21 Forever Foods. . . and a few we wish would, too!

this week we're talking about one of my favorite topics and that is forever foods what we mean by that is any food that should stay self stable for at least 30 years or somewhere in that vicinity or even longer a couple of these will last for centuries according to history and what others have told us so let's just get started it amazes me that God would make anything so delicious that would last forever and I'm thankful for that but can you believe that sugar and salt are two of the most commonly used for sweetening and making our food savory and both of these are shelf-stable for indefinite periods of time so those are some of the things you would want to absolutely have available to you let me say right off the bat I'm going to encourage that every single thing like this that you purchase though you take out of its plastic packaging and put in some sort of glass packaging with a glass or a metal roof on it cap okay your that will be for everything I say but sugar and salt also would you believe corn syrup now some folks say well we shouldn't have corn syrup anyway but because it is shelf stable and something that's used in cinnamon rolls and some other amazingly delicious foods it's worth having a good bottle of corn syrup somewhere in your cupboard I've also got raw honey here and literally God made any honey to be shelf-stable the kind that you want though that's going to have the most nutritional quality is going to be raw unfiltered honey so if you can that's the kind you want to get and again you're going to put it in a glass container if it isn't already one of the most common flavors that we use in the kitchen is vanilla and the only thing that you have to remember is you can't use vanilla extract that is imitation or any variety except for pure real vanilla extract and you can get it in small or big bottles my favorite is this mexican vanilla that is just somehow to me tastier than any other I've had but you want to make sure you get pure vanilla made with real vanilla bean and you want to store it in some sort of glass container with a glass or metal lid or cork but glass or metal would be best thank the Lord again for another yummy one this is maple syrup and I can't tell you how delicious that starts becoming the more you use it the more you'll want to use it maple syrup can give your coffee a wonderful flavor it's great for all of your breakfast foods in breakfast cereals this is just a wonderful sweetener with excellent flavor and so many things you can do with it so get yourself some good maple syrup incidentally this one it's in a fancy bottle they had it on sale for like four dollars which is a ridiculous price for maple syrup so I picked up about seven or eight bottles of it at the time that I bought this one just because normally this should cost somewhere between seven to ten dollars so in the event that you find real good maple syrup cheap boy grab it up when you have a chance let me move back here to this vinegar and I'll just say either kind of vinegar is shelf-stable indefinitely this is apple cider vinegar with the mother you see there at the bottom which just means it has those little bits of stuff down there in the bottom of it you can ho make your own apple cider vinegar which is just wonderful to do and we'll do it on another video but in the event that you need to buy it it's relatively inexpensive and it lasts forever and also distilled white vinegar this one's almost used up here that I've got but this will also last forever so either kind you just want to stock up on vinegar for everything from your food to cleaning and health and all kinds of different ways you're going to need vegan vinegar in the days to come alright let's move down here this is one of our first grains this is popcorn and let me just say when we say that popcorn is indefinitely good that's that's great for us to say but let me just tell you it does not mean the bagged microwave popcorn that you can get we would love for that to be shelf stable but it's not this is just plain ol Orville Redenbacher popcorn with nothing on it and I'm going to store it in some sort of a glass container with a little oxygen absorber in there so that it lasts longer but this should stay on your shelf indefinitely now some would argue that this is not a food at all this is just black tea I just want to remind you that in the event that you are a lover of coffee and teas or anything like that you're going to be thankful that you remembered to store some of this and the the more you can get the kind that has whole leaf and big chunky spices in it the better you're going to be for the long run and again store it in a glass container all right corn starch don't get a close-up of this because it's pretty messy I've been cooking with this one and so it's got some crud on the front of the box the corn starts last indefinitely and you're going to use it in cooking it can also be used as a great body powder or even on your face and it's good for you and it's going to be shelf stable indefinitely now let's go back here to soy sauce I've actually gotten a little upgrade from soy sauce this is you see it called Liquid aminos and by Bragg they do some wonderful different products you might want to look into if you haven't already heard of them they make great apple cider vinegar and stuff like that but this is soy sauce and it should last indefinitely because of the high salt content in it and it's just a good flavor for your foods next dry milk is indefinitely shelf-stable however let me just say you do not want to store it the way I've got it I've got it in like this paper box with just a paper outside shell on it this is not gonna last long ideally what kind of dry instant milk you want is going to be packed in a can believe it or not in a nitrogen pet can that will last indefinitely so remember not this version but dry milk that's packed in nitrogen pack can okay next up we have this wonderful blue ball jar from my grandmother full of what looks to be beautiful wonderful pemmican that I have made but incidentally this is the grossest batch in the world so be thankful you're not here in the room trying to taste-test this with me I messed up on this batch so on a different video we'll make good hardtack and if it's made the right way it's actually a mix of like pulverized beef and tallow and berries the Indians used to carry it in their pecks with them and the old Cowboys of the West and it lasts a long time and has excellent protein but this batch I ruined because I tried to get extra adventuresome in my recipe and I don't recommend that because you will regret it just like I do next to it we have ships biscuits or you've heard this called a hard tack I made two versions here let me hold up both jars so you can see them one is made with white flour and one is made with whole wheat flour incidentally the whole wheat flour right here is going to not last as long this is to be shelf stable indefinitely but the whole wheat flour has more oil in it and the more oil that you get in it the less likely it's going to last forever and also just if you're wondering some of those little silica gel packs I have in the background those are just to kind of absorb any moisture that might accidentally get into the jars will make some of this in another video as well alright next a flavor enhancer that you can get I just want to say this is not the right version you actually want the little square cubes of bullion I actually went to the store today to get some of the little cubes to show you on this video and the only kind of could find at Publix today were with the ingredient monosodium glutamate or MSG and I don't want you to get that I would rather you just go with flavorless food then get monosodium glutamate which is a flavor enhancer but it's also very bad for you this brand specifically does not have an MSG in it so I recommend it however this is a liquid and this will not last forever like the little hard cubes will so go out and look for the little hard cubes of beef and chicken bullion okay this is that wonderful product that you may have seen the video on how to bang G and that's G H EE I absolutely love it this is a fresh batch so it's still liquidy but normally it will be solid this is clarified butter also known as liquid gold or ghee and this is absolutely wonderful shelf-stable because the water has been taking taken out of it as well as the milk solids so it makes it this wonderful rich nutty butter taste exceptionally strong flavor of butter that you're gonna absolutely love and that's key so you want to have some of that on your shelf also dried beans that's an easy one we've been through that before of any old jars that you have laying around you notice this jar even has a lid that doesn't seal well that's okay any extra jars you have around the house that are there for looks just fill them up with dried beans it's one of the easiest and simplest ways that you can be prepared of just storing beans and all those extra old jars you've got and then over here my mother would disapprove of this part of the video but I'll tell you hard liquors actually last forever and so the only one of these that I've actually found useful for myself I believe is this one yeah this is handmade vodka vodka is going to be extremely helpful for like making a little autumn Iser if you wanted to have a perimeter around your house to keep the bugs away the ants away you just mix a little bit of peppermint oil with this and and spritz it around but these are also good for other things as well in cleaning agents bartering and trading but it's good to have hard liquor on your shelf just a bit of it even if you're not someone who uses it regularly like me mom you're gonna have to forgive me on this video alright next we've got an almost last white rice don't do what I did I wanted it to look pretty on my shelf and I like the flavor of white rice mixed with dark rice and quinoa and biscotti or I don't know I even how you say all the different kinds but I always like going and buying multiple kinds of rice mixing them together in this and then I just take a scoop out every time I need to well that's great for now but all the dark Rice's like long grain wild rice those have too much oil content in them to be shelf stable forever so really you just want to get white rice like you see over here just plain old white rice that is going to be in a nice bag and I'll store it in a glass jar with a little oxygen absorber and that should last forever now the last thing I just want us to cover is a couple of things we wish would last forever or almost do but may or may not be recommended one of those things is any kind of canned foods they do last a whole long time much longer than the date that you see on them so you can be assured that it's probably ok if you're in need and you find some canned food go ahead and and help yourself most of the time the risk is on you not me but you notice when I do buy canned foods I do try to get the little pop tops just because it's easier and in the event that there was an emergency and I needed to grab some and go a pop-top makes it sure easier than having to have it with a can opener a lot of folks would argue the pros and cons of anything that's canned like this so use your own discretion and judgment but some folks will say those last indefinitely also I'm just gonna mention spices here because I want to the spices as well as teas like I was mentioning earlier are shelf-stable much longer if you leave them in the whole version like this is ground or this is whole black pepper and it has the little lovely balls of black pepper in there and that's the way you want to keep it it's gonna last a whole lot longer than already ground pepper and all the other spices like cloves will last much longer if you keep them in a whole version even this is chopped garlic and boy you want to grow it in your garden and have it fresh as much as possible but if you're storing it have the as close to a full clove of garlic as you can dried like that because it's going keep everything the nutrients and the flavor a whole lot longer now some folks are going to tell you that this top ramen is going to be indefinitely shelf stable and I've done my own research and I cannot prove that it is nor condone it for you to get it it is delicious it's heartwarming and it's cheap food that you could stock up in your pantry but really as far as being shelf stable indefinitely it's got the it's got tons of tons of bad ingredients that are supposed to preserve it forever but it is a pasta type product that just isn't shelf stable indefinitely also just a reminder again movie popcorn no it doesn't last forever only the other kind does also cornmeal you might have wished that cornmeal was because if popcorn is why wouldn't cornmeal be and no it doesn't cut it I don't have an example of it but also I was hoping that Irish oats the kind that are the groats or steel cut oats I thought they would last forever and know there are only two to three years at the most coffee of course I hoped it'd last forever but it doesn't even last for a couple of months without going bad so forget coffee and then I was hoping spaghetti would last forever and it doesn't it's just not shelf-stable more than a year or two in the form that you get it so after you've looked at all this you've got at least 21 items that you can choose from that are going to last up to 30 years and even some of them 50 or a hundred or 200 years and there are example of examples of those through history but do your own research check out what other people say and what you've actually seen true examples of before believing all the hype there are a million videos out there on YouTube that show Twinkies last forever and some different foods like that that I just can't ever recommend or what I want to prove that I don't think I would want to eat up 100 year old Twinkie anyway so I hope this gets you started on what just to start putting into your pantry you don't need to hoard but I would have a good supply and I hope that this video has blessed you in your preparations that you're making as a prep stutter [Music] you

Channel: PREPSTEADERS

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Keywords: Prepsteading, Prepsteaders, Homesteading, Survival, Prepping, Panty, Forever Foods, Foods that last forever, Christa Swartz, Pemmican, Hardtack, SHTF, TEOTWAWKI

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Length: 15min 46sec (946 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 22 2017