Chris McAvoy ... This is an awesome start... Now that the base is down he can add the “ variety” at his leisure knowing that if worse came to worse he has the “survival “ covered.
What's sad, though, is even if they're hungry small children won't eat what they don't like so it's good to start foods like rice and beans when they are toddlers.
Did this back in the 90's with Wheat, dried corn and soy beans. ONLY difference was we added diatomaceous earth (half cup if I remember right and well mixed in). We also laid a chunk of paper towel folded a few times on top with a chunk of dry ice and let it sit for a while before sealing. After 5 or 10 minutes removed the remaining dry ice and towel (we were displacing air with Co2 to kill bugs and give the ox absorbers a kickstart. Then sealed the bag and closed the bucket. I am still using the wheat in my grain mill today for bread and it is fine. Side effect is I strain off the diatomaceous earth before grinding with a sifter and the dust that gets on the floor...well we find a few dead spiders and centipedes in that work area often. So to recap, mylar bag in fresh clean bucket, fill with product and add diatomaceous earth. Mix well and place a piece of paper towel folded about 4 times on top. Lay a fair size chunk of dry ice 2" x 2" or a bit larger and let it melt for about 5 to 10 minutes (CO2 displaces the air, also cooling down the bucket so there is less water vapor,and is heavier so sinks into the bottom) Remove remaining dry ice and paper and drop in absorber packs and heat seal the bag after squeezing out the air. The seal the bucket and you are done. Side note is to pack where it is warmer then your storage area. We did it in the garage in the middle of the summer in 80 to 90 deg temps. After it goes to the storage area and cools down a bit it vac seals itself for yet a bit more storage protection.
People: Yes his picking rice and beans will be able to sustain life. I am sure that the rice and beans is not the only thing he will have to sustain his Family or someone other. I am sure he will also subsidize that with whatever he can find locally or have on hand. Dry goods will be his staple meal. I would also save some Local honey, coffee /tea, salt & pepper, if you are able too also stock up on heirloom vegetable seeds (NONE GMO). First thing that you should have on hand is a way to purify water, Shelter then food. This was a great Video on a way he decided to store his goods. You can store whatever you like..
Thank you for your comment. I do have other things to supplement my diet. I have a wonderful vegetable garden and water storage. Your comment is pretty much spot on. I might make a video about the garden, water storage and canning in the future. I just thought this video would be a good place to start.
To those looking to do this I highly recommend a combo of corn and beans of some kind as priority, then add some variety. Corn and beans creates a complex diet and is what the natives survived on for many many years resulting in no need to hunt or grow any other crops for sustenance (though they did use squash and other plants to promote a better yield of corn and beans but those 2 were the important part).
When I was in my twenties I caught the prepper bug pretty heavy. At some point, I decided it was time to try and survive on food storage items for a week. Just like you, I had beans and rice and I also had a CrockPot so I prepared a couple days worth with bulk salt and pepper from my stock. I lasted two days. I was so sickened by rice and beans after that that I deleted rice from my personal menu for some time afterwards. I’m a country boy, from the woods and I grew up very poor in a small town but I recognized that SHTF fantasies are really horror stories that haven’t been told yet. I still stockpile, but I pray first and foremost that I never have to utilize it, and it’s not just food that has me concerned... Anyhow man, good video - I appreciate ya and I agree that it is wise to be prepared to survive longer than just thirty days. I pray that our Country holds up in spite of all the hurdles.
I was wondering the same thing. Will i be able to eat rice every day? I’m sure that if it does hit the fan there will be no choice but to eat what we have prepped. But I also have a ton of mountain house meals that are different. So i guess i will have to just rotate what we have so that we dont get tired of the rice and beans. I think also doing canned foods works so you can mix stuff around
I agree with "PACO" on the calorie issue. 100# of beans and 100# of rice are only enough calories for about six months for one person. I just went through my pantry last year. I thought I had enough for my family for a year. When I finally tallied up the total calorie count and estimated 1800 calories per person per day I came up with only ONE person-year of food.
WOW! lots of negative folks commenting. Any idea about protecting your family is a good one. Even if you do not agree, it makes you think - something sorely lacking today.Nice job on the vid. None of us is as smart as all of us.
Not sure if anyone commented (too many to read), BUT, I would wait 24 hours before sealing buckets, just to make sure AIR WAS GONE AND NO LEAKS! Buckets are not food grade, but I believe that the Mylar should protect the food and the bucket is more for' meeces" and other critters, and ease of storing and carry! Been doing this for 10+ years and ate some last year from 2014! Still good. ***Couple hints: "make smaller bags by cutting and sealing so you can have 1-4 person sized bags without opening whole bag of 25lbs bucket. Of course, if , and when SHTF, once a bucket opened it will be used up within a week if good sized group:)
if you store salt, sugar, honey, and freeze dried butter with this you'll be just fine. Between beans and white rice and whatever you can forage, fish, or hunt one person could last a long time on this. I would add rolled oats since it will also store for 30 years packaged this way.
White rice is a good addition to your long-term food storage because it is easy to digest (a good soft food for teething infants and for invalids), it provides many calories at low cost and very few people are allergic to it. On the down side, white rice is not a whole grain. If you want to have an inexpensive and complete protein in your food storage, you need to serve a combination of cooked whole grains (wheat berries, oatmeal, quinoa, rye berries...) and cooked legumes (beans, peas, lentils, peanuts) at mealtime in a ratio of two parts whole grain to one part legume. If you are planning on mostly serving rice and beans, you will need to add a complete protein to those meals (eggs, cheese, meat ...) in order to provide enough complete protein for balanced nutrition. Complete protein in the diet is essential for muscle repair and muscle-building.
a great start! nicely done video. what I have beem doing is slowly building like you are. by calculating 2 meals a day of rice and beans... or 1 cup if beans and rice a day... you have about 900 calories... enough energy for a sedentary life. 1 lb of rice is two cups... same with beans. this is what it takes for you and your wife to eat on one day so... the amount of food that will give two people 1 cup of food each per day is 100 days. for 100 lbs. you might want to consider increasing your storage. you have a great base... but keep on bring in the stores and building out thing to add flavor! your packaging and video work is very nice.
While I was already aware of the *technical* information in this video, I hadn't realised how *cheaply* you could do it. Combined with a bunch of cheap cans, which also last a very long time, this looks well worth doing. So - thanks for the info.
This really looks and is a doable thing when you either grown your own produce and raise you own meats and can these items for future consumption. Very thing that you are able to provide yourself reduces your overall costs and each item that you ha e to purchase from an outside source will add to your costs. If you are unable to grow or raise any food items yourself it can still be obtainable by purchasing the needed items when you can find them on sale or in season then you purchase what extra you can afford and can these items while continually adding to your stores as you are able. By doing this you won’t need to put out a bunch of money up front that you might not have and you’ll be surprised how fast you can build up your pantry of food stores to provide you and those you will be responsible for feeding with a year or more worth of food and of course you will continue to add to your food stores as you are using them so you never run out...! Best of luck to you all...!
Skyler McCreary I’m assuming he’s just calling them the wrong thing, but this does leave room for a lot of confusion. They’re Oxygen Absorbers, not “desiccant packs,” so +1 on the feedback. I would also add that he did kind of a terrible job keeping the bag from wrinkling when he ironed it shut. I use a regular flat iron and a broom stick or a yard stick or an aluminum level laid across the top of the bucket, and it gives me superbly flat seals. I also seal it along the very top only two inches, then fold it over 1” while it’s still hot and iron it flat again folded over. I leave the excess bag because if the crap hits the fan I want to be able to cut the bag seals off even and reuse the bags a second / third time. I label the bag itself with contented date & quantity, then fold it over, close the lid and label the outside of the bucket. I do this in case the label on the outside falls, wears, smears off and it’s illegible. Saved me more than once.
I thought this is a good video. It's not like most people on here trying to be a chicken little or cause panic & such. Seems to me that there are a lot of people of the younger generations that can learn from this. Heck even some of the old geezers can learn too. This will help them through a tough time which most never think will come. I commend you for your care & thoughtfulness of the human race.
Great video. As they say " I would rather have it and not need it. Then need it and not have it ". And for a little over $100 you cannot beat it for a good source. If you cannot grow, hunt, fish, or gather food - at least you got some good ol beans n rice. I know it lasts a long time because it's all you see everyone eating in shtf movies. Plates of beans n rice. Great job.
there is a chart made by the CDC you can print out or just copy down, showing all the food one person would need to eat to stay alive for one year. and its just over 900 pounds of material. per person per year. ( and that is averaged bare minimum nutritional value to survive.. not feel full or stated)
This is a long post. I hope that's okay. You need to have a lot of freezer space to do this , which I do, but I put my bags of brown rice, seeds like flax, rye (for grinding), etc. in the freezer. You don't have to do anything with them except pour the grains into big zip lock plastic bags if you want to. I also freeze 25 lbs bags of white flour in the paper bags it comes in so the flour doesn't get weevils. If you don't have much freezer space, though, the method in this video is great. (I have a large chest freezer and fridge in the garage, a fridge in the basement, and one in the kitchen. You can buy used ones from want ads.) We have about 1800 lbs of white wheat (milder than red) plus 3 or more buckets of oatmeal in our basement storage room (enough for 3 adults for two years). It takes up surprisingly little space when the buckets are stacked. They hold 45 lbs each--some of which we sealed ourselves using dry ice. We've bought a lot of the buckets of wheat and oatmeal at Costco which is much more convenient. Don't forget to store yeast! You can buy 2 lb bags of it from Costco for a great price and freeze it. Also store salt in moisture proof containers. You need these two items to make bread. If you can, also buy an electric wheat grinder. There are hand grinders, too. Make sure you have a bucket opener tool because buckets are difficult to open without one. Properly stored wheat will last 40 years. About 10 years ago I read in the news that Ukraine had a wheat crop failure. I went right out and bought a bunch of wheat. Shortly afterwards the price of wheat went up dramatically. One year oats were up to $36 a bucket but is now back down to about $14. Just think if the people in Venezuela were prepared like this. Their children wouldn't be starving if their parents had been. In a horrible economy wheat and other food storage are worth more than gold. I read an account of a man who went through civil unrest--maybe WWII--who said that vegetable oil was the most valuable thing you can store. He said he could trade one bottle for 200 lbs of potatoes.
Thanks for the video. My concern is the same as the others on cooking time and water needed. This may have been answered way down in your comments but I will ask it anyway. Is it possible to use a pressure cooker to speed up the cooking time and perhaps reduce the need for a lot of cooking water? I know I should go onto the internet and do my research but thought this question could help others too. Your garden video sounds like a good idea and I would be very interested in watching if you make one. Thank you again
Suggestions: Stop with the music. Open and final seal ALL the mylar bags at once to minimize the oxygen absorber exposure to air. And get an extension cord for that hair iron.
So once you open one of these buckets and open the Mylar bag how long will the food last for and do you need to put another absorber in there and re seal it?
How long do the rice and beans store for in those containers? Once you open the bag to start using rice or beans, can they be resealed? Sounds almost worth it to buy a hair straightening tool. I know you said it will last 2 people a year, but just curious and hopefull that the beans and rice will stay good in those containers, done just you did, for a longer period of time. I'm just one person and would not buy more than what I would need for a year anyway.
I'm curious...what temperature did you have your flat-iron set on? I tried it with my daughter's....turns out, 370 degrees is a little too high. At least, it is for a used potato-chip bag. Maybe she won't notice the little bit of plastic on it. Thanks!
I don't know that much about flat irons however I had my girls set on high. I'm not sure what temp that is. Sorry to hear about your daughters iron. I never thought to use it on a bag of chips. I might try that and see how it works out. The bags I used are quite a bit thicker than a chip bag so I would try low.
Do you think it would be better to separate the rice and beans into smaller Mylar bags so that you can grab bags as needed instead of opening a huge bag of rice and needing to use it sooner?
The oxygen absorbers only work for 30 minutes or so after the package is opened. Therefore, it behooves him to get everything prepped for fast sealing before he cuts open the package of oxygen absorbers.
I am so confused!!! 😭 every other video keeps telling me that I have to freeze the beans first for like 3 or 4 days and then I have to thaw all the beans for a day or two and that I have to make sure that they don't have moisture and then I think "well...this moisture wouldn't have happened if I hadn't frozen the beans in the first place" but people keep saying that I have to freeze the beans so that they don't get bugs but then other people don't freeze the beans because they think that the oxygen absorbers are good enough I am so confused! Please help! And the dicto- something earth has to be mixed with really large quantities of food so I'm not a really big fan of that... The dry ice scares me a little bit too so... tell me whether I have to freeze or a freezing is unnecessary if I use oxygen absorbers please
These are great for calories, however there is also vitamin/mineral issue, so one needs to store some nutrient dense foods as well like molasses, seaweed, green powders, dried berries, tonic and nutritional herb powders, etc. I am also wondering, why storage buckets are usually made of plastic. Wouldn't metal be better to protect from rodents?
I have been wondering this about beans - they take so much energy to cook! I remember once I knew an old Hippy who used a solar cook stove and I wonder if there isn't a way to make a slow cooker using the sun - something that would be safe enough to leave for several days perhaps. I figure, if I only have a limited amount of fuel I don't want to have to dedicate it to simmering beans for several hours.
@@josephseth11 You can make beans edible just by soaking them for long enough. I bet after three days they’d be as tender as cooked. Soaking also deactivates the bad enzymes.
you know your in the shit when the wife sees you doing that with her hair straightener right :) i once used my girlfriends hair scissors to cut some thing up, not happy at all
My guess this is about a 3 month supply for one person. Great base though and it beats starving! I'd pack oatmeal the same way. Add peanut butter, canned goods and other shelf stable snacks to your working pantry 😋
Question: What are those dehydration packets called & are they the same as Silica Gel PAX (usually saying "do not eat"), typically found in shipping? Thanks!
So I misspoke when I called the Oxygen absorbers Desiccant Packs in the video however desiccant packs meet FDA specifications for dry food packaging. Dry-Packspackets contain the absorbent desiccant called Silica Gel, which is non-toxic and an inert product. Dry-Packs Silica Gel Packets can absorb 40% of its weight in water vapor.
It's great that you're planning and putting food into your preparations. I do have to wonder though, how big are the two infants that you would be feeding for a year on this food? By my math 100 lb of rice and 100 lb of beans would give two infants a starvation diet for a year. It would give one adult adequate food for 100 days.
@Ben DoverYou still canning? I know a few who have absolutely NO food in their home except snack crap, they eat out for every meal. Don't think my measly beans & rice will measure up their more refined steak & lobster palates. Good! Their loss - more for me. 😜 Take care. LV Grandma
I see a lot of negative comments about variety. When you are in a time when there is a disaster and no help you will be lucky and happy that you do have something if anything to eat even if it just rice and beans. Good job for you him at least he is preparing for the worst. And shame to all of you for putting him down about variety.
Do some research on appetite fatigue as it relates to food storage. If presented with no variety in diet over time humans will (literally) refuse to eat that food even when they are starving to death. I view many of the comments here not as being critical but as realistic.
Along with the lack of veriety I'd point out that that is not the biggest problem with just beans and rice. You need other things with those foods to survive otherwise you will die of either protein poisoning or get scurvy. You'll need at the least salt a fat source to process the proteins and some sort of vitimine c.
For anyone watching this... The beans and rice need to be kept in a freezer for at least a week to kill any bugs and eggs in them. Otherwise when you open it, it will be full of bugs. After you freeze them, take them out and let them thaw to room temperature. Then put them in the bags with a Desiccant AND and Oxygen Absorber. A Desiccant absorbs moisture, and Oxygen Absorber, well that's obvious. You need Both for optimum storage length and safety. Then store in a cool dark place that Rodents Can't get to! Rats and mice CAN and will chew through plastic and the bags. Now if you don't have room in the freezer, you can do oven debugging. Google Oven canning for storage foods. Now, go store some Food!!!
The buckets are just for keeping the mylar sealed, clean, and easy storage. The mylar actually seals the food. Some people use the food grade buckets with the special lids, but I've never been able to use them and have the food not go bad within a year or two. I use either mylar, adding food grade diatomacious earth, and oxygen packets, sealed in just regular plastic buckets or canning jars heat sealed with the oxygen packet and diatomacious earth.
is this a good/safe way to store dry goods? I was watching another youtuber dry can in half gallon jars and thought that was a lot of work however I'm not sure which is the best method.
John Limongello I was wondering that too. I heard to freeze or heat in oven first to kill off bug eggs, rice at least will have some in there. I’d hate to open that in 5 years and it be full of bugs. Also those packs remove moisture I believe, not oxygen.
One thing I worry about with the rice & beans thing is the cook time. Do you think you will have the fuel, wood, electricity to cook dried beans and rice. I live in the desert southwest. If there was a complete failure of the country's infrastructure, I might be cooking with cow chips. Rice takes 20 minutes and beans take hours.
Ya that might be tough to find the water for you. I live in Washington so water is not a problem for me. I cook the beans in a slow cooker with solar, witch you should excel at with all that sun.
I dont have calorie for the rice so I will substitute the 2 bags of rice for 2 more bags of beans. (making 4 bags total) I only get 117 days on a 2000C diet. Someone check my math plz.
Dear sir before you store your rice in Mylar bags you must put in freezer for a week to kill the Miller eggs otherwise the eggs will hatch out and ruin your rice
I'd like to know how you are going to cook those beans to bring them to life. Old beans take much water, and many hours to reconstruct. Old beans take up to 18 to 24 hours of simmering to bring them to edible state.
You are absolutely correct however I live in Washington and have plenty of access to water. I am thinking of making a video about my water solution and maybe another one to show how I cook the beans with a slow cooker and solar.
Just thinking a better way to store beans would be to get canned beans or cook your beans while fresh and dehydrate them. because solar you need the sun, and slow cooker you need electricity, May have plenty of wood for a fire, constant fire. no refrigeration, Still would have to burn 24/7 in order to continuously cook the beans. Oh and if your water is contaminated, then what? Should think of all scenarios.
good comments. there is a slow cooker that does not use electricity. Look it up on the net an see what you think. I like your idea of cooking fresh and dehydrating. I do not have a dehydrator, any recommendations?
I see folks going back and forth on calories etc and what else they need in a diet. But if it came down to all you had was this would you really care at that moment? You would be glad to have something in your belly, period.
Lentils are easier to cook... Less energy, less time. Pinto beans are quite hard to cook... More time, much more energy. And I'm almost positive that lentils will pack probably 20% more densely than pinto beans.
Hmm, two comments and both are complaints about variety. I know you are being snarky for laughs but I have seen true starvation in several regions of the world . It is ugly and they would not consider beans and rice anything other than a feast of heavenly providence. This should be just the beginning stage of your food storage. A building block if you will. Next time make the same type of purchase but vary the food, say wheat and corn or potato flakes and pasta noodles. Fruit Loop cereal will stay fresh and crisp for decades if stored in Mylar bags with oxygen absorber.
Beans are solid ....Rice is a filler which is also good .But long term you need fat . Animal fat is where its at . I would teach all new preppers to start with Meats !!!!
Emmanuel Goldstein Prepping for different scenarios does not have to only be for the end of the world ones... What if you got injured and couldn’t work for a month or longer...? Having food Preps already in place will allow you to continue to feed your family and use what money you might ha e needed to spend on food for other bills so the temporary loss or reduction in wages doesn’t hurt so badly... Also, what in case of some natural disaster such as a Tornado which might cut off supplies of food and clean drinking water until services are able to be restored...? Having Preps already in place could mean the difference between you being able to continue to stay in your home protecting it from would be looters verses needing to evacuated a different area until services are restored and you could return...? So, you see there are sound reasons to prep that are not life ending...
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I can’t find the buckets for less than $7 each; even at Walmart. I would not pack in such large bags! Maybe three days of food open at a time due to spoilage. Remember no electric means no refrigeration during the summer. High humidity days spoil opened food faster. A
Unfortunately, 4 years later everything is a lot more expensive, especially since the pandemic. But the information is still great, it's a good start.
Good job brother!!!! It's a start for anyone especially the less fortunate who don't have tons of money to spend.
Thx bud. Good video. These people making all the 'variety' comments will be begging you for a bowl once they dont eat for a couple days.
Good video
Chris McAvoy you are right on that, that bowl will be gold to the belly.
Rice and beans will be taste mighty fine when starving.
Chris McAvoy ... This is an awesome start... Now that the base is down he can add the “ variety” at his leisure knowing that if worse came to worse he has the “survival “ covered.
What's sad, though, is even if they're hungry small children won't eat what they don't like so it's good to start foods like rice and beans when they are toddlers.
Thank you for Sharing this ! I'd always seen where people were doing these cans of for , but yours shows how it's done ! Much appreciated !!!
Did this back in the 90's with Wheat, dried corn and soy beans. ONLY difference was we added diatomaceous earth (half cup if I remember right and well mixed in). We also laid a chunk of paper towel folded a few times on top with a chunk of dry ice and let it sit for a while before sealing. After 5 or 10 minutes removed the remaining dry ice and towel (we were displacing air with Co2 to kill bugs and give the ox absorbers a kickstart. Then sealed the bag and closed the bucket. I am still using the wheat in my grain mill today for bread and it is fine. Side effect is I strain off the diatomaceous earth before grinding with a sifter and the dust that gets on the floor...well we find a few dead spiders and centipedes in that work area often.
So to recap, mylar bag in fresh clean bucket, fill with product and add diatomaceous earth. Mix well and place a piece of paper towel folded about 4 times on top. Lay a fair size chunk of dry ice 2" x 2" or a bit larger and let it melt for about 5 to 10 minutes (CO2 displaces the air, also cooling down the bucket so there is less water vapor,and is heavier so sinks into the bottom) Remove remaining dry ice and paper and drop in absorber packs and heat seal the bag after squeezing out the air. The seal the bucket and you are done. Side note is to pack where it is warmer then your storage area. We did it in the garage in the middle of the summer in 80 to 90 deg temps. After it goes to the storage area and cools down a bit it vac seals itself for yet a bit more storage protection.
Ken R.- Can I call you! jk but seriously, you are the kind of dude I like to know. Thanks.
People: Yes his picking rice and beans will be able to sustain life. I am sure that the rice and beans is not the only thing he will have to sustain his Family or someone
other. I am sure he will also subsidize that with whatever he can find locally or have on hand. Dry goods will be his staple meal. I would also save some Local honey, coffee /tea, salt & pepper, if you are able too also stock up on heirloom vegetable seeds (NONE GMO). First thing that you should have on hand is a way to purify water, Shelter then food. This was a great Video on a way he decided to store his goods. You can store whatever you like..
Thank you for your comment. I do have other things to supplement my diet. I have a wonderful vegetable garden and water storage. Your comment is pretty much spot on. I might make a video about the garden, water storage and canning in the future. I just thought this video would be a good place to start.
@@steffeyproductions7098 Please do! I'm sure it would be great.
To those looking to do this I highly recommend a combo of corn and beans of some kind as priority, then add some variety. Corn and beans creates a complex diet and is what the natives survived on for many many years resulting in no need to hunt or grow any other crops for sustenance (though they did use squash and other plants to promote a better yield of corn and beans but those 2 were the important part).
When I was in my twenties I caught the prepper bug pretty heavy. At some point, I decided it was time to try and survive on food storage items for a week. Just like you, I had beans and rice and I also had a CrockPot so I prepared a couple days worth with bulk salt and pepper from my stock.
I lasted two days. I was so sickened by rice and beans after that that I deleted rice from my personal menu for some time afterwards. I’m a country boy, from the woods and I grew up very poor in a small town but I recognized that SHTF fantasies are really horror stories that haven’t been told yet. I still stockpile, but I pray first and foremost that I never have to utilize it, and it’s not just food that has me concerned...
Anyhow man, good video - I appreciate ya and I agree that it is wise to be prepared to survive longer than just thirty days. I pray that our Country holds up in spite of all the hurdles.
I was wondering the same thing. Will i be able to eat rice every day? I’m sure that if it does hit the fan there will be no choice but to eat what we have prepped. But I also have a ton of mountain house meals that are different. So i guess i will have to just rotate what we have so that we dont get tired of the rice and beans. I think also doing canned foods works so you can mix stuff around
I agree with "PACO" on the calorie issue. 100# of beans and 100# of rice are only enough calories for about six months for one person. I just went through my pantry last year. I thought I had enough for my family for a year. When I finally tallied up the total calorie count and estimated 1800 calories per person per day I came up with only ONE person-year of food.
WOW! lots of negative folks commenting. Any idea about protecting your family is a good one. Even if you do not agree, it makes you think - something sorely lacking today.Nice job on the vid. None of us is as smart as all of us.
Not sure if anyone commented (too many to read), BUT, I would wait 24 hours before sealing buckets, just to make sure AIR WAS GONE AND NO LEAKS! Buckets are not food grade, but I believe that the Mylar should protect the food and the bucket is more for' meeces" and other critters, and ease of storing and carry! Been doing this for 10+ years and ate some last year from 2014! Still good. ***Couple hints: "make smaller bags by cutting and sealing so you can have 1-4 person sized bags without opening whole bag of 25lbs bucket. Of course, if , and when SHTF, once a bucket opened it will be used up within a week if good sized group:)
if you store salt, sugar, honey, and freeze dried butter with this you'll be just fine. Between beans and white rice and whatever you can forage, fish, or hunt one person could last a long time on this. I would add rolled oats since it will also store for 30 years packaged this way.
Thank you! Enjoy this very much!
White rice is a good addition to your long-term food storage because it is easy to digest (a good soft food for teething infants and for invalids), it provides many calories at low cost and very few people are allergic to it. On the down side, white rice is not a whole grain. If you want to have an inexpensive and complete protein in your food storage, you need to serve a combination of cooked whole grains (wheat berries, oatmeal, quinoa, rye berries...) and cooked legumes (beans, peas, lentils, peanuts) at mealtime in a ratio of two parts whole grain to one part legume. If you are planning on mostly serving rice and beans, you will need to add a complete protein to those meals (eggs, cheese, meat ...) in order to provide enough complete protein for balanced nutrition. Complete protein in the diet is essential for muscle repair and muscle-building.
a great start! nicely done video. what I have beem doing is slowly building like you are. by calculating 2 meals a day of rice and beans... or 1 cup if beans and rice a day... you have about 900 calories... enough energy for a sedentary life. 1 lb of rice is two cups... same with beans. this is what it takes for you and your wife to eat on one day
so... the amount of food that will give two people 1 cup of food each per day is 100 days. for 100 lbs. you might want to consider increasing your storage.
you have a great base... but keep on bring in the stores and building out thing to add flavor! your packaging and video work is very nice.
Hi ,mr.caribbean in nyc
Thank you very much my brother for your service.
YOU MAY HAVE SAVED MY LIFE ONE DAY SO MUCH LOVE FOR YOUR TIME AND EFFORT.
While I was already aware of the *technical* information in this video, I hadn't realised how *cheaply* you could do it. Combined with a bunch of cheap cans, which also last a very long time, this looks well worth doing. So - thanks for the info.
You're welcome, thanks for watching.
This really looks and is a doable thing when you either grown your own produce and raise you own meats and can these items for future consumption.
Very thing that you are able to provide yourself reduces your overall costs and each item that you ha e to purchase from an outside source
will add to your costs.
If you are unable to grow or raise any food items yourself it can still be obtainable by purchasing the needed items when you can find them on sale or in season then you purchase what extra you can afford and can these items while continually adding to your stores as you are able.
By doing this you won’t need to put out a bunch of money up front that you might not have and you’ll be surprised how fast you can build up your pantry of food stores to provide you and those you will be responsible for feeding with a year or more worth of food and of course you will continue to add to your food stores as you are using them so you never run out...!
Best of luck to you all...!
Desiccant packs _do not_ absorb oxygen. You need oxygen absorbing packs for that.
Skyler McCreary I’m assuming he’s just calling them the wrong thing, but this does leave room for a lot of confusion. They’re Oxygen Absorbers, not “desiccant packs,” so +1 on the feedback.
I would also add that he did kind of a terrible job keeping the bag from wrinkling when he ironed it shut. I use a regular flat iron and a broom stick or a yard stick or an aluminum level laid across the top of the bucket, and it gives me superbly flat seals. I also seal it along the very top only two inches, then fold it over 1” while it’s still hot and iron it flat again folded over. I leave the excess bag because if the crap hits the fan I want to be able to cut the bag seals off even and reuse the bags a second / third time. I label the bag itself with contented date & quantity, then fold it over, close the lid and label the outside of the bucket. I do this in case the label on the outside falls, wears, smears off and it’s illegible. Saved me more than once.
I thought this is a good video. It's not like most people on here trying to be a chicken little or cause panic & such. Seems to me that there are a lot of people of the younger generations that can learn from this. Heck even some of the old geezers can learn too. This will help them through a tough time which most never think will come. I commend you for your care & thoughtfulness of the human race.
Here it comes!
Thanks. It's a good, simple and effective video. Thumbs up
You can use these bean for seeds.
Non GMO maybe?
You can sprout them and eat the sprouts which are super healthy
Great idea! Great video and thank you for your tips... Blessings to you 💜
One of the best I have seen 😁
Great video. As they say " I would rather have it and not need it. Then need it and not have it ". And for a little over $100 you cannot beat it for a good source. If you cannot grow, hunt, fish, or gather food - at least you got some good ol beans n rice. I know it lasts a long time because it's all you see everyone eating in shtf movies. Plates of beans n rice. Great job.
there is a chart made by the CDC you can print out or just copy down, showing all the food one person would need to eat to stay alive for one year. and its just over 900 pounds of material. per person per year. ( and that is averaged bare minimum nutritional value to survive.. not feel full or stated)
John Stewman 😲 wow, 900 pounds?! That’s gonna take some space and $!!!
Thank you, it really helps!
Thanks so much for the video!
good lord, I had no idea prepping a years worth of food was so easy and cheap. thanks very much for the info, I'm going to get on it!
Me too. Headed to wally world asap to get some buckets.
This is a long post. I hope that's okay.
You need to have a lot of freezer space to do this , which I do, but I put my bags of brown rice, seeds like flax, rye (for grinding), etc. in the freezer. You don't have to do anything with them except pour the grains into big zip lock plastic bags if you want to. I also freeze 25 lbs bags of white flour in the paper bags it comes in so the flour doesn't get weevils. If you don't have much freezer space, though, the method in this video is great. (I have a large chest freezer and fridge in the garage, a fridge in the basement, and one in the kitchen. You can buy used ones from want ads.)
We have about 1800 lbs of white wheat (milder than red) plus 3 or more buckets of oatmeal in our basement storage room (enough for 3 adults for two years). It takes up surprisingly little space when the buckets are stacked. They hold 45 lbs each--some of which we sealed ourselves using dry ice. We've bought a lot of the buckets of wheat and oatmeal at Costco which is much more convenient.
Don't forget to store yeast! You can buy 2 lb bags of it from Costco for a great price and freeze it. Also store salt in moisture proof containers. You need these two items to make bread. If you can, also buy an electric wheat grinder. There are hand grinders, too. Make sure you have a bucket opener tool because buckets are difficult to open without one.
Properly stored wheat will last 40 years.
About 10 years ago I read in the news that Ukraine had a wheat crop failure. I went right out and bought a bunch of wheat. Shortly afterwards the price of wheat went up dramatically. One year oats were up to $36 a bucket but is now back down to about $14.
Just think if the people in Venezuela were prepared like this. Their children wouldn't be starving if their parents had been.
In a horrible economy wheat and other food storage are worth more than gold. I read an account of a man who went through civil unrest--maybe WWII--who said that vegetable oil was the most valuable thing you can store. He said he could trade one bottle for 200 lbs of potatoes.
Thank you for the video. I would like to know which brand of Mylar bag you used?
Thanks for the video. My concern is the same as the others on cooking time and water needed. This may have been answered way down in your comments but I will ask it anyway. Is it possible to use a pressure cooker to speed up the cooking time and perhaps reduce the need for a lot of cooking water? I know I should go onto the internet and do my research but thought this question could help others too. Your garden video sounds like a good idea and I would be very interested in watching if you make one. Thank you again
Awesome Video ! Can you put stuffing mix or dry macaroni and dry cheese package that comes with it in mylar bags for long term storage ?
thanks for the video!
Suggestions: Stop with the music. Open and final seal ALL the mylar bags at once to minimize the oxygen absorber exposure to air. And get an extension cord for that hair iron.
Great video thanks
So once you open one of these buckets and open the Mylar bag how long will the food last for and do you need to put another absorber in there and re seal it?
How long do the rice and beans store for in those containers? Once you open the bag to start using rice or beans, can they be resealed? Sounds almost worth it to buy a hair straightening tool. I know you said it will last 2 people a year, but just curious and hopefull that the beans and rice will stay good in those containers, done just you did, for a longer period of time. I'm just one person and would not buy more than what I would need for a year anyway.
I'm curious...what temperature did you have your flat-iron set on? I tried it with my daughter's....turns out, 370 degrees is a little too high. At least, it is for a used potato-chip bag. Maybe she won't notice the little bit of plastic on it. Thanks!
I don't know that much about flat irons however I had my girls set on high. I'm not sure what temp that is. Sorry to hear about your daughters iron. I never thought to use it on a bag of chips. I might try that and see how it works out. The bags I used are quite a bit thicker than a chip bag so I would try low.
Rob Painless lol😄🤣
Just for clarification, oxygen absorbers and desiccant packs are not the same thing.
Hey could you give me though link On the mylar bags and these other little packets to take the air out
Do you think it would be better to separate the rice and beans into smaller Mylar bags so that you can grab bags as needed instead of opening a huge bag of rice and needing to use it sooner?
something else you should use when using the 5 gallon mylar bags is to add a cup of diatomaceous earth that will kill any bugs in the food storage.
Good idea, I had not considered that. I put all of my bags in the freezer for a week before putting in mylar bags. jas
I do the freezer thing too
@@joannsomers8178 great! Thanks for this tip.
The lack of oxygen will kill any bugs
Where do i get the bags, and what size are they?? thanks
What’s the difference between Mylar bags vs food saver bags ??
Can u put packages of pasta in mylar? Or do you have to take them out of the bag. Ty
You could also just throw the desiccant packs in first then seal the bags in one swipe.
The oxygen absorbers only work for 30 minutes or so after the package is opened. Therefore, it behooves him to get everything prepped for fast sealing before he cuts open the package of oxygen absorbers.
What is the plan for potable water?
Thanks 😊
After eating all of them beans then I wonder who will be moving out of the house first, due to the gas exposure
Thank you...
I am so confused!!! 😭 every other video keeps telling me that I have to freeze the beans first for like 3 or 4 days and then I have to thaw all the beans for a day or two and that I have to make sure that they don't have moisture and then I think "well...this moisture wouldn't have happened if I hadn't frozen the beans in the first place" but people keep saying that I have to freeze the beans so that they don't get bugs but then other people don't freeze the beans because they think that the oxygen absorbers are good enough I am so confused! Please help! And the dicto- something earth has to be mixed with really large quantities of food so I'm not a really big fan of that... The dry ice scares me a little bit too so... tell me whether I have to freeze or a freezing is unnecessary if I use oxygen absorbers please
How many buckets does it take to use that big bag of rice?
ok question, I'm fairly new at this, do you need to use milar bags, even if the food grade buckets are sanitized, and with oxygen obsorbers?
I would. I've tried it both ways; and unless you get a perfect seal on the buckets the food goes bad without the mylar bags.
Where did you find the bags for $8.00?
These are great for calories, however there is also vitamin/mineral issue, so one needs to store some nutrient dense foods as well like molasses, seaweed, green powders, dried berries, tonic and nutritional herb powders, etc. I am also wondering, why storage buckets are usually made of plastic. Wouldn't metal be better to protect from rodents?
Are you really using dessicat packet rather than O2 absorbers?
If you store beans you have to know how to cook them that’s the tricky part
What you got in dem buckets bro,moonshine??? Lol ( need to start prepping in NYC, but when shtf wanna move to az rural land
I ' m rather be prepared than wait for donations or wait for help from the government food stamp.
Should have put the amazon links in the description
How would you propose to cook beans assuming a grid down scenario? I'm buying canned goods on sale because they're ready to eat. Just a thought.
I have been wondering this about beans - they take so much energy to cook! I remember once I knew an old Hippy who used a solar cook stove and I wonder if there isn't a way to make a slow cooker using the sun - something that would be safe enough to leave for several days perhaps. I figure, if I only have a limited amount of fuel I don't want to have to dedicate it to simmering beans for several hours.
@@josephseth11 You can make beans edible just by soaking them for long enough. I bet after three days they’d be as tender as cooked. Soaking also deactivates the bad enzymes.
you know your in the shit when the wife sees you doing that with her hair straightener right :) i once used my girlfriends hair scissors to cut some thing up, not happy at all
Where can one buy a bag that size of beans?
Im having a hard time finding these big bags of food. Where can you find 50lbs???
My guess this is about a 3 month supply for one person. Great base though and it beats starving! I'd pack oatmeal the same way. Add peanut butter, canned goods and other shelf stable snacks to your working pantry 😋
Also, desiccant packets do not absorb oxygen, only moisture. For oxygen, you need to get oxygen absorbers.
Your right I misspoke. They where oxygen absorbs that came with the bags.
are those Walmart buckets FOOD GRADE?
Way to improvise with the flat iron!
Question: What are those dehydration packets called & are they the same as Silica Gel PAX (usually saying "do not eat"), typically found in shipping? Thanks!
So I misspoke when I called the Oxygen absorbers Desiccant Packs in the video however desiccant packs meet FDA specifications for dry food packaging. Dry-Packspackets contain the absorbent desiccant called Silica Gel, which is non-toxic and an inert product. Dry-Packs Silica Gel Packets can absorb 40% of its weight in water vapor.
Oxygen remover packets
what was the hair thing you used? That was perfect for mylar bags.
Look in any hair products isle...you will find it with curling irons. IT is more of a hair straightener.
It's called a flattening iron and it is for straightening hair. I'm sure you could pick one up from the goodwill for cheep.
Are the buckets food grade buckets ,and the lids have rubber steals in them for long term
The buckets are food grade. No rubber seal.
It's great that you're planning and putting food into your preparations. I do have to wonder though, how big are the two infants that you would be feeding for a year on this food? By my math 100 lb of rice and 100 lb of beans would give two infants a starvation diet for a year. It would give one adult adequate food for 100 days.
@Ben DoverYou still canning? I know a few who have absolutely NO food in their home except snack crap, they eat out for every meal. Don't think my measly beans & rice will measure up their more refined steak & lobster palates. Good! Their loss - more for me. 😜 Take care. LV Grandma
I see a lot of negative comments about variety. When you are in a time when there is a disaster and no help you will be lucky and happy that you do have something if anything to eat even if it just rice and beans. Good job for you him at least he is preparing for the worst. And shame to all of you for putting him down about variety.
Do some research on appetite fatigue as it relates to food storage. If presented with no variety in diet over time humans will (literally) refuse to eat that food even when they are starving to death. I view many of the comments here not as being critical but as realistic.
Along with the lack of veriety I'd point out that that is not the biggest problem with just beans and rice. You need other things with those foods to survive otherwise you will die of either protein poisoning or get scurvy. You'll need at the least salt a fat source to process the proteins and some sort of vitimine c.
For anyone watching this... The beans and rice need to be kept in a freezer for at least a week to kill any bugs and eggs in them. Otherwise when you open it, it will be full of bugs. After you freeze them, take them out and let them thaw to room temperature. Then put them in the bags with a Desiccant AND and Oxygen Absorber. A Desiccant absorbs moisture, and Oxygen Absorber, well that's obvious. You need Both for optimum storage length and safety. Then store in a cool dark place that Rodents Can't get to! Rats and mice CAN and will chew through plastic and the bags. Now if you don't have room in the freezer, you can do oven debugging. Google Oven canning for storage foods. Now, go store some Food!!!
I would think if your hungry. Calories will not be calculated when you see food. Eat and drink what you have. Yes or NO?
Great video..But use a gamma lid. Thats the way to go
Will this method of storing really preserve the food for 25-30 years?
Yes the reason is the Mylar bags keep out any light and oxygen. This prevents any small bugs or microbiology from growing and spoiling the food.
It should last you till you can grow some food.
no one has gone on a rant about the walmart buckets not being food grade, do mylar bags make this a non issue?
The buckets are just for keeping the mylar sealed, clean, and easy storage. The mylar actually seals the food. Some people use the food grade buckets with the special lids, but I've never been able to use them and have the food not go bad within a year or two. I use either mylar, adding food grade diatomacious earth, and oxygen packets, sealed in just regular plastic buckets or canning jars heat sealed with the oxygen packet and diatomacious earth.
You could have saved another 20 bucks if you opted for the "sort of fancy rice" instead of extra fancy.
Save even more by not quite getting up to fancy... look for a bag of "almost fancy"...
is this a good/safe way to store dry goods? I was watching another youtuber dry can in half gallon jars and thought that was a lot of work however I'm not sure which is the best method.
John Limongello I was wondering that too. I heard to freeze or heat in oven first to kill off bug eggs, rice at least will have some in there. I’d hate to open that in 5 years and it be full of bugs. Also those packs remove moisture I believe, not oxygen.
One thing I worry about with the rice & beans thing is the cook time. Do you think you will have the fuel, wood, electricity to cook dried beans and rice. I live in the desert southwest. If there was a complete failure of the country's infrastructure, I might be cooking with cow chips. Rice takes 20 minutes and beans take hours.
Ya that might be tough to find the water for you. I live in Washington so water is not a problem for me. I cook the beans in a slow cooker with solar, witch you should excel at with all that sun.
That's why I stocked some lentils. Less fuel, less water.
where do you include veggies???
I have a vegetable garden. I might make a video on that in the future if enough people want to see that.
Hmmm.rice and beans. everyday. for a year. for a $100. yum.
Lol! I know, but it is better than nothing.
I dont have calorie for the rice so I will substitute the 2 bags of rice for 2 more bags of beans. (making 4 bags total) I only get 117 days on a 2000C diet. Someone check my math plz.
Thank for the video! ... But why the background music?!?!
Because it's his video and he wanted the background music.
Dear sir before you store your rice in Mylar bags you must put in freezer for a week to kill the Miller eggs otherwise the eggs will hatch out and ruin your rice
I'd like to know how you are going to cook those beans to bring them to life. Old beans take much water, and many hours to reconstruct. Old beans take up to 18 to 24 hours of simmering to bring them to edible state.
You are absolutely correct however I live in Washington and have plenty of access to water. I am thinking of making a video about my water solution and maybe another one to show how I cook the beans with a slow cooker and solar.
Just thinking a better way to store beans would be to get canned beans or cook your beans while fresh and dehydrate them. because solar you need the sun, and slow cooker you need electricity, May have plenty of wood for a fire, constant fire. no refrigeration, Still would have to burn 24/7 in order to continuously cook the beans. Oh and if your water is contaminated, then what? Should think of all scenarios.
good comments. there is a slow cooker that does not use electricity. Look it up on the net an see what you think. I like your idea of cooking fresh and dehydrating. I do not have a dehydrator, any recommendations?
Get a stove top pressure cooker! Look it up. It's one way to save a lot of cooking fuel.
Steffey Productions I would LOVE this! I live near you, I think, and have no plan for cooking other than our gas grill
I see folks going back and forth on calories etc and what else they need in a diet. But if it came down to all you had was this would you really care at that moment? You would be glad to have something in your belly, period.
How you cook it tho?
I use a slow cooker and solar. I will make a video if I get enough requests.
Do it last for five years or 2 years
Lentils are easier to cook... Less energy, less time. Pinto beans are quite hard to cook... More time, much more energy. And I'm almost positive that lentils will pack probably 20% more densely than pinto beans.
Thanks for the video.
You are welcome. Thanks for watching :)
Hmm, two comments and both are complaints about variety. I know you are being snarky for laughs but I have seen true starvation in several regions of the world . It is ugly and they would not consider beans and rice anything other than a feast of heavenly providence. This should be just the beginning stage of your food storage. A building block if you will. Next time make the same type of purchase but vary the food, say wheat and corn or potato flakes and pasta noodles. Fruit Loop cereal will stay fresh and crisp for decades if stored in Mylar bags with oxygen absorber.
Thanks for feed back.
MsJackle99 beans and rice go a long way as opposed to other things. Good choice!
Beans are solid ....Rice is a filler which is also good .But long term you need fat . Animal fat is where its at . I would teach all new preppers to start with Meats !!!!
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Prepping for different scenarios does not have to only be for the end of the world ones...
What if you got injured and couldn’t work for a month or longer...?
Having food Preps already in place will allow you to continue to feed your family and use what money you
might ha e needed to spend on food for other bills so the temporary loss or reduction in wages doesn’t hurt
so badly...
Also, what in case of some natural disaster such as a Tornado which might cut off supplies of food and clean
drinking water until services are able to be restored...?
Having Preps already in place could mean the difference between you being able to continue to stay in your home
protecting it from would be looters verses needing to evacuated a different area until services are restored and you could return...?
So, you see there are sound reasons to prep that are not life ending...
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Red beans lol hot sauce and seasoning.
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I've bought a bag of rice like that but got weebels in it
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I can’t find the buckets for less than $7 each; even at Walmart. I would not pack in such large bags! Maybe three days of food open at a time due to spoilage. Remember no electric means no refrigeration during the summer. High humidity days spoil opened food faster. A
Why didn't you just put bags in Mylar bags ? why pour out ?
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