20 Powdered Foods That LAST FOREVER! (30+ Year Shelf Life)
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- Welcome to Finance Daily, US preppers and survival enthusiasts! Today, we're delving into a crucial topic for your survival pantry: "20 Powdered Foods That LAST FOREVER! (30+ Year Shelf Life)." Imagine having foods that can last over three decades, ensuring your readiness for any situation, be it a natural disaster or an economic downturn. We're not just talking about common items like flour and sugar; we're exploring unique, obscure options that can revolutionize your food storage strategy.
You might be curious about the specifics of these foods, but here's the catch: I won't reveal them all here. To truly understand the potential and learn how to best store these items, you need to watch the full video. We'll cover everything from the importance of proper storage using mylar bags with oxygen absorbers and silica gel packets, to debunking myths about expiration dates and ensuring food safety.
Remember, it's not just about stocking up; it's about ensuring quality, nutrition, and enjoyment in your diet, even in the toughest times. So, don't miss out on discovering these incredible powdered foods and how they can secure your future. Watch the full video now and take a significant step towards enhancing your emergency food supply!
Cocoa powder would be added to my stockpile.
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Instant coffee powder IS in my stockpile, lol.
There is nothing like viewing a video that talks about products that last more than 30 years in which some items are giving storage expectancy in vague terms like forever or a long time while interspersed with items that will last two to three years. This keeps me on an eternal quest for concrete longevity expectations.
The older we become the less of a problem that is...LOL Now the question is, what shall I do to outlive my preps! Need to make friends with my bicycle!
Back in the 90s and early 00's, my aunt received USDA government commodities that were distributed to the low income and elderly people. She used to send me bags and bags of powered eggs and powered milk. I used the powered milk a LOT in baking and cooking to add extra protein and calcium to feed my brood of active children. I also used it to make chocolate milk and I also made a grape drink with it and made milk for my children to put on their cold cereal because they just never drank the milk from the cereal and didn't want to waste fresh milk that did cost money.
The powered eggs came in handy for baking and when we went camping. Also used them for feeding the babies when they were learning to feed themselves and more ended up in their hair and on the floor than made it into their bellies, lol.
I often saved the powered cheese out of the boxed mac and cheese because I would always used real cheese instead. It was great in omelettes.
And BTW garlic IS a miracle drug! It is anti fungal, antiseptic, antiparasitical, and is great for your immune system and cardiovascular health.
My friend's kids wouldn't eat the yogurt she made with powdered milk. She started making it in emptied out yogurt containers that single serving sweetened fruit yogurt come in and the kids liked it. I thought she was very clever!
@@happydays1336 Oh my kids HATED the taste of powdered milk. But they would eat yougurt I made with it (I forgotten that was another use I had for it...I also used it to feed my tomato and pepper plants as well, lol) But they had to use the milk from powdered milk on their cold cereal )which they didn't get often cuz couldn't afford it) because they wouldnt drink the milk after cereal was gone anyway. I think the chocolate flavor help disguise the taste/smell of the powered milk. Cuz the powdered milk I was getting really DID have kinda distinctive smell to it.
I find that dehydrating is better than freeze-dried foods and a whole lot cheaper too! I can't afford a freeze-dryer either!
Yes, but... Freeze dried lasts MUCH longer!! You have to do with what you have : )
I TOTALY AGREE.
Dehydrating loses a shitload of the nutritional value. Often more than half.
Freeze dried loses about 5% of the nutritional value.
Dehydrated foods can last 5 or 10 years at best.
Freeze dried foods are good for 3 times as long or more.
@@gman21266 if you live in a high humidity hot climate then dehydrated foods is best.
Just bought a freeze dryer. They aren't as expensive in the U.S. Do you have family in the U.S.? Maybe they can help you get one hear and take it to your own country. Just a suggestion
Here in Canada freeze dry machines are from 4000.00-7000.00 way out of my price range
I'm in canada too ,I have been buying some freeze dried item ,powders ,fruit ,some veggies .
They are expensive but I buy from Vancouver freeze dried food . Much cheaper than a lot of places .
A lb of whoel straw berrys is like 20 $
Blueberries are 19 $ .you can buy 5 lbs and save a little more .
Just a tip 😊
Not sure how far you are from the US border but last I looked they were still running around $ 2600 for a medium. There are also people that get bored with them and sell them used ( didn’t find that out until after the fact ) There is also another company beside Harvest selling them now
@@johnburgin7478 thank you. I’m in Alberta , I have been watching out for second hand ones too. Thank you!!!!
@@Brad-99 thank you 😊
I can’t afford one. Wish I could
Okay, Good on most all of these, BUT, I have to disagree with the pancake mix. It’s better to keep the ingredients separate for pancakes. Mixing ingredients together will lessen the shelf life and can become toxic, Remember back about 15 years ago? The people who were getting sick from pancake mix? The ingredients had sit together for too long and turned toxic. So nope, keep those ingredients separate!
That event actually had to do with packaging/storage and not the ingredients being mixed together... it had to do with expired mix in poor packaging that developed mold spores and made people very ill. Stored in proper packaging to keep out moisture, light, and pests, mixes are perfectly safe to keep. To keep dry mixes long term safely - repackage the mix into a glass mason jar and vacuum seal, or place in a mylar bag with an oxygen absorber. If you go the route of using mylar, you just have to put the mylar bags in some kind of thick storage container with a tight lid to keep rodents away - mice WILL eat through mylar!
@@carolt392Thanks for the helpful info🖖
Pancake mix should NEVER be in long term storage. Better to make them from scratch.
Some of those pancake mixes and baking mixes like Bisquick had fats in them that does lessen its shelf life by a lot.
I vacuum seal these items.
I put my flour products in the freezer for days then take them out and let them set for aday or 2 at room temperature. Then I vac and seal them in jars and vac n seal bags. Work grea for me. No critters in any of my flour.
Coffee is my stockpiled powdered food but in bean form.
I also store freeze dried coffee, regular coffee and beands in freezer😊
Dairy products can be freeze dried: milk, buttermilk, yogurt, cottage cheese, sour cream, cream cheese, many varieties of hard cheeses. So can fruit juices. Remember tang???
Tang didn't have fruit it in, lol! It was a mix of chemicals, artificial dyes and flavorings.
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But, oh it tasted good!! And it gave my 6 kids their doses of Vit C as they were growing up in Alaska. It may also have taught them to love sugar, tho🥴🤣.
I dont care i hav tang!!!!!
Lol every time I think I've got my prep game on lock, your video pops up, and upgrades my plans 😂😍
I use canning jars for storing my dehydrated products. Be sure to vac and seal the jars.
Tang...if it's good enough for the astronauts, and iced tea mix with lemon for vitamin c (which you can also drink hot), and also those seasoning packets for salad dressing, which you can use for salad dressing, but also for a crockpot meal or sheet pan meal...they ate very versatile.
When he was little my husband's cousin spilled some sort of acid on his skin. His mom was smart and threw baking soda (not powder) on the acid to neutralize it. Her doctor said he'd never known anyone who knew to do this.
Baking soda and baking powder are the same thing except that the powder has an additional leavening added for extra/ delayed raise during the baking time !
The "curds and whey" that Miss Muffet was eating is cottage cheese.
Baking soda, honey powder, butter powder, cocoa, self rising flour, sugar. I also keep on hand.😊
If you have a grinder you can make your own fresh flower 🌱
WHy would you do honey powder when honey doesn't go bad? It may crystalize and turn to sugar, but it is still good.
You can also buy powdered cream and powdered sour cream. I bought mine on Amazon.
I bought sour cream powder and heavy cream powder from Amazon. They're expensive but will be handy if a recipe calls for them when you don't have fresh available.
You don't have to buy a freeze dryer folks and decide between sending your kids to college or freeze drying food. I get my freeze dried foods at Thrive Life. They are probably one of the best companies because they offer ways to save money plus they have a large variety of foods. Also they have online recipes to increase your variety.
$120 for a #10 can of egg powder is affordable???
@@jeffbonner9313 yeah I put it right next to my mink coat and pile of diamonds. I'm a normal retired person without a lot of disposable income. Plus I am extremely cheap. I got the cheap gene from my father who could pinch a penny so tight that it would scream. Mostly I buy pantry cans and a pantry can of eggs is $42. I don't buy them often because there's other ways to spend my money on like jet setting to Europe (kidding) there are lots of ways to save. You can get free shipping item if you subscribe to monthly shipments. There are sales all the time, plus you can get money off some discounted items due to being overstocked. I have recently found that some items are cheaper in the #10 cans. For instance the diced beef is twice the price in the #10 can but you get three times the food. Same with the potatoes, spinach, broccoli, carrots. Other items not so much. Sadly the chicken isn't. Jeff, you made me laugh tonight so thank you for that. You keep your sense of frugality and it'll serve you well. Take care.
@@jeffbonner9313Yikes!
What about fruit jelly desert mix? JELL-O YUM!
I ALWAYS keep jello on hand! I consider it a first aid item! It is my sovereign remedy for nausea and GI bugs, if you just add boiling water to it in a mug like you would make instant cocoa and sip. It is a clear liquid so its good for fever, sore throats and other viral illness. It has protein that is easily digested, as well as sugar and it is tasty so it is really ood for sick kiddos or the eldely. Just make sure they don't burn themselves!
Love you videos. This has answered a few of my questions about food storage. Thank you.
i've eaten garlic more days than not in my life. i'm RARELY EVER sick and i look a decade younger than my age despite smoking ( dont smoke!) .
garlic , onion , basically any nutrient-dense and/or antioxidant food freeze-dried and powdered with a food-processor.
that'd be " a gamechanger" if/when you help people starving to help prevent refeeding syndrome while still delivering huge doses of lifesaving nutrients in a liquid form.
If you have acid reflux, stir a teaspoon of baking soda into an 8oz glass of water until the water is clear then drink it down. It will taste salty but as a base it will neutralize the stomach acid. If you watch old movies you've probably seen this in action. Of course you should consult your medical professional.
Or add one tablespoon baking soda when soaking beans or other fruits , vegetables or legumes to cut down on gas and bloating!
Acid reflux is due to a lack of enough acid in your stomach. 1 tbsp. of apple cider vinegar in a glass of water fixes that.
@@shaggydog5409 I used apple cider vinegar in water every morning for several weeks and it made my acid reflux problem a lot worse. It might be different for other people.
@@shaggydog5409Exactly...😊
you can use a ordinary oven to dry out food with water in it,it will last 15 to 20 years if placed in a mylar bag.
Clickbait. There were not even 10 that last "forever". But otherwise some good tips.
I live in SoCal, near the foothills. In the summer my room reaches 90+ degrees without air cond, and in the winter it gets as cold as whatever without the heater. What I have learned is that it's not smart to depend on the longevity of any stores. We have mice, rats, squerals, skunks, racoons, and sometimes coyotes and then the birds that ravage our garden. The way to go is to rotate whatever you store. Nothing worse than checking on cans that have rusted through, or containers chewed through by rodents, or foods that had worms or insects grow in them. Rotation by regular use is the only real way to go. This way you assure yourself of what you maintain your diet with. Just my experience. I will be working towards these tips though as refreshers though.
I lived in Baltimore city where we had the same issues as you did. Glass canning jars are your best friend including oxygen absorbers!Sometimes what works for one person doesn’t necessarily mean it will be good for you. These videos help people who understand that one must be discerning when it comes from learning on you tube. Food for thought. I have learned that if you learn thing you are that much closer to being ahead of the game! So, I hope this helps in some way!
EXACTLY! I had an invasion of rats this year and not only did they blow through everything that wasn't in glass jars or metal cans/tins, they even ate up my garden seeds and the bag of bone meal I had bought for my plants! I knew a guy that had to throw out a massive amount of his dried goods (like 200 lbs) because of pantry moth infestation. I have learned from my experience with those critters to put things like flour, dried beans, dried fruit and other things they like to get into the freezer overnight before putting them on the shelf AND storing pet food far far away from my pantry and cupboards.
But you are right Rotation is key!!!
One can always buy freeze dried foods when they are on sale for half price, which is cheaper than buying a freeze drier. Buying a few cans every month soon adds up, I nolonger need more of anything either food or dry goods used for everyday life. I am working on my DIY hydroponic setup and bought a Sun Joe Tiller/cultivator to help with my veggie garden. I also plan on buying a couple more fruit trees from the Grocery Outlet. Amazon sells organic grains in bulk as well as beans, rice, lentils etc. Buy veggies from' REDUCED' bins, eat some now, and dehydrate the rest to make soups later use, Better Than Boullion which comes in glass jars and also lasts a long time.
My girl has taken to making Greek yogurt at home. I need to start turning all of this whey into powder
Oh my peanut butter powder and to a chocolate cake is so so good. Peanut butter is the best so many things you can use it for. Add to pancakes, cookies
My mom used to put peanut butter icing on yellow cake. Yummy!
Thanks for the vid!
Thank you!
Stand alone butter powder )not just in an Alfredo sauce) is good to have, as well as canned butter. And don't forget powdered buttermilk for biscuits and bread.
Ghee has a very very long shelf life as well. I don't think I have ever seen powered butter...where do you get it?
Thanks
Full fat milk like NIDO brand is my goto died milk. I've used som 7 years past its best buy date
I pickle eggs...yummy
I’d love a freeze drier, but it’s 2 months of wages to buy one here in Australia
About the equivalent of $7000usd to buy a
Most average folks can't afford freeze dryers. I bought a regular food dehydrator. Next best tool. Running it regularly, vegetable, fruits,and eggs, and cheese These last for up to 30 yrs stored in vacuum sealed jars in cool dark pantry. Pressure canning raw, and smoked meats is a great way to fill your pantry. Don't wait get prepping now. Store rice, beens, cereals, salt, sugar, flour in air tight glass jars. Think outside the freeze dryer.
@@robertbedell3355 Not being critical--but eggs aren't safe to dehydrate.
I freeze cheeze except American cheese slices
No doubt you're the expert, but I'm inclined to believe that straight peanut butter should in any case last virtually forever even though it's true it is oil based. My go bag includes a bpa free 200ml jar of PB. I chose smooth as I think it's more economical to spread than crunchy. I didn't know about egg powder. Assuming it's commercially available I'll investigate that after this video. I once had opened milk powder go off on me after a few years, but I heard you can buy 20 year military stuff. Not sure if that's opened or sealed.
My shop bought peanut butter lasts 1-2 years 😢
Ova easy from Honeyville is the best egg powder. It’s actually a crystallized freeze dried. Can’t tell the difference between a real egg or Ova Easy.
If you store nut butters upside down the oil is in the bottom
Peanuts go rancid don’t they? That’s what I think. I am worried about.
Try peanut butter powder. I use it a lot.
It's my understanding that you should never use Oxy absorbers and silica gel together, as the desiccant nullifies the Oxy absorber.
Dried foods are great, just as long as you have the water to rehydrate them.
Be prepared is all I am saying.
And remember: do not tell others of your preps.
Mice will eat through the plastic bucket and the Mylar bag. I’ve heard putting steel wool in the bucket.
If you have a mouse hole in your house you can pack it with steel wool. They won't try to chew through it.
Metal trash cans. I mylar bag in a plastic bucket . When sucked in then transfer to metal extra protection.
You can dehydrate food also
After all that said, with preparations, bags, jells, and a food dryer if you can afford one plus mylar bags. What happens if we have a power outage - a black out. How are we supposed to cook all these freeze dried foods 🤷♀️ a black out could last months or be cut off permanently 😮
Huh, I guess people never cooked before power...🤔😳😱
That's why you have stored water, or a way to get water, and some kind of rocket type stove. One does not work without the other.
@BigMama2022 + not everyone knows that but they do now. Some people's mind don't think that far ahead
@@paulatristan8189 guess its time for some peoples minds wise up!
Food prep is just one area, you need to have the tools or cookware prepared too, and water stocked up else these dehydrated food can't be cooked
That means u need to have some sort of solar power generator and powerbank, so when the grid is down u can rely on solar energy to slowly cook some meals still (provided u prepared the cooking electronics)
Also prepare things you need to make ur own fire like you will when ur out in the woods (as backup fire making method)
Also never prep one type of food =all food are dehydrated food that requires cooking etc. But prep some ready to eat meals /food too so when your lazy can just open and eat without cooking
Solar power items (small ones of course not big like generators) are really portable, good if u need to leave ur house. Even bushcraft items to make fire in the woods those are small and portable.
Cookware & big electronics are only good when ur hiding or staying at one spot to wait for help
but u always wan to be prepared to be able to survive outside too at some point cause food and water will eventually run out
Should I vacuum seal egg powder?
Absolutely ! It's vital to keep air away from all powder foods ! Doing so increase shelf life to twenty plus years !
Freeze-dry machines are WAAAY out of a lot of people's purse's reach.
I agree with stocking up on beef gravy. But I've never seen it in a powder.
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Club house brand is good
In the grocery store its packets, like taco seasoning, in the spice aisle or around the canned meats. At Sam's Club it is with the seasonings in the larger containers (18 oz -26 oz) that shake or spoon out.
@@paxorra5528-- Ah yes. Thank you.
Silly me... I totally forgot that I already have a bunch of those packets vacuum sealed in Mason jars.
You can buy it from restaurant supply places. The bags make huge batches but you can use enough for one meal and then close up the bags. I bought some in 1999 and it's still good. (A neighbor put together a large food order that many people participated in when the Y2K scare was in full panic. I live in Utah where neighbors tend to be in the same church congregation so almost everyone knows everyone.)
I think you can also buy it in the bulk section at WinCo grocery stores.
I would never FD skim milk. It's disgusting. Getting a Harvest Right next month (finally), but as someone who's been stocking milk, and it's WHOLE milk, I could never bring myself to use it for skim. We don't drink or use it in our daily lives, so it's not going in our preps.
It made the best grilled cheese sandwich
Way too much filler. 2 minutes listening is more than enough.
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Azure farms is good
I have to disagree about 'best if used by' expiration dates not being important ; twice now I have bought packaged products that were dry and flavorless because they were days away from expiration - 'buyer beware'. The products were Idahoan instant potatoes, they were terrible, and Knorr butter noodles, I had to throw them away after a few bites. Knorr chicken bouillon cubes are good, I still use those but I regret those purchases of near expired foods.
Vacuum seal those items
A video could have been more helpful if you told which ones needed oxygen absorbers and which ones don't
Everything with the exception of sugar and flour.
Sugar and salt do not need an oxygen absorber.
But flour DEFINITELY does in order to kill any critters and their eggs.
spend 10k on a dryer or 10k on dried food...? if we go to war in 2 years i'll have barely prepared enough food while trying to pay for this effing thing and ill be sitting on a dryer with no power, no parts... now i just feel doomed.
Don't feel doomed. Do what you can and forget about what you can’t. You may be able to start building a community with others that you can swap things with.
If you have a garden, you can grow some food. If you’re in an apartment, then you can grow things on a balcony or on the windowsill. You can also grow sprouts (broccoli, bean etc) in bottles on the windowsill.
Buy whatever powdered or other long life foods you can afford.
And don’t forget spices, because they can make the blandest of things taste a whole lot better, and they last years and years. And don't forget salt and pepper. Hugs!
The chance of full blown war on U.S. soil is much less likely than needing your food storage for more common disasters like weather events and unemployment. A person just has to be prepared the best he or she can be and to not think in extremes.
Harvest right has a small freeze dryer for 2600.00 dollars that can process 3000 pounds of food per year ! The largest version costs under 5000.00 and can process up to 10,0000 pounds per year ! The average cost of a meal is pennies compared to the crap from companies that sell for 10.00 plus !
What about white gravy mix? Anyone know??
If you buy the ones in Mylar bags then it's good for twenty years plus , or put them in a mylar bag if not !
@@averteddisasterbarely2339 Thank you for being kind enough to help me. God bless you
How do you know this things will last 20 or 30+ years?
But you need water moisture to reconstitute. 👍
One is supposed to have the means to collect, purify and store drinking water anyway, that is the first rule of prepping!
@sjordan7085 exactly. You can live for a month or more without food, but you can only live a couple of days without water.
I've canned water in home canning jars as they're emptied out. It's not the tastiest water but it's water! It was mind blowing that it had to be water bathed for 40 minutes to sterilize it but a person knows it's definitely safe after processing it.
This is the only time I reuse canning lids. I don't use them for additional batches of food because as far as I'm concerned it's penny-wise and pound-foolish to potentially lose the food and the time involved in canning it just to save a little bit of money on lids.
You can dehydrate eggs too.just look it up.
Salt fat and other thi gs become necessary when on survivalsituTion
Health ranger
Being Ready- (Mat.24.- this is being ready= Mat. 6.11 Father- "give us each day our Daily Bread" in 'epiousious' in The Greek and here Christ 'invents used only once- (Moses- 'mana'' from heaven'- was the Shadow picture of the same- that provisioned the people 'daily'! See- (Jn.6.35!)
should call this video the "let's be honest" video!!!! JEEZ....
He started off saying you can make your own powder at home. So I thought he was going to take us through the steps of making our own food powder. It turns out he just lists what we can buy from the store. Waste of time. I didn't even watch it all the through.
Don't need to watch someone walking through a grocery store
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Who paid for this video? The Food Industry?? You are crazy!
Baking powder does not last forever
You turned a 15 minute video into a boring wordy video over half an hour long. You talk to much, like someone in love with their voice and presumed smarts.
I had to stop watching this. His apocalyptic delivery gets on my nerves, but not as much as the "eat hemp to save the environment" and "salt is bad for you" BS.
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I get mine at Thrive Life but Amazon has the basics as well
I have found them at Amish stores if you have any in your area.
Amazon