Companies manufacture and sell a wide variety of freeze-dried canned foods that are designed for long-term storage.
The best known of these is Mountain House…
Their foods are cooked and then freeze-dried before canning…
“Freeze-drying” is a unique process that provides product characteristics that cannot be achieved with other processing methods. Fresh or cooked foods are flash frozen and then placed in vacuum chambers that are as cold as -50 F. As low level heat is applied, the ice evaporates without going back through the liquid phase, and removes approximately 98% of the product’s moisture.
This freeze-dried food is then packed in airtight #10 size cans. #10 cans are a little smaller than a gallon. The filled cans are then nitrogen packed (the air has been replaced by nitrogen). The inside of each can is coated with a protective enamel, including the lid. This enamel helps protect the can from deteriorating elements.
As long as the can is not opened or punctured, the food inside have the longest shelf life available…up to 30 years!
After opening, they recommend using the contents with 2 to 3 weeks for best results and taste; using the convenient resealable plastic lid between uses. Treat any leftover cooked food as you would fresh food.
Some of their popular items include:
Entrees like Beef Stroganoff, Rice & Chicken, and Lasagna with Meat sauce (each can has about 30 servings)
Breakfast Items like Scrambled Eggs and Bacon
Canned Meats like cooked hamburger, turkey, chicken, diced beef
Fruits and Vegetables
Dessert Items like Blueberry Cheesecake, and others.
They also manufacture these foods in pouches which have 1-4 servings and which have a shelf life of 5-7 years. These are very popular with backpackers…
These pouches make excellent additions to your 72 Hour Emergency Kits…
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These are so easy to store. Buy enough for a month or two and let them sit in a box in the garage or attic. How simple.
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Hi Survival Rob,
What a marvelous resource to learn about freeze dried canned foods and their ability to last up to 30 years. Now if I knew I had beef stroganoff in the house, I don’t think it would be on the shelf for 3o years! Yum!
Happy Dating and Relationships,
April Braswell
Dating After 40 Expert
We have some of those pouches in stock, just in case.
Rae & Mark
Wooden Playhouse
Rob,
This is very valuable information. Part of living a rich life is to be prepared for emergencies so that you don’t have to worry should something happen.
We have all seen news stories of people starving and dying of thirst after catastrophic natural disasters such as hurricaines, floods, etc.
Having a 1 or 2 month supply of this food product would certainly take away a lot of worry and that is a large part of a rich life.
Dennis
Create The Life of Your Dreams
Can you get these in the UK?
http://alamghafoor.com
Having a certain percentage of freeze dried food on hand is an important part of long term preparedness. I was wondering just how much freze dried food you would recommend be put aside (as a percentage of your food stocks) and also whether or not you’ve tried them and can comment on their taste and ease of use.
Steve
I must agree with April, I don’t think the Stroganoff would last. But what a great product. We have a massive amount of rice, beans, wheat, etc. but nothing that comes so well stored that would be so tasty by itself.
Thanks for the helpful little mimi-lesson on freeze dried food!
Michael
The Success Secrets
Will definitely have to get some and try some too. I am so curious as to what something would taste like that could potentially have a 30 year shelf life. However, in an emergency, taste is the last thing from your mind as well as mine.
jen battaglino
Anxiety Treatment Specialist
Rob,
I wish they had those pouches when I used to go treking up in the mountains… they sound so much more tasty than what we used to eat!
Like Alam, I would like to know if these are only available in the USA or overseas as well?
Have you tried them? Are they tasty? I would like to experiment with the Lasagna and the Blueberry Cheesecake! But with 30 servings per can… I’ll have to have a “Survival Party” where folks can taste the food and experiment with survival gear! (and order it, if they need it!)
Eileen
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Great information. With a thirty year life, these can be sound investments with little need for rotation.
Christian
Very interesting,
We live in a world that has a grocery store open 24/7 just a few minutes away. I’d be grateful to have some of these items tucked away in case that world changes.
Don
http://donhillonline.com
I like that you can get it and it lasts so long…but 30 years…I don’t know if I could eat that…but if your hungry enough…
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