Got about 55 lbs of coffee into vacuum sealed 4 lb bags with dessicant, and into a tote

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Might do this one more time..... as green coffee beams like this will keep for decades, literally. Moving to sealing PORTION sizes of basmati rice and black beans, then on to other stuff. I am really enjoying my food saver sealer.

Going to focus on dried foods, then spices, then probably some fish and pork. I am feeling better about our food vulnerability here. Would love to get to the point where I said we could survive with dried foods on hand combined with food from the garden, and a deep freezer that could stay frozen with a propane generator.
Also, just purchased around 2,000 more .223 rounds. Doing inventory on ammo and am actually in decent shape.

Always more to do. There is no such thing as "prepared"... only woefully UNprepared.
 
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jmgdfther said:
What do you have to do to the "green" coffee beans before you can use it? Can you just grind it or does it have to be roasted?
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You have to roast it. I use a hot air popcorn popper, but you can even use a skillet in a pinch.
I will try to put up a video of me roasting as I am going to put another couple of pounds on the shelf today. There is a thread in here about that, as well. I think the title is COFFEE.... AGAIN or something like that.
 
Why portion sizes? why not 1-5lb at a time?
you already buy it in bags those size and use before it goes bad. Doesn't seem like there's sense in going with smaller portions except to give yourself a feeling that you prepped better, at a cost of more bags and time.
Dry beans and rice in a jar can sit on the counter for a LONG time without worrying.
Shoot, i bought a 50lb bag of rice and just kept a chip clip on the top. I opened it once or twice a week for a few years and never saw any degradation. Even my wife thought it was fine... but she didn't know that's what I was feeding her because she refuses to eat "expired" or "old" food.
 
My wife saw a vid where some prepper did these pre packaged. I am planning on watching that vid. Your advice may make more sense, in fact. I am feeling my way along here.
 
tanstaafl72555 said:
My wife saw a vid where some prepper did these pre packaged. I am planning on watching that vid. Your advice may make more sense, in fact. I am feeling my way along here.
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Grab and go portion bags for camping and such, or other times when opening up/carrying a large bag doesn't make sense.

We do meal bags, feeds 2, feeds 4, feeds 6 sizes.
 
OK, the "portion size" vid above was actually 4 lbs, so the advice given was good. We have a 50 lb bag of Basmati, so I will go to work on that. Just ordered some more food saver bags off ebay. Should get her later in the week. My wife makes some very very tasty beans and pasta stuff, as she likes to play around with different spices. Right now she has a bunch of jalapenos we harvested so everything has a zing to it. I love that stuff, though, so I am not complaining.
 
I was looking at the food lion website. looks like they have 15oz cans of some offbrand greenbeans, corn, and peas for 60c each.
that's a CHEAP way to get a stock of stuff fast. that's 8.3 for $5, which is a whole lot cheaper than buying name brand stuff even in a multi pack at a bulk club.
They also had a promo to get $2 back when you buy $10 of canned goods. I'm starting to see some parallels between prepper thinking and that extreme couponing show i watched a couple times.
 
@tanstaafl72555 thanks for the information. I haven’t thought about green coffee. That’s a great idea!
 
not sure what spices you guys like but last week the local Walmart had a big round bin (5ft diameter) full of different spices for $1.
 
I've roasted my own for years. For off grid - I keep a few "Whirly Pop" manual pop corn poppers - I can roast over a camp stove or fire. As far as why green (coffee) beans - as the author of this thread said - they keep indefinitely. Once roasted and exposed to air the bean starts loosing it's aromatics and are garbage after a week or so. Ground coffee is only really good for a few days after exposed to air.
 
DrScaryGuy said:
I was looking at the food lion website. looks like they have 15oz cans of some offbrand greenbeans, corn, and peas for 60c each.
that's a CHEAP way to get a stock of stuff fast. that's 8.3 for $5, which is a whole lot cheaper than buying name brand stuff even in a multi pack at a bulk club.
They also had a promo to get $2 back when you buy $10 of canned goods. I'm starting to see some parallels between prepper thinking and that extreme couponing show i watched a couple times.
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Thanks. Could you give me a link? I go to the website and all it ever gives me is some stupid opportunity to provide them with info, and then when I try to sign up, the wheel just spins. I hate web monkeys sometimes.
 
Food lion homepage at foodlion.com is pretty poorly executed. You can type in the exact product name and search will only show you recipes.

But the online shopping portal at shop.foodlion.com is very functional.

Here are the off-brand green beans:

Food Lion

shop.foodlion.com shop.foodlion.com
 
Yup. "Cha-Ching" brand was what I got a few of. 60c seemed cheap enough so I bought a few of each of the 3. While I was there I spotted some food lion brand cans of beans for 49c each (not on the website)... so i bought a few of those too. I intend to stock up on dried beans, but 50c for cooked and ready to eat is hard to pass up. Maybe my pump dies and I don't have enough water to wash/soak/boil beans. The cans will get me through a couple days. The best-by dates on the cans I bought range from 2024-2025.

Also, the "buy $10 of cans" deal was real, and I now have a $2 credit on my rewards account. It will expire at the end of next month.
Since I work right next to a food lion, I should be able to just wander over and make myself feel better by buying a few $ in food when work is frustrating. retail therapy works!

I really want to get some rice stocked up. But man I do not want to be spending more than $1/lb for small packages when big bags cost 40c/lb.
How much does it cost you to bag up a couple pounds with desiccant and O2 absorber?
 
tanstaafl72555 said:
Might do this one more time..... as green coffee beams like this will keep for decades, literally. Moving to sealing PORTION sizes of basmati rice and black beans, then on to other stuff. I am really enjoying my food saver sealer.

Going to focus on dried foods, then spices, then probably some fish and pork. I am feeling better about our food vulnerability here. Would love to get to the point where I said we could survive with dried foods on hand combined with food from the garden, and a deep freezer that could stay frozen with a propane generator.
Also, just purchased around 2,000 more .223 rounds. Doing inventory on ammo and am actually in decent shape.

Always more to do. There is no such thing as "prepared"... only woefully UNprepared.
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We have done this, and the wife has been dry canning stuff as well
 
DrScaryGuy said:
I was looking at the food lion website. looks like they have 15oz cans of some offbrand greenbeans, corn, and peas for 60c each.
that's a CHEAP way to get a stock of stuff fast. that's 8.3 for $5, which is a whole lot cheaper than buying name brand stuff even in a multi pack at a bulk club.
They also had a promo to get $2 back when you buy $10 of canned goods. I'm starting to see some parallels between prepper thinking and that extreme couponing show i watched a couple times.
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The corn, beans and peas prices on those cans are really good. Thank you for the link
 
DrScaryGuy said:
I really want to get some rice stocked up. But man I do not want to be spending more than $1/lb for small packages when big bags cost 40c/lb.
How much does it cost you to bag up a couple pounds with desiccant and O2 absorber?
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Dunno. Haven't done a price check on what the bags, food, and O2 cost.

I need to confess here. I had a food sealer for 17 years and never used it. I bot it back when I owned my insurance agency and had a very healthy cash flow. I just bought "stuff" and slung it aside (is "slung" a word?). I had closets of guns, ammo, doo dads, gold, silver ... in no particular planned out organizational pattern. I do not have a natural gift of organization, follow through, planning, or systematic prosecution of an organized method. I do very well in cognizing and mentally organizing large sets of data, and have both an entrepreneurial and finance "bone" that has helped me, but I have terrible deficits in putting together a plan and following it. I told Carole early in our marriage that I wanted to join the Army or Marines because they are great in teaching organization and leadership skills to young men... and those involve planning and execution... again, terrible lacks in my personality and character. It was a bad thing that I did not do this and has caused a lot of un-needed sorrow and tension in my life/marriage/career(s).

So, I am JUST NOW discovering how to use a food sealer, after 17 years lol. I am giddy with the knowledge of how cool and easy and .... just plain WISE it is to use these to set stuff aside.... so I post about it. Not claiming anything about being an expert. Bald faced noobie, in fact. I don't expect I will change though in my need to blubber out what I am learning.

Here we are.
 
so your cost is "sunk and long gone, so i either use it or toss it" which is a fine position to be in. One could argue you were already well on the path to getting ready for lean times, just didn't know it.
 
Just bought 15 cans each of corn, beans, and sweet peas. Under 30 dollars. Would that all this stuff was that cheap.

May go back and buy another 50 cans of each. Pretty much cleaned out the shelf at the local Food Lion, but it is a small store..
 
which brings up a question:
is it "worth" it?

buy "green beans", and buy a food sealer, and buy a roaster....and whatever else,
or buy already processed coffee/canned goods which i rotate annually.
storage is the same cost and discards due to age happen either way.

personally, unless i had some super-special, one-of-a-kind
receipe, i prefer to buy canned/dried beans and corn
and whatever when they are Buy one Get one Free.
 
Catfish said:
Food lion homepage at foodlion.com is pretty poorly executed. You can type in the exact product name and search will only show you recipes.

But the online shopping portal at shop.foodlion.com is very functional.

Here are the off-brand green beans:

Food Lion

shop.foodlion.com shop.foodlion.com
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Check out an aldi if you haven’t. Their canned stuff is that cheap, but they usually have a couple hundred cans of each variety on hand, which is how many I usually buy when I go. I pick them up by the flats of 12 and stuck them wherever the flat will fit when I get home
 
ok.
you win.
here is my subjective value:

bang for the buck.

taste? do not care.
aroma? same as taste.

bottom line: does it in some remote way resemble coffee to drink?
OP posted about DECADES of coffee beans storage. maybe, 2044?

essentially, i do not know.
i have not done the decades
of storage to confirm adequacy.

my ancestors have GENERATIONS
of apple/onion/potato and other long-term food storage
examples, but coffee is one i have found lacking.

people POST....
ok.
proof?
 
I'm wondering if we should start a whole new thread for food sales for prepper purposes.

I wanted cake the other day so i wandered through food lion and checked out some prices on my way to taking a cake back to work.
Food lion brand is almost always the best value.
a pound jar of roasted/shelled peanuts is $4 from planters, $2 food lion brand.
that cha-ching brand canola oil is 2.53/qt in 48oz bottles, but food lion canola or veggie oil is about $2.80/qt in gallon bottles
food lion 5lb bags of flour came out to 46c/lb
food lion brand pineapple was 1.38 while dole was $2.38. food lion peaches were the same price.
I also looked at quarts of broth, which were 1.80 food lion brand with 1yr shelf life, jars of buillon cubes were about the same price, but had a 3yr shelf life. I'm guessing you could also make at least a gallon with the number of cubes in there

And then i ate cake.
 
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