The 5 Gallon Bucket Food Storage Project - Part 1-A

[TheEskatos]

3:57 Is it just me or is that Cat preparing his leg for consumption?

[RBNightlinger]

A space-saving suggestion: Consider storing orzo instead of noodles or macaroni. They're both pasta, but orzo is much more compact.

[SlvrStkr2]

If you use whole grain/wheat pastas and brown rice you would be getting protein. Stay away from white flour, human processed, garbage.

[jamesryanphoto]

You have to goto the farmers market to get this stuff take a look at my videos to see why.

[c0boy]

Is there in any benefit to whole wheat pastas?

[survivalpodcasting]

@c0boy - Of course the same benefit to whole wheat flour over white flour, much more nutrition. 

[TrueBlueJMS]

@survivalpodcasting I have read that whole wheats ( much like brown rice), simply do not store as long as their bleached/white counterparts. Is this true?

[survivalpodcasting]

@TrueBlueJMS - When you mean flour or a whole wheat product yes it is true. Yet you can easily get 2-4 years in this type of storage from something like a noodle. It would be far less with raw flour. Now if you store whole wheat berries, they store for dang near ever. The key is we open and use these buckets so they get rotated. For true long term we stick to whole berries, white rice, etc. Balance in all things.

[nelcolson]

great video

[ispike112]

Hey great vid just wondering if the small home vavume bags and apliances you can get are any good ? i realise that it will be small 500 gram packets and maybe 1kg . but for long term 1-2 yrs are they any good? Plus these small bags stored in buckets

[ispike112]

Hey great vid just wondering if the small home vavume bags and apliances you can get are any good ? i realise that it will be small 500 gram packets and maybe 1kg . but for long term 1-2 yrs are they any good?



[Chriznak]

anyone know how many pounds of red wheat or white rice can go in a 5 gallon food bucket?

[1TacticalMedic]

Havent been able to get thebuckets "anywhere" Where are they

[jdietz730]

@1TacticalMedic try doughnut shops or bakeries i got 100 for a buck a piece just needed washed and cleaned with bleach to disinfect took a week to clean them all

[lordmat666]

i am sorry i did not listen at all the cat was so distracting

[MRSSCARE14]

@lordmat666 thats exactly what i just said to my husband, " look at the cat he is so busy cleaning himself."!!!

[proverb311031]

Are Lentils a good survive food, because they are high in protein, and can be stored for a long time!

[davfritz]

LOve the cat. They make a good emergency protien source without preservation problems.

[docfin63]

@davfritz LOL thats why I have 2 cats a dog and a couple of fish for variety!

[NurseMeister]

Excellent vid. Though the cat does steal the show!

[USNERDOC]

Well done with good information . . . I am off to watch the rest of the series. 5/5

I'm a new subscriber.

[sizzled28]

Great video, Thanx!

BTW, Do you mind saying what part of Tx? I am dead center.

[survivalpodcasting]

@sizzled28

Listen to my podcast at my main website at survivalpodcast [dot] com, I say ever day where I am at.

[sizzled28]

@survivalpodcasting never mind. Wasn't that important.

[SinnermansGuide]

Its great the way you show that its important to balance your nutritional needs when you select food for storage. I always try to teach that food storage must address the three basic needs for food. These are Calories, Nutrition & Comfort. Any food storage program must be designed to meet these three needs or it fails. Don't sweat the folks who try to say what your doing is to complex. we are human not apes we can do the math. This is a great series.

[Tikmondo]

if it's for a survival situation why just not rely on nuts and legumes for fats and proteins and skip the whole meat and traditional fats. probably healthier anyway.

[acv2s]

cute cat in the background! Mine is doing the exact same thing!! hehe oh! the vid is cool too...

8-)

[Profit187]

Nevermind... seems he covers the fat issue later... would be good to mention in the setup vid though...

[survivalpodcasting]

@Profit187, Most American's do have too much fat in their diets, perhaps it would be better to say too much of the wrong types of fat.

You will get no argument from me though that carbs are what has made America fat. If we create a diet high in protein, moderate in fat and very low in carbs we get very close to the way humans should be eating. Unfortunately it is very difficult to do with long term storage though. Hence why we add in a lot of veggies and combine other storage items.

[Profit187]

Huge fan of the SP... been a MSB for over a year... but "Most Americans have too much fat in their diet" is dead wrong... Bad carbs however? Without a doubt... Right on though with "easy to become fat deficient"...

[itisYOUREnotYOUR]

Why in God's name are you storing food that must be COOKED? Most canned items will last 2 years - some more than 5 years (like tuna and Dinty Stew, Spam, etc...)

Society collapses and you are the ONLY one prepped with food in your neighborhood, and you will blow your cover the first time your fellow hungrymen smell the home cookin'.

Canned food does NOT need cooking or even warming.

Cooking food after the collapse is a great way to get your house/bug out barn BURNING down Molotov style.

[Sheepdog627]

You miss the point. Jacks tag line is, Helping you live a better life, if times get tough, or even if they dont. Stored food is great to have even if society doesnt collapse. Perhaps you lose your job. Living on stored food will stretch the dollar a long way.

[Sheepdog627]

Or what if you get snowed in? If the smell of food cooking brings a hungry neighbor or two, well, then invite them in and share your dinner with them. Thats the idea anyway.

But if youd rather hunker down in your bomb shelter, surrounded by piles of canned food, with your tin foil hat screwed on extra tight, I say you go for it!

[itisYOUREnotYOUR]

What a cop out.

So..."in case you lose your job", you will spend $7.50 on a 5 gal bucket, $2 for mylar bag, $1 for oxy absorbers, add shipping and handling, and maybe even costs to keep it cool in the summer and it will cost about $15+ to store $10 worth of beans.

Not a smart investment. You would be better off keeping the money spent on food in a savings account, THEN if you lost your job you can go out and buy the dried food, NOT all the other "survival" stuff to go with it.

[itisYOUREnotYOUR]

Look, anyone going through the expense to store dried goods for 20+ years is preparing for collapse when food will not be available PERIOD.

Otherwise, they'd throw it in the pantry and rotate it.

"....eat what you store, store what you eat..."

Having said that, for survival, store what does not smell and blow your cover - eg: already cooked food.

[sizzled28]

@itisYOUREnotYOUR

"Having said that!" Hahaha! Where have I heard that one??? Hahaha! Good one!

[sizzled28]

@itisYOUREnotYOUR

I have wondered the same thing. I am sincerely looking into things that will last a long time, as well as easy prep food sources.

Being that the health care bill passed today; I look for some serious hard times to follow. Thanx

[stormpoet76]

key words to live by

Pantry

storeage what you eat is what you store

organization.

Oh I took away from this something very valuable

Toilet paper,napkins,paper towels.

Essential items. running out of these items will be tough.(not unthinkable but tough nonetheless. Some things that we take for granted are hygene related.

[FatoDrunkoAndoStupid]

Thanks for posting these videos.

I was fascinated with my Grandparent's basement when I was a kid. They lived through the depression and kept enough food, water and paper products (TP, napkins, towels) to last months.

Food is obvious. Water is slightly less obvious. Paper products are often left out... hope you have a large, expendable library at home!

There is nothing crazy about being prepared to survive tough times. More people should be doing this.

[dsarti1]

ps watch my farm update you will see my long term self multypling proten and fat to ad to the diet lol

[copefarms]

some people dont eat meat now and survive just fine without it

[dsarti1]

Your body will turn excess carbs into fat

[survivalpodcasting]

@dsarti1,

Not if you are fully deficient in fat in the first place. Cut fat intake to 1% or less for more then a month and very serious problems result even with plenty of carbs.

[dsarti1]

oh come on you have enough fat stored to go several months with out eating extra fat, i could go over a year..besides going totally fat free is pretty hard to do, many plants even have oils/fats

[survivalpodcasting]

@dsarti1

You can debate nutritional facts all you want but it won't change them. As for how much fat I have, I've 25 lbs in the last 6 months, have about 20 more to go & don't want to do that any faster then over 6-8 months. Faster may make good fad diets but it sends the wrong message to your body & results in a completely F'd metabolism.

Fat won't be a problem in the project but I hope the folks with 20 buckets of rice, wheat, beans and nothing else have leaned something so far here.

[dsarti1]

Well as I tried to explain in my rice in your food storage video, Rice is a great extender. 1 uncooked cup of white rice and some bullion can make 1 chicken quarter feed 3 easally

[survivalpodcasting]

@pshinspections

Your last comment was removed by accident. I apologize for that it was a mistake BUT.

I am sorry but you clearly did not LISTEN to the entire video, watch part 1-B or part 2 or Part 3-A and 3-B. I am suggesting no such thing.

This is a LONG TERM on going project. We are just getting started. There will be well over an hour in total video by the end may be two hours.

Please don't go correcting people if you don't listen first. Your not as tuned in as you claim to be.

[pshinspections]

You folks are going to get mighty tired of eating pasta without fresh meat. Learn how to can meats, then do it. And buy a few cases of SPAM in case you screw up your canned meats.

I'm going to be eating chicken breasts and beef roast in two years, nutritionally equal to if I cooked it today, while others are eating beans and rice, farting day-in and day-out, and wondering when an animal will walk on by so they can kill it.

Come on folks, SHTF will be hard enough... store foods you eat NOW.

[survivalpodcasting]

@pshinspections

You sound a bit arrogant there? Did you pay attention to the video, did you hear what I said about this being a project that we would complete over time? I promise you I won't be missing out on meat anytime soon. This is to help people learn how to construct food storage in various mediums.

There will be meats, they just won't be in buckets. When this project ends there will be two buckets and a tub.

[survivalpodcasting]

There is also not a single item in there thus far that we don't eat and eat often.

[FatoDrunkoAndoStupid]

pshinspections, Did you watch the video?

He owns a cat AND a dog. Do you think he's going to feed them in a survival situation?

He has more than enough fresh meat walking around his house and backyard to get him through a life threatening emergency.

[pshinspections]

@ FatoDrunkoAndoStupid

Yeah, for a month maybe, at a survival rate of less than 1 oz per day.

People, successful survival must equip you to be MORE active than you are now, not LESS. Forget about planning to just survive.

Lose the emotions over survival matters, dude. Get serious.

[pshinspections]

I am CONFIDENT because I have meats & foods stored for YEARS to further my current dietary intake and not cause a SECOND crisis by forcing my body to adapt to foods I dont already eat DAILY.

The body doesn't work that way.

I am not making fun of anyone, guys. I implore you to be prepared, and I applaud SP's videos or I wouldn't watch them. But don't knock the preps of someone else who has already field-tested the food stuffs for months and knows what the body will expect on a daily basis.

[whybefaded]

Can you do a video on simple hydroponics systems, and what food would be good to grow in it?

[survivalpodcasting]

@whybefaded

When we move to our place in Arkansas this spring I will be installing full system and will of course provide a ton on information on all of it.

[vention4wh]

Great stuff Jack! Since I panicked back in 2007 I ended up socking away multiple buckets of beans and rice. Good thing they're supposed to last like 20 years in storage because I'm not using them very fast. Now I'm more of a store what you eat kind of guy, partly because of your podcast.

[3charter]

Great project...★★★★★

[survivalpodcasting]

@3charter How do you make those symbols like that?

[MrBreeze250]

Jack, I appreciate the practical videos for beginners. Simple and cheap. Thanks.