The food rationing is about to begin.

[LiveFree79]

LOL all this talk of rice? I'll stick with my MRE rations! www.mredepot.com

 

[Deborah K]

Rice shortage????? I was just at Costco this weekend and picked up another 25lb bag of rice and 25lb bag of pinto beans. They were very well stocked on it......

 

[GunnyFreedom]

LOL all this talk of rice? I'll stick with my MRE rations! www.mredepot.com

Oh, don't get me wrong -- I have MRE's and they are very good for their purpose. Along with the 2 cases in storage, I keep 3 MRE's in a bug out bag. Problem is, MRE's are frelling expensive.

Figure $80 for 12 meals. You can live quite well off of 2 MRE's a day. So $80 for 6 days. You'd need 61 cases to have one years worth of food for one person, or $4,880 for one years worth of rations for one person.

Compare that to $44 for a years supply of rice for one person.

Big difference.

That said, MRE Depot is a really good place to get your stores from. I recommend them 100%

Hey, look here!

http://www.mredepot.com/servlet/the-362/Canned-Can-Long-Grain/Detail

$49.95 for 12 24oz cans of uncooked brown long grain rice. 18 lbs total. The beauty being, of course, that these cans are nitrogen flushed and vacuum sealed, meaning they will last something like 100 years in unopened storage.

 

[kyleAF]

Rice shortage????? I was just at Costco this weekend and picked up another 25lb bag of rice and 25lb bag of pinto beans. They were very well stocked on it......

The article is talking about places / cities with "China Towns". There's a lot more rice consumption there than where I live in Texas for instance.

 

[DrCap]

LOL - I can always find entertainment here... I just vacuum seeled 100 # of rice from costco 2 days ago, rice was $14.50 for 50# bag, vacuum sealer was about $120 and $40 for extra bags, though in the future I'll get bags from ebay I think. That's already gone to storage, I'm a hoarder anyway though so I've got probably 40# of rice around anyway.
For the record 1# long grain white rice is 1600 calories (a slim but manageable amount for 1 person's daily caloric intake). Calorie requirements of course vary based on activity level and basal metabolic rate etc... there was no rice shortage at my costco.
This weekend I'll be doing maybe 100# of flour and beans either next weekend or the weekend after that... I know I should get whole wheat and mill it myself instead but I don't want to eat whole wheat bread or whole wheat pasta (ick).
Also salt is a nice staple to have (the only mineral we eat) - and quite necessary for the long haul. Plus I got pepper as I can't imagine eating without some spice... I still need yeast, and more vegetable oil... ah so much work to do

 

[Dr.3D]

Huh, I've never had rice go rancid on me, but I have had a batch with little worms in it. However, that was in the half-full 25lb bag it came in, which was not exactly airtight.

Still, what you said AND what I said would seem to be addressed by the vacuum sealer. They aren't all that expensive as of now, and very well worth the investment for food storage.

I was only going by what I had learned from reading up on food storage.
Here is one of the sites I had been looking at.

http://waltonfeed.com/grain/life.html

Brown and White Rices​

Brown and white rices store very differently. Brown rice is only expected to store for 6 months under average conditions. This is because of the essential fatty acids in brown rice. These oils quickly go rancid as they oxidize. It will store much longer if refrigerated. White rice has the outer shell removed along with those fats. Because of this, white rice isn't nearly as good for you, but will store longer. Hermetically sealed in the absence of oxygen, plan on a storage life for white rice of 8-10 years at a stable temperature of 70 degrees F. It should keep proportionately longer if stored at cooler temperatures. Stored in the absence of oxygen, brown rice will last longer than if it was stored in air. Plan on 1 to 2 years. It is very important to store brown rice as cool as possible, for if you can get the temperature down another ten degrees, it will double the storage life again.

As for plastic bags.....

A quote from the same web site.....

Whatever container you use, be sure it is food grade as your product can be tainted with whatever the container is made from. Plastic sacks are not good air tight containers, for even if they are sealed, the relatively thin plastic 'breathes,' allowing air to pass through. Paper sacks are of course even worse.

This is why they suggest using a mylar metal foil lined bag to store food in.
Placing a couple of number 500 oxygen absorbers into the bag just before sealing it with a hot iron makes it so the only thing left in the bag is the food and the nitrogen that was in the air. Essentially you are nitrogen packing the food when using this method. The plastic bucket you have the mylar bag in is only to keep it from being damaged and hopefully to keep rodents out.

 

[GunnyFreedom]

You can always try this one on for size:

http://zombiehunters.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=27718

 

[Dr.3D]

You can always try this one on for size:

http://zombiehunters.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=27718

Wow, that actually brought back some memories from when I was living in Mexico.
Went out to the ranch with one of the towns butchers and while we were out there, he built a fire and cooked some strange looking meat. When he gave me some I found it was very tough and hard to eat. Turns out it was a cows uterus.

 

[jon_perez]

EVERYONE LOOK AT YOUR GUT AND TELL ME IF WE CAN'T DO WITH A LITTLE BIT OF "FOOD RATIONING".

You can take the food inflation/rationing as apocalyptic news and go all Chicken Little or you can take it as one hell of a good motivation to finally put yourself on a diet.

 

[Mortikhi]

On the news this morning, Sams club and Costo rationing food purchases.

I'm playing on the safe side and have already bought some items in bulk. If nothing comes of this, I will have loads of cheap food that my family and I will eventually eat. If something does come of it, then those that snicker will find themselves on said diet.

 

[amy31416]

Wow, that actually brought back some memories from when I was living in Mexico.
Went out to the ranch with one of the towns butchers and while we were out there, he built a fire and cooked some strange looking meat. When he gave me some I found it was very tough and hard to eat. Turns out it was a cows uterus.

Oh good lord, that's repulsive. Could be worse, when I was in Africa I ate some bizarre stuff.

For the record, most of these exotic "delicacies" ain't so delicate. Blecch.

I looked at the website that Gunny originally posted, and I just can't get over the "whole chicken in a can." I just can't imagine it, do not want to either.

 

[yongrel]

Oh good lord, that's repulsive. Could be worse, when I was in Africa I ate some bizarre stuff.

For the record, most of these exotic "delicacies" ain't so delicate. Blecch.

I looked at the website that Gunny originally posted, and I just can't get over the "whole chicken in a can." I just can't imagine it, do not want to either.

Delicacy is just National Geographic's way of saying "revolting beyond all belief" in a polite way.

 

[amy31416]

Delicacy is just National Geographic's way of saying "revolting beyond all belief" in a polite way.

That's a good way of looking at it. Just like realtors terms like "cozy" (200 sq ft), or "handyman special!" (Looks like it was bombed.)

 

[GunnyFreedom]

Oh good lord, that's repulsive. Could be worse, when I was in Africa I ate some bizarre stuff.

For the record, most of these exotic "delicacies" ain't so delicate. Blecch.

I looked at the website that Gunny originally posted, and I just can't get over the "whole chicken in a can." I just can't imagine it, do not want to either.

I have a roommate who is disgusted by chicken also. I don't quite undersand that one, but to each their own.