Expiration dates are very conservative. The food is good LONG past expiration. I work for a company that buys almost-expired food for practically nothing and sells it.
No respect for domestic animals like dogs like i can understand bugs and rat and raccons but dogs? Who feeds poor defenceless creatures spoiled meat and potatos
@Slayer14501011 those foods are still safe for dogs to eat. Trust me, my dog isn't poor or defenseless. He'll eat anything and protect himself. He ain't no yorkey or whatever you liberals always whine about. Dogs have the stomach for these foods, and it's not bad for them either.
Believe me people. If the S really does HTF, you are going to eat anything. Regardless of the expiration date. Pet food, etc. In extreme situations, even the pet itself.
how much food does the average person waste from their everyday meals even? examine your own practices before jumping on someone else, let alone someone who is trying to share knowledge..
Some of the criticism is comical. People are jumping on his case for letting a few meals expire. How many thousands of meals like this do you think the government wastes every year? His tax dollars pay for these too.
Relax people...he threw away TWO meals. He salvaged what he could have (like I would have done). Unless you're starving to death, I wouldn't risk the dates either...no need. If "wasting" food is what you are concerned with...next time maybe he can send it to you. Besides, it isn't being wasted...pets are being fed with that..which leaves other pet food for later use.
A shame it went to waste, but he could have lied and said he bought them and not a single person would have opened their mouths about it except for the wastefulness which as he said was by accident. Cut the man some slack. But to show us to not waste even after it has expired, although common sense, we some times lack that. Silverware, spices and candy that did not expire was at least saved including some of the heaters.
But to have food just given to you in an emergency isn't some thing to just throw away unless you have a warehouse full of stock and even then... Maybe his area was not hit as bad and those were to be used as a last resort and forgotten. Maybe he took them for family and friends and they did not want them and then were forgotten or the agency would not take them back again.
And lastly and more to the point, not that I am defending the Survivalist Board, but how do we know how much was given to him. For all we know they gave him the two only. Maybe they gave him 10. Who knows he just said a bunch. But you don't just throw or refuse food like that in a situation as dire as that. Who knows what could have happened. Yes other people were in much dire need. Yes they were also much less prepared either by choice or because of their living standard.
I had went there 3-4 times and each time on KP, not very fun to not only throw it away, but to open them, empty them in garbage bags and seperate the cans from the trash. And I am only speaking of 1 group, not the many others there or even the other training cycles through out the year or around the globe at simular sites. Maybe I was in the last training cycle each and every time I went, but you want to cry about wasted tax dollars or food in general go talk to the military!
Although I can see it being a waste to throw it out later, at least you reused what you could. For those arguing about tax dollars, why don't you travel to Cali to the Dust Bowl and see what is thrown away at the end of the troop training cycle. Hundreds if not 1,000's of cans of food. (Maybe even 100,000's) Fruits, vegies, coffee, tin rations etc.
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i am so glad that you took that food from relief agencies, only to throw it away many years later, does surviving equate to taking handouts you don't need. If you were prepared for disasters you wouldn't need to run to the government handouts. At least you are going to feed the possums with it, which is exactly where i hoped my red cross donations and tax dollars would end up. From the american taxpayer I would like to thank you from the bottom of my heart.
1 - why should I use my preps when people are willing to give me stuff? Think about it for a little while. I might do a video about that.
2 - after hurricanes Ike and Rita, my wife and I had 4 family units staying with us. Part of these food preps belonged to those other families. When they returned home, they asked me to hold onto these meals. If they needed the meals, I would either bring them to the families, or they would come get them.
@survivalistboards pardon me, i forgot the american values have changed to what can I get for free. in the future at least attempt to give your freebies to people who are actually in need before they expire.
@aacsteveo: If you think TWO meals expiring is a waste of tax dollars, you must really suffer from heartburn and stress disorders when it comes to government wastefulness and misuse of tax dollars. Cut this guy some slack. He's feeding the pets of friends...so the food really isn't going to waste and he's salvaging a lot more than most would.
When you give something away, it is not yours anymore. You don't hold it over someone's head that you gave it and command them about how to use it. If you had any dignity, you would not feel compelled to mention it. If you don't like the way the red cross handle's things, don't give to them. In reality, things get overstocked, wasted, lost, damaged in the process of providing for those in need. In your fantasy world, you give a dollar and then control the universe from then on.
Great video. Glad you showed that you were going through and keeping some items to eat, other items for animals, others to dispose of. Good efficiency.
Excellent video about stock rotation and the need to use what you store. This is good information for helping people keep track (lists, spread sheets, dating boxed food) of food they stock to help them save money and keep fresh storage. Great video also about not just throwing the baby out with the bathwater!
BTW most foods that are "past their prime" are not dangerous just less nutritious and loose their savor. As always if the can or container is compromised...DON'T EAT IT.
I use to buy heater meals to carry in my semi. They are really good I loved the green pepper steak. You don't know what you missed out on. I know it's hard to use up all the supplies we store.
eat what you store and store what you eat. Never store anything that you aren't going to eat on a regular basis. We do this religiously. Those aren't good for dogs either. Beware, onions can KILL your dogs in any form, so you shoudn't give pre-processed food to the dogs onion is used as a flavor enhancer is almost every processed foods available on the market.
You don't want to get rid of perfectly good food products. Who knows when you might need 'em especially now with Putin...I mean his puppet Medvedev threatening total war and the puppets on Capital Hill coming for your retirement money wanting to give it to green jobless bums and for aborting the young. No, I tell ya. Come and get it.
i have a question... i have empty pickle jars so i put rice in them to the top with a tissue to absorb any left over air and put the lid on tight. how long would that rice stay good?
kev, this is one of the reasons I like u, u wont take any chance of giving anything to your kids if there is any question about giving any of this stuff to ur kids
That heater bag that ruptured save 3 of them cut them open place the powder in a 2 liter with 3 cups of water in the 2 liter shake with lid on and toss in the yard. Don't pick it up sometimes it takes a few mim to go off but usually they will go boom about 3o sec so you have time to tighten the lid and toss away safely. Sometimes they melt the plastic and you get no show others they will melt the top and take off in the yard. Look up MRE bomb.
@cdltpx I used a funnel and dry bottles then added the water capped shook tossed. Takes a little preperation but is fun. This can be dangerous but I think you already know this.
Glad everything isn't totally going to waste. I try never to waste my food preps, since that's like throwing money out the window. So I try to make sure either my family or my dogs eat the food preps before they expire. I also only buy short & medium term storage items. Short term (6 months to 3 years) Medium term (5 to 10 years). That way, the bulk of my food preps don't all have to be eaten within 3 years.
Have you ever stored food in a cache in your backyard? If we keep our food only in our house then we have all of our eggs in one basket. If we lose the food in our house from looters, storms, or a fire......at least we will have a some food to get a start on life again by accessing the food we stored in our cache.
I sort my food by expiration date Before I sort them by type. It allows me to see whats about to expire and Eat it before it does. It also lets me know what Im going to have in 6 months, a year, two years- just knowing how many cans of something I have doesn't mean I'll have that many in 2 years.
I see your point about the risk of giving spoiled food to your family, assume you bought it new, say $30 worth, that's nothing compared to the deductibles involved if someone should get ill and require medical attention.
It's just not worth getting sick anyway.
That said, There is a lot of credible information that states that the expiration dates on most foods are more about encouraging repeat sales than about health concerns.
Many canned goods, for instance, have shelf lives in the decades
Feed 'em to the chickens or use them for bait in live traps. Every now and again it happens that we all have something that goes bad. Good to not take chances.
expirations dates are set very conservatively due to liability reasons. The food is most likely still good to eat for a long time after the date. There may be a minor drop in some of the nutritional value, but it should be fine to eat. With my stuff if it is within a year of the expiration date I will usually eat it, after that I either feed it to the dogs, the chickens (they will eat ANYTHING!) or donate it to shelters and let them decide.
Please don't ever give any of that stuff to dogs. Thier systems are not made to digest human food. Especially expired human food. Dog's should never be given table scraps. Give it to the opossums. They were born dead at the side of the road anyways...
Don't think the heater packets don't expire. Those are the most unreliable items in those boxes. I've had many MRE heaters fail in the field before even the check date on MRE's. The commercial versions are even less reliable.
As mentioned before, those expiration dates are VERY conservative. I've eaten 10 year old MRE's to no ill effects.
I usually eat foods before they expire and replace with new. We keep our shelves/containers marked with exp dates and use old stuff up first for camping etc. I really hate to waste anything with people starving around the world.
In my area there are organizations that accept dry goods,cans of food or prepackaged food for homeless veterans and poor people in general. Please consider to donate foods before they expire.
kevin i wish you could have eaten the meals before they expired or at least donated to needy families, we really need as a society to start using resources wisely and cut out needless wasting. i hope that in the future you will check your supplies more often and not let good resources go to waste.
@1978graham - I agree. The heater meals were stored in the bottom of the pantry and were forgotten about. I lost track of time, and before I knew it, the meals had been expired by almost a year.
@1978graham I agree with you there totally. One thing all this economic mess has taught me is you do not waste anything if you can help it. I make sure anything I can donate is donated because God knows there are so many people out there that so badly need any and all help they can get.
I think you should at least release the water back into the system .I think were going to find in the future a problem with water being taken out of the cycle of things and stored in containers think of all the bottles of water and coke and juice that have been partially consumed then thrown away with the cap left on . Maybe not a real issue but I always dump out my containers and leave the cap off so the water can evaporate back into the natural cycle of things ..Just a thought :)
@stankmcnasty you know i had the same thought about releasing the water from the containers when i saw that. i don't know exactly how helpful that might be but i always dump fluids before i throw the container away..... just a thought....
@Supersecretfilms I totally get that he is donating and recycling most of the stuff And major kudos for the thoughtfulness of that for sure . He said that he was just going to throw the little water packets away ..and I was just saying that maybe dumping them into a plant or garden or down the drain if it salt water would just be one more mindful Idea :)
WHY throw them out? Those expiration dates are arbatrary! They are to portect the manufacturer from law suits. Most properly stored food products will last TWICE the time stated. IE, if you bought a can of tuna and it said on the can "best by 2012" that means they think it has a 2 year shelf life, iof properly stored you can eat it in 2014!
@survivalistboards Remember I said "properly stored" MRE's are time AND heat sensitive. If you leave them in the trunk of your car...They MAY last 6 mos to a year. Most people trow out WAY too much food thinking it may be bad. I once received 200#'s of wheat because it was 10 years old....(Wheat can store for 40 years or more!)
@kmikesell.... those dates are given as guide lines but still i wouldnt play around too far past the dates, i have seen people with food bourne illness and let me tell you it aint pretty!
@kmikesell last month i ate an MRE with a pack date of 1992 sooooo, yes things can go bad but you will know it long before you stick it in your mouth just by smell alone , yes i have found bad MREs BEFORE there expiration
That's kind of too bad. Those heater meals would have made good lunches for work. I do pretty physical work for a living so I can get pretty hungry if I don't pack a sufficient lunch. For that reason I keep some shelf stable food in my wall locker. That way I don't have to resort to the candy machine..
thats why i try and cycle my food every few months, it kills me to toss any thing out. in all honesty most of the stuff comes with so many chemicals its still good except that one you showed at end.
I just opened a can of mackeral 9 years expired. It was perfectly good, I ate it and I'm still alive.
charkee1 3 months ago
It's good to have an "Emergency Plan," but too often, these types are praying for doomsday.
mediamadman747 6 months ago
your a fag lololol
PsychicSkarmory 6 months ago
Expiration dates are very conservative. The food is good LONG past expiration. I work for a company that buys almost-expired food for practically nothing and sells it.
Jollyprez 1 year ago
No respect for domestic animals like dogs like i can understand bugs and rat and raccons but dogs? Who feeds poor defenceless creatures spoiled meat and potatos
Slayer14501011 1 year ago
@Slayer14501011 those foods are still safe for dogs to eat. Trust me, my dog isn't poor or defenseless. He'll eat anything and protect himself. He ain't no yorkey or whatever you liberals always whine about. Dogs have the stomach for these foods, and it's not bad for them either.
edcjunkie 1 year ago
Believe me people. If the S really does HTF, you are going to eat anything. Regardless of the expiration date. Pet food, etc. In extreme situations, even the pet itself.
cfx5000 1 year ago
how much food does the average person waste from their everyday meals even? examine your own practices before jumping on someone else, let alone someone who is trying to share knowledge..
anblink24 1 year ago
Myself he should have ate the food long time ago
ljg2568 1 year ago
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painstaking31 1 year ago
your a cool guy kevin i wish i could be that well prepared like you
Firehunter1989 1 year ago
I don't understand the, giving dogs expired food idea... don't Dogs deserve healthy food too ?
HackerGuitarist 1 year ago
Some of the criticism is comical. People are jumping on his case for letting a few meals expire. How many thousands of meals like this do you think the government wastes every year? His tax dollars pay for these too.
wldennis1 1 year ago
I'm definately subbing to you. You have some helpful information in emergency situations :)
S3IZUR3 1 year ago
Relax people...he threw away TWO meals. He salvaged what he could have (like I would have done). Unless you're starving to death, I wouldn't risk the dates either...no need. If "wasting" food is what you are concerned with...next time maybe he can send it to you. Besides, it isn't being wasted...pets are being fed with that..which leaves other pet food for later use.
rlmarin1968 1 year ago
A shame it went to waste, but he could have lied and said he bought them and not a single person would have opened their mouths about it except for the wastefulness which as he said was by accident. Cut the man some slack. But to show us to not waste even after it has expired, although common sense, we some times lack that. Silverware, spices and candy that did not expire was at least saved including some of the heaters.
Jerrid3 1 year ago
But to have food just given to you in an emergency isn't some thing to just throw away unless you have a warehouse full of stock and even then... Maybe his area was not hit as bad and those were to be used as a last resort and forgotten. Maybe he took them for family and friends and they did not want them and then were forgotten or the agency would not take them back again.
Jerrid3 1 year ago
And lastly and more to the point, not that I am defending the Survivalist Board, but how do we know how much was given to him. For all we know they gave him the two only. Maybe they gave him 10. Who knows he just said a bunch. But you don't just throw or refuse food like that in a situation as dire as that. Who knows what could have happened. Yes other people were in much dire need. Yes they were also much less prepared either by choice or because of their living standard.
Jerrid3 1 year ago
I had went there 3-4 times and each time on KP, not very fun to not only throw it away, but to open them, empty them in garbage bags and seperate the cans from the trash. And I am only speaking of 1 group, not the many others there or even the other training cycles through out the year or around the globe at simular sites. Maybe I was in the last training cycle each and every time I went, but you want to cry about wasted tax dollars or food in general go talk to the military!
Jerrid3 1 year ago
Although I can see it being a waste to throw it out later, at least you reused what you could. For those arguing about tax dollars, why don't you travel to Cali to the Dust Bowl and see what is thrown away at the end of the troop training cycle. Hundreds if not 1,000's of cans of food. (Maybe even 100,000's) Fruits, vegies, coffee, tin rations etc.
Jerrid3 1 year ago
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i am so glad that you took that food from relief agencies, only to throw it away many years later, does surviving equate to taking handouts you don't need. If you were prepared for disasters you wouldn't need to run to the government handouts. At least you are going to feed the possums with it, which is exactly where i hoped my red cross donations and tax dollars would end up. From the american taxpayer I would like to thank you from the bottom of my heart.
aacsteveo 1 year ago
@aacsteveo - you only know part of the story.
1 - why should I use my preps when people are willing to give me stuff? Think about it for a little while. I might do a video about that.
2 - after hurricanes Ike and Rita, my wife and I had 4 family units staying with us. Part of these food preps belonged to those other families. When they returned home, they asked me to hold onto these meals. If they needed the meals, I would either bring them to the families, or they would come get them.
survivalistboards 1 year ago 7
@survivalistboards pardon me, i forgot the american values have changed to what can I get for free. in the future at least attempt to give your freebies to people who are actually in need before they expire.
aacsteveo 1 year ago
@aacsteveo: If you think TWO meals expiring is a waste of tax dollars, you must really suffer from heartburn and stress disorders when it comes to government wastefulness and misuse of tax dollars. Cut this guy some slack. He's feeding the pets of friends...so the food really isn't going to waste and he's salvaging a lot more than most would.
rlmarin1968 1 year ago
When you give something away, it is not yours anymore. You don't hold it over someone's head that you gave it and command them about how to use it. If you had any dignity, you would not feel compelled to mention it. If you don't like the way the red cross handle's things, don't give to them. In reality, things get overstocked, wasted, lost, damaged in the process of providing for those in need. In your fantasy world, you give a dollar and then control the universe from then on.
AnotherCompartment 1 year ago 2
Hurricane Ike? Where are you based at? I'm in N. Louisiana.
Pripyat1 1 year ago
the heater with the chemical leak is fine, we get that all the time from civilian MREs, its fine
eddieyou1018 1 year ago
please do not let anyones dog eat those meals, it is Extremely dangerous for animals to eat food that is expired just like you...
Plus, most processed foods contain ingredients that are toxic to dogs as well... please compost it instead!
Deluster1 1 year ago
Great video. Glad you showed that you were going through and keeping some items to eat, other items for animals, others to dispose of. Good efficiency.
bohdimlh 1 year ago
Excellent video about stock rotation and the need to use what you store. This is good information for helping people keep track (lists, spread sheets, dating boxed food) of food they stock to help them save money and keep fresh storage. Great video also about not just throwing the baby out with the bathwater!
adams0960 1 year ago
i ate army rations that were like 4 years past expiration and i was sweet this included a dank syrup sponge cake, powdered milk the lot.
justinus88 1 year ago
BTW most foods that are "past their prime" are not dangerous just less nutritious and loose their savor. As always if the can or container is compromised...DON'T EAT IT.
kmikesell 1 year ago 3
You can send them to me. I'll eat em. Haha.
ROFLpwnedvideos 1 year ago
hell my dad always gave me expired food AND milk as long as its regirgeated its good
stfuBUDDY 1 year ago
your video's are so interesting i wish i had all that!!! :)
TheCampingKid 1 year ago
I use to buy heater meals to carry in my semi. They are really good I loved the green pepper steak. You don't know what you missed out on. I know it's hard to use up all the supplies we store.
bigjim379 1 year ago
eat what you store and store what you eat. Never store anything that you aren't going to eat on a regular basis. We do this religiously. Those aren't good for dogs either. Beware, onions can KILL your dogs in any form, so you shoudn't give pre-processed food to the dogs onion is used as a flavor enhancer is almost every processed foods available on the market.
1971emily 1 year ago 5
Would be better to eat this stuff bevor it expired. ;/
It's too bad about the wasted food.
54114142 1 year ago
You don't want to get rid of perfectly good food products. Who knows when you might need 'em especially now with Putin...I mean his puppet Medvedev threatening total war and the puppets on Capital Hill coming for your retirement money wanting to give it to green jobless bums and for aborting the young. No, I tell ya. Come and get it.
hyperseauton 1 year ago
i have a question... i have empty pickle jars so i put rice in them to the top with a tissue to absorb any left over air and put the lid on tight. how long would that rice stay good?
RonPaulIsiah 1 year ago
kev, this is one of the reasons I like u, u wont take any chance of giving anything to your kids if there is any question about giving any of this stuff to ur kids
boulevardtalonman 1 year ago 2
That heater bag that ruptured save 3 of them cut them open place the powder in a 2 liter with 3 cups of water in the 2 liter shake with lid on and toss in the yard. Don't pick it up sometimes it takes a few mim to go off but usually they will go boom about 3o sec so you have time to tighten the lid and toss away safely. Sometimes they melt the plastic and you get no show others they will melt the top and take off in the yard. Look up MRE bomb.
cdltpx 1 year ago
@cdltpx I used a funnel and dry bottles then added the water capped shook tossed. Takes a little preperation but is fun. This can be dangerous but I think you already know this.
cdltpx 1 year ago
Glad everything isn't totally going to waste. I try never to waste my food preps, since that's like throwing money out the window. So I try to make sure either my family or my dogs eat the food preps before they expire. I also only buy short & medium term storage items. Short term (6 months to 3 years) Medium term (5 to 10 years). That way, the bulk of my food preps don't all have to be eaten within 3 years.
veritasfiles 1 year ago
Have you ever stored food in a cache in your backyard? If we keep our food only in our house then we have all of our eggs in one basket. If we lose the food in our house from looters, storms, or a fire......at least we will have a some food to get a start on life again by accessing the food we stored in our cache.
johnny102marvin 1 year ago
@johnny102marvin all my eggs are in caching :D
nicko978 1 year ago
hey Tex, thanks for the vids. You may help save lives with the info we gleam from these presentations!
SonofCastille 1 year ago
Good stuff K. Thanks for the reminder.
TheGrayman1234 1 year ago
ya i freakin wastes soo much food out of my food storage every year cuz i just dont get around to eating it
marshall3win 1 year ago
tsk tsk, you forgot to keep an inventory stock and to rotate it...shame on you :p
Although kudos for looking for individual expiration dates on the packages inside the box!
ArrowDel 1 year ago
I sort my food by expiration date Before I sort them by type. It allows me to see whats about to expire and Eat it before it does. It also lets me know what Im going to have in 6 months, a year, two years- just knowing how many cans of something I have doesn't mean I'll have that many in 2 years.
bishonenboy 1 year ago
I see your point about the risk of giving spoiled food to your family, assume you bought it new, say $30 worth, that's nothing compared to the deductibles involved if someone should get ill and require medical attention.
It's just not worth getting sick anyway.
That said, There is a lot of credible information that states that the expiration dates on most foods are more about encouraging repeat sales than about health concerns.
Many canned goods, for instance, have shelf lives in the decades
rampantunicorn 1 year ago
I clear out mine by eating them about a month before they go bad.
tiecuando 1 year ago
Feed 'em to the chickens or use them for bait in live traps. Every now and again it happens that we all have something that goes bad. Good to not take chances.
woodswoman783 1 year ago
just becouse a item has reachesd a experation date does not mean it is bad.. the stuff you threw out was just as good as a MRE
dsarti1 1 year ago
giving the good food to the dogs??? seeing as you have so much money to throw away how about sending me some?
dsarti1 1 year ago
cool vid post more like this
redneckjwillo 1 year ago
expirations dates are set very conservatively due to liability reasons. The food is most likely still good to eat for a long time after the date. There may be a minor drop in some of the nutritional value, but it should be fine to eat. With my stuff if it is within a year of the expiration date I will usually eat it, after that I either feed it to the dogs, the chickens (they will eat ANYTHING!) or donate it to shelters and let them decide.
Edzherenow99 1 year ago
id still eat it... I eat most expired things.. thats a best befor date ..
haha48 1 year ago
I've eaten MRE's for years. I'd test those entre's before tossing them to the hounds. I bet they're still good.
gwmiv 1 year ago 3
Please don't ever give any of that stuff to dogs. Thier systems are not made to digest human food. Especially expired human food. Dog's should never be given table scraps. Give it to the opossums. They were born dead at the side of the road anyways...
mobiltec 1 year ago
Don't think the heater packets don't expire. Those are the most unreliable items in those boxes. I've had many MRE heaters fail in the field before even the check date on MRE's. The commercial versions are even less reliable.
As mentioned before, those expiration dates are VERY conservative. I've eaten 10 year old MRE's to no ill effects.
hallard069 1 year ago
I usually eat foods before they expire and replace with new. We keep our shelves/containers marked with exp dates and use old stuff up first for camping etc. I really hate to waste anything with people starving around the world.
In my area there are organizations that accept dry goods,cans of food or prepackaged food for homeless veterans and poor people in general. Please consider to donate foods before they expire.
aaadream 1 year ago
kevin i wish you could have eaten the meals before they expired or at least donated to needy families, we really need as a society to start using resources wisely and cut out needless wasting. i hope that in the future you will check your supplies more often and not let good resources go to waste.
1978graham 1 year ago
@1978graham - I agree. The heater meals were stored in the bottom of the pantry and were forgotten about. I lost track of time, and before I knew it, the meals had been expired by almost a year.
survivalistboards 1 year ago 8
@survivalistboards I hate forgetting about stuff. I try and inventory 3 months before they expire and donate some to food banks and such.
SPCkeith 1 year ago
@1978graham I agree with you there totally. One thing all this economic mess has taught me is you do not waste anything if you can help it. I make sure anything I can donate is donated because God knows there are so many people out there that so badly need any and all help they can get.
justmom66 1 year ago
I think you should at least release the water back into the system .I think were going to find in the future a problem with water being taken out of the cycle of things and stored in containers think of all the bottles of water and coke and juice that have been partially consumed then thrown away with the cap left on . Maybe not a real issue but I always dump out my containers and leave the cap off so the water can evaporate back into the natural cycle of things ..Just a thought :)
stankmcnasty 1 year ago
@stankmcnasty you know i had the same thought about releasing the water from the containers when i saw that. i don't know exactly how helpful that might be but i always dump fluids before i throw the container away..... just a thought....
TheOpenmynded 1 year ago
@stankmcnasty call me crazy, but i do that too :D
Krogoth04 1 year ago
@stankmcnasty He is donating most of the articles
Supersecretfilms 1 year ago
@Supersecretfilms I totally get that he is donating and recycling most of the stuff And major kudos for the thoughtfulness of that for sure . He said that he was just going to throw the little water packets away ..and I was just saying that maybe dumping them into a plant or garden or down the drain if it salt water would just be one more mindful Idea :)
stankmcnasty 1 year ago
WHY throw them out? Those expiration dates are arbatrary! They are to portect the manufacturer from law suits. Most properly stored food products will last TWICE the time stated. IE, if you bought a can of tuna and it said on the can "best by 2012" that means they think it has a 2 year shelf life, iof properly stored you can eat it in 2014!
kmikesell 1 year ago 17
@kmikesell - I'am not going to take the chance of giving spoiled food to my kids.
survivalistboards 1 year ago 34
@survivalistboards You are a good dad! Keep up the good work.
RonPaulIsiah 1 year ago
@survivalistboards Remember I said "properly stored" MRE's are time AND heat sensitive. If you leave them in the trunk of your car...They MAY last 6 mos to a year. Most people trow out WAY too much food thinking it may be bad. I once received 200#'s of wheat because it was 10 years old....(Wheat can store for 40 years or more!)
kmikesell 1 year ago
@kmikesell.... those dates are given as guide lines but still i wouldnt play around too far past the dates, i have seen people with food bourne illness and let me tell you it aint pretty!
ladysnowladyd 1 year ago
@kmikesell last month i ate an MRE with a pack date of 1992 sooooo, yes things can go bad but you will know it long before you stick it in your mouth just by smell alone , yes i have found bad MREs BEFORE there expiration
gijoegotogo 1 year ago
That's kind of too bad. Those heater meals would have made good lunches for work. I do pretty physical work for a living so I can get pretty hungry if I don't pack a sufficient lunch. For that reason I keep some shelf stable food in my wall locker. That way I don't have to resort to the candy machine..
vention4wh 1 year ago
thats why i try and cycle my food every few months, it kills me to toss any thing out. in all honesty most of the stuff comes with so many chemicals its still good except that one you showed at end.
cbr6864 1 year ago
Ive tried the heater meals. They cost a lot, and don't ever seem to have enough food in them for the price.
MrBillTroop73 1 year ago 2
wish me had stuff like this in the UK just 2 give it a try looks prity good
ry13an 1 year ago
you should make a video of you fishing or crabing again :D
GfByZach 1 year ago
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magicster123 1 year ago
great video!!
monsterdrinker95 1 year ago