Army vet says prepper food company booming as more Americans plan for disaster in 2024
US Army veteran Jason Nelson shared why prepping has become more mainstream and how his freeze-dried beef company can help families supplement their emergency stockpile.
I am stocking up on bags of rice.
Dont forget the salt. Easily overlooked in my opinion
Rice isn't protein though. We have rice and flour, mylar vacuum with oxygen absorbing packs, but we have beans and other proteins too.
I have spagetti as well.
You need nutrition not just calories. Rice and pasta is not enough.
These are just pieces of the puzzle. I will have more.
What do you recommend, brown & or wild rice.
Whatever you get, buy food grade 5 gallon buckets, and some gamma seal lids. Your rice/beans/flour/salt/dehydrated foods will be moisture and insect protected. Cant eat food you prepped if it gets ruined. Just as important as the food itself is how you store and preserve it.
Non GMO, whatever you decide on. Parboiled white has more nutrients preserved than regular white rice. Jasmine and basmati have great flavor, brown and wild are more expensive but healthier- they also go bad more quickly, so try to vacuum-seal them, preferably in mylar (regular vacuum sealers get you part way, you need to quickly finish the seal with an iron, check YouTube for good instructions), with oxygen absorbers. We found brown rice to be a good middle point between price and health, and we do lots of blends in our cooking.
On that note, brown rice will go rancid after 1-2 years due to the additional oils.
White rice will last 50+ years if stored properly.
Rice and beans combined make a complete protein.
I’ve brown rice go rancid in six months maybe because it was in plastic.
Thanks, good info
Here is what I purchased.
15 pound bags that don't expire until mid next year.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/196171260342
Pressure canning beef and chicken; left overs into soups.
Only $50/lb for filet mignon!
What will it be when you can hardly get it?
Eat ze bugs!
I'll have the Spatter Platter please.
Dehydrated though?
Pemmican?
Pemmican (also pemican in older sources) is a mixture of tallow, dried meat, and sometimes dried berries. A calorie-rich food, it can be used as a key component in prepared meals or eaten raw. Historically, it was an important part of indigenous cuisine in certain parts of North America and it is still prepared today.
The name comes from the Cree wordᐱᒦᐦᑳᓐ(pimîhkân), which is derived from the wordᐱᒥᕀ(pimî), 'fat, grease'. The Lakota (or Sioux) word iswasná, originally meaning 'grease derived from marrow bones', with the wa- creating a noun, andsnáreferring to small pieces that adhere to something. It was invented by the Indigenous peoples of North America.
Pemmican was widely adopted as a high-energy food by Europeans involved in the fur trade and later by Arctic and Antarctic explorers, such as Captain Robert Bartlett, Ernest Shackleton, Richard E. Byrd, Fridtjof Nansen, Robert Falcon Scott, George W. DeLong, Robert Peary, Matthew Henson, and Roald Amundsen.