it's too much for them to deal with they may not respond at all, in which case at least you won't be harrassed by those people. Don't feel hesitant or concerned about admitting it about yourself, there are a lot of other people on this forum that are also neuro-atypical or dysfunctional in a variety of ways and don't say anything about it when perhaps they should.
In defense of Robin too, Robin was sharp but just being an honest person and speaking the truth. Your main focus IS most of the time on unhealthy junk foods that are full of empty calories, sugars, preservatives and pesticides and I think you already know how bad too much sweet stuff is for you. It makes you irritable and hyper or else makes you crash.
If you want to make emergency rations that will store reasonably well without being canned or frozen or freeze-dried then get a good forced air dehydrator and learn how to master the art of dehydration. Ziploc bags are okay for short term storage in a pinch but plastic of any kind isn't good, even food-grade plastic actually isn't good for long term storage because plastic goes brittle with time and crumbles into pieces, or it rots from contact with the oils and acids in foods. And critters eat through plastic and get into the food.
Dry-heated glass jars with air-tight metal or other types of impermeable caps are best for long term storage of dehydrated foods and liquids.
Have you done any research in the Survival and Emergency Preparedness forum and through the archives there? If not you should, there is a wealth of information there too.
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Nuts stored for a long time without being frozen tend to get pretty nasty tasting. You could probably survive off them but you won't enjoy it.
You don't have dried vegetables on your list. There are a lot of vegetables that can be dried and will taste pretty good when reheated into a soup or stew.
You don't have dried vegetables on your list. There are a lot of vegetables that can be dried and will taste pretty good when reheated into a soup or stew.
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back up what is your goal?
tell me a story about how it will be used , define your POU Philosophy Of Use.
how many hours/days are you trying to survive on this
storage goal , how will it need to be stored , how many weeks or months or years are you trying to store it for.
how many people are you trying to feed ?
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